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The Housekeeper

22 May 2025 - 14 Jun 2025
The 1812 Theatre Ltd.

VDL Awards Entry: 2025

Author: James Prideaux

Director: Keith Hutton

Genre: Comedy

Agent: An Amateur production by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Inc

Synopsis

Foundering a little after the death of his elderly (and domineering) mother, Manley Carstairs, a self-styled literary artist, engages a housekeeper, Annie Dankworth, to look after his large Victorian house (and himself).
When Annie first arrives, wearing sneakers and carrying her belongings in a supermarket trolley, Manley is taken aback, but as she seems so eager to please, he decides to employ her. The relationship between the pair progresses rapidly from initial reserve to active hatred. Annie is an eccentric oddball. She insults her employer, denigrates his writing, admits she forged her references, accuses him of lusting after her and in general, makes his life hell.
What follows is a series of fast-paced scenes, some in the present, some in the past culminating in an unexpected conclusion

Performances

Start Date: 22 May 2025

End Date: 14 Jun 2025

Performance Times:

2:00pm on:

  • Sun 25th May 2025
  • Sun 1st Jun 2025
  • Sun 8th Jun 2025

8:00pm on:

  • Thu 22nd May 2025
  • Fri 23rd May 2025
  • Sat 24th May 2025
  • Wed 28th May 2025
  • Thu 29th May 2025
  • Fri 30th May 2025
  • Sat 31st May 2025
  • Wed 4th Jun 2025
  • Thu 5th Jun 2025
  • Fri 6th Jun 2025
  • Sat 7th Jun 2025
  • Wed 11th Jun 2025
  • Thu 12th Jun 2025
  • Fri 13th Jun 2025
  • Sat 14th Jun 2025

Ticket Prices:

$28.00
$25.00 (group booking of 10 or more)

Bookings: 9758 3964 www.1812theatre.com.au

Theatre: The 1812 Theatre

Theatre Address:

3 Rose Street
Upper Ferntree Gully 3156

Auditions

Audition Dates:

2:00pm on:

  • Sun 19th Jan 2025

7:30pm on:

  • Mon 20th Jan 2025

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