What's On

Synopsis

Arsenic and Old Lace is a timeless and classic comedy that was a hit both on Broadway and in the West End.

Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunt’s window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha before they stumble upon the body themselves, only to learn that the two old women aren’t just aware of the dead man in their parlour, they killed him!

Between his aunts’ penchant for poisoning wine, a brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, and another brother using plastic surgery to hide from the police—not to mention Mortimer’s own hesitancy about marriage—it’ll be a miracle if Mortimer makes it to his wedding.

Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.

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Moira Buffini’s hilarious play reimagines the private conversations that took place between Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher during their tenure as the UK’s monarch and Prime Minister, respectively. Set against the backdrop of the 1980s, the play cleverly explores their complex and contrasting personalities, political ideologies, and the collision of monarchy and government. With a touch of satire and sharp dialogue, “Handbagged” presents a delightful, quirky look at the intersection of power and gender, as well as the historic events that shaped the era and the United Kingdom’s destiny.

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Called “the funniest farce ever written,” Noises Off presents
a manic menagerie of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called
Nothing’s On. Doors slamming, on and offstage love triangles,
and plates and plates of sardines all feature in the plot of this
hilarious and classically comic play.

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On the illustrious Woodbin stage, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” emerges as a dazzling spectacle as we transport you to ‘The Globe’, an underworld jazz club in the 1970’s.

This adaptation transports Shakespeare’s classic comedy into the world of glitz, glamour, danger and whimsy. Amidst opulent sets and dazzling costumes, four young lovers find themselves entangled in a whirlwind of passion and confusion. Oberon, the enigmatic club owner, Puck, his mischievous bar man, and Titania, star of song and stage, create mischief as they weave their spells. As the story unfolds under the spotlight, a troupe of eccentric vaudevillian performers, led by the unforgettable Bottom, stumbles upon the enchanted stage, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy in the most theatrical of ways. This adaptation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on the Woodbin stage brings Shakespearean comedy to life in a world of jazz and theatrical extravagance.

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Sir Robert Chiltern has it all: money, influence and a beautiful wife. What could possibly go wrong? Then the arrival in his London house of a woman who knows secrets from his past threatens to expose him to public shame and bring an end to both his stellar political career and his blissful marriage.

But, with colourful and intriguing characters, and with love hovering, comic possibilities abound and farce is just a closed door away. An Ideal Husband takes a delightfully satirical look at the political and social world of upper-class London in the 1890s.

Laughs aplenty in this Wilde classic.