Author: Matt Hartley
Director: Barbara Crawford
Genre: Drama
Agent: Origin TM Theatrical on Behalf of Nick Hearn Books
Here I Belong, a funny, moving, warm but never sentimental journey through sixty years of village life.
The entire action takes place in the village hall beginning with the Queen’s coronation in 1953 (much excitement about the TV being lent for the occasion) where we meet newcomer Elsie. We follow Elsie’s life in the village, the changing community and her personal ups and downs culminating with her 90th birthday in the present day.
Author: Book and lyrics by Robert L. Freedman and the music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak.
Director: Director Barbara Hughes. Musical Director Janet Provan. Choreographer Jacqui McCallum
Genre: Musical
On the night of his mother’s funeral, Monty Navarro learns an incredible secret: he is, in fact, a member of the aristocratic D’Ysquith family and the ‘son of the daughter of the grandson of the nephew of the second Earl of Highhurst’ and ninth in line to the earldom. Monty quickly realises that he is unlikely to outlive eight heirs….unless.
Buoyed by his love for two different women, Monty sets his murderous course.
This madcap, musical retelling of the Alec Guinness classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, with its hilarious plot, toe-tapping score and unforgettable characters, will have you laughing…to death.
Author: Yasmina Reza
Director: Justin Stephens
Genre: Comedy
Agent: DPS Dramatists play Service
At the heart of ART is a fundamental question of friendship, one that raises deep issues about truth, honesty, and human connection. The plot is simple, Serge buys an apparently pure white canvas by a fashionable artist for an eyewatering sum. His close friend Marc thinks he’s insane. Yvan, their mutual friend, tries to mediate and they both turn on him. It’s a laugh-out-loud funny play.
Serge buys an expensive painting – white lines on a white canvas. To Marc, the painting is a joke. Yvan is on the fence. Battle lines are drawn, and the trio use the ‘‘art’’ to settle scores and push their 15 year old friendship to the limit. A Tony Award winner for Best Play and an Olivier Award winner for Best Comedy.
Author: by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield New revisions by Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield.
Director: Brian Edmond
Genre: Comedy
Agent: By arrangement with HAL LEONARD AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, on behalf of PARADIGM NEW YORK
This is not so much a play as it is a vaudeville show in which three charismatic, wildly ambitious performers, attempt to present ALL thirty-seven of Shakespeare’s plays in a single performance. They have a rudimentary concept of the stories and have imperfectly memorized a smattering of famous lines. Thus armed, the three brazenly launch into their task with an earnest focus and breakneck enthusiasm. What could possibly go wrong?
Author: Emma Wood
Director: Emma Wood
Genre: Comedy
Agent: Stagescripts LTD
‘The Hit and Miss Theatre Company is in need a of a good Christmas show. Bums on seats, festive cheer, moral fable: A Christmas Carol! Tick. Except there’s a new artistic director in town with new ideas. And Dickens has been done every decade in living memory. The heart and soul of the company are up for grabs as the battle wages between tried and true vs daring and new.’
The play is contemporary and no accents are required.
The script has received accolades from 3 professional American companies:
Finalist, New Comedies Festival, B Street Theatre, 2020 Semi-Finalist, Headwaters Festival, Creede Repertory Theatre, 2020 Semi-finalist, Dreamcatcher Repertory, 2021
This will be the Victorian premiere.
Author: The Heather Brothers
Director: Keith Gledhill
Genre: Musical
Agent: Origin
Seven teenagers dance and eye each other and flirt on a Saturday night at popular Club A Go Go in a town in the British provinces. Sue is going out with Gary, but he flirts with Penny and the other girls at every opportunity. Sharon and Rick like each other but are too shy to tell each other. Eddie is challenged by the boys to persuade “frigid” Bridget to “touch his whatsit” by closing time, over the course of the night he tries everything, with very little success. The owner of the club, ageing rocker Eric “Rubber-legs” De Vene, watches and lends an ear to the young people as they navigate the rituals of teenage fashion, music, sexual mores and relationships.
Author: Tim Finn (music & lyrics), Carolyn Burns (book)
Director: Tim Scott
Genre: Musical
Agent: David Spicer Productions
Recent High School graduate Lisa Miles has an ambition to attend university, against her father’s wishes, but meanwhile takes a holiday job at Goodes, the most prestigious department store in 1950s Sydney. Here a world of new possibilities awaits her as she makes friends with the ladies who work in the women’s frock department.
Based on the 1993 novel “The Women in Black” by Madeleine St John, and first staged by the Queensland Theatre Company in 2015, this delightful musical is a celebration of glamour, gowns and growing up.
Author: Patrick Barlow
Director: Scott Beaton
Genre: Comedy
Agent: An Amateur Production BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL, ON BEHALF OF NICK HERN BOOKS.
Everyone knows the story of the Nativity, yes?
You may have performed as Mary or Joseph or an Angel or even a stable animal at school?
Well forget all that.
Have you ever seen the Nativity performed by a travelling troupe of two highly energetic eccentric and slightly combative travelling actors accompanied by by an unpredictable operatic diva? No?
Well then, this is the show for you! Patrick Barlow’s The Messiah is a hilarious retelling of the story showcasing our small acting troupe taking on thousands (well quite a few anyway) different roles to bring the Christmas story to life through an uplifting physical and musical theatre experience. Join us for The Nativity .. with creativity!
Author: Neil Simon
Director: Angelo Snell
Genre: Comedy
Agent: Origin Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French
Unger and Madison are at it again!
Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon’s hilarious contemporary classic: the female version of The Odd Couple.
Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced by the two Constanzuela brothers. But the hilarity remains the same.
Author: David Stevens
Director: Di Hoskins
Genre: Drama
Agent: Samuel French Inc. - A Concord Theatricals Company
A widowed father lives with his son and is very supportive of him finding Mr Right, while he in turn is quietly hoping for some female company of his own. The play looks at love in whatever form it takes and the importance of having love in a person’s life. We are drawn into the lives of the two main characters through side chats directly to the audience as we witness the jovial banter between father and son along with their internal monologues. Funny and charming, the play was written 30 years ago and, while some societal attitudes have evolved, there is still a ring of truth in many ways.