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28 Mar 2025 - 7 Dec 2025
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The Housekeeper

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

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

The War of the Worlds

The Basin Theatre Group Inc.
12 Jun 2025 - 22 Jun 2025

Author: Howard E. Koch from the novel by H.G. Wells

Director: Pip Le Blond

Genre: Drama

Agent: ORiGiNtm Theatrical, on behalf of Samuel French Inc. A Concord Theatricals Company

Synopsis

Preview Night Thursday 12 June, Opening Night Sparkling Supper Friday 13 June 2025

Originally broadcast from New York’s Mercury Theatre in 1938, this infamous radio play, based on the novel by H. G. Wells, claimed that aliens from Mars had invaded New Jersey and had many terrified listeners convinced that an actual alien invasion of Earth was actually taking place.

This incredible broadcast now comes to life onstage to thrill and chill new audiences.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Warrandyte Theatre Company
13 Jun 2025 - 28 Jun 2025

Author: Oscar Wild

Director: James Banger

Genre: Comedy

Synopsis

Jack and Algy are wealthy young men and respectable members of society. Or so it seems. Behind the façade, both lead double lives, escaping social obligations whenever they choose. Idle merriment and triviality are rudely interrupted, however, by the question of romance. Soon, Jack and Algy find themselves between town and country, trying to maintain their respective deceptions. False identities, cucumber sandwiches, and buttered muffins abound, not to mention a very famous handbag.

Oscar Wilde’s final play premiered on Valentine’s Day 1895, at St James’s Theatre in London. Since then, his dazzling wit and delightful wordplay have rendered this satire of Victorian manners absolutely timeless. This production also performs 130 years after the Australian premiere in Melbourne.

Next Fall

Ballarat National Theatre Inc.
19 Jun 2025 - 22 Jun 2025

Author: Geoffry Nauffts

Director: Matthew Henderson

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

Nominated for the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play.

Next Fall is a moving and thought-provoking drama about love, faith, and family. The story follows Adam and Luke, a committed couple navigating their opposing beliefs—Adam is an atheist, while Luke is a devout Christian. When an accident changes everything, Adam must rely on Luke’s family for support, leading to a deeply emotional and, at times, humorous exploration of faith, acceptance, and love.

Things I Know to Be True

Essendon Theatre Co.
19 Jun 2025 - 28 Jun 2025

VDL Awards Entry: 2025

Author: Andrew Bovell

Director: Angelo Snell

Genre: Drama

Agent: HLA Management

Synopsis

The Price family appear to be living the Australian dream—a loving household in a solid brick house on a quarter acre block where the passing of time is measured by the seasonal changes in working class patriarch Bob’s beloved roses. The four kids have grown up and spread their wings, with only the youngest, Rosie, still at home. As the seasons turn, their story becomes darker and more difficult. But, with complexity comes richness, resolution and meaning. Epic in existential scope while deeply human in focus, Things I Know To Be True will tug at your heart while asking the big questions about what it is that keeps us going.

Macbeth

Malvern Theatre Co. Inc.
20 Jun 2025 - 5 Jul 2025

Author: William Shakespeare

Director: David McLean

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

“Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires.” A valiant and trusted soldier, Macbeth is propelled down a dark and treacherous path when an encounter with supernatural beings bring to the surface secret dreams of power. Spurred on by his ruthless wife, he embarks on a terrifying quest to get the Scottish crown. But once got, it must be kept. Macbeth’s determination leads him into a nightmare world of murder and madness, taking the country to the very brink of catastrophe.
Shakespeare’s most thrilling story of unchecked ambition, witches and ghosts, castles and swordfights, is a harrowing exploration of crime and guilt, power and corruption. Malvern Theatre Company’s production of Macbeth will excite all lovers of this classic play.

Rabbit Hole

Williamstown Little Theatre Inc.
25 Jun 2025 - 12 Jul 2025

VDL Awards Entry: 2025

Author: David Lindsay-Abaire

Director: John Bishop

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted the most serious, simple but painstakingly beautiful, dramatically resourceful, exquisite play.

The Quest To Save Dinosaur Island

The Basin Theatre Group Inc.
28 Jun 2025 - 29 Jun 2025

Author: Jason Triggs

Director: Jason Triggs

Genre: Other

Agent: Jason Triggs

Synopsis

An exciting new puppet show for children of all ages

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!  A new puppet and live action show from the amazing Jason Triggs, whose previous show “There is a Dinosaur in My Garden Shed” was an outstanding hit in 2024.

The Diary Of Anne Frank

Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre Co. Inc.
3 Jul 2025 - 19 Jul 2025

Author: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

Director: Kellie Tweeddale

Genre: Drama

Agent: ORiGiNtm Theatrical, on behalf of Samuel French Inc. A Concord Theatricals Company

Synopsis

Few more poignant true stories emerged from World War II than the diary of young Anne Frank. Published long after the end of the war by her father, the only family survivor, it records the minutiae of the twenty-five months that two Jewish families spent in hiding from the Gestapo in an Amsterdam warehouse attic. The constant secrecy, the growing hunger and the friction on living in such cramped conditions could not dull Anne’s vibrant personality or her passion for living.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

Heidelberg Theatre Company
4 Jul 2025 - 19 Jul 2025

Author: Mike Bartlett

Director: George Werther

Genre: Comedy

Agent: ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company

Synopsis

Sandra and Kenneth are born into the optimistic “baby-boomer” generation, ready to “change the world”. We follow their lives from the heady 60’s into the challenging 90’s, with their adolescent children seeking new directions. We then meet them in the new millennium, as they and their now adult children have very different needs and conflicting world views. The baby-boomers discover life is not a bed of roses.

Mike Bartlett has brilliantly and humorously painted the story of the highs and lows of the post-war generations, leaving us with clever insights, much food for thought, and many unanswered questions.

Love, Love, Love has “a galloping satirical wit that pulls you along, happy and appalled, through the decades.”

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