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27th Feb – 15th Mar
This Way Up
by Elizabeth Coleman
Directors – Jane Sheppard and Melinda Park

Melanie has had enough. Her journo boyfriend, Nick, prefers to trot around the globe visiting the world’s hotspots rather than stay at home and help with the housework. There’s only so much a girl can take! She’s leaving! Unfortunately, Nick arrives home unexpectedly and catches her packing. Also on the scene is old friend, Damien, who is suddenly showing dangerous signs of infatuation with Melanie. Kris, her sister, is more interested in psychoanalyzing the situation than being of any practical help. Just when things couldn’t appear to become any more complicated a crisis arises next door and the foursome find themselves trapped in the house for the night. What unfolds is a very funny play about love gone wrong! This is a modern, fast paced Australian comedy by the writer of the hilarious and successful play Secret Bridesmaids Business.

30th Apr – 17th May
Enter a Free Man
by Tom Stoppard
Director – Suzanne Matulich

Enter a Free Man is set in 1960s suburban London. George Riley is convinced that he is an undiscovered but brilliant inventor, an individual touched by genius. His wife and daughter, not to mention the regulars at the local pub, think he is slowly losing his mind. But while his long-suffering wife, Persephone, has resigned herself to a lifetime of caring for her husband, their headstrong teenage daughter Linda refuses to indulge his fantasy any longer. A confrontation between father and daughter sends both outside the safe confines of their home and into the real world… A light hearted look at the trials and tribulations of an endearing, slightly eccentric man and his affect on his family and friends.

2nd -19th July

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1st – 11th October
Educating Rita
by Willy Russell
Director – Lee Gerchow

Educating Rita is set in a room of a university in the north of England. Frank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to seek refuge in the bottles of whiskey he hides on his bookshelves. Rita is a forthright, twenty-something hairdresser who is hungry to find some meaning to life and ‘know everything’. With Frank as her tutor Rita embarks on an Open University course and her education process begins. The effects are both amusing and serious as her fresh, intuitive approach becomes clouded and stifled as she grapples with the problem of a formal education geared to passing exams.

26th Nov – 13th Dec
Rumors
by Neil Simon
Director – Robyn Flashman

Four wealthy couples gather for a dinner party to celebrate the wedding anniversary of their best friends. The first couple to arrive discovers there are no servants, the hostess is missing and the host, a local politician, has tried to commit suicide – or has he? The husband, a lawyer, decides to cover up the situation to protect his friend’s political career. As the other guests arrive, all have problems of their own – a smashed new B.M.W., recurring back spasm, marital problems. However, the questions begin and rumours galore add to the mayhem. The evening turns into total chaos as it becomes more and more difficult to remember who has been told what about whom. This mad farce, written by Neil Simon, America ’s most prolific and successful comedy playwright will provide an end of year night of laughs.