More about our 2010 plays below
6-20 February
Public Nights: 6, 12, 19 & 20 FebruaryVoices - A One Act Play Season
Director- Jim Orr
‘Far from Perfect’ by Kahli Williams
Assistant Director-Chris Austin-Greenhill
‘Farfie’ by Kahli Williams
Assistant Director-Kahli Williams
‘Ebbed’ by Mark Lucas
Assistant Director-Shane Mallory
Is it possible to say goodbye when you don’t want to let go?
Is it possible to say goodbye properly?
Is it possible to choose how to go?
These three plays help to answer those questions.
Sad-sometimes! Funny - sometimes! Emotional-certainly!
Are the voices real or just in your head?
Come join us on a rollercoaster ride exposing some of our innermost thoughts and feelings.
7-24 April
Public Nights: 16, 23, 24 April
Matinees: 11 and 18 April at 2pm
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Dale Wasserman
Director - Jan Paterson
Assistant Director-Desley Cronon
Based on Ken Kesey’s novel, Dale Wasserman’s script inspired the popular 1975 movie, starring Jack Nicholson.
When the free-spirited petty crook Randle P. McMurphy arrives at the state mental hospital, his contagious sense of disorder jolts the routine. McMurphy has himself declared insane in order to serve out
his sentence in a mental institution rather than go to prison.
Once there he goes head to head with the domineering Nurse Ratched, while inspiring the submissive patients and causing
trouble for the asylum staff.
This play is a humorous, shocking and life-affirming story of one
man’s battle against authority.
26 May - 12 June
Public Nights: 4, 5, 11, 12 June
Scenes from a Separation
by Andrew Bovell and Hannie Rayson
Director-Suzanne Matulich
A fascinating collaboration between two of Australia’s most talented writers which presents the male and female perspectives on
the breakdown of a marriage.
Mathew and Nina have been married for twelve years. He is forty - a successful publisher whose path is littered with the discarded souls who have tried to keep up. Nina is thirty eight and a journalist.
She hasn't worked since the birth of the children. So when Mathew suggests she takes on the biography of Lawrence Clifford - tycoon,
philanthropist, and now Australian of the Year - she throws herself into the project with all-consuming enthusiasm.
A play about love, betrayal and sex; of falling in love and getting
found out!
14-31 July
Public Nights: 23, 24, 30, 31 July
Hypnosis
by David Tristram
Director-Doug Moses
Assistant Director-Anne England
The mild-mannered policeman, Alan Briggs, had been a very good stooge, performing the usual ridiculous activities that a stage hypnotist has his subjects performing. The show was over and
The Great Gordo, an alcoholic in the twilight of his career, was on the way home for a drink or three before bed.
Something big was being planned and the assistance of a down and out hypnotist was needed. It was an extraordinary idea, but would the hypnosis really work or would the subjects merely go
through the motions?
The mind games begin, the stakes are raised, and we sense there can only be one winner. But who?
This thriller/comedy was written by David Tristram the playwright who wrote the plays ‘Sex,Drugs,Rick’n’Noel’ and ‘Forget
Me Knot’, both of which proved to be great audience pleasers when performed at the Incinerator in 2009. This play is further
proof of his genius as a writer.
13, 14, 15 August
56th One Act Play Festival*
Director: Suzanne Matulich (3281 4748)
Described as the friendliest on the circuit and attracting a consistently high standard of competition, Ipswich Little Theatre’s
Festival,the longest running competition of its type in Australia, is an annual highlight on our programme.
Over a three day period it brings to our audiences to a smorgasbord of genres, styles and themes.
The on-stage action is enhanced by the expert analysis from the adjudicator and the pleasant ambiance and conviviality which our
Theatre offers.
*Use of vouchers not applicable for the Festival.
Bookings through the VIC essential.
29 September - 16 October
Public Nights: 8, 9, 15, 16 October
Time and Time Again
Written and Directed by Ian and Helen Pullar
While determined women’s liberationist Libby convinces her career-minded sister Carey, a dedicated nurse, that marriage is not for them, their wily younger sibling Blythe, who has much to gain if her sisters leave home, has different ideas. She aids
and abets their determined suitors in the hope that love will win the day.
Using theatrical devices to move the action through history,
Time and Time Again is a light-hearted examination of the conflicts
facing women since suffragettes began the march to the corporate boardroom, and leads to the conclusion that
the more things change the more they are the same.
24 November - 11 December
Public Nights: 3, 4, 10, 11. December
Mother & Son
by Geoffrey Atherden
Director-Jane Sheppard
Assistant Director-Tony Erhardt
Arthur has a problem-and that problem is his mother Maggie. It’s not the fact she’s trying to feed the cat that died years ago, or storing the teapot in the fridge, or even the egg with a smiley face she’s prepared for his breakfast. It’s just that
she’s driving him crazy! Moving in with his elderly mother following his divorce has not turned out the way Arthur expected.
Perhaps Maggie would be better off living in a retirement home?
Brother Robert can’t afford to help financially despite owning a house, spa pool, avocado farm, two cars and a boat. After all, as he explains, he only has these things because his accountant
tells him to.
Crafted with a wonderful sense of humour, this clever, funny, yet poignant script explores the dilemma of living with an ageing
parent. You can be assured that whatever hilarious situations unfold, loveable Maggie always manages to outwit everyone and come out on top.
