Love Letters by AR Gurney
Directed by Darylin Ramondo
Fri Feb 5 – Sat Feb 20
When Andrew Makepeace Ladd III accepts an invitation to Melissa Gardner’s birthday party, a romantic friendship and correspondence destined to last for almost half a century is born. The friends communicate with each other through angst-ridden boarding school experiences, European adventures, failed marriages, and the ups and downs of career. Over the course of their lives, Andy and Melissa’s relationship goes through many changes, as the sometimes-sweethearts/sometimes-friends go through periods of estrangement, and the intense, clandestine affair which will accelerate Melissa’s emotional breakdown. Despite the painful differences which will ultimately tear them apart, they remain each other’s most trusted confidante, and are “true lovers” on paper, if not on the earth.
By arrangement with Music Theatre International Australasia Pty Ltd, on behalf of Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Cast and dates:
Feb 11 Tina Rettke and Neil Fletcher
Feb 12 Tina Rettke and Neil Fletcher
Feb 13 Jocelyn Mackay and David Mackay
Feb 14 Jocelyn Mackay and David Mackay
Feb 18 Tina Rettke and Neil Fletcher
Feb 18 Jocelyn Mackay and David Mackay
Feb 19 Jocelyn Mackay and Neil Fletcher
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Looped by Matthew Lombardo
Directed by Geoff Gaskill
Fri Apr 16 – Sat May 1
LOOPED depicts an actual 1965 recording session in which an intoxicated Tallulah Bankhead required eight hours to dub a single line from her final movie Die! Die! My Darling! while antagonizing the film editor assigned to the job.. “Matthew Lombardo’s riveting new play is as funny as it gets in theatre! … A seductive, funny and frequently moving piece.” —The Hollywood Reporter.
By arrangement with BROADWAY PLAY PUBLISHING INC 80th St NY, NY 10024
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Tuesdays with Morrie by J. Hatcher and M. Albom
Directed by Greg Shawcross
25 June - 10 July
Tuesdays with Morrie is the autobiographical story of Mitch Albom, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor. Sixteen years after graduation, Mitch happens to catch Morrie’s appearance on a television news program and learns that his old professor is battling Lou Gehrig’s disease. Mitch is reunited with Morrie, and what starts as a simple visit turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a last class in the meaning of life.
By arrangement with Hal Leonard
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Forget Me Not by Tom Holloway
Directed by John Bishop
Fri Sep 3 – Sat Sep 18
Tom Holloway's emotional and moving
play is set against the backdrop of the
3000 plus British children, who between the end of the second world war and 1970, were told they were orphans and were shipped to Australia on a promise of warmth, fresh air, food, love and boundless opportunity. Instead, lives of neglect and abuse awaited them.
Note: This play contains scenes which some may find challenging.
BY ARRANGEMENT WITH H. L. A. MANAGEMENT
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Summer of the Aliens by Louis Nowra
Directed by Stacey Carmichael
Fri Nov 12 - Sat Nov 27
The year is 1962 and the world is worrying about the Cuban missile crisis, except for Lewis, a youth on the cusp of manhood, growing up in a Melbourne housing commission suburb. He is preoccupied with flying saucers, much to the disgust of his friend Brian who can think only of losing his virginity. The play centres on relationships, especially the relationship between 14 year-old Lewis and 14 year-old Dulcie. It is through Dulcie that Lewis begins to understand that the struggle to be adult is the struggle to understand the world around him. A vivid and amusing evocation of a family and a neighbourhood whose increasingly strange behaviour Lewis is forced to interpret in the only way he can …. The aliens must be among us!
Performance rights for SUMMER OF THE ALIENS exclusively licenced by HLA Management Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 1536, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 (hla@hlamgt.com.au)
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