A thunderstorm…….
The lights go out….
A Pistol shot and an agonizing scream…
The lights come up on the most outstanding and hilarious murder mystery ever to hit the stage.
The mystery is top notch, the characters are wonderful and the comedy explosive.
Every clue is a lulu and the plot twists and turns furiously.
Play type: Murder mystery farce
Audience Target: Any
Run Time: 2 Hours, 15 minutes
Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town. When they meet, a mutual obsession is ignited – one that tears both their worlds apart. Set amidst the glittering splendours and miseries of 19th century Paris, Camille has scandalised and fascinated audiences and theatres, cinemas and opera houses for over a hundred and fifty years. Neil Bartlett’s new version returns to the original novel for its shockingly frank and emotional portrayal of a woman who can afford anything – except to fall in love.
Please note: Contains mature themes and language.
Target Audience: Adult, Senior & Teens 18+ years
Run time: 2 hours 30 minutes (including a 15 minute intermission)
A writer of light romances finds that his wife has run down his mistress with her car and killed her. The question now is how do they dispose of the body?
Something surprising is revealed throughout “Something To Hide”. A thriller in every sense of the word. Suspense mounts throughout and the unexpected develops to a pitch with contrived twists.
Target audience – Adult, Senior, Teen 14+ years
Run Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes (including a 15 minute intermission)
Waters of the Moon …… it is the day after Christmas and the dull routine of a modest and rather shabby Private Hotel is broken by the arrival of unexpected and rather exotic guests.
This play brings forward the effects of the over privileged on those who have lost or never tasted it – and provides moments that touches both tragedy and comedy.
Target audience – Adult, Senior, Teen 14+ years
The Actress takes us backstage as a colourful, complicated actress makes her emotional farewell performance. Various people from her life invade her dressing room to say their goodbyes, declare their love, roar with laughter, spit insults, grab a final embrace and renew old battles.
The last show is always a very strange affair. It is like a party, a great buzz of excitement but then each actor will leave with laughter still ringing in their ear and a cheery wave. Then it stops. As you watch them walk down the street, they look terribly lonely. After all the applause and elation, they walk home alone. That is who actors are. The happiest saddest people you will ever meet.
Comedian and national treasure Dave Thursby has died, and on the day of his funeral, friends and colleagues gather beside his coffin to pay their last respects. There’s Harvey, who wrote Dave’s material; Vi, Harvey’s wife; Kevin, Dave’s agent, and Kevin’s wife Jane. Dave’s glamorous widow Laura has arranged a funeral to remember, complete with a horse-drawn hearse and an attendant dog. An unfamiliar woman in flamboyant mourning clothes turns out to be Kay, Dave’s ex-wife from before he was famous, and a series of revelations end with Kevin throwing a drink into the coffin and all the guests asking themselves if they ever knew the “real” Dave.
Act II opens three weeks later for the disposal of Dave’s ashes. The atmosphere is tense and Kevin is wearing a controversial tie, but as more truths are revealed, even from beyond the crematorium Dave seems to be having the last laugh.
Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history – a wound they don’t want reopened. In effect, she draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it.
Set in the parlour of the Strachan’s house in Brighton during the late 1800’s, Pink String and Sealing Wax is a domestic drama concerning a repressed family, whose cold and undemonstrative father comes to realize the full worth of his children. Edward Strachan controls his family with little tenderness and understanding. His loving and ambitious children are pushed to the limits by his lack of attentiveness. When his eldest son becomes associated with a married woman who plots to incriminate him in the murder of her husband, Edward realizes how very wrong his priorities and attitudes were and fights to protect his son and reunite himself with his estranged family.
