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Playbill - 2010
 Away by Michael Gow
Directed by Susan Flint
Agent: Shanahan Management Pty Ltd
Season:
18-Mar-10 to 27-Mar-10
Theatre:
Bradshaw Street Community Hall
Bradshaw Street (off Buckley Street)
West Essendon
Melways 28B3
Performances:
March 18th,19th,20th @8:00pm
March 21st Sunday Matinee @2:00pm
March 25th,26th,27th @8:00pm
Theater Restaurant Style, BYO Food, Drinks
7:30pm sit down for an 8:00pm start
Prices:
All Evening Performances $15 per ticket
All Matinee Performances $12.00 per ticket
*nb. Please note table position bookings will be surrendered
if you are later than 15 minutes to curtain up time
Bookings:
Eileen - 9330 4808 or email mikeandleily@bigpond.com
Synopsis:
Away is a play by the Australian playwright Michael Gow.
First performed by the Griffin Theatre Company in 1986, it tells the story of three internally-conflicted families holidaying on the coast for Christmas, 1968.
It has become one of the most widely produced Australian plays of all time and is part of the Higher School Certificate syllabi or general High School Curriculum in many states, including Western Australia, New South Wales, Brisbane and Victoria
CAST LIST
Meg-Samantha Bound
Tom-Michael McStay
Coral-Gabrielle Salter
Roy-Bevan Uren
Vic-Margaret Rawlinson
Harry-Michael Bentley
Gwen-Michelle Tanner
Jim-Donal Taylor
Other Information:
ABOUT OUR DIRECTOR
Susan began her theatrical career in New Zealand as a dancer, before moving into theater, studying drama at Canterbury University and under renowned NZ Actor and Director, Elizabeth Moody. Susan has performing in over 20 productions, some of her favorites have included Coral in Away, Vera Claythorne in Ten Little Indians, Mavis in Stepping Out, Jean Louise in To Kill a Mocking Bird, and Ava in Absurd Person Singular. As a director Susan has worked in both NZ and Australia, with some of her favorite productions including Robin Hood, Waiting for Godot, Three Sisters, and recently, Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers for Essendon Theater Company in 2008.
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 A Fly on the Wall (4 one act plays) by .
Directed by Natasha Boyd - 0413 188 513 and Tess Maurici Ryan - 044 99 32 921
Season:
17-Jun-10 to 26-Jun-10
Theatre:
Bradshaw Street Community Hall
Bradshaw Street (off Buckley Street)
West Essendon
Melways 28B3
Performances:
June 17th,18th,19th @8:00pm
June 20th Sunday Matinee @2:00pm
June 24th,25th,26th @8:00pm
Theater Restaurant Style, BYO Food, Drinks
7:30pm sit down for an 8:00pm start
Prices:
All Evening Performances $15 per ticket
All Matinee Performances $12.00 per ticket
*nb. Please note table position bookings will be surrendered
if you are later than 15 minutes to curtain up time
Bookings:
Eileen - 9330 4808 or email mikeandleily@bigpond.com
Synopsis:
Racquet by Jason Silverii and Natasha Boyd (30min drama)
Selling Johnny Depp by Alex Broun (10 min comedy)
Mother Have 9 Lives by Joanna Norland
Kids by John Morgan (30min comedy)
Other Information:
SPECIFIC DETAILS
RACQUET - A celebrity couple has their disintegrating relationship turned into a public circus. As the fate of their relationship hangs in the balance, interested parties decide to have their say. The manager wants them to stay together, the mistress wants them to split, while the media is happy for the uncertainty to continue. 2m, 2F (age 20+)
SELLING JOHNNY DEPP- When Celia finds some merchandise left behind by a world famous actor in the hotel where she cleans, her boyfriend Aaron brings in a dealer called Memos who specialises in celebrity mementos. Once Memos has the authentication he needs, he's ready for some haggling - and a little bit of show-and-tell. 2M 1F (age 18+)
Mother Have Nine Lives
Written by UK playwright Joanna Norland (45 minutes). Australian premiere. 6F required (age 20s-40s)
Plot - Kim needs a double stroller for her twin daughter. Now. Marge jet-sets from the boardroom to the nursery, and back. Double time. And Kim will convince the powers-that-be that her daughter deserves a place in the gifted students class. Fasten your seatbelts for a 45-minute whistle stop tour of the highs and lows of modern motherhood. Nine mothers, nine monologues, and nine stories, interlinked by the games of three girls who know one thing for sure: Being the mommy is the best part. ** Tess and Natasha will use this script to highlight the universality of motherhood by reworking the monologues into a mixtures of solo pieces, dialogue and ensemble work (similar to last year’s “What’s the matter with MaryJane?”). 6F required minimum; 3 parts are daughters aged 7yo played by adults, and we also require at least 3 women aged between 20s-40s as the ‘mother’ roles.
KIDS- Exploits of 5 children (adult actors) in a playground who make wry observations on the follies of adulthood and the need to bring about change. Through a hierarchy of blackmail they achieve impossible tasks and their dreamy aspirations are genuine. 5 actors playing young children aged 6months to 9yo - gender variable
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
Tess Maurici-Ryan - With over 10 years of theatre experience, Tess has been involved in all aspects of production from acting to publicity, lighting, sound, stage management and directing four shows to date at Sunshine Theatre Company. More recently, Tess has been seen performing on stage at Essendon Theatre with This Way Up, VDL nominated Enchanted April, Dinkum Assorted and as part of the multi nominated 2009 one act play season of Things are not what they seem.
Natasha Boyd has been acting, dancing, writing, and directing since her school and uni years. She has performed with Melbourne University Theatre, Mount Players Macedon, STAG, ETC and Heidelberg Theatre. In terms of direction, Natasha directed three shows at Melb. Uni., including the 1994 entry in the Melbourne Comedy Festival. She moved onto co-writing and co-directing a number of high school musicals, as well as co-directing Michael Frayn's hilarious play Noises Off. After 18 months on community radio she returned to theatre co-directing the multi nominated one act play season at ETC in 2009, winning Best Director and Production at Macedon and Best Director and Best Ensemble at Maroondah Rose Street one act play festivals for What’s the matter with Mary Jane?
Both Tess and Natasha are really excited to be working on this project together in 2010. They are looking for an eclectic, hardworking group of actors who can play multi roles across the four one act plays. Talent, time commitment, creative input as well as a great team spirit are definite requisites. Rehearsals will be on Tuesday and Thursday nights and Sunday afternoons.
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 The Underpants by Carl Sternheim, Adapted By Steve Martin
Directed by John Degabriele and Dawn Hinrichsen
Agent: Dominie Drama
Season:
9-Sep-10 to 18-Sep-10
Theatre:
Bradshaw Street Community Hall
Bradshaw Street (off Buckley Street)
West Essendon
Melways 28B3
Performances:
September 9th,10th,11th @8:00pm
September 12th Sunday Matinee @2:00pm
September 16th,17th,18th @8:00pm
Theater Restaurant Style, BYO Food, Drinks
7:30pm sit down for an 8:00pm start
Prices:
All Evening Performances $15 per ticket
All Matinee Performances $12 per ticket
*nb. Please note table position bookings will be surrendered
if you are later than 15 minutes to curtain up time
Bookings:
Eileen - 9330 4808 or email mikeandleily@bigpond.com
Synopsis:
Louise’s problems with her husband are compounded when she is caught out in the park with her underpants around her ankles in full view of several men including the king. This peep show leads to a string of male admirers beating a path to her door obsessed with the glimpse of ‘paradise’ they witnessed. This is perhaps the play’s cleverest device and its most modern. The underpants seem to symbolize the fetishized nature of male desire, the titillating peep, the fragmented objectified woman that seems to be at the root of a lot of misogyny. These male admirers start to turn up on Louise’s doorstep in the guise of lodgers wanting to rent an advertised room in Theo and Louise’s cramped apartment. Through the conventions of farce, the same room is let to two men, the camp esthete count Versati and the sickly hypochondriac Jew ‘Cohen with a K’. In addition to these two studies in masculinity, there is the later arrival of Klingelhoff an elderly sexually repressed gent who shudders at the thought of anything lascivious. It is interesting to see that despite the diversity of male archetypes, the character Louise is only ever seen in a sexualized way via her underpants. This becomes more apparent later when with the help of her neighbour Gertrude, Louise outsmarts the men vying for her affection which in turn proves to be her undoing as the decadent Versati, whom Louise is swept away by, falls in love with a street prostitute.
Other Information:
ABOUT OUR DIRECTORS
Dawn Hinrichsen
Belonging to a theatrical family, Dawn has been involved in theater since the age of 8. She directed her first play at the age of 15 under the guidance of her father David. She enjoys directing Melodramas because they combine the creative talents of actors, singers and dancers and, when done well, are very entertaining for a wide variety of people. The most recent plays she's directed are not, however, melodramas. During 2008 she directed This Way Up a very funny situation comedy with a great cast and crew. In 2007 she co-directed Black Comedy, an hilarious, almost farcical play with a lot of energy and action.
John Degabriele
This will be my first directing role with etc and i have been very passionate about this play which i first saw in sydney...I have been involved with etc since 2007 with backstage,acting,technical advisor and operating lighting and sound.i am looking forward in working with my co-director dawn and to gain her experiences to be able to direct more plays with etc in the future
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 Table Manners by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Tess Maurici Ryan
Agent: Dominie Limited
Season:
25-Nov-10 to 4-Dec-10
Theatre:
Bradshaw Street Community Hall
Bradshaw Street (off Buckley Street)
West Essendon
Melways 28B3
Performances:
November 25th,26th,27th @8:00pm
November 28th Sunday @2:00pm Matinee
December 2nd,3rd,4th @8:00pm
Theater Restaurant Style, BYO Food, Drinks
7:30pm sit down for an 8:00pm start
Prices:
All Evening Performances $15 per ticket
All Matinee Performances $12.per ticket
*nb. Please note table position bookings will be surrendered
if you are later than 15 minutes to curtain up time
Bookings:
Eileen - 9330 4808 or email mikeandleily@bigpond.com
Synopsis:
In Table Manners Sarah and Reg arrive at mum's house for the weekend so that invalid mum's care-giver, Reg's sister Annie, can get away for the weekend.
But Annie ends up staying, their brother-in-law Norman shows up unexpectedly, and not long after, so does Norman 's wife Ruth (Annie and Reg's sister).
Sarah tries her best to organize a family dinner for the five of them plus Tom, a slow-witted neighbor whom everyone expects to propose to Annie.
Sarah can't get much cooperation and doesn't realize that Annie had planned to sneak off with Norman .
Norman is incorrigible, Annie is caught between Tom and a fling, mum is upstairs demanding attention, and there aren't six proper chairs.
Other Information:
ABOUT OUR DIRECTOR
2010 will be Tess Maurici-Ryan's first time directing for Essendon Theatre Company.
Still relatively new at the directing game,
Tess has directed Key for Two, Shenanigan's Wake, Absurd Person Singular
and Relatively Speaking at Sunshine Community Theatre.
With over 10 years of experience, Tess has been involved in all aspects of Production,
from publicity, to lighting, sound,
performance and stage managment.
More recently, Tess has been seen performing
on stage at Essendon Theatre with This Way Up, Enchanted April, Dinkum Assorted and
Things are not what they seem.
This new environment and the advantage of work on an actual stage is enough to keep Tess motivated and very excited to get started on the show.
With a Passion for English comedy
(and Alan Ayckbourn) we're not surprised to see her choice of show this time around.
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