What's On Next?

2010 Season

• Breath of Spring
• Twelve Angry Jurors
• Junior Repertory's The Witches
• Reamus' Youth Theatre's The Winter's Tale
• Kid Stakes
• All For Your Delight - Christmas Dinner Show

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Access and Parking

• Doors open 30 minutes before performances.
• Off street parking is available in the Sun Street car park or the car park across from the PCYC in James Street.

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2010 Season

Breath of Spring by Peter Coke

A light hearted comedy

Directed by Letitia Plume - February 10 to 28

Dame Beatrice runs a lodging house for senior citizens, where she has a maid to help look after the place and residents. The maid, who has spent time in Holloway Prison, has a momentary "relapse" and steals a fur.

The lodgers then find themselves in the tricky position of trying to return the stolen fur to its owner without incriminating themselves or the maid.

The excitement of this leads the lodgers to embark on a "Robin Hood" style of wealth redistribution. Much fun ensues!

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Twelve Angry Jurors by Reginald Rose

Classic drama

Directed by Miranda Lindtner-King - April 14 to May 1

A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case - until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place - and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing."

However, personal it does become, with each juror revealing his or her own character, as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become 12 angry men and women.

The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it - in tense scenes that will electrify you and keep you on the edge of your seat - add up to a fine piece of drama and an experience you won't forget.

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The Witches by Roald Dahl

A Junior Repertory Production
Directed by Lesley Coombes - June 18 to July 4

In a household in Norway, an orphaned boy is told by his grandmother how to recognise witches, so that he may avoid them. She tells him stories about five children who fell victim to the evil powers of the witches...

The play's witches form a well-connected organisation which aims to destroy children. No motive is given for the witches' plotting, other than witches' abhorrence of children, and the foul stench children give off to witches.

Does all this sound just way too gruesome?

Well, we can assure you it's not - Junior Repertory's 2010 Production of Roald Dahl's quirky tale of The Witches will enthrall ages young and old.

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The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

A magical comic fable of madness and love

A Reamus Youth Theatre Production
Directed by Rod Ansell - August 6 to 14

Shakespeare’s beautiful comedy, The Winter’s Tale is a magical and mysterious romantic fable of love, adventure, insanity, folly and redemption.

A mighty king, driven insane by jealousy, tears his family apart. His beautiful daughter grows up in a fairy-tale far-off land, unaware of how a strange and miraculous destiny will re-unite them.

The Winter’s Tale contains Shakespeare’s most famous stage direction - "Exit, pursued by a bear".

Shakespeare's humour and wisdom shine through in Reamus Youth Theatre's hilarious and moving production.

Tickets are $12 - for bookings call Maitland Visitors Information Centre 02 4931 2800.

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Kid Stakes by Ray Lawler

Ray Lawler's Australian drama

Directed by Noel Grivas - September 15 to October 2

Kid Stakes, set in Melbourne 1937 during the Great Depression, is the first of Ray Lawler's 'Doll Trilogy'. The other plays are Other Times and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.

Olive and Nancy, both in their mid twenties, are lucky enough to have "good steady jobs in millinery" and live at Emma's (Olive's Mum) boarding house. A young man, Dickie, who works with the girls has aspirations of being Olive's boyfriend.

One night on a visit to the Aquarium the girls meet two cane cutters down from Queensland living it up on six months accumulated pay. After a couple of drinks they suggest that the men, Roo and Barney, should come and stay at their place for the duration of their lay off.

Barney and Nancy soon become lovers, while Roo and Olive keep at arms length. Mainly because Roo is afraid that Olive will get into the "kid stakes", the same problem that he has with two other women in Queensland.

The girls enjoy the good life with Roo and Barney so much, they throw in their jobs and become barmaids to be near the men. Emma is definitely not impressed.

These are Olive and Nancy's carefree times and happy days - the story of the first 'Doll'.

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All For Your Delight - Christmas Dinner Show

A light hearted and melodramatic musical play for your delight!
November 20 to December 12
Saturdays and Sundays at 6:30pm

The Christmas Dinner Show is an opportunity for our audience to unwind with theatre-resauraunt style entertainment. You can enjoy a meal and then a show and let your hair down. Why not get a group together for a great night! (Bring your own beer and wine.)

This year's show will bring back a popular format with "All For Your Delight", a musical play. A fun musical involving comic melodrama, missing diamonds, and an outrageous cohort of policemen! Set in a music hall somewhere on the fringes of London, this show has chorus songs, a bewildered chairman, backstage scenes and on-stage performances all in the music-hall style.

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Bookings and Tickets?

Go to 'Bookings' for more information on attending performances.

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