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Events
Sunday Nights
Hunter Impro Network
Hunter Impro Network is in recess at the moment.
Go to 'Hunter Impro' for more information on Hunter Impro Network.
Monday Nights
Reamus
Every Monday at 7pm the Reamus Youth Theatre group gets together to
rehearse, train and prepare for future performances. This is an
excellent time to turn up and introduce yourself.
Go to 'Reamus' for more information on Reamus.
Tuesday Nights
Romulus
Romulus is in recess at the moment.
Go to 'Romulus' for more information on Romulus.
Tuesday Nights
Management Committee
The Second Tuesday of every month is devoted to management committee
meetings (kicking off at 7.30pm). Members can turn up and have their say.
Saturday Afternoons
Junior Rep
Junior Repertory classes are held most Saturday afternoons during
school terms. Two aged based sessions are conducted. Classes are
orientated towards putting on one major production a year.
Go to 'Junior Repertory' for more information on Junior Repertory.
Members Welcome
The theatre is always looking for more members to help enrich Maitland's culture and its members' personal lives. Theatre develops and uses many diverse skills. Volunteers are especially needed in areas such as:
- Set Construction
- Custume Design
- Administrative/Organisational
- Marketing
2011 Season
2012 Season
- Secret Bridesmaids' Business
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
- Junior Repertory's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Reamus Youth Theatre's Richard III
- Tom, Dick and Harry
- End of Year - Annual Dinner Show
- 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.
Access and Parking
2011 Season
Death by Chocolate - Annual Christmas Dinner Show
A comic thriller
Directed by Steve Ryan - November 19 to December 11
Saturdays and Sundays at 6:30pm
Members of the newly renovated Meadowbrook Health Resort are dropping like flies! On the eve of the grand re-opening, this is not the best advertisement!
It’s up to John Stone, the manager, to find the cause and the murderer. Delightfully sarcastic and cynical. Stone finds himself teaming up with Ed Parlor, mystery writer and amateur sleuth, in a wacky race against time. The clues point to a sinister box of chocolates, and the suspects include all the outlandish characters working for the resort. Could it be Lady Riverdale, owner of the resort, and a woman with dark secrets? Or Ralph Deadwood, gym instructor and all around cad? Dick Simmering, the aerobics instructor? Anne, the panic stricken nurse? Or could it be “Sweet Pea” Meadowbrook, overweight and grieving daughter of the recently deceased founder of the resort?
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.)
2012 Season
Secret Bridesmaids' Business
by Elizabeth Coleman
A seriously funny comedy about weddings
Directed by Luke Yager - February 8 to 25
Elizabeth Coleman, a contemporary Australian author, exposes the insanity which often occurs in the organisation of weddings. Set against this backdrop, her lifelike characters address some very important issues in this seriously funny play.
Tickets are $20 (full) and $15 (concession).
Bookings open 2 January 2012 - call Maitland Visitor Information Centre to book on 02 4931 2800.
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
by Ray Lawler
The story of the last "Doll"
Directed by Noel Grivas - April 18 to May 5
This is the last play in Ray Lawler’s famous "Doll Trilogy", following "Kid Stakes" and "Other Times".
The summer that the story spans marks the seventeenth year of a tradition in the lives of the characters. For seventeen years two sugarcane cutters, Arthur "Barney" Ibbot and Reuben "Roo" Webber, have travelled south to Melbourne for five months of frivolity and celebration with two city women, Olive Leech and Nancy, bringing with them as a gift a kewpie doll.
Nancy has married and left the boarding house. Olive has invited Pearl to come along and make up the numbers. All is not right with Roo and Barney.
As the play progresses it becomes obvious that, for many reasons, this summer is different to the others.
Tickets are $20 (full) and $15 (concession).
Bookings open 2 January 2012 - call Maitland Visitor Information Centre to book on 02 4931 2800.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by CS Lewis Adapted by Glyn Robbins
The classic story of Narnia brought to the stage
A Junior Repertory Production
Directed by Lesley Coombes and Guilherme Noronha
June 15 to July 1
The story begins in 1940 during World War II, when four brothers and sisters are evacuated from London to escape the Blitz and are sent to live in a house in the English countryside. While the four children are exploring the house, Lucy looks into a wardrobe and discovers a doorway to a magical world named Narnia.
All tickets are $15.
Bookings are recommended for this popular show.
Bookings open 2 January 2012 - call Maitland Visitor Information Centre to book on 02 4931 2800.
Reamus Youth Theatre's Richard III
Innovative Shakespearean Theatre
A Reamus Youth Theatre Production
Adapted and Directed by Rod Ansell - August 3 to 11
A riot of action, colour, excitement and mayhem as Shakespeare's great villain, the hunchbacked Richard charms, bullies, cheats and murders his way towards the throne.
This fast-moving, funny and scary production contains some of Shakespeare's greatest writing and most dramatic scenes and is an exciting introduction to the thrills of Shakespeare for young audiences.
This is the 10th anniversary of Reamus Youth Theatre's tradition of original Shakespeare productions and we think it will be among the best!
All tickets are $15.
Bookings open 2 January 2012 - call Maitland Visitor Information Centre to book on 02 4931 2800.
Tom, Dick and Harry
by Ray and Michael Cooney
A comedy from the writer who brought us Run for Your Wife
Directed by Brian Randell - September 12 to 29
Playwright Ray Cooney is famous for his farces. Those who enjoyed 'Run for Your Wife' and 'Caught in the Net', will love Tom, Dick and Harry.
Tom and his anxious wife Linda, eager to adopt a baby, are waiting for the lady from the adoption agency to turn up and carry out one last check to ensure that they and their rented flat are a suitable home. But on this crucial day their dreams are put on hold when Tom’s brothers, Dick and Harry, arrive with harebrained ideas of their own.Tickets are $20 (full) and $15 (concession).
Bookings open 2 January 2012 - call Maitland Visitor Information Centre to book on 02 4931 2800.
End of Year - Annual Christmas Dinner Show
Details to be advised
November 17 to December 9 2012
Saturdays and Sundays at 6:30pm - doors open at 6:00pm
The Christmas Dinner Show is an opportunity for our audience to unwind with theatre-restauraunt style entertainment. You can enjoy a meal, a show and let your hair down. Why not get a group together for a great night! (Bring your own beer and wine.)
Bookings and Tickets?
Go to 'Bookings' for more information on attending performances.
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