“Simone Kiefer and Bill Connolly rehearsing Red Hot in Amsterdam”
Get ready. Get set and get your own act together! A great night of theatre is in store with the annual One Act Plays at the Warrandyte Theatre, scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings of June 25, 26 and July 2, 3. Phone bookings are essential on 0488 333575; the price is $20 and $18 concession.
Thanks to the Warrandyte Theatre Company we again have the opportunity to enjoy excellent winter entertainment, without leaving town. The selected plays are all very different, in the fine tradition of an evening of one act plays.
Each play is 20 to 30 minutes in length, and each is separated with an interval – when you can purchase a glass of wine or soup or enjoy a complimentary cuppa.
One performance is a comedy - ‘Red Hot in Amsterdam’ by Patricia Robertson, another is a high drama by David Ives, titled ‘The Other Woman’ and the third, ‘Mental’ by Jo Brand and Helen Griffin, is a wry look at relationships! Here’s some more detail on each:
The Other Woman
One play is by David Ives, described as a master of the short play form. Titled ‘The Other Woman’ it is a suspenseful drama about the secrets and lies of marriage and the mystery and fragility of the mind. The Other Woman is directed by Keryn Woods and the two actors are Meredith Norton, as Emma and Graham Dodsworth as Thomas.
"A haunting suspense story…A shiver-inducing erotic pas de deux…A cleverly wrought yarn that also possesses real emotional depth, THE OTHER WOMAN generates both edge-of-your-seat suspense and a measure of compassionate wonder about the mysterious frailty of the mind, and of the married state. It is seriously spooky, and good fun, but it's also a sensitive, sorrow-tinged parable about the secrets and lies that can create dangerous fissures in a seemingly firm relationship." —NY Times.
The comedy, ‘Red Hot in Amsterdam’, by Patricia Robertson is directed by Phyl Swindley and should be a load of fun. It’s a cheeky laugh-out-loud farce set in Amsterdam where two crazy burglars stash the diamonds in a vase in a brothel, only to have the loot discovered by the working girls and their Madame, leading to all sorts of fun. Actors are Lisa Upson as Madame Celestine, Lea Stringer as Corrine, Simone Kiefer as Kora, Bill Connolly as Chief of Amsterdam Police, David Howell as Mickey and Darren Bowers as Frank.
Mental
The third is titled ‘Mental’, by Jo Brand and Helen Griffin and is directed by Adrian Rice. This play poses the question: Is our nurse tired of life and sick of her job or is she savvy and compassionate? Has she seen it all before and stopped caring or is she demonstrating a skill borne of years of experience that at first we don't quite get? Set in a psychiatric ward on the night shift, "Mental" takes a wry look at the relationship between patient and nurse. The two actors are Janis Nance as nurse and Raine Dinale as patient.
Friday and Saturday evenings of June 25, 26 and July 2, 3. Phone bookings are essential on 0488 333575 and the price is $20 and $18 concession. Yarra Street, Warrandyte Mechanics Institute Hall.
We look forward to see everyone at the Theatre for the One Act Plays!
Thank you for your support,
Warrandyte Theatre Company Committee