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SEASON 2006 MONKEY SHINES
Saturday 25 November, Saturday 2 December and Saturday 9 December @ 3.30pm All tickets $15 - Phone Bookings Only **Book and pay for tickets before end of business Saturday 18 November and get 2-4-1 tix to Monkey Shines** Roll up, roll up, roll up and join your hosts Dr Sweetpea McGee, Gorgeous George and Sideshow Pony for 60 minutes of madcap vaudevillian antics, knee-highjinx, and general tomfoolery. Thrill to the sight of Cha Cha the world's first sideshow monkey-man, be amazed by Pipi the levitating midget, ogle at the spectacle of Olga and Golga the slap-happy Siamese twins and get your toes-a-tapping to the Sideshow Pony Ukelele Orchestra. But it doesn't end there. Get amongst it with critic, the heckling Hedda Hare as she teases and taunts the whole array of outlandish showbiz oddballs. So Step Right Up for the kooky carnival capers of MONKEYSHINES - Kabaret 4 Kids from 4 to 12. Written by Liesel Badorrek Music by Leonie Cohen Directed by John Sheedy With Johnny Nasser, Leonie Cohen, Vashti Hughes and Liesel Badorrek IN THE RAW 2006 WEEK THREE
Ferknerkle Productions and DTC present A DELICATE EGG
Written by Malcolm Frawley
Phone Bookings Only Neil and Alex ignited a seemingly insatiable flame in the early 80s but, when their relationship burned out, all that rose from the ashes was acrimony. Twenty years later they meet up accidentally. Did the mistakes that Neil made cost him the love of his life? Is it too late to make amends, or even start again? Or are the people they were in their 20s too different from the people they have become? Directed by Brett Danalake Featuring Zoe Carides, Malcolm Frawley and introducing Stephanie Marsden
Alan Dukes and Darlinghurst Theatre Company present BRILLIANT MONKEY
By Alan Dukes
Tickets $22 adults/ $18 concession & subscribers Phone Bookings Only Are two damaged brains better than one? A funny look at the serious side. Gerard has returned from active service suffering a traumatic brain injury, and awaits classification by his military assessors. He is reunited with Danny, his elder brother who has taken to residing in the grounds of the repat hospital. Together they hold the key to the doors of their past and their future. Featuring Alan Dukes and Warwick Young Writer Alan Dukes Director Sean Taylor Producer Alan Dukes
White Rhino Company and Darlinghurst Theatre Company present MADEMOISELLE FIFI
By Guy de Maupassant 
Tickets $22 adults/ $18 concession & subscribers Phone Bookings Only France, 19th century. The Franco-Prussian war. Several Prussian Officers ‘bravely’ occupy a Chateau somewhere in Normandy. The French have scarpered. The Prussians are bored witless; out of their little minds. One of them “Mademoiselle Fifi” - he hates that name - has taken to blowing things up. Precious things. They all drink too much. They throw a party and invite some of the local girls. Girls who men often invite, for a fee. The girls hate the filthy Prussians, but their money talks. What a party. Full of lust, tension, wine, song, bawdiness and comedy and in one beautiful act of rebellion…murder, in cold blood. Directed and devised by Jo Turner Devised and performed by Jo Turner, Susannah Hardy, ,Romualdo Gulla, ,Amie McKenna, ,Gwyneth Price, Drew Fairley, Chris Baker and Julian Louis. Designed by James Browne Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Gumption Uber Theatre present
TITUS... THE ULTIMATE MURDER BALLAD MUSICAL
Written by Pip Smith, Tim Crew, Talia Linz, Gareth Rickards, Todd Hawkin… and Shakespeare…
Tickets $22 adults/ $18 concession & subscribers FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY!
Shakespeare’s most graphic hard-hitting political satire?
With Palestine and Israel, Israel and Lebanon chin deep in a never-ending cycle of revenge, this story has never seemed more relevant.
Come and watch Gumption UberTheatre’s Ensemble emerge from a rigorous, three-month physical theatre training intensive and turn this story into the ultimate murder ballad musical…
Think Robert Wilson’s The Black Rider meets Nick Cave in a Tim Burton wonderland, and you’re half way there…
Featuring Claudia Barrie, Anthony Clark, Evin Donohoe, Duncan Fellows, Sophie Goldrick, Todd Hawkin, Gertraud Ingeborg, Lee Jones, Sophie Kelly, Nadia Ladyko, Katheryn Mackney, David Ritchie, Tricia Ryan, Elizabeth Thurbon and Michael Whittington Music by Aidan Roberts (Belles will Ring) and the Ensemble Artwork by Biddy Moroney Facilitated by Pip Smith Mentored by Anthony Skuse and Rochelle Whyte
Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Under the Table Productions present FIRE
Tickets $22 adults/ $18 concession & subscribers FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY!
What is the measure of normality?
Detectives Kirkland and Barry are investigating a fire in the local community centre. But what they actually discover is a group of people on the road to recovery.. or are they?..
The International premier of a new work in progress by Georgia Keighery (Phillip Parsons commendation 2003 for The Flats)
A satirical tragedy about addiction
Featuring Zachary Drayson, Rob Jago, Kaily Koutsogiannis, Ainslie McGlynn, Gus Murray & Sam Lyndon Writer Georgia Keighery Director Fiona Hallenan Producer Louise Fischer Lighting Designer Tony Youlden Set Designer Barry French
Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Society of Histrionic Happenings present ONE ROTTEN APPLE
Tickets $22 adults/ $18 concession & subscribers FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY!
A convict rock n’ roll burlesque
Glam rock meets the 18th century head on and there are beautiful costumes, big songs and more double entendres than you can poke a stick at.
Tender Buttons has survived transportation, incarceration and 200 plus years of making it big on her original sin. Accompanied by a loyal band of two, she’s here to tell you the story of one woman’s struggle to defy authority and her expectation to HAVE IT ALL.
“Fancy a bite of my apple?”
Featuring Anne-Louise Rentell, Catherine Woodger and Lisa Whatley Writer Anne-Louise Rentell Director Anne-Louise Rentell Assistant Director Lucy Eggar Designer Imogen Ross Sauna Productions and DTC present
Nobody knows who killed Marzipan Raikkonen. Little Sara who found his body doesn’t know. The ambulance drivers are none the wiser, the crooked cop’s not sure, the horny priest can’t crack it, and the dodgy Russian doesn’t want a bar of it. So why is the cat looking so smug? Welcome to the Arctic Circle, to the Finnish city of Rovaniemi where the housewives are scarier than the criminals, a place where the Farce and the Furious meet – an absurd journey into the Nordic psyche. Featuring Peter Barry, Adam Kennedy, Genevieve Mooy, Ona Nurkkala, Slava Orel, Christopher Stollery and Yvonne Strzechowski inc. studios and DTC present A LIFE IN THE THEATRE
Wednesday 22 November - Saturday 25 November @ 8pm A Life in the Theatre is a funny and poignant portrayal of the dramatic worlds onstage and the realities behind the curtain. Mamet’s ‘sardonic love letter to the theatre’ explores the uneasy passing of the theatrical torch from one generation to the next. Ruth and Josie’s colourful world comes to life on stage, but behind the laughs exists the actor’s battle between competition and camaraderie. Originally written for two males, Mamet’s world-renowned story is transformed - A World Premiere! “... conveys the joyous melancholy of the actor's life - an abundance of memories, passing with the swiftness of a dream.” The Guardian UK Featuring Nicole da Silva and Sandy Gore SEASON 2006 THE UNSCRUPULOUS MURDERER HASSE KARLSSON REVEALS THE GRUESOME TRUTH ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO FROZE TO DEATH ON A RAILWAY BRIDGE By Henning Mankell  $18 preview @ 8pm on Wednesday 1 November ***GALA NIGHT EVENT - SATURDAY 11 NOVEMBER*** On a dark frozen night in the Swedish countryside, Hasse Karlsson rushes home to visit his estranged mother before she dies. When the bus he is traveling in breaks down, his mind drifts back to the winter of his 13thyear, when he and his friend Swallow played their dangerous games. He remembers the terrible night the woman came to a chilling end on top of the railway bridge. How did a simple game go so wrong? How much did his mother really know of his actions? And why, half a lifetime later, can he still not find peace? This Gothic fable is penned by a master of suspense. Author Henning Mankell’s books have been translated into 19 languages and his detective novels, based around the flawed detective Kurt Wallander, dominate best-seller lists around the world. Featuring Andrew Crabbe, Jan Langford-Penny, David Terry, Kate Worsley and Emily Weare Directed by Sarah Goodes BLUE EYES AND HEELS By Toby Whithouse 
$18 preview Wednesday 11 October - BOOKED OUT “With the right handling, we think wrestling could be the new football." Patrick Brammal (last seen in Channel 9’s The Alice) plays Duncan an ambitious young TV producer, ready to do anything to find the next big hit. While planning to bring wrestling back to TV screens, he meets Victor (John McNeill), aka The Count of Monte Cristo. Victor is one of the old guard, past his prime but desperate to reclaim his glory days - and he's a perfect pawn for Duncan to use in his climb to the top of the media industry ladder. Along the way Duncan, who believes in the trash he is peddling, encounters female PA (Sandra Eldridge) who is hungry for quality. Blue Eyes and Heels was first performed at London’s Soho Theatre in a production starring Martin Freeman (best known as Tim from The Office). Packed with sharp one-liners and moments of great poignancy, Blue Eyes and Heels is an insightful comedy that takes a satirical look at the state of today’s TV industry. “Whithouse subtly builds up the intellectual muscle with blistering bouts of comic dialogue that whip up a razor-sharp debate on the state of modern media morality... it really is a knockout.” Metro ***** “superbly written three-hander...both comic and sad.” British Theatre Guide Toby Whithouse’s first play Jump Mr Malinoff, Jump won the 1998 Verity Bargate award and was the opening production at Soho Theatre in 2000. He has also written extensively for television - most notably for the current seasons of Dr Who and Hotel Babylon, and devised the series No Angels. Directed by Kim Hardwick (Dinner With Friends, The Memory of Water)
Production Design is by Martin Kinnane with Sound Design by Steve Francis
SPECIAL EVENT - ONE NIGHT ONLY WAIT! I MIGHT LOVE YOU! By Susannah Hardy  A comical, character-based piece about Brigitte, a 30-something woman who’s sassy, single and a bit of a stalker. Take look into Brigitte’s tragic life and her eternal search for Mr Right. Brigitte was originally from comedy trio The Girls, starring Diana Glen, Gabriella Maselli and Susannah Hardy. Now Brigitte is back and out on her own, developing a brand new show called Wait! I might love you! This is the first showing as part of the show’s developmental process. Unfortunately Brigitte may still not find the love of her life but then again, it’s a work-in-progress, who knows where it may end! Edited & directed by Jo Turner One show only... Monday 23 October @ 8pm TERRORISM By The Presnyakov Brothers "Despite the subject matter, Terrorism is hilariously funny for the majority of the time and this is partly due to the intelligent and quirky script, as well as the extraordinary talents of the ensemble cast. 9 actors fill up the tiny Darlinghurst stage with a great degree of energy and exceptional ability."
"... a sophisticated, cool production... The strong performances by all of the actors draw you into the underworld of the emotions they're portraying." "... it's a play that plants the seed and makes you think (and) thinky stuff is good stuff. Especially when it's this funny."
$18 preview @ 8pm on Wednesday 13 September An abandoned package on a runway, the airport closed and passengers stranded outside – so begins The Presnyakov Brothers’ black comedy Terrorism. From here, we are hurtled through six disturbing and hilarious encounters that involve more intimate acts of terrorism: in the bedroom, on a park bench, in the office. “...you store it all up inside, store it all up and then you turn into bombs, which blow up at the most awkward moment.” (Terrorism) Terrorism explores the pervasive nature of fear and the insidious manner in which it affects every aspect of our lives – “it’s in people, it’s in all of us, and no one’s guarding us!” We delude “ourselves that somebody out there is going to kill us, when actually it turns out we kill ourselves.” (Terrorism) “A bitter, funny, penetrating look at the toxic effects of living with fear - it isn’t about victims or perpetrators or one savage act. It’s a series of takes on a society broken by horror and suspicion, turning against itself.” Featuring Lucas J Connolly, Lisa Griffiths, Frank Hansen, Ashley Lyons, Peter McAllum, Esti Regos, Rhys Robinson, Rosanna Scarcella and Lucy Suze Taylor. Design by Hamish Peters Tickets $28 full, $22 concession and $18 subscribers. DINNER WITH FRIENDS By Donald Margulies
Presented by Fishy Productions and Darlinghurst Theatre Company "... solid... well directed... well acted... an enjoyable, and touchingly comedic experience." Playing: Thursday 24 August to Saturday 9 September 2006. Tuesday to Saturday @ 8pm “…an extraordinarily accomplished piece of writing.” Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize winning play, Dinner With Friends, follows two married couples who have been best friends for years. Food journalists, Karen and Gabe’s lives are as carefully composed as their lemon polenta cake. When only one of their friends arrives to dinner with a life-changing secret, it rocks the delicate balance between relationship and friendship. This deeply funny and human play honestly examines what it means to love, commit and be a friend. “A breezy comedy… that turns poignant and deeply affecting by the end…” “…an honest, compelling…funny look at family and friends in the age of divorce…” Featuring Antony Grgas, Rebecca Rocheford Davies, Rachel Terry and Blair Venn. Dinner With Friends is proudly sponsored by:
Australian Premiere BONE "...poignant, intense, utterly spellbinding...Bone compels from the first." "... well paced, eloquent production...performances full of depth and detail."  206 bones in the Human Body… 3 Stories… 1 Night "... full of imaginative insight and empathy" "brace yourself to be shocked, humoured and moved to tears all at once by John Donnelly's harrowing dark comedy Bone... (the characters) will leave an impression on you that you are not likely to forget anytime soon." "Bone is a must-see production - it is chilling, hilarious, tender but most of all, human." Presented by Ride On and Darlinghurst Theatre Company $18 preview @ 8pm on Wednesday 2 August - Helen wants a conversation with her dead husband, Stephen wants his ex to come crawling back and Jamie wants a shag to see him off to war - three lives stumbling into a most unexpected redemption. An electric, exquisite parable for living right now. "… Ride On Theatre have certainly ticked the biggest box on their mission statement – providing 'a community of artists who believe in theatre's enlightening and transforming power' ... Worth seeing…" Featuring Peter Barry (Ghost Rider), Vanessa Downing (Home and Away) and Ryan Hayward. Tickets $28 full, $22 concession and $18 subscribers THE FRAIL MAN By Anthony Crowley 
"Master storytelling" - The Australian "This show crackles with energy, cramming more than you would think possible into a single play which drives itself deep into the mysterious heart of Australian identity." Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and LightBox Theatre Steven Saken, CEO of Australia's largest IT company is trying to negotiate a billion-dollar merger, when a young Muslim woman is found dead and brutalised outside his Toorak home. Saken becomes the primary suspect, pursued by a female detective with a dark past of her own. His challenges become greater still when he contracts a life-threatening disease for which no cure can be found... This thrilling plot is intertwined with the story of two irreverent convict runaways who are struggling to accept their transportation to Van Diemen's Land. “ … it is a rare pleasure to encounter new Australian writing of this quality and ambition.” The Age Winner of the Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award for 2003. Winner of the Malcolm Robertson Prize for New Writing 2004. Winner of the New Dramatists Award 2005 Featuring Mark Lee, Jeanette Cronin, Laurence Coy, Drew Fairley, Susie Lindeman, Emily Weare, Michael Cullen and James Lugton. Directed by Gareth Boylan AUNTS WITH HOT FLUSHES By Sue Ingleton
Music, nostalgia, secrets and lies… sometimes sharing can be the most liberating experience of them all. "Ingleton's play evocatively captures the spirit of the times... the women's friendship spans 20 years and Ingleton creates a strong sense of life in Sydney during the war years, reflecting the relative independence that the women experienced as WAFs." - Rebecca Whitton, sydneystage.com.au Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Shakespeare et al. Wednesday 31 May to Saturday 24 June 2006. Tuesday to Saturday @ 7pm It’s New Year’s Eve 1959. Three female friends, (and a ring in), gather to celebrate the dawn of the 1960’s, a time filled with the promise of emancipation and change… whether desired or not. The women share a common bond, in that they’re all childless, somewhat set in their ways, and approaching, or in the sweaty throes of menopause. What begins as a light-hearted gathering of female friends swapping familiar tales and singing familiar songs, soon veers into uncharted waters. As many martinis are consumed, defences slip and reminiscence becomes disclosure. Secrets are shared and lies revealed which will change these women’s lives and relationships forever. Suzanne Ingleton’s funny and touching play explores the lives of four women at a time when being childless was synonymous with being frigid, baron, or unattractive. Through humour, song (incluiding "Where The Boys Are", "Que Sera Sera", "White Cliffs Of Dover" and "Three Coins In The Fountain") and the bonds of friendships shared and forged, they cope with loss of opportunity and the 50’s social expectations of women on the eve of feminism. Featuring Anne Frost, Sara Grenfell, Kerry O'Hearn and Lyn Shakespeare.
NO CHANCE IN HELL HOTEL By Kate Smith and Drew Fairley
"Hilarious... deeply silly... terrific, crowd-pleasing entertainment" - Sydney Morning Herald ... utterly ridiculous, utterly hilarious. No Chance In Hell Hotel is fabulously entertaining." - Vibewire Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Kate Smith and Drew Fairley Wednesday 31 May to Saturday 24 June 2006. Tuesday to Saturday @ 9pm No Chance In Hell Hotel is the latest razor-sharp offering by Smith and Fairley, creators of the international smash hit comedy Bangers and Mash. This flawless, nail-biting comedy thriller, set in the backstreets of Kings Cross, subverts the cop/ love story genre with panache and pizzazz. Diane, a lonely woman on the run from love, struggles to keep the last dive bar in the Cross afloat. Jack, an alcoholic ex-ad man needs a change and gets a job as the new barman. When Diane is kidnapped, Sarge, a jaded cop with 20 years on the job and nothing left to lose, realises this could be the case to save him from oblivion. His fresh-faced rookie partner is desperate to avenge the death of her father and prove herself to her acid- tongued boss. Together they set out to blow the case wide open. What will they do when destiny dances with desperation and deceit? Will they end up paying the price …for believing? No Chance In Hell Hotel slips effortlessly between physical comedy, song, dance and jaw-dropping plot twists – think Fame meets CSI - leaving the audience slapping their thighs and roaring for more. “Filled with one-liners…wildly hilarious and entertaining” - Vibewire.com Featuring Drew Fairley and Kate Smith THE ILLUSION By Pierre Corneille "The diamond in the rough of independent theatre... a must-see production." "The Illusion is both a burlesque of the classics... and an affectionately crafted homage; a raspberry and a valentine."
"A grand illusion of the highest order... tackled with immense energy and some very fine acting." "A love of theatre-making is everywhere evident... performances are pitched at full throttle while close attention is paid to the rhythms and nuance of Kushner's delightful text." Sydney professional premiere presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company, The Relaxed & Comfortable Group and MAKEbeLIVE Productions. Wednesday 3 May to Saturday 27 May 2006. Tuesday to Saturday @ 8pm Imagine a supplicant on a dark and spooky night, inside a magician’s cave full of uncanny technology. This May, the Relaxed & Comfortable Group, the mob behind the Darlinghurst’s phenomenally successful Cloud 9, will take you on a comic and unholy trip into the black arts, infidelity, lust, love and betrayal. In a collaboration that spans the centuries, Pierre (El Cid) Corneille’s classic theatrical adventure is reinvented in a sizzling new adaptation by Tony Kushner. Kushner was nominated for an Oscar this year for Best Adapted Screenplay - Stephen Spielberg's Munich - and is the subject of a new documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Frieda Lee Mock - Wrestling With Angels; Playwright Tony Kushner - which premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. “Both modern and ancient, timeless and timely, flippant and profound, it is a thorough delight. A masterpiece waiting for its time to happen.” — Polly Warfield, Drama-Logue That time is now. From two of the world’s greatest playwrights and one of Australia’s hottest ensembles, experience The Illusion. “The Illusion takes us into the territory on which theatre thrives: fantasy, witchcraft, transcended place and time." — Sylvie Drake, LA Times A comedy brimming with danger, sex and humanity, asking the crucial question: is love the greatest illusion of all?
Featuring Holly Austin, Helmut Bakaitis (The Matrix Trilogy), Thomas Campbell, Yure Covich, Zoe Houghton, Robert Jago, Natasha MacNamara & Phil Scott (Three Men and a Baby Grand) Sonic illusions by Phil Scott and DJ Soup SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS By Mark Ravenhill "A superbly well-acted and designed production that obliterates the distinction between fringe and mainstream theatre." "The performances are universally strong in delivering this confrontational but intelligent text."
How did we get from there to here... and where do we go now? Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Smug Theatre. Wednesday 29 March to Saturday 22 April 2006. Tuesday to Saturday @ 7pm Generations, causes and values collide as the lives of an ex-con, a gay man, a Labour councillor, a lap dancer, a pinstriped capitalist and a Russian good-time toy boy become irrevocably interwoven in this provocative urban fairytale. After serving a 15 year jail term, anarchist Nick discovers that the world has changed, while he has not. With none of the old causes, friendships and foes to anchor him, Nick drifts into the hedonistic world of designer drugs and partying, in which a generation’s natural idealism has become subordinated to corporate obedience and trash culture. Some Explicit Polaroids presents us with punchy snapshots of contemporary life, loss and desire, which pulsate with energy, placing disparate, disaffected characters – each uniquely under the constraints of ‘the system’ – on a collision course, as they each search for the illusive happy ending. A hot cast and director bring this provocative urban fairytale (which many consider to be Ravenhill's best work to date) to life, on an amazing set constructed within the theatre. “Searing… wicked… intelligent… disturbing… sensational…” “Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily than any other playwright of his generation” Featuring Christian Barrett-Hill, Genevieve Hegney, Gibson Nolte, Rebecca Smee, Blair Venn and John Turnbull. Directed by John Sheedy. Designed by Dane Laffrey. Lighting Design by Verity Hampson and Luiz Pampolha. Sound Design by Max Lyandvert. Photography by Brett Boardman.
“Close your eyes, follow me down to the depths below, I promise you will not drown.” Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and On Invisible Wings. Wednesday 29 March to Saturday 22 April 2006. Thursday to Saturday @ 9.10pm Internationally acclaimed songwriter and performer Mikelangelo and writer, philosopher and performer Undine Francesca team up for a bold new show – Boat of Dreams, a strange and fantastical journey through the seas of love. With elements of physical theatre, striking visual imagery, pantomime, puppetry and song, this unique show is hauntingly beautiful and delicately absurd. Mikelangelo is renowned for his profound yet humorous lyrics, idiosyncratic guitar and accordion style, and astonishing baritone voice. He has toured arts and music festivals nationally and internationally to great acclaim with his group the Black Sea Gentlemen. Most recently the group toured New Zealand, Hungary and Scotland and were a five star hit at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival. Their new album Journey Through the Land of Shadows has had frequent air play on Radio National and the group has appeared as special guests on Philip Adams Late Night Live and also on the ABC TV Sunday Afternoon Arts Show. Writer, philosopher and performer Undine Francesca collaborated with Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen on their show Heart of the Black Sea at the Street Theatre in Canberra 2001. Undine recently received a Doctorate of Philosophy for her thesis Illustrated Nonsense: Ethics and Aesthetic Practice in the Writing of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Boat of Dreams debuted at the Hobart Summer Festival in January 2006 and is Mikelangelo and Undine Francesca’s first ‘two hander’ show. Together they weave a suite of Mikelangelo’s love songs into a vivid theatrical setting. Within the show the love song is like a boat of dreams – a craft to cross between worlds. But it is also a message sent that the beloved may never receive, a vessel of loneliness, discordance and longings. Boat of Dreams explores the uncharted life of love beyond the ‘romantic ending,’ not blissful union but something more potent and mysterious, a compelling mix of passion and discontent, closeness and distance, adventure, hope, loss and strange satisfaction. Directed and Performed by: Mikelangelo and Undine Francesca. Tickets $28 full, $22 concession and $18 subscribers. BREATHING CORPSES By Laura Wade
Get back in your box... Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Round Peg Productions. Wednesday 1 March to Saturday 25 March 2006. Tuesday to Saturday @ 7pm and Sunday @ 5pm What horror lurks beneath the neat, reassuringly familiar facade of suburban life? In Laura Wade's take on modern suburban isolation, everyone's a corpse... but some are still breathing. Hotel cleaner Amy has discovered another body at work. Jim is puzzled by a sinister smell emanating from one of his storage units, and Ben and Kate are fighting over the dog after a long, hot afternoon with the police. Breathing Corpses is a blackly humorous examination of sadness and death in contemporary suburbia. As the heat rises and the bodies pile up, Wade's plot unfolds in a Memento-style backtrack, bringing the characters face to face with their own mortality. "A black comedy... a murderous jigsaw puzzle... a really intense 80 minutes." "When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse." Featuring Jessica Manuel, Adele Granger, Ben Adam (Macleods Daughters, Lantana), Christopher Rickerby, Rhys Robinson, Laurence Coy and Carole Skinner. Directed by Kate Wild Produced by Click Here to check out the "Round Peg Productions" web site! KABOOM! THE BEST OF VASH & TRASH Devised and performed by Vashti Hughes and Trash Vaudeville
The cabaret/ theatrical big bang Sydney's been begging for! Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Vashti Hughes & Trash Vaudeville. Wednesday 1 March to Saturday 25 March 2006. Thursday to Saturday @ 9.10pm and Sunday @ 7.10pm Be prepared to be blown sky high as two of Sydney’s most unique and astounding underground cabaret stars join forces to incarnate a cast of thousands, on a wild and wacky journey from the gutter to the penthouse. Vashti Hughes, fresh from her In The Raw 2005 success with the wildly funny and eye-poppingly imaginative one-woman show, Getting Down with Mavis Brown, is a virtual veteran of the Sydney cabaret/ burlesque/ theatre scene who prefers her gigs to be within 5 minutes walking distance from home, and fortunately for us, Darlinghurst Theatre Company makes the grade by a couple of steps! Partner in crime Trash Vaudeville is another truly unique cabaret/ club creature, whose shows have straddled the underground exotic and hybrid animation performance, arthouse, and even circus, his iconic acid-camp style, hallucinogenic visuals and corrosive satire, bedazzling audiences throughout Sydney’s indie performance scene. If you’re feeling lost in the car park of life, join Vash and Trash on their non-stop elevator to the good times – you’ll be so glad you did!
THE ROOD SCREEN by Donna Abela "entertaining, lively... a true show of perceptive, educated and intelligent writing."
Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Birds of Appetite in association with the New Mardi Gras Festival. Wednesday 1 February to Saturday 25 February 2006. Tuesday to Saturday @ 7pm and Sunday @ 5pm **Patrons please note: Due to circumstances beyond our control, there will be no performance of The Rood Screen on Tuesday 21 February. Theodora's hung around nuns, been transported by Bach, wept at the beauty of the Sufis, and underlined everything in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. She also loves Celeste: their life together is abundant, bliss ridden, meant-to-be, made in Heaven... or is it? How can she find a home for her spiritual instincts whan religions condemn the very love of her life? Pushing past the pontiffs of dogma, Theodora sets out to reconcile her two sources of joy. While entrusted with the body of a fractal-loving priest, she sings with evolved fish who live in fruitcakes: stops Mother Church passing pethidine to a man who is pregnant with possibility: takes the helm of Magellan's ship and circumnavigates the ever-expanding universe; and dives off the edge of chaos to discover the beginnings of a millennial pendulum swing towards conscience and radical compassion. It's Monty Python and The Science Show meets existential angst! A genre-crossing adventure through a chaotically absurd landscape. The Rood Screen received an Honourable Mention in the 2004 New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest USA, and was a top five finalist in the 2002 Newham Lesbian and Gay Writing Out Awards UK. Donna Abela co-founded Powerhouse Youth Theatre in 1987. Since then her many award-winning and nominated works have included: Highest Mountain, Fastest River - 1992 Human Rights Commission Award for Drama. Tales From The Arabian Nights - Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image; shortlisted 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and 2005 Children's Theatre AWGIE Award. The Daphne Massacre - Parramatta Riverside Theatre; shortlisted STC Patrick White 2000 Play Award. Cast includes Karl Velasco, Johann Walraven, Ona Nurkkala, Amelia Ker, Zoe Ellerton-Ashley, Virginia Gay, Christina O'Neill, Jeremy Youett and Rebecca Verrier Book and pay for both shows - get all tix @ concession prices! **Patrons please note: Due to circumstances beyond our control, there will be no performance of The Rood Screen on Tuesday 21 February. Book on 8356 9987 or hit the book now tab below for secure credit card bookings. $1.00 booking fee per ticket. All tickets purchased are non-refundable. Tickets may be transferred to another night within the run of a show, with at least 24 hours notice. and 1hr prior to Special Performance times.
HUMAN RESOURCES By Chris Aronsten "Kate Gaul stylishly directs three excellent performances. Recommended." "The three monologues that form Chris Aronsten's Human Resources are acerbic, funny and unsentimental... makes for a lively, bittersweet and thoughtful trio." "Human Resources is edgy, stylish and fun to watch... its actors and director masters of their craft."
Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Siren Theatre Co. in association with the New Mardi Gras Festival. Wednesday 1 February to Saturday 25 February 2006. Tuesday to Saturday @ 9.10pm and Sunday @ 7.10pm Human Resources is a three-part look at the psychology, graft and sexual politics of working in an office. In Dave's Lunchtime Dos and Don'ts, Steven revels in his easy manipulation of a lonely, sexually frustrated, wealthy older man - until his plan goes horribly wrong. In Brian Meets His Match, a pack of office workers all use the same internet dating service. Their obsessive rules of engagement are challenged by the arrival of the new boy - plain old Brian. In Fiona's Functions, we discover how an older and near untrainable box office worker deals with the encroachment of technology and her seemingly pre-pubescent new boss. When you're having the humanity modernised out of you, can you fight back? In the manufactured world of internet dating, can we make meaningful connections? And in the real world, what happens when we get what we ask for? These characters are funny, tragic and very human. Human Resources is a clever, ferocious, pithy new Australian play - full of dark humour that packs a punch where it hurts! Created by three of Sydney's most respected actors, and a potent combination of experienced and emerging talent, Human Resources promises to be one of the must sees of 2006. Featuring Thomas Campbell, Josef Ber and Lorna Lesley. With Julian Dibley-Hall, Suz Mawer, Scarlett McGlynn, Nathin Butler and Alexandria Steffensen. Directed by Kate Gaul Tickets $28 full, $22 concession/ New Mardi Gras members, and $18 VIP patrons. Book and pay for both shows - get all tix @ concession prices! THE YOUNG TYCOONS by Christopher Johnson
Playing January 5 to January 28, 2006 : Tuesday to Saturday @ 8pm, Sunday @ 5pm Extra performances @ 5pm Saturday 21 January and 5pm Saturday 28 January Presented by DTC and Spooky Duck Productions From the author of Dog Logs, Backpacker! and Barnesy, The Harbour and You, comes a scathing, cynical - but always hilarious - comedy about sex, money, lies, money, treachery, backstabbing, ruthlessness, money, money, money - and even a bit of true love. Trevor and Kim are two young men on the verge of being handed more wealth, power and prestige than is commonly imaginable - but can they handle it? Or is there truth in the old adage: The first generation acquires it, the second generation builds it... and the third generation f**ks it up! Watch and laugh as fortunes are risked, secrets exposed, unspeakable acts performed and lives ruined... and feel a whole lot better about your own position on the rich and powerful list. Topical, scandalous, very, very funny - and soooo Sydney. Greed is the new black. "Johnson writes like a cross between Harold Pinter and Jerry Seinfeld." "Bitingly excellent gags... excellent design and a strong sense of dark satire." "Totally entertaining, clever and engaging... this marvellous satire is bound to be a sell-out."
Tickets @ $28 full, $22 concession, and $18 VIP patrons.
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