Past Shows

Living Together is the second play in Alan Ackybourn’s comedy trilogy The Norman Conquests, each about the same traumatic family weekend in a country vicarage. Set in Southern England in the mid-1970s, Living Together covers the action in the living room.

Unmarried Annie lives in a Victorian house with her (unseen) bed-ridden widowed mother. So that Annie can go away for the weekend for some respite from her caring tasks, her brother and his wife have come to hold the fort. They believe Annie should pair off with the rather dim local veterinarian, but Annie has other ideas. She has made an assignation…but not with the vet.

Scarlett is a 36-year-old waitress who lives with her mother and has no boyfriend. She has an active fantasy life and dreams of being with her boss, Steve, but is also pursued by the awkward Alan.

Abusive, cantankerous and burned out by booze, Leo Bailey is one of Australia’s national treasures. A gifted and renowned painter and chronic alcoholic, he can no longer take care of himself. His resentful daughter has employed a succession of minders who haven’t lasted, that is, until Therese comes along, fresh out of prison and determined to make a go of her limited options.

Set in the 1940’s, during the most vulnerable point in her career, a leading lady of the time, Margo Channing, encounters an aspiring young actress, Eve Harrington, who ingratiates herself into the lives of the most successful theatre practitioners in town – Lloyd Richards, Bill Sampson & Max Fabian.

Set in November 1963, Dogfight tells the story of three young marines, on the town for their last boys’ night out of partying before deployment into a small, but growing, conflict in Vietnam.

It’s 1873, and at the age of 20, Vincent Van Gogh is renting a room in the London suburb of Brixton, whilst he is preparing for a career as an art dealer in his family’s business. The play explores the transforming effects of sex and love on Van Gogh’s still unformed talent all whilst falling in love…

Oliver Twisted, written and directed by Larry Waller, creates a very different version of Dickens’ original tale, using a mix of adventure, shock and mirth.

The winds of conservative political change are blowing hard in Australia, but satirist John Doyle’s moving, funny and at times shocking play The Pig Iron People is not about politics. It’s an absorbing and sharply observed tale about different generations and how life, love, prejudice and memories impact the way we see ourselves and others.