​The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Murder Mystery
By David McGillvray & Walter Zerlin, Jnr.
Directed by Andrew Castle
10 - 26 February 2023
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The Farndale Avenue ladies are back with the Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Murder Mystery.

Every drama group has experienced the horrors of what can go wrong on opening night, and the ladies of the F.A.H.E.T.G. Dramatic Society are no different, with the possible exception that almost everything that could happen does! 

The scenery collapses, cues are missed, lines forgotten, and the sound effects take on a strange note at times, as the ladies present their ambitious evening's entertainment with the cunning whodunit, 'Murder At Checkmate Manor.' And just in case the audience should get bored there's a Film and Fashion Show and Murder Mystery Quiz, complete with a Prize! 

The crunch comes in the denouement when the 'murderer', about to be revealed, has to rush home to bandage up an injured daughter. But Mrs. Reece, doyenne of the group, rises above the slings and arrows of outrageous dramatics to save the situation and provide the final inventive twist
 
By arrangement with Origin Music Australia on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.

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​The Lieutenant of Inishmore
By Martin McDonagh.
Directed by Kathryn Thomas and Mitch Garling
10 - 26 May 2024
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On a lonely road on the island of Inishmore, someone killed Mad Padraic’s cat. He’ll want to know who did it when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland. He loves his cat more than life itself, and someone is going to pay. Set in the 1990s, The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a clever satire on terrorism, the beautification of violence in contemporary culture and a hilarious farce in true McDonagh fashion. This brazen and unapologetically blood-curdling farce combines comedy and violence in a darkly funny portrait of rivalries among terrorists for whom killing, torturing and bombing are just day-jobs. 

“One of the ­greatest and most ­improbable comedies of the ­decade” - The Guardian

"A FEARLESS, SAVAGELY FUNNY SATIRE" - The Daily Telegraph

"MARTIN MCDONAGH'S PLAY IS THE DARKEST AND FUNNIEST HE HAS EVER WRITTEN" - Financial Times

"I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR A PLAY THIS BLOODY TO BE SO FUNNY" - BroadwayWorld
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By arrangement with Origin Music Australia on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.

Radium Girls
By D.W Gregory
Directed by Kathy Petrakis
9-25 August 2024

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls, written by D.W. Gregory, follows the story of Grace Fryer, a dial painter in Orange, New Jersey, as she fights for her day in court.

Based on real events unfolding in the 1920s, the play tells the stories of young women employed in the watch factories featuring timepieces with the newly popular luminous dials.  The glow-in-the-dark watch faces are popular and fashionable, and the women hold well-paying positions. All seems to be pointing to hopeful futures for the women, but soon they begin to fall ill with a mysterious illness which has terrifying symptoms. The play is inspired by Grace Fryer, herself a dial painter, whose efforts to fight for her day in court are blocked by her idealistic former employer who cannot bring himself to believe the same element which shrinks tumours can possibly be causing the suffering of his employees. The play calls into focus issues of corporate responsibility and environmental safety, which are just as important today.

By arrangement with Origin Music Australia on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.
Mystery Children's Musical
8-24 November 2024