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Our season of Glorious has been given an exemption from the NSW Public Health Order and will be at 100% capacity.
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Glorious

Glorious is a hilarious and moving comedy based on the true story of the wealthy socialite dubbed the worst singer in the world. In 1940’s New York, Florence Foster Jenkins was the performer everyone wanted to see. An enthusiastic soprano whose pitch was far from perfect, Florence was “the first lady of the sliding scale”, warbling and screeching her way through performances to an audience who mostly fell about laughing. But this delusional and joyously happy woman paid little attention to her critics, supported by a circle of devoted friends almost as eccentric as her. This heartfelt play spins from Florence’s charity recitals and extravagant balls, through to her bizarre recording sessions, as we witness a true star follow her dreams all the way to her greatest triumph.

Season 10 April to 1 May 2021

STRAY DOGS THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS

MEDEA

EURIPIDES

Translated and directed by Michael Ewans

The first Greek tragedy staged in Newcastle for over 20 years.

Jason has two sons with Medea; in the past she has used her magical powers to save his life and help him achieve his goals. But now he has dumped her for an advantageous new marriage to a teenage princess.

What could drive a woman to kill her own children?

Euripides’ Medea (431 BCE) is one of the most exciting of the surviving Greek dramas, here presented in modern dress in a new, accurate and actable translation by Michael Ewans, who also directs.

The title role is one of the most demanding in the world repertory, encompassing both rational dialogue and highly emotional scenes of grief and anger. In our production Claudia Bedford will play Medea and Phillip Ross will play Jason, with a talented supporting cast.

WED 12-SAT 15 MAY 7:30 PM

AND SAT 15 MAY 2 PM

BOOKINGS: 4952 4958

The House of Bernarda Alba is a modern adaptation by Rona Munro of the play by Federico Garcia Lorca.

Following the gangland execution of her husband, a crime boss and father to four of her five daughters,

the formidable matriarch Bernarda Alba will do anything to safeguard her family’s dubious fortune

and the future of her five daughters.

A deal is struck: a marriage of convenience is set up between her eldest girl and the son of a business

rival. All she has to do is ensure that the wedding happens and quickly too, but five headstrong

daughters cooped up in a penthouse apartment above a night club in an emotionally-charged

atmosphere of jealousy, rivalry and repressed sexuality make that an epic challenge.

Set in Australia during a hot, steamy summer, this production is electrifyingly transposed to the money-laundering world of crime-ridden Melbourne. The play is full of waspish black humour and it is hard

not to laugh right up until this contemporary family drama reaches its bitter and bloody end.

The House of Bernarda Alba plays June 5 to 26, with the preview performance on Friday June 4 benefitting the John Hunter Children’s Hospital Kids Club.

Steel Magnolias tells the story of six women and how the bonds of their friendships strengthen through good times and bad.

The play is set in the fictitious southern town of Chinquapin, Louisiana, in Truvy’s beauty shop where all the ladies, and anyone who is anyone, come to get their hair done. Wise-cracking beauty shop owner Truvy dispenses shampoo and free advice to her customers – “Honey, time marches on and eventually you realise it’s marching across your face” – and is helped by her new assistant Annelle.

Her customers include Miss Clairee, widow of the former Mayor, “the only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorise”; Ouiser, a wealthy curmudgeon “I’m not crazy…I’ve just been in a bad mood for 40 years”; M’Lynn and her daughter Shelby, the prettiest girl in town, who is about to marry her sweetheart, Jackson.

Steel Magnolias plays 24 July to 14 August, with five matinees – Sunday 25 July, Saturday 31 July, Sunday 1 August, Saturday 7 August and Sunday 8 August.

Grab your best friends and come and see this heart-warming play. Book your tickets early to avoid disappointment.

Past Productions

The Road to Tibooburra

This is a rock concert with a story to tell, an Outback tinged twang! trimmed with a lot of great jokes and stark juxtaposition – somewhere between Priscilla and Wake in Fright.

Experience a rollicking rock’n’roll bus ride, a ‘getting the band back together’ feeling, a surreal trip into the Australian interior.

A sprawling work of performance art, complete with odd angry rants and broken down hillbillies, The Road To Tibooburra is a vigorously painted canvas, a drama playing out in the Australian desert at the time of COVID-19.

Thursday 11^th March: 8pm-9.30pm

Friday 12^th March: 8pm-9.30pm

Saturday 13^th March: 8pm-9.30pm

Sunday 14^th March: 2pm-3.30pm

Two

The first show of NTC’s 2021 Indie Season is Two.

Set in a typical northern England pub in the late 1980s, Two explores the realities of life for working class people through a series of vignettes which are hilarious and often moving. They range from caustic exchanges between the landlord and landlady to interactions between various locals who frequent their establishment, some of whom look for love, others solace, others for something more than the ordinary.

These characters – all played by two actors – you will recognise and relate to. So, buy a drink and take a seat. Promises will be made, hearts broken, stories shared, and long-hidden secrets revealed. Tonight’s a night just like any other…or is it?

3, 5 and 6 March 2021

Love Letters

The charming play Love Letters traces the relationship of two characters – Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner – through the notes, letters and cards that they exchange over the course of 50 years.

Beginning with thank you notes, summer camp postcards and Valentines, their romantic attachment continues through middle school and into their boarding school and college years, through the trials of World War 2 and their relationships with others. These love letters are testament to their friendship and affection for each other.

Plays 24, 26 and 27 February 2021.

MURDER ON THE NILE

Directed by

Fran Hodgson

Crew
Assistant Director	Brayden Porter
Production Manager	Claire Williams
Stage Manager	Jane Cobley
Assistant SM / crew	Vivien Brown
Assistant SM / crew	Carly Crispin
Lighting design	Phil Haywood
Lighting operator	Jenny Brook
Sound design	Brayden Porter + Noel Grivas
Sound operator
Set construction	David Murray & Stephen Hill
Set design & dressing	Fran + Robyn Greenwell
Costume Design	Fran Hodgson

Cast
Simon Mostyn		Paul Predny
Kay Mostyn		Marigold Pazar
Jackie de Severac		Belinda Hodgson
Canon Pennefather		David Gubbay
Dr Bessner		Brayden Porter
The Steward		Noel Grivas
Miss ffoliot-ffoulkes		Helen Comber
Christina Grant		Megan Connelly
Smith		Liam McKenna
Louise		Nahana Hussain

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