Betrayal directed by Gary O'Neil

by Harold Pinter

Season - 31 May - 21 June

Robert and Emma are married.  He is a publisher and she runs an art gallery.  Jerry, a literary agent, is Robert's best friend.   He has been having an affair with Emma for seven years.  Written in response to his own adulterous affair with the TV presenter Joan Bakewell, Harold Pinter's anatomy of an affair is an icy masterpiece about love and friendship and betrayal, made all the more brilliant by the cunning way that the story is told backwards over nine years to the evening it all began.  Pinter has never dissected the theme of betrayal with such detached and brutal precision as he does here.

In every life – for every love, with every trust – there is a risk of …

Deadwood Dick or “The Game of Gold” directed by Rod Felsch

by Tom Taggart (Based on the Dime Novels of Edward L. Wheeler)

Season - 12 July - 2 August (a theatre restaurant)

A Rootin’ Tootin’ Melodrama of the Gay ‘90s in Three Acts

Exciting stories taken from cheap novels of the 1880's about a Robin Hood of the Black Hills, and the melodramatic lure of the Old West

Sub-titled The Game of Gold, the play centers around the conniving of the central villain, Black’n Red, and the two heroes’ attempts to thwart him. The heroes are Ned Harris and Wild Bill Hickock. Being a melodrama, there must be ladies in distress and Deadwood Dick has two, sisters, Rose and Lily Blossom.

The action of the play takes place in Calamity Jane’s Mantrap Saloon, which is populated by a wide range of interesting characters, led by its hardheaded but softhearted proprietor, Calamity Jane. The head “girl” at the saloon is La Paloma, a femme fatale wannabe. Representing the established law, such as it is in Deadwood are Judge Nix and Sheriff Loveless. The sheriff’s wife, Molly, provides the emotional angst within the play as she reveals and then deals with her past indiscretions.   Interestingly, the moral rock of the production is the stereotypical Chinese cook, Pong Ping. The bartender and partner-in-crime with Black’n Red is Chet Pussy

Deadwood Dick promises to provide a couple hours of pure enjoyment. Audience members will be encouraged to boo, hiss, cheer and - especially - laugh.

Hot Taps by Donald McDonald

Directed by Norma Braddock

Season - 6 -27 September

A bedroom farce set in a bathroom

Seven party goers are trapped in an upstairs bathroom, gradually weaving their tangled web tighter and tighter until... The laughs, drama and showers keep coming

After January by Philip Dean & Nick Earls

Directed by Sandra Harman

Season - 8 - 29 November

A play about what happens when you stop waiting for life to happen and begin to live it.

Alex has eighteen days until he finds out if he got into Arts Law, a week in Caloundra to sleep, swim and watch the cricket, and a mother with a keen interest in his sex life. Fortuna keeps bees, has a nose ring, and a father who likes to do pottery in the nude. When this unlikely pair meet the results are both hilarious and heartwarming. And for both of them it means that things will never be the same after January.

Adapted by Philip Dean from Nick Earls' award-winning novel, After January is a play for people of all ages about what happens when someone stops waiting for life to happen and begins instead to live it.