Past performances

Award winning theatre: Previous Plays

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    Secondary Cause of Death

    One of the Inspector Pratt plays by Peter Gordon. We had people standing in the aisles during this show. Epic.

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    The Scottish Play

    The tale of an amateur theatre company producing (ssssh!) Macbeth and the politics and power-plays behind the show. An excellent comedy.

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    Man the Ballon

    In a village where the population explodes daily (literally), the charismatic Waldo comes to offer an alternative.

  • 11:56

    A man is found naked in the street. He has lost his memory but knows ‘something’ is going to happen and has difficulty convincing people that the cataclysmic event is true.

  • Breaker Morant

    The well-known story of an Australian soldier in the Boer war sentenced to death for allegedly killing a prisoner.

  • Away

    What people do while on holiday, who finds who, what things never change. Several families and individuals meet and interact with others at a resort.

  • The Eulogy

    A man believes his mother is going to leave him out of her will and confronts her.

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    Strangers on a Train

    Two men meet on a train. The conversation leads to a lighthearted agreement that each will kill the other's nemesis. Then it happens...

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    The Memory of Water

    On the death of their mother, three daughters meet to discuss what comes next, who gets what and what their mother wanted.

  • Any Given Monday

    Lenny's wife leaves him for a gold-chain charletan, Frank. The man's friend takes it upon himself to kill Frank.

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    All Things Considered

    A university ethics professor decides that there is no longer a reason to live and unsuccessfully attempts suicide. His friends are worried for him and try to convince him not to try again.

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    When Dad Married Fury

    A father with two adult sons meets and marries an American half his age and changes his will to benefit his new wife. His sons are enraged and their wives help them out.

  • One-act plays - The Ashes of Great Men and Fruity Mama

    Two bright and humorous comedies. One about a crazy detective investigating a car crash; another about the stress of early motherhood.

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    Humble Boy

    A shy boy's mother wants him to meet a nice girl.

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    The Laramie Project

    After a young gay man is attacked and killed, a group visits the area and talks with residents, police, friends, relatives and records the conversations which became the script for the play.

  • Parramatta Girls

    The real story of a group of women forcibly retained in a women's hostel in NSW and the treatment they received.

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    The Kitchen Sink

    Set in east Yorkshire, England, this is the story of a family in transition. A dad whose milkman delivery job is threatened, his wife who is holding the family together, their daughter aiming for her blackbelt in Judo, their son going to art college and their friend the plumber.

  • Thirty three

    Set in an apartment on a 33rd birthday gathering, a group of friends meet and begin to dissolve as they interact.

  • One Act Play Season

    2 short plays : one comedy, one touching drama.

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    Harp on the Willow

    The true story of Maureen O'Hara, a harpist and singer meeting her poet husband, his eventual death, her time in religion and her relationship with a reforming drunk.

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    The Other Place

    A scientist working on dementia drugs falls victim to her own illness. She is unprepared to admit its effects until a series of events make it impossible for her to reject.

  • The lonesome west

    The second of a trilogy of plays by Martin McDonagh, set in country Ireland, two brothers bicker and fight over small things. The local priest and "lass about town" add to the fight in different ways.

  • Sylvia

    A stock trader is approached by a stray dog in a park and decides to take the dog home. His wife is adamant about the dog (Sylvia) not becoming part of the family.

  • Tartuffe

    A play by Moliere from the 17th Century, translated into English with rhyming couplets. About hypocrisy, piety, a poke at the King and all done with hilarity.

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    The Effect

    A couple of human guinea-pigs being given drugs in a test environment break the rules and change the results of the test. Is their feeling caused by the drug or is it human nature?

  • Theatre Bites

    The final show before the Shoestring Playhouse refurbishment - a dinner theatre experience with three one-act comedies and three courses of dinner.