“The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Production of Macbeth”
Full Details : Kwinana Theatre Workshop is becoming the venue for one of the most disastrous evening's entertainment in many years.
The ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society are putting on their annualpro duction, and this year it is a certain Shakespeare play that is well known for things going wrong... and boy, do they go wrong!
Written by David MacGillivray and Walter Zerlin, Jr. this uproarious comedy play within a play, directed by Paul Treasure introduces the housing estate ladies and their producer, Plummer, and stage manager Henry. Their startlingly original production of Macbeth should get them to the Welwyn Garden City Finals, but with the carefully mascara'd eye of adjudicator George Peach, events conspire against them.
Set in a village hall in a small country town somewhere in the south of England, the lovely ladies from Farndale do to Shakespeare's Macbeth what Macbeth does to Scotland!
The Farndale society are renowned for their legendary stage mishaps and audiences will again be keen as mustard to live their best performance, no matter what the play. In best comedic style as the play dictates, their dedication and enthusiasm is not matched by their ability. If anything possibly can go wrong it most probably will and generally does!
Director, Paul Treasure explains that this play is a hilarious parody of one of Shakespeare's most notorious play. “The play was first performed for the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, where it won first prize. Since then has been performed all over the world, and spawned a number of sequels, where the Farndale ladies take on everything from Noel Coward through to Science Fiction and even Gilbert and Sullivan. While the play uses the Scottish Play as its basis, it doesn't require a knowledge of the Shakespeare to enjoy its humour”.
"In recent years I have been mainly directing big musicals, like Shout! and Charlotte's Web at Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, and thought that one of the Farndale plays would be a nice antidote to all the stress that comes from these mammoth ventures. It is good just getting back to roots again, and working with some of my favourite actors."
11 performances only (including two Sunday matinees)
Featuring: Don Lee, Kharlee Hamel, Peter Carr, Rachael Hayter, Mel Sklenars, Penny Ramsell, Pamela Brown, Claire Ashcroft, Mark Thompson.
Performance Dates: Feb 16, 17, 18, 19*, 23, 24, 25, 26*, March 1, 2, 3
Time: All shows commence at 8pm, *except Sunday Feb 19 & 26 at 2pm
Doors open 30 minutes prior to curtain
Venue: Koorliny Arts Centre, Sulphur Rd, Kwinana
Tickets: Full $20, Conc $17
Bookings: Koorliny Arts Centre ph: 9467 7118
Book online - www.koorliny.com.au
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