May 2012 - The Gingerbread Lady
October 2012 - Don't Dress for Dinner
May 2012 - The Gingerbread Lady
Evy Meara, is a popular singer who has gone to pot with an over indulgence in booze and parties. We meet her at the end of a ten week drying out period at a sanitarium when her friend, her daughter, and an actor friend try to welcome her home and adjust to sobriety
But all three have the opposite effect on her. Her friend Toby, is so constantly vain that she loses her own husband; the actor (Jimmy), a homosexual, is also out of luck, and indeed loses his part three days before an opening; and her daughter Polly, needs more affection than she can spare her mother. Enter also a former lover (Lou), who ends up giving her a black eye.
A birthday party for Toby washes out, the gingerbread lady falls off the wagon and careens onward to her own tragic end, or is there finally some light at the end of the tunnel for Evy ?
“He has combined an amusing comedy with the atmosphere of great sadness. His characteristic wit and humor are at their brilliant best, and his serious story of lost misfits can often be genuinely and deeply touching” ~ N.Y. Post
“Mr. Simon’s play is as funny as ever the customary avalanche of hilarity, and landslide of pure unbuttoned joy” ~ N.Y. Times
Written By Neil Simon
Directed by Andrew Clark
Performance Dates:
Thursday 17th May 2012 to Saturday 19th May 2012 8.00pm
Thursday 24th May 2012 to Saturday 26th May 2012 8.00pm
Saturday 26th May 2012 2.00pm
Preview Wednesday 16th May 2012 8.00pm
Domain Theatre
Marion Cultural Centre
Cnr Diagonal and Sturt Roads (Adjacent Westfield Shoppingtown Marion)
Oaklands Park
The Cast:
Evy Meara Jo St Clair
Jimmy Perry Aldo Longobardi
Toby Landau Rachel Burfield
Polly Meara Carla Hardie
Lou Tanner Luke Budgen
Manuel Ben Todd
October 2012 - Don't Dress for Dinner
In a stylish converted French farmhouse, Bernard is hoping to entertain his chic, Parisian mistress, Suzy, for the weekend. He has arranged to send his wife, Jacqueline, off to her mother and has even invited along his best friend, Robert as a suitable alibi. It's foolproof. What could possibly go wrong?
Well supposing Robert turns up without knowing the real reason why he's been invited? What if Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers? Or how about the cordon bleu cook that Bernard has hired to provide gourmet delights, being mistaken for the mistress and the mistress who can't cook? Mix these ingredients and you have the perfect recipe for an evening of hilarious confusion as Bernard and Robert improvise at breakneck speed.
Don't Dress for Dinner was a smash-hit in Paris under its original title Pyjamas pour Six, where it ran for over two years. Robin Hawdon's English adaptation played to critical acclaim in London in 1991.
'Hurtling along at the speed of light, Marc Camoletti's breathtaking farce is a near faultless piece of theatrical invention. Within seconds we are drawn into a delicious web of marital treachery which accelerates with classic symmetry for an all-star denouement.' The Guardian
'... a nifty comedy farce about double adultery and gourmet cooking ... I can't think of a better way of forgetting the recession.' Sunday Times
Written By Marc Camoletti
Adapted By Robin Hawdon
Directed by John Graham
Performance Dates:
Thursday 18th October 2012 to Saturday 20th October 2012 8.00pm
Thursday 25th October 2012 to Saturday 27th October 2012 8.00pm
Saturday 27th October 2012 2.00pm
Preview Wednesday 17th October 2012 8.00pm
Domain Theatre
Marion Cultural Centre
Cnr Diagonal and Sturt Roads (Adjacent Westfield Shoppingtown Marion)
Oaklands Park
