Theatre Season Subscriptions 2012

The 2012 Theatre Season Subscription Program is here......
 

All events included in this offer are listed below.

Please complete the Booking Form (below) if you are subscribing to four (4) or more shows.

APRILS FOOL (Drama)
THURSDAY APRIL 19
11.00AM & 7.30PM
NAMBOUR CIVIC CENTRE  
Normal Price: $29
Discount Subscriber Price: $22

A true story of love, family, strength and the choices we make.
In April 2009, two weeks short of his nineteenth birthday Toowoomba teenager Kristjan Terauds died due to complications from illicit drug use.
Inspired by ‘April’s Fool’, an account of his son’s death by Kristjan’s father, the Empire Theatre commissioned award-winning playwright, David Burton to bring this story to the stage. Using the words of Kristjan’s friends and family interviewed over many months the result is a powerful mix of sadness, loss, and ultimately love, laced with humour.

April's Fool promises to be a thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic reflection on how we all live our lives. Young people, parents, teachers, youth workers and theatre critics universally praised April's Fool for its ability to engage them in this story, gently sharing with its audience and at no time to seeking to lecture or preach.

MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL ROADSHOW (Comedy)
WEDNESDAY 2 MAY
7.30PM
THE J @ NOOSA
Normal Price: $42
Discount Subscriber Price: $32

MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL ROADSHOW (Comedy)
SUNDAY 20 MAY
7.00PM
NAMBOUR CIVIC CENTRE
Normal Price: $42
Discount Subscriber Price: $32

Stuffing one of the world’s largest comedy festivals into the one show is no easy feat, but the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has done just that with Roadshow 2012. Local and overseas comedians will be travelling across Australia – and Singapore and Hong Kong – with an ‘all killer, no filler’ event. Roadshow 2012 – coming to a town near you!

BIDDIES (Comedy)
WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE
7.30PM
NAMBOUR CIVIC CENTRE
Normal Price: $42
Discount Subscriber Price: $32

Five ordinarily marvellous women find themselves back in their infants school classroom plying their needles in a good old-fashioned session of “stitch and bitch”. Their confessions are frank, their rivalries intense and their jokes outrageous. They discover a common frustration with the limitations of being female and mature in a world still largely defined by men.

Accidentally locked in the classroom, with nothing but ingenuity, Adora Cream Wafers and a bucket to get them through the crisis, unknown reserves come to the fore. Released from their own constraints, they rediscover their capacity to love, forgive - and take control. If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em!

BOY GIRL WALL (Satire/Physical Theatre)
SATURDAY 30 JUNE
7.30PM
NAMBOUR CIVIC CENTRE
Normal Price: $39
Discount Subscriber Price: $30

This is not a love story. This is a story about love. This is the story of Thom and Alethea. Two neighbours in an apartment block, trying desperately to keep their lives from falling apart. But the wall that stands between them has decided they belong together.

Following sell-out seasons across Australia, this hilarious smash-hit production by The Escapists is a stunning celebration of theatricality, imagination and the joy of play.

Using chalk, sock puppets, an overhead projector and over two-dozen characters, Lucas Stibbard’s captivating tour de force performance will inspire and delight with live music by Neridah Waters in a tall tale of whimsy and architectural enlightenment.

WHAT A MANS GOTTA DO (Comedy/Music)
TUESDAY 10 JULY
7.30PM
THE J @ NOOSA
Normal Price: $39
Discount Subscriber Price: $30

Andrew Horabin is a WA state and national award winning singer/songwriter wit ha one man comedy musical that asks, What's a man gotta do to be a man in your town?

In this hilarious show, Andrew uses comedy, song and storytelling to explore some of the issues of masculinity - sex, work, marriage, mateship, intimacy, fathering, feelings, booze, homophobia, and attachment to motor vehicles.
Our story begins when Adam's Bucks Party collides with Lucy's Hens in the street. Lucy declares that he'll never grow up. Adam protests. She gives him 24 hours to prove he's a man - or the wedding is off.

With the help of his two best mates, and with no form of initiation or rites of passage, these 3 young blokes must forge their own path into manhood. The audience get a change to offer their own suggestions in this very funny musical comedy.

THE HOUSEKEEPER (Comedy/Drama)
SATURDAY 21 JULY
2.00PM & 7.30PM
NAMBOUR CIVIC CENTRE
Normal Price: $39
Discount Subscriber Price: $30

Two of Australia’s comic geniuses combine to deliver an outstandingly hilarious if slightly black love story. Foundering a bit after the death of his domineering mother, Manley (Peter Moon), a self-styled literary artist, engages a housekeeper, Annie (Evelyn Krape), to look after his large Victorian house (and himself). When Annie first arrives, wearing sneakers and carrying her belongings in a shopping trolley, Manley is taken aback – after which their relationship progresses rapidly from initial reserve to active hatred.
The play covers unlikely life events with lively wit and biting humour.

LADIES NIGHT (Comedy / Drama)
SUNDAY 5 AUGUST
5.00PM
THE J @ NOOSA
Normal Price: $30
Discount Subscriber Price: $23

The ultimate night out and not only for the girls! The story of four unemployed guys, motivated by ‘The Chippendales’ to form a male stripping act, in order to make some fast cash. They pitch the notion to a local club owner and take lessons from a slightly shop-worn, dance instructor with a heart-of-gold in all manner of things, including what women really want from a male stripper (and how to deliver it). Written in 1987, by Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair, Ladies Night has been translated into twelve languages and remains New Zealand’s most commercially successful play, of all time. With eight sell-out tours of Britain and the U.K, it won France’s premiere theatre award for comedy- The Molière Prize, in 2001.

Ladies Night will leave you hyperactive and ready to party! It’s the kind of show that you can take your granny to…Cheeky, fun, a little bit naughty – and a damn good giggle. Will they GO ALL THE WAY? Come along and see for yourself!
Adults Concepts - Strictly 18+

WOMEN IN VOICE (Music)
SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER
7.30PM
LAKE KAWANA COMMUNITY CENTRE
Normal Price: $39
Discount Subscriber Price: $30

Featuring: Alison St Ledger, Carita Farrer, Lil’ Fi and Emma Dean
With Helen Russell (Double Bass), Jamie Clark (Guitar), Steve Russell (Keyboard), John Parker (Percussion)

From humble beginnings at a funky, upstairs venue in Brisbane's West End (The Sitting Duck Cafe), to rubbing shoulders with large-scale international productions at QPAC, and Sydney's Star City Showroom, Women in Voice has had an amazing journey.

Among the artists that have presented over the years there have been music legends such as Chrissie Amphlett and Deborah Conway; Margret RoadKnight; Jenny Morris and Katie Noonan; Christine Johnston and Jeannie Lewis; Kate Miller-Heidke; Deborah Cheetham; Kavisha Mazella and Carol Burns; Annie Lee; Karen Crone and Leah Cotterell; Queenie Vanderzandt and Barbara Fordham.

These and many other voices have become part of Women In Voice - a proud testament to this courageous concept showcasing talented female vocalists in an up-front, uncomplicated manner that results in one of the liveliest, funniest and most professional shows Brisbane has ever produced.

RHINESTONE REX & MISS MONICA (Romantic Comedy)
SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER
7.30PM
NAMBOUR CIVIC CENTRE
Normal Price: $42
Discount Subscriber Price: $32

What do a classical musician and retired country and western singer have in common? Not a lot according to Monica who really just wants Gary, aka Rhinestone Rex, to do the job he’s being paid for and renovate her kitchen. She hates his taste in music, his attitudes to women and the columns he wants to put on her kitchen cabinets. Gary can’t find much about Monica to recommend to anyone but still finds her attractive in a cold, rigid and inflexible kind of way. Can they find a way past all their conflicts towards a harmonious and fulfilling relationship? Or will their differences keep them from making beautiful music together?

Playwright David Williamson explains “it started when I watched a female violinist in a large orchestra and wondered what her life was really like. When I started interviewing violinists I started to find the answers were not what I thought they would be. The one thing they seemed to have in common was an acute dislike of country and western music, so of course my playwright’s mind started to say, “What if? Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica is master playwright David Williamson’s 43rd play.

THE FLOOD (Drama)
TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER
7.30PM
NAMBOUR CIVIC CENTRE
Normal Price: $42
Discount Subscriber Price: $32

By Patrick White Playwrights’ Award Winner Jackie Smith
From internationally acclaimed, multi award winning creators Finucane & Smith comes the haunting and electrifying work hailed as “masterful… an Australian Gothic that defines the genre”.

The sheep farm is dilapidated. The farm house, dark and squalid, sits by the river, sheltering a mad old lady, and her isolated hard-drinking daughter. Memories are seeping through the floorboards. As the sun sets, the flood waters rise. The screen door bangs open in the rain and wind; Catherine has returned after 20 years. The past is here. Through the mesmerising friction between estranged sisters, fuelled by alcohol and uncertain memories of a long-dead father, three women are trapped with a past no one wants to remember.

Bristling with dark humour and edge-of-the-seat performances by three of our finest actresses, The Flood is startlingly authentic writing, plunging audiences into the lives of characters so real you feel you know them; a web of family intrigue against the haunting Australian outback.

THE KRANSKY SISTERS (Comedy)
SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER
7.30PM
THE J @ NOOSA
Normal Price: $39
Discount Subscriber Price: $30

Having won awards in Edinburgh and Australia… Mourne, Eve and Dawn Kransky, three endearing spinsters from Esk in Queensland, are packing up their old Morris to hit the road again with a brand new show. 
Venturing out from the intensely private world of their family home, the Sisters will bring stories and homespun renditions of the popular songs they’ve heard on their wireless. 
With tuba, musical-saw, guitar, keyboard, saucepan and toilet brush… don’t miss this multi-award winning trio as they bring you their oddball and darkly funny brand of tune, from Cher and Abba to AC/DC.
 

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