All posts tagged "Barry Hill"

Theatre Review: Charley’s Aunt

Charley’s Aunt is a timeless classic and very great fun which the Players have done proud

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Theatre Review: Hello Dolly!

A fun production, just the thing to offset the miserable weather!

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Theatre Review: Rookery Nook

Quick witted and ungainliness is the central hallmark of The Tea Tree Players new show Rookery Nook. A blisteringly quick script and a rapid succession of entries and exits gives the audience everything they would expect from a British farce.

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Theatre Review: HMS Pinafore

The silly story of love outside of your station in life has no violence, no monsters (Dick Deadeye isn’t all that bad) and the worst swear word you will hear is Damn (hardly ever!).

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Theatre Review: Puss In Boots

Ben Crocker’s Puss In Boots is a tale loved by all ages, and Director Robert Andrews has lead a fine cast of Tea Tree Players regulars and newcomers, all clearly enjoying the audience participation and mischief of a Pantomime

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Theatre Review: Tom, Dick and Harry

Take a ridiculous plot, add a few corny jokes and some unlikely situations and you have a really funny play. This is no bedroom farce; there are no dropped trousers or scantily clad girls; but there is plenty of laughter. Father and son duo Ray and Michael Cooney have penned an excellent script,

Theatre Review: High Society

Break out the Veuve Clicquot! We’re in Oyster Bay, Long Island, it’s 1938, and Tracy Lord is getting married to her fiancé, George Kittredge. No expense spared.

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Theatre Review: Sleeping Beauty

Ben Crocker’s The Sleeping Beauty is a well-known tale but this time it’s with a twist, full of fun songs and comedy for all ages to enjoy.

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Theatre Review: It Runs In The Family

Farce is one of the hardest of theatrical genres to do well. Ray Cooney is a master at writing perhaps the best of British farce; Barry Hill is expert at directing it; and Tea Tree Players tend to do it very well.

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Theatre Review: My Friend Miss Flint

In the capable hands of director Barry Hill, the fun comedy, 'My Friend Miss Flint' becomes another Therry Dramatic Society success.

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Theatre Review: The King and I

Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'The King & I' is the latest musical production from The Met starring Selina Britz as Anna and Brad Martin as the King of Siam.

Theatre Review: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee William’s classic play Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, deals with the recurring themes of mendacity and death.

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Performing Arts

Theatre Review: Only An Orphan Girl

Presented by Adelaide Repertory Theatre Reviewed 18 Novemberr 2015 I’ve seen nothing like it. This Olde Music Hall production has the crowd jeering, booing and jumping out of their seats for some of the most enjoyable hour and a half in my theatre life. Unashamedly unrefined, the Adelaide Rep’s absurd melodrama effortlessly combines a classic […]

Performing Arts

Gadzooks! The Rep Serves Up Christmas Ham With Hilarious Music Hall Variety Show

The Adelaide Repertory Theatre is serving up "ham" early this Christmas, with hilariously over the top music hall show and melodrama Only An Orphan Girl

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Performing Arts

Theatre Review: Not Now Darling

If you take a great Chapman & Cooney script and give it a good director who understands comedy, you will have an almost certain hit!

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Theatre Review: Cats

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats tells the story of the Jellicle Cats as they gather for their annual Ball where one will be chosen to be reborn to a new life.

Theatre Review: My Fair Lady

A young downtrodden Cockney flower girl is taught to blossom into a duchess in this faithful and delightful retelling of this popular musical stage classic.

The Sound of Music. Photo by Daniel Salmond.

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Theatre Review: The Sound of Music

Audiences never seem to tire of The Sound of Music. It continues to please no matter how many times it has been performed and the G&S Society do it justice.

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Theatre Review: The Mystery of the Hansom Cab

The Mystery of the Hansom Cab is a melodrama, which means that the audience gets to hiss and boo the dastardly deeds of the villain, cheer the handsome hero, swoon over the lovely heroine, and have a great sing-a-long with the cast.