All posts tagged "Tea Tree Players Theatre"

Theatre Review: The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race

This is a wonderful feel-good show

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Theatre Review: The Vicar Of Dibley

Presented by: Tea Tree PlayersReviewed: 12 October, 2022 Not surprisingly, the Tea Tree Players’ season of The Vicar Of Dibley is sold out. I say ‘not surprisingly’, because this is the kind of show that fans of Tea Tree Players Theatre adores. As a company who regularly writes their own material, it’s uncanny just how […]

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Theatre Review: The Socially Distanced Play

What happens when the local community theatre group decides to persist with the rehearsal and production of a play in the midst of Covid-19 restrictions?

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Theatre Review: Beauty and The Beast

Everyone loves a pantomime!

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Theatre Review: According To Rumour

According to Rumour is a crowd pleaser with everything!

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Theatre Review: Roleplay

Roleplay is the third play in Alan Ayckbourn’s trilogy Damsels In Distress

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Theatre Review: Happy Birthday

With Tea Tree Players' usual excellent set, complete with 80’s styling, this comedy by Marc Camoletti looks good.

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Theatre Review: Aladdin

Tea Tree Players have been bringing Panto to the area for many a successful year now and it shows in the excellence of the traditional pantomime they are presenting to end 2019.

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Theatre Review: Vintage Hitchcock – A Live Radio Play

Playwright Joe Landry's Vintage Hitchcock is a clever reworking of three classic 1930s Alfred Hitchcock British films (before Hollywood discovered him), The Lodger:A Story Of The London Fog (1929), Sabotage (1936) and The 39 Steps (1935).

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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: 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: Happy Event

Tea Tree Player’s latest comic offering, 'Happy Event' follows Jane Harbottle and her ill-fated dinner party where she intends to tell her husband that she is pregnant.

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Tea Tree Players Take A Trip ‘Up Pompeii’

Well known for their hilarious British farces, Tea Tree Players are about to present the South Australian premiere of the stage version of Up Pompeii. Written in the seventies by Carry On… stalwart Talbot Rothwell and Sid Colin, Up Pompeii was a BBC television comedy series starring the one and only Frankie Howerd, basically to cash in […]

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Theatre Review: Family Planning

Frank Vickery's play about miscommunication is absolutely hilarious.

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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: Key For Two

Key For Two', written by two expert farceurs, John Chapman and Dave Freeman, is a delightful farce that holds its own with the best of them.

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Theatre Review: My Fat Friend

An obese bookshop owner decides to diet in order to win the man of her dreams. This is a British comedy with a message and heart.

Theatre Review: Noises Off

Michael Frayn’s farcical look at farce is a play within a play, following the behind-the-scenes lives of a touring stage show from rehearsals to the bitter end!

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Family

Theatre Review: Snow White

This holiday pantomime is uproariously hilarious, stunningly colourful, flows smoothly, and boasts a great eighties theme to the selection of songs!

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