All posts tagged "Tea Tree Players"
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1.5KArtsTheatre Review: The Cemetery Club
Ivan Menchell’s The Cemetery Club is a very realistic look into the lives of three widows, who visit their husband’s headstones and have formed the appropriately named club.
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885ArtsTheatre 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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1.0KArtsTheatre Review: Laying The Ghost
Simon Williams' Laying The Ghost is almost regular Tea Tree Players' fare for its audiences, but not quite. It is NOT a farce but rather a gentle comedy.
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1.0KArtsTheatre Review: Twist
Tea Tree Players has provided fun, entertaining shows filled with humour, charm and unexpected twists and turns. Their latest production of Miles Tredinnick’s Twist aims to continue that tradition.
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558ArtsTheatre Review: Robinson Crusoe
Every year Tea Tree Players mount their end-of-year Christmas pantomime and this year, for their 40th year, they are presenting Robinson Crusoe.
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672ArtsTheatre 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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1.4KArtsTheatre Review: Up Pompeii
'Up Pompeii' is based on the popular BBC comedy television series and follows the household of Ludicrus Sextus as everyone tries to get a piece of carnal action.
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1.8KArts
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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1.1KArtsTheatre Review: Family Planning
Frank Vickery's play about miscommunication is absolutely hilarious.
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1.1KFamilyTheatre Review: Pinocchio
For 38 years Tea Tree Players has produced an end-of-year pantomime filled with audience participation, fun and frivolity. This year’s production of 'Pinocchio' is no exception.
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1.1KLatestTheatre 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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625LatestTheatre 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.
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787LatestTheatre Review: Death By Design
This reviewer has often said that the Tea Tree Players know their audience and give them what they want. But with Rob Urbinati’s Death By Design, the company is definitely stretching their audience’s boundaries.
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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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866FamilyTheatre 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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834LatestTheatre Review: A Bedfull of Foreigners
All the required ingredients for a humorous horrible holiday are here, from quirky characters to dubious lodgings... or should that be the other way around?
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458LatestTheatre Review: Situation Comedy
Two British television comedy writers suffer writer's block until a drunken night with their wives spark an idea... if only they could think of an ending.
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532LatestTheatre Review: Cinderella
It’s that time of year again when annual pantomimes are staged and the Tea Tree Players' version of Cinderella is just the ticket to get you into the Christmas spirit.
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Theatre Review: Meet My Husbands
Meet My Husbands is a play of misunderstandings and entanglements of Shakespearean proportion, albeit without the grandiose dialogue to match.
