All posts tagged "Tea Tree Players"
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1.6KArtsTheatre 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,
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1.4KArtsTheatre Review: Out Of Sight… Out Of Murder
It’s always great to be cheered up when the country is in turmoil! Out of Sight… Out of Murder gives you just what is needed to forget that there is a gladiatorial contest going on in Canberra which isn’t half as much fun as this show.
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1.2KArtsTheatre Review: Patsy
Tea Tree Players Youth chose an unknown play for their latest offering. Written by John Rawson and Rob Smith, with music by Roslyn Jennings
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1.0KArtsTheatre 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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2.0KArtsTheatre 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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1.2KArtsTheatre 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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1.6KArtsTheatre 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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1.4KArtsTheatre 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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838ArtsTheatre 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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945ArtsTheatre 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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2.0KArtsTheatre 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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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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1.5KArtsTheatre Review: Family Planning
Frank Vickery's play about miscommunication is absolutely hilarious.
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1.6KFamilyTheatre 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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1.6KLatestTheatre 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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1.0KLatestTheatre 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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1.2KLatestTheatre 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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1.4KFamilyTheatre 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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1.3KLatestTheatre 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?
