Theatre Onset will be holding its AGM on Sunday 21 December at High Noon. If you would like to attend the AGM, supporting our creative schedule and offering ideas, plays, shows, etc, you would be very welcome. If you would like to join the committee, please let us know before the AGM. Agenda: Please getContinue reading “2025 AGM”
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Theatre Onset announce their next production – Lysistrata: A Woman’s Translation by Drue Robinson
Call for actors & Call for designers and makers for sets, props & costumes Theatre Onset Auditions for “Lysistrata: A Woman’s Translation” a play by Drue Robinson. Lysistrata is a bawdy, riotous, energetic &hilarious play, based on the Ancient Greek play of the same name by Aristophanes. It is full of sexual innuendo, strong women,Continue reading “Theatre Onset announce their next production – Lysistrata: A Woman’s Translation by Drue Robinson”
HOMEGROWN
Theatre Onset will be producing a season of short plays (ten minutes maximum) in September/ October 2026. We are looking for 10 local playwrights/writers who would be interested in supplying a short 10 min piece for production. The show will be called Homegrown. If you are a first time writer or have never written a playContinue reading “HOMEGROWN”
THEATRE ONSET BRINGS CLASSIC PLAY, WAITING FOR GODOT, TO THE BEGA VALLEY
Theatre Onset’s run of classic plays continues with Waiting for Godot, a tragicomedyin two acts by Irish writer, Samuel Beckett. First published in 1952 in French as Enattendant Godot and first produced in1953, Waiting for Godot was a true innovation indrama and the Theatre of the Absurd’s first theatrical success. It has been listed asone of the world’sContinue reading “THEATRE ONSET BRINGS CLASSIC PLAY, WAITING FOR GODOT, TO THE BEGA VALLEY”
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll closes this Sunday 8 June If you haven’t been to see Theatre Onset’s latest production, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler, there are a limited number of tickets still available this Thursday 5, Friday 6 and Saturday 7 June. We have just had a wonderful weekend with close to capacity audiences everyContinue reading
Theatre Onset Brings a Timeless Australian Classic to Life in Bega
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll opens Friday 30th MayBega Valley audiences will soon have the chance to experience one of Australia’s most powerful and enduring plays, as Theatre Onset stages Summer of the Seventeenth Doll – Ray Lawler’s unforgettable story of love, change, and the passing of time. The play is directed by Eva MillsContinue reading “Theatre Onset Brings a Timeless Australian Classic to Life in Bega”
Booking for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Introducing the cast of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll…
Mayarae Navarrete as Bubba Ryan Kym Hawthorne as Pearl Cunningham Jodie Stevens as Olive Leech Mahamati as Emma Leech Pete Wild as Barney Ibbot David Newell as Roo Webber Jack Gray as Johnnie Dowd Opening on May 30th, Theatre Onset will present Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, written by Ray Lawler and directed by EvaContinue reading “Introducing the cast of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll…”
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Theatre Onset is seeking actors for their upcoming play, the Australian classic, “The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll” by Ray Lawler. At this stage, the play will be rehearsed Feb-April and performed in either Bega or Tathra with performances in early May. Rehearsal times will be worked out when the cast is finalised. Eva Mills,well known to localContinue reading “Summer of the Seventeenth Doll”
THE SONGCRAFTERS a new musical
Theatre Onset and the Merimbula School of Music are having a reading of The Songcrafters, a new musical by Jamie Forbes and Nick Keeling (Goldilocks and the Three Bros), which is planned for production in 2025. This won’t be a casting session, just a chance to see how the script is working and whoContinue reading “THE SONGCRAFTERS a new musical”
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