Theatre Onset

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

Steel Magnolias… big hair, big hearts and long, lazy, drawling accents.

Steel Magnolias… gossip pretty as pink and sharp as a spider bite.

Steel Magnolias is a phenomenon. Written as a play and translated as a film (twice) and then as a TV show it brims with one liners to die for…’If you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me.’

It’s the show that inspired mothers-to be clutching tear soaked hankies to name their daughters Shelby. And why wouldn’t they? A girl who can look death in the face and say, ‘I’d rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a life time of nothing special ‘is sort of special.

A hit where ever it has been performed Steel Magnolias comes to Bega for a seven performance season.

The Thimble Theatre will be transformed into Truvy’s Beauty Parlour. Six of the Valley’s finest actors will primp and curl there for Shelby’s wedding and weep for her loss.

Opening Friday 5 September and running September 6, 7,11,12,13 and 14.

Evening performances 7.30pm Sunday matinees 3pm

Tickets $20, $15 concessions on line at www.trybooking.com/99224 or call 64924928.

Ask about the special fund raising deals for your organisation.

Steel Magnolias… The funniest show ever to make you cry.

Tickets are now available through TryBooking for the next Theatre Onset show, Jane Martin’s Talking With…

Just click here to secure your seat! http://www.trybooking.com/FBFP

Where else will you meet a rodeo queen discarded when the big end of town buys up her sport? Who else will let you into the world of snake handling for Jesus or show you the loneliness of an old man who’s dream is to live, really live, in McDonalds? Get behind the scenes with an actress who’d like her audience to bare their souls to her and another who’s prepared to do anything… no not that… for a part and count the ways a dying mother gently detaches herself from family. “Talking With…” is an evening with people you’ll never meet but wished you had.

 

The show will be performed in the butchers shop on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 5,6,7,8 June and then again the following week from Friday to Sunday. Evening performances will start at 7.30 pm with the Sunday matinees beginning at 3pm. At each performance patrons will be offered some fine finger food and the opportunity of tasting wine from the Rocky Hall winery.

Where else will you meet a rodeo queen discarded when the big end of town buys up her sport? Who else will let you into the world of snake handling for Jesus or show you the loneliness of an old man who’s dream is to live, really live, in McDonalds? Get behind the scenes with an actress who’d like her audience to bare their souls to her and another who’s prepared to do anything… no not that… for a part and count the ways a dying mother gently detaches herself from family. “Talking With…” is an evening with people you’ll never meet but wished you had.

The show will be performed in The Old Butchers Shop at 215 Carp St on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 5,6,7,8 June and then again the following week from Friday to Sunday. Evening performances will start at 7.30 pm with the Sunday matinees beginning at 3pm. At each performance patrons will be offered some fine finger food and the opportunity of tasting wine from the Rocky Hall winery.

Tickets at the door or book here: http://www.trybooking.com/FBFP

 

Well, street. Carp St, that is.

In collaboration with the inaugural Festival of the Face, Theatre Onset is presenting Talking With…, monologues with a surprising twist. And one of those surprising twists is where the performances are taking place. Not in the Thimble Theatre this time, no-siree. This time an empty butcher shop in Carp St, Bega, is the venue.

Performances in June, stay tuned for dates! Tickets at the door.

 

 

Meet Imelda Baglady and Neville Child, the most unlikely pair to to come together.

Imelda is a bag lady, always looking for somewhere to sleep and eat.

Neville is a cleaner, no…a caretaker, no…a person with a history who loves all kind of stories so long as they have a “beginning, a middle and an end”.

Both of them have secrets.

Neville cajoles Imelda into telling her stories about her past, and in turn, Imelda persuades Neville to tell her…

 Well, you’ll just have to wait and see.

An exciting world-renowned play for under 12s, their parents, friends, aunts, uncles and grandparents.

Pambula Town Hall: Saturday, Sunday, Monday 21st – 23rd September

Mumbulla School Amphitheater, Bega: 30th Sept, 1st, 2nd, 3rd October

This is an outside performance, so please dress according to conditions, and you might want a cushion.

Tickets at the door. All performances commence at 2pm.

 

 

We’re SOOOOO excited! Television stations from all around the world want to talk about our little theatre company. Of course, as members of the Elizabeth Street Players, we’re delighted! It’s just what Theodore P. Davenport himself, founder of the Theodore P. Davenport Centre for the Performing Arts would have hoped for. Unfortunately, Stony Flat Bay, home to the TPDCPA as we like to call our little theatre, doesn’t show up on Google Earth, so no-one can find us.

Unless you count Emma Carlin, who’s starring with Rush Hailstone, Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor, in a world tour of Romeo and Juliet. Or Tully Tanner, their agent, and agent to half the Hollywood A List. Or Yuri. You know, Yuri Petrov…Yuri Petrov McConner, internationally renowned director? The one Earnest and Margaret have brought to Stony Flat Bay to direct Romeo and Juliet in the TPDCPA?

He was the start of it all.

Well, not him as much as the way that Steve, Steve Klein and the others reacted to the news. No. It wasn’t about his directing technique, though there are some difficulties with that. No. It was just…

Well, it’s a bit complicated, but if you come to see Theatre Onset’s production of Romeo and Juliet and the Enormous Knockers all will be revealed.

In a good way.

Opening Friday night, 26th of April!

This show sounds AWESOME! Where can I book?

I’m glad you asked. Just go to this handy little website here: www.trybooking.com/COJV and follow the prompts. If you have any difficulties, call 6492 4928 and we can sort them out for you. If you’re feeling lucky, tickets will also be available at the door (if there are still some available).

Prices are $20 for adults, $15 for concession and members.

Your choice of show times are:

Friday April 26th at 7.30pm, Saturday April 27th at 7.30pm, Thursday May 2nd, Friday May 3rd and Saturday May 4th all at 7.30pm, and Sunday May 5th at 3.00pm.

Refreshments may or may not be served, as long as they comply with all Health and Safety regulations.

There will be an interval.

 

 

 

Six stories, six actresses, six bombshells, and not a sapper in sight.

For seven shows only, Joanna Murray Smith’s award winning play is next up for Theatre Onset. The play is a series of six monologues, with director Di Nicol scouring the valley for six very different actresses to bring the individual stories to life. Starring Theatre Onset regulars Jennifer Willcox, Barbara Sekuless, Liz Brennan, and Niamh Nicol, they are joined by newcomer Alison Vandenbergh and we welcome Footprint Theatre’s Lis Shelley for her maiden turn on the Thimble stage.

Tickets will sell fast for this popular show, so book early on 6492 2619 to secure your corner of the Thimble Theatre. Prices are $20 and $15 concession.

Show dates are October 26-28 and November 1-4. Evening shows start at 8:00pm, Sunday shows are matinees, commencing at 3:00pm.

The Thimble Theatre is in the grounds of Bega High School, Upper St entrance.

It’s hard enough to get audiences out of the house and into a theatre in mid-winter, even harder to get actors there! With this in mind, we have changed our regular programme somewhat and turned our winter play into a one-night-only film night – less work for everyone, and hopefully both the audience and regular Onset members can kick back and have some fun.

The evening will consist of a selection of short(ish) classic silent film comedies and live acts presented by Theatre Onset members and the odd ring-in. You will be wowed by Jamie Forbes, Alison Vandenberg, Alex Nicol, Peter White, The Great Zamboni and Leanne Suffren, presenting vaudeville style acts for your delectation, while your tummies will be tantalised by home made soups, bread (not homemade) and cake.

7:00pm at the Candelo Town Hall on July 28th.

 

 

After the success of Bench earlier this year, Theatre Onset returns in May, uniting with In Theatre for Promise, a funny, tender, vibrant and moving play by English playwright, Megan Barker and directed by David Stocker.

Involving a large cast of adults and students and intricate staging, Promise tells the story of a small town set upon by scavenging media hordes determined to beat up a news piece about a teen suicide cult. They’ll stop at nothing to tell the tale their editors and producers want them to tell. They certainly won’t let the facts or the feelings of the town’s young people or their families get in the way.

Introspective high schooler Jay Jones stays quite literally above it all, spending as much time as he can alone atop a tree which holds many memories for him. Jay feels alienated from his family and misunderstood by his peers until he meets the mysterious Asha and a careful love story begins to unfold.

Timely and intelligent, featuring some of the best theatrical talent the valley has to offer, Promise  is an unforgettable drama that is most certainly not to be missed.

Promise opens at the Thimble Theatre , Bega High School on Friday 25^th May, with performances on Saturday 26^th May, and Friday 1^st and Saturday 2^nd June.  The show then travels for one night only to the Murrah Hall on Friday 8^th June and completes its season at the  Candelo Town Hall on Saturday 9^th June.  All shows start at 7:30. Tickets $15/$10 and are available at the door.  Recommended for 14 years and above.