Upcoming Shows & Screenings At Perform Australia
Here's What's On at Perform Australia...
Performance Day - Brisbane
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Perform Australia's Brisbane acting classes present their end-of-year plays - this year, around the theme of 'The Royal Court'. In class each week over the past term, students have been working on character, expressiveness, vocal development and a range of other acting skills, which they'll put into action in the short plays they are presenting. For some students this is the first time they've ever be on stage - so please support them with a huge round of applause!
The first performance at 4pm is presented by our Everton Park and Morningside classes (Cast 1), and the second and third performances are presented by our Corinda classes at 6:30pm and 7:30pm (Cast 2). Due to social distancing requirements, please be aware that the theatre has limited seating at the present time. PERFORMANCES - SUNDAY 29th NOVEMBER Performance 1 - 4pm (Cast 1 - Everton Park and Morningside classes) Performance 2 - 6:30pm (Cast 2 - Corinda classes) Performance 3 - 7:30pm (Cast 2 - Corinda classes) |
The Drowsy Chaperone
Directed by Amy Orman
Musical Director Teresa Wojcik
Musical Director Teresa Wojcik
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The Drowsy Chaperone is an homage to American musicals of the Jazz Age, examining the effect musicals have on the fans who adore them.
The Man in Chair, a mousy, agoraphobic Broadway fanatic, seeking to cure his "non-specific sadness", listens to a recording of a fictional 1928 musical comedy, The Drowsy Chaperone. As he listens to this rare recording, he is transported into the musical. The characters appear in his dingy apartment, and it is transformed into an impressive Broadway set with seashell footlights, sparkling furniture, painted backdrops, and glitzy costumes. Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar Original Broadway production of The Drowsy Chaperone produced by Kevin McCollum, Roy Miller, Bob Boyett, Stephanie McClelland, Barbara Freitag and Jill Furman.’ Licensed exclusively by Music Theatre International (Australasia). All performance materials supplied by Hal Leonard Australia. PERFORMANCES - At the Perform Australia Theatre, 11 Whyalla St, Fyshwick ACT Wednesday Dec 2, 7:30pm Thursday December 3, 7:30pm Friday December 4, 7:30pm Saturday December 5, 7:30pm Sunday December 6, 5:00pm TICKETS - $25 Adult, $15 Concession |
Sanity
By Elizabeth Avery Scott
Directed by Clare Moss
Directed by Clare Moss
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Sanity is playwright Elizabeth Avery Scott's latest comedy. In an imaginary place that's part-dream world, part-modern home and part-asylum, dwell five women and two men. They can't go anywhere - they're in lockdown. Living lives that are limited by the walls around them, they muse about the meaning of life, God, battery hens, their hopes for the future, and whether or not they're sane.
This is a play for 2020 and beyond, reflecting on what we've been through and what we've yet to discover. Performed by Perform Australia's Certificate IV in Acting for Stage and Screen students. PERFORMANCES 16, 17, & 18 December at 7:30pm Venue: Perform Australia Theatre, 11 Whyalla St, Fyshwick ACT TICKETS: $20 Adult, $10 Concession |
Past Shows & Screenings
The Park
By Elizabeth Avery Scott
Directed by Sarah Carroll
Directed by Sarah Carroll
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The park is a meeting place, a place of family, memories, romance and solitude. "You never know who you'll bump into in the park. Sometimes, just sometimes, it'll be yourself."
Join our Certificate IV part time students in this charming exploration of our humanity and the love that binds us all. WHEN: 7.30pm 13 & 14 November 2020; 5.00pm 15 November 2020 WHERE: Perform Australia Theatre, 11 Whyalla Street Fyshwick ACT |
The Pirates of Penzance
By W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Directed by James Scott
Musical Director Amy Orman
Directed by James Scott
Musical Director Amy Orman
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Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular show, The Pirates of Penzance, is a rollicking, delightfully funny tale of a band of soft-tempered pirates. Beloved since its premiere in 1879, The Pirates of Penzance is a delightful farce that is fun for all ages.
WHEN: 7.30pm 23 & 24 October 2020 WHERE: Perform Australia Theatre, 11 Whyalla Street Fyshwick ACT |
Much Ado About Nothing
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By William Shakespeare
Directed by James Scott 
WHEN: 7:30pm, September 10 - September 13 WHERE: Perform Australia Theatre, 11 Whyalla St, Fyshwick ACT TICKETS: $20 Adults, $10 Concession |
Perform Australia's Advanced Diploma students presents Much Ado About Nothing - one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, first performed in 1598, and back in Canberra in 2020!
Directed by James Scott, Much Ado About Nothing is the story of soldiers returning home from war victorious, to reunite with their prospective brides. The regal Don Pedro and charming Claudio hatch a plot to use gossip, hearsay and rumour to convince their confirmed bachelor friend, wise-cracking Benedick, and the witty firebrand spinster Beatrice, to fall in love with each other. But the malcontent Don Jon uses similar methods for darker purposes, slandering the innocent Hero on her wedding day and leaving her for dead. Beatrice, Benedick and their friends have to pick up the pieces – and confirm that it really was... much ado about nothing! |
MTX Concert - Let The Sun Shine In
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Perform Australia is pleased to showcase its MTX students this end-of-term concert, Let The Sun Shine In.
Students have been working on solo and group performances during Term 1-3 and will present them on stage in perform Australia’s theatre. The audience will enjoy a variety of songs from Broadway and beyond. This event is a great opportunity for our young musical theatre students to experience a performance in a large theatre, and to practise all their musical theatre skills: standing under lights and performing to a live audience, applying what they've rehearsed in class in real time, and using shared theatrical spaces on stage and backstage thoughtfully. WHERE: Perform Australia Theatre WHEN: Saturday 19th September 2020 at 3.00pm & 5.30pm TICKETS: All tickets $10 |
Contagion & Connection
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Directed by Sarah Carroll
Join our Advanced Diploma of Performance students as, through poetry, they explore two very important themes in our present day: contagion and connection. Featuring the works of Charlotte Bronte, Edward Lear, Banjo Paterson, Thomas Nash, Robert Frost, A.A. Milne, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rupi Kaur and even Spike Milligan, the evening is sure to inspire, provoke thought and amuse. WHEN: 7:30pm, Perform Australia theatre, 11 Whyalla St, Fyshwick TICKETS: All tickets $10. Bookings essential due to social distancing requirements. |
Strange Tales Online
STRANGE TALES ONLINE Livestreaming: 7:30pm Friday June 19, 2020 4:00pm Saturday June 20, 2020 Ticket price: $15 per person Language warning - this show may not be suitable for young children. |
Four Short Plays Directed by Craig Alexander
Our Certificate IV in Acting for Stage and Screen students proudly present Strange Tales Online - a series of off-beat and twisted plays. This production will be livestreamed right to your device or living room. Purchase a ticket then we'll send you a link and password via email. THE PLAYS Baby Talk, from Unwrap Your Candy by Doug Wright By arrangement with Music Theatre International Australasia Pty Ltd, on behalf of Dramatists Play Service, Inc. A pregnant woman hears her child speaking before it's born... and it's not your average baby. The Bone Violin, from Unwrap Your Candy by Doug Wright By arrangement with Music Theatre International Australasia Pty Ltd, on behalf of Dramatists Play Service, Inc. A child prodigy creates his own violin... Tech Support by Henry Meyerson Performed by permission of the author A man struggles to get his mobile phone problems seen to... He's a Really Great Guy by Rory Leahy Performed by permission of the author Friends try to set up a man on a date, but he can't seem to stop himself speaking words of the devil... |