
Essendon Theatre Company
The Essendon Theatre Company is a local community-based theatre company it has a long and proud history of producing quality community theatre in Essendon. It produces four production per year including dramas, comedies and pantomimes and since it’s formation in 1976, ETC has produced more than one hundred productions. ETC is a member of The Victorian Drama League and is run on the love and commitment of passionate theatre lovers and volunteers dedicated to amateur theatre.
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Past Events
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Between Thursday 14 July 2022 and Saturday 16 July 2022“Sugar” is trying to finish a book. To make ends meet she reluctantly agrees to take on work as an anonymous advice columnist. In a series of connected vignettes, “Sugar” gets to know several different people and their plethora of personal problems – and in turn, they (and the audience) discover some of her deepest, darkest secrets. Trigger warning: this show contains themes of sexual and child abuse, addiction and pregnancy loss.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 24 November 2022 and Saturday 3 December 2022Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming converted French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has everything organised. Suppose everyone's alibi gets confused with everyone else's. An evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert improvise at breakneck speed.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 17 March 2022 and Saturday 26 March 2022Neil Simon's crazy comedy of an upscale dinner party run amok sees the fashion and fur fly when two glamorous guests arrive at a house to an unexpectedly absent host. The speculative stories of what might have happened spin out of control as more guests arrive. Zany consequences arise as the highbrow crew frantically tries to keep track of the increasingly outrageous tales while trying to protect their own self-pretentious reputations.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 29 July 2021 and Saturday 4 December 2021The story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the "American Dream" kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Sunday 30 May 2021The workshop is designed to provide students with an opportunity to observe a live rehearsal, participate in directorial feedback and a Q&A session with the cast and crew. The current production for ETC is ‘Death of a Salesman’ which will be opening on June 17th. This experience is open to all Buckley Park College senior students with an interest in theatre.Workshop
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Between Thursday 18 March 2021 and Saturday 27 March 2021Chicklet Forrest, a teenage tomboy, desperately wants to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962. One thing getting in her way is her unfortunate tendency towards split personalities. Among them is a black check out girl, an elderly radio talk show hostess, a male model named Steve and the accounting firm of Edelman and Edelman. Her most dangerous alter ego is a sexually voracious vixen named Ann Bowman who has nothing less than world domination on her mind.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 21 November 2019 and Saturday 30 November 2019The play is a musical reconstruction of incidents relating to the East End murders which took place between Friday, August 31st and Friday, November 9th, 1888, set in a Music Hall and the surrounding streets, as performed by the inhabitants of Whitechapel.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 5 September 2019 and Saturday 14 September 2019Lewis lives in a housing commission suburb on the outskirts of the city, Melbourne with his single mother, sister, and grandmother, who is rapidly approaching senility. Lewis' obsessions with aliens masks his own adolescent confusion about the changing world around him. Lewis' world changes forever when his itinerant father, Eric, suddenly returns home, and Lewis discovers his best friend, Dulcie's heartbreaking secret. The three-act play is set in 1962, the year of the Cuban missile crisis.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 20 June 2019 and Saturday 29 June 2019Over the course of 2018, a number of local writers have been workshopping and developing a series of original one act plays under the mentorship of Award Winning Playwright Michael Olsen. Our second season for the year will involve the performance of three of these unique pieces in preparation for submission to the One Act Play Festivals.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 28 March 2019 and Saturday 6 April 2019It's 1942, and two of Hollywood's biggest divas have descended upon the luxurious Palm Beach Royale Hotel - assistants, luggage, and legendary feud with one another in tow. Everything seems to be in order for their wartime performance...that is, until they are somehow assigned to the same suite. Mistaken identities, overblown egos, double entendres, and a dog named Mr.Boodles round out this hilarious riot of a love note to the classic farces of the 30s and 40s.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 22 November 2018 and Saturday 1 December 2018It's a hot July day at the Good Shepherd Funeral Parlor and Martin Lamb, the mortician, is presiding over the wake of the late Walter Porteus. His dream of a perfect wake is undermined by his son Jimmy, and by the conniving, contentious Porteus family, who are already clashing over the will. To further inflame matters, the air conditioning breaks down, the wrong body turns up in the casket and then a mysterious mourner appears and then things really start to get interesting.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 23 August 2018 and Saturday 1 September 2018A bewildered young man is questioned by a ruthless investigator, who circles like a predator, forcing him closer and closer to an awful admission. A compelling investigation of truth, consequences, and the ultimate value of human life.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Tuesday 17 July 2018Workshop Outline - Essendon Theatre Company - 2018 Join experienced playright Michael Olsen to learn the fundamentals of playwriting over 8 weekly sessions starting Tuesday 17th July 2018. Course Outline: 1. Introduction: 2. Character: 3. Plot: 4. Dialogue: 5. Actors, Directors & getting your work on: 6. Review 7. Cold reads 8. Monthly workshops commenceEssendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 15 March 2018 and Saturday 24 March 2018The Mount Home for Retired Theatricals is an unusual place - more like a country house hotel than a home for the elderly. So when Walter Neville arrives, he is overjoyed to find some of his best friends in residence. All is well until the serial womaniser goes missing - apparently on the run from Russian gangsters. The ladies decide that "He who pays the bills" must be rescued - but how to go about it? What follows is a truly daft journey into the world of eccentric luvvies!Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 23 November 2017 and Saturday 2 December 2017Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. Go. In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room, who's being videotaped, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 14 September 2017 and Saturday 23 September 2017This bitingly satiric black comedy, which enjoyed a long off-Broadway run, begins with Helen and John deciding their newly born child is a girl and naming it Daisy - which leads to all manner of future emotional and personality problems because Daisy is actually a boy. Brilliantly treatrical and wildly hilarious, the play charts the saga of daisy's struggle to establish his identity.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 30 March 2017 and Saturday 8 April 2017Madagascar is the haunting story of a mysterious disappearance that changes three lives forever. At three different periods in time, three Americans find themselves alone, in the same hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome. Their stories spill out, weave back and forth – each contradicting, clarifying, deepening what the others say – becoming strands of one gripping and disquieting tale.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style
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Between Thursday 24 November 2016 and Saturday 3 December 2016This play centers around Leonard Vole after he is arrested for the murder of Emily French. Emily made Leonard her heir, which casts suspicion on Leonard after her murder. Leonard’s wife is then asked to testify which she agrees to do, but not in the defense of her husband but as a witness for the prosecution. As with all of Christie’s work, the audience will be left speechless when the intricate web is unraveled.Seating 80
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Saturday 15 October 2016ETC is turning 40 and we would like YOU to join us to celebrate. Join us for a birthday celebration Date: Saturday 15 October 2016 Time: 7.30 pm Venue: Keilor East RSL - 12-22 Hoffmans Rd, Essendon VIC 3040 Cost: $60 per person (2 courses) RSVP by Saturday 1 October 2016 to 0422 029 483 Come dressed as your favourite ETC character you have either seen or played. Further detail to follow.Keilor East RSL
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Between Thursday 8 September 2016 and Saturday 17 September 2016Stephen Febble is tired of the world and is now faced with a family gathering that he wants nothing to do with. When Stephen’s daughter and son-in-law come to stay dragging their incontinent dog with them, it makes him turn quickly to both sarcasm and the bottle. When Stephen’s wife Virginia organises a dinner party and invites the neighbours, it all becomes too much for Stephen to handle.Seating 80
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Between Thursday 23 June 2016 and Saturday 2 July 2016Pulitzer Prize winner Theresa Rebeck brings us a risque’ comedy that follows the lives of four aspiring writers who are desperate to make it big. Calling on the help of international literary figure Leonard to help guide them to make them better writers, some of the group thrive and some fall from the fast moving vehicle. Leonard’s unorthodox direction sends the group head first into broken alliances, broken promises, broken hearts and the weapon is sex.Seating 80
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Between Thursday 7 April 2016 and Saturday 16 April 2016The play is a comedy set during a 1980s ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond with each other more than any of them do with the bride in this wickedly funny, irreverent and touching celebration of the women’s spirit.Seating 80
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Between Thursday 26 November 2015 and Saturday 5 December 2015Bernard thought he could easily cope with his three air hostess fiancees. It was all a question of timetables and a reliable, down-to-earth maid who never forgot to change the photographs in the bedrooms. Only when the “Super” Boeing takes over is he landed with a triple problem on his hands. His old school friend, Robert, arrives unexpectedly in Paris and joins the jet set in a hilarious whirl of confusion and matchmaking.Seating 80
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Between Thursday 25 June 2015 and Saturday 4 July 2015A divorced couple who are on their honeymoon with their new spouses, discover that they are staying at the same hotel and their rooms are next door to one another. Despite an extremely rocky relationship, they soon realise that they still have feelings for one another. A witty marital farce that should get those laughing muscles nice and sore.Essendon Theatre Company - Theatre Resturant Style