Maleny Players
Maleny Players a small theatre situated in the Maleny Showgrounds
PURGATORY
Between Friday 25 July 2025 and Sunday 3 August 2025
PURGATORY is an original and riotously dark comedy set in a questionable nursing home in Sydney in 1997, where truth is stranger than fiction and the line between the 2 are often blurred. Expect the unexpected as we peer through stained glass into the lives of a matron driven by duty and compulsion, an elderly woman trapped inside her own world, and the unscrupulous doctor/proprietor of Valhalla Nursing Home. They are supported by competent and incompetent nurses and staff, and by an array of mismatched residents flung together by llness, misfortune and fate. Original words and music by Queensland writer/composer Darren HesKes.
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"Changes"
Between Saturday 28 June 2025 and Sunday 29 June 2025
Maleny Players and Club 88 present Changes, an afternoon entertainment of drama and humour, poems, monologues and songs.
Change is to laugh at it - find humour in the changes confronting us every day - in a world moving so fast!
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Chat with Margery and Katy Forde
Saturday 7 June 2025
Katy Forde has been researching the lives of Australian women in World War creating the book and lyrics for A Girl's Guide to World War. (Matilda Award Best New Australian women in World War1. Margery's play, Snapshots from Home (AWGIE Award) is the Maleny Players current production. Katy and Margery will share their thoughts on the importance of seeing their own stories refected back to you through theatre.
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Snapshots from Home
Between Friday 25 April 2025 and Sunday 11 May 2025
Snapshots from Home captures the wartime memories of men and women from Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. The experiences of everyday people navigating extraordinary times. This heartfelt collection offers an honest, moving, and often humorous look at life on the home front during World War Two.
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Puss in Thongs
Between Saturday 7 December 2024 and Sunday 15 December 2024
Our pantomime, based on ‘Puss In Boots’, has all the
ingredients of the traditional pantomimes with a lot of fun, song and dance
and of course a ‘Dame’.
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Hedda Gabler
Between Friday 18 October 2024 and Sunday 27 October 2024
The Maleny Players next production is Hedda Gabler, written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, which was first published in 1890. Hedda Gabler, has just returned from her honeymoon with her new husband, Jorgen Tesman. Despite her marriage, Hedda is deeply unhappy and is bored with her life.
This play explores themes of power, control, and societal expectations, with Hedda often seen as a complex and manipulative character. Throughout the play, she struggles to break free from the confines of her life and exert control over those around her.
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Home Truths
Between Friday 26 July 2024 and Sunday 4 August 2024
3 One act plays written and directed by Andrew Wallace
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MALENY PLAYERS HEAD WEST !
Friday 5 July 2024
On the weekend 13-14 July, nine members of the Maleny Players are taking three local 10-minute Maleny plays from the PAGE TO STAGE and STAGES programs to the prestigious Dalby Drama Festival.
Touring costs! This preview evening is aimed at assisting the Maleny Players’ eight members forming the ensemble team to meet the substantial costs of overnight accommodation and travel.
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The Real Inspector Hound
Between Friday 5 April 2024 and Sunday 21 April 2024
The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard is a witty and satirical play, a whodunit murder mystery, with a theatrical twist. A direct parody of Agatha Christie's "
This is a 'play within a play'. Two feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdboot are absorbed into the play, which takes place in a Manor in the middle of a moor and become dangerously implicated in the activities of an escapee.
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STAGES
Between Saturday 17 February 2024 and Sunday 18 February 2024
A revue- style entertainment titled Stages, celebrating the joys via drama, music and singing. Suitable for all ages. A four-act play which includes comedy skits and a number of real life humorous and affecting events, presented as genuine monologues.
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A Cracker Christmas!
Between Thursday 7 December 2023 and Sunday 10 December 2023
Christmas is coming! The North Pole is getting ready for another busy season. But, hang on, Santa and Mrs Claus are on a tropical cruise! Oh no! So, what's happening at the North Pole? Chaos! The Reindeer are in boot camp, Snowballs the dog is chasing a gremlin in the works, the elves are going crackers, and someone is eating all of the sweets!
Join us on this family fun Christmas adventure to the North Pole, or tropical cruise.....
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Page to Stage
Between Saturday 11 November 2023 and Sunday 12 November 2023
Maleny Players will present another Page to Stage production of six short plays which is an ensemble project featuring local writers, directors, and actors producing rehearsed readings of original short plays.
A Q&A will be presented by Peter Lavery (President of Maleny Arts Council), in discussion with the writer and director of each play.
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The shakespeare Project
Between Saturday 21 October 2023 and Sunday 29 October 2023
A Conspiracy or Truth! Did Shakespeare write the works that are attributed to him?
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Playwright Workshop- David Williamson
Saturday 5 August 2023
Widely performed playwright David Williamson will share his playwriting experience, and include Q&A. Followed by a light lunch. Mentoring support will be on offer, so bring along scripts and any ideas.
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Dancing at Lughnasa
Between Friday 16 June 2023 and Sunday 25 June 2023
This play written by Brian Friel is an award-winning play about the lives of five unmarried sisters and their priest brother in rural Ireland in the 1930s
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Seventeen
Between Thursday 30 March 2023 and Sunday 2 April 2023
Tom, Mike, Edwina, Sue, Lizzy and; Ronny are 17 and are seriously celebrating. School has finished,
this is the night they say goodbye to adolescence and begin the journey of their lives. Funny, immature, wise and a little bit sad, Seventeen, performed by a cast of older performers, turns our notions of adulthood and adolescence on their head.
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Page To Stage
Between Saturday 18 February 2023 and Sunday 19 February 2023
6 original short plays written, Directed and acted by local people
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The Magic Opal
Between Friday 2 December 2022 and Sunday 4 December 2022
The Magic Opal contains all the powers of the other gems. When evil Queen Grizelda learns that that the Magic Opal has been found - what will she do?
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Secrets (CANCELLED)
Friday 9 September 2022
Simon Denver's 'Secrets' is an exploration of the secrets we all have. Some will come out, some will stay buried. Through music, humour, drama, the human voice and movement this sequin-less Kabaret takes the audience on an emotional roller coaster ride. We all have secrets. Some we will go to extraordinary lengths to protect.
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A Date With Dylan Thomas
Between Friday 26 August 2022 and Sunday 28 August 2022
Discovering DYLAN (& CAITLIN) Directed by Jill Morris Visiting…
UNDER MILK WOOD An abridged version of the play Directed by Barbara Thomas
Celtic music and songs on Dulcimer by Lynne Muir
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Page to Stage
Between Saturday 14 May 2022 and Sunday 15 May 2022
Maleny Players Page to Stage production features local
writers, directors, and actors to produce rehearsed
readings of 6 x original short plays
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Playhouse Creatures
Between Friday 22 April 2022 and Sunday 1 May 2022
Playhouse Creatures written by April De Angelis directed by Catherine Steer-O'Neill. After years of religious oppression English theatres re-open and Charles II rules that women may perform in commercial theatres. Previously, men had played all female roles. The presence of these first actresses was controversial, discriminatory and for many men sexually overwhelming...
Please Note: Strong language, sexual references.
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Page To Stage
Saturday 5 March 2022
6 original short plays written, Directed and acted by local people
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The Princess and the Golden Casket
Between Friday 10 December 2021 and Sunday 12 December 2021
A pantomime with characters from Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes in a quest to find the Golden Casket
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Never Lost For Words
Between Friday 5 November 2021 and Saturday 6 November 2021
Bookings via https://www.malenyplayers.org
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"SECRETS"
Between Friday 30 July 2021 and Sunday 1 August 2021
A Kabaret where Music and Theatre collide. We all have them. Funny and dangerous and gentle and disturbing and cute and compromising and ... Sssssssh!. .. .. .. Someone might be listening. A show full of music, humour, drama, the human voice and movement a sequin less Kabaret.
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Shakespeare: the guided tour
Between Friday 12 March 2021 and Sunday 14 March 2021
A lively, fast-paced compilation of brief excerpts from a range of Shakespearean plays, each relating to a
particular theme. Linking narration from your ‘tour guide’ provides context and there will also be
some authentic live music.
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Live @ The Playhouse
Between Saturday 5 December 2020 and Sunday 13 December 2020
A variety of entertainment including skits, singing, poems and plays
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Radio Times
Between Saturday 19 September 2020 and Sunday 27 September 2020
A humorous and nostalgic trip back in time to the Golden Age of Radio. They play actors broadcasting from a Brisbane radio station in 1954. They first present ‘The Maroochy Flyer’ by Errol Morrison, which provides a fanciful retelling of a true event in which a plane landed on a beach, and ‘Quiet Flows the Obi Obi’, a satirical take on Maleny’s past, present and future. As they proceed to broadcast further items, including a parody of the famous serial ‘Blue Hills’, things begin to go haywire
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Santa in Space
Between Thursday 12 December 2019 and Sunday 15 December 2019
The Maleny Players Christmas Pantomime is 'Santa in Space' by Paul Reakes; Directed by Rob Hobson and Co-Director Teula De'Gars . A tale of Vileun the Vile's quest to become supreme ruler of the universe. In order to do this he must get the rulers of Earth to submit to him. His plan is to kidnap Santa Claus and prevent him from distributing toys to children on Christmas Day.
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Dubious Expectations
Between Saturday 3 August 2019 and Sunday 11 August 2019
Three One-Act Plays with "Dubious Expectations". From Edwardian London to modern Sydney, ranging from grim domestic tension to madcap comedy, come three very different takes on the theme of dubious expectations. The first is "How He Lied To Her Husband" by George Bernard Shaw, "The Artist" by Andrew Wallace and "The Volunteer" by Rob Hobson
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Travelling North
Between Friday 5 April 2019 and Sunday 14 April 2019
David Williamson's iconic play Travelling North is a moving homage to age and the old radicals who changed the course of our history. Set in the 1970’s; Frank and Frances desert their former lives for a northerly bohemian retreat, despite the objection of their daughters. They leave chilly Melbourne behind for tropical North Queensland. Soon after Frank’s mortality asserts itself’.
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Jack and the Magic Beans
Between Thursday 13 December 2018 and Sunday 16 December 2018
A Giant, a Troll, a scarecrow, giant chicken and a cow are all a part of the Maleny Players’ Christmas Production ‘Jack and the Magic Beans’ by Vera Morris. This well-known English Folktale, Directed by Barry Harber, has been adapted and dramatized from the Benjamin Tabart version ‘The History of Jack Spriggins and the Magic Bean’. The talented Junior Players will once again be performing on stage and helping to bring some Festive Cheer to families and all who are young at heart.
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Twelve Angry Men
Between Friday 10 August 2018 and Sunday 12 August 2018
A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts.
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3 One-Act Plays
Between Friday 27 April 2018 and Sunday 29 April 2018
Maleny Players present three one act plays; The Proposal by Anton Chekhov, Unsinkable by Andrew Wallace and The Last Panto in Little Grimley by David Tristram.
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A Christmas Trilogy
Between Friday 15 December 2017 and Sunday 17 December 2017
Three Christmas themed one act plays
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3 One-Act Plays
Between Friday 31 March 2017 and Sunday 9 April 2017
Each performance has 3 One-Act Plays - a mixture of comedy, romance and drama in 3 plays - "Sharks in the Custard", "Valentines" and "Between Two Storms".
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The Wonderful World of Aladdin
Between Saturday 10 December 2016 and Sunday 18 December 2016
The Maleny Players present this years Christmas pantomime - with Aladdin, The Genie, the evil Abanazer, Ratty, Scatty, Tatty, Hatty and Batty, and a whole host of other characters. Audience participation is mandatory!
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A Murder Has Been Renounced
Between Saturday 16 July 2016 and Sunday 24 July 2016
A comedy murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christie. A dark and stormy night in a large old Queenslander, somewhere on the outskirts of Maleny.
Unexpected visitors, secret passages, a body, and plenty of clues, but it is not what you expect!
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