Tea Tree Players

Jack and Charley are in love with Kitty and Amy, respectively. Charley's rich Brazilian aunt, Donna Lucia, plans to visit, and the boys hope to introduce them to her and anounce their love to the girls. However, delays and unexpected events unfold. Their friend, Lord Fancourt Babberly (Babbs), rehearsing for a play, complicates matters. The girls go shopping as Donna Lucia's arrival is delayed. Jack's father visits, and Charley receives a telegram confirming the delay. Panicked about needing a chaperone, Jack and Charley introduce Babbs, in costume, as Charley's eccentric aunt, Donna Lucia. The play revolves around hilarious misunderstandings and mistaken identities. "Charley's Aunt" is celebrated for its clever humor and is a timeless theatrical classic.

A fresh take on this classic combo of two famous tales, packed with adventure and laughs aplenty! Legend combines with rip-roaring comedy as Robin and his trusted band of Merry Men try to outfox the baddie we love to hate – the Sheriff of Nottingham. Meanwhile, Nurse Nellie Nickerlastic is desperately trying to protect the Babes from the clutches of the Sheriff’s bungling henchmen, Snivel and Grovel. It’s fun and frolics all the way with a hilarious schoolroom scene, not to mention the mayhem of Nellie’s haunted boudoir! Cram-packed with comedy, this true pantomime version offers oodles of Chorus involvement, audience participation and honest-to-goodness family fun!

The story continues when Hugo and Alice return from their honeymoon and Alice finds she is putting on weight; she turns to Geraldine for advice. After coping with the village quiz and organizing the week of Radio Dibley, Geraldine is stunned when Alice actually has a good idea – why not put on a Nativity play? Why not indeed, what can possibly go wrong?

This vibrant play is set inside a psychiatric institution in 1971. Lewis, a young director, takes on the task of mounting a production of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte in the burnt-out theatre. He becomes emotionally involved with his patients-cum-actors as his operatic production lurches forward and anti-Vietnam protests rage outside. First produced in 1992, COSI has become one of the most successful Australian plays produced in the last two decades. A terrific play about madness, illusion, sanity and theatre. Please Note: This production contains coarse language and adult themes. It is intended for a MATURE AUDIENCE, aged over 15 years.

2061: A Space Idiocy is a lively, fast-moving comedy, featuring eleven original songs, all with their own particular flavour, and all particularly popular with the cast. The setting of the play is aboard a starship bound for the distant planet Zenos. Its major passenger is an Earth Princess whose marriage to an alien prince cements a shaky alliance and prevents intergalactic war. Of course, things go horribly wrong as the antics of the captain's bungling son (who is First Officer of the ship) exacerbate the problems caused by sinister forces abroad the ship, who are attempting to prevent the wedding. A mysterious stranger is rescued during the journey and his presence further complicates the mission. The tension heightens as the voyage progresses, and the story reaches its climax in the grand cathedral on the planet Zenos.

In the tidy town of Appleton, things are just so. Men are men, women are women, and vegetables are not cake and that’s the way it’s always been. That is, until prodigal daughter Penny returns from the big smoke to set up shop as the local GP. Penny was always something of an outsider. While she was off getting educated and travelling the world, the good folk of Appleton kept about their business, living hard and working harder, and trying not to stuff things up too much before each year’s great event, the famous Appleton Potato Race. Penny never much cared about the potato race, but when she discovers that the men’s prize is five times more than the women’s, she suddenly does care. A lot. And she’s determined to do something about it.

The Orphan Girl is a long-suffering young lady who seems destined not only to lose her lover but her life as well. The familiar characters of old-time melodrama here play their roles up to the hilt. The most thrilling scene is that in which dynamite (planted by the villain) is about to blow all the good characters to eternity. Just in time, however, Lucy picks up the dynamite and throws it out the door. On reflection, though, it seems that the thrill just described is actually topped by the even more exciting scene in the sawmill, where Nellie, tied to a log, is approaching the circular saw which in a moment will tear her to pieces. The hero, who has been tied by the villain, is freed just in time to thrust aside the latter who draws a pistol on him and threatens to kill him if he dares touch the lever that will save Nellie. The villain fires. The hero is wounded. And, at this very instant, a friend opportunely appears to snare the villain, and Nellie is safe in the arms of her hero.