Z-PAC Theatre
Z-PAC is the Fraser Coast's Premier Community Theatre, producing a high number of quality productions each year, using local actors, directors, technical and support staff. We are always very happy to welcome new people into our theatre community. Z-PAC is available for hire to visiting artists as well as local individuals, businesses and groups looking for a venue for their meetings, events and performances.
The Lovely Bones, directed by Tiffany Youngs (CANCELLED)
Between Friday 29 September 2023 and Sunday 15 October 2023
Susie Salmon is just like any other young girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There’s only one big difference - Susie is dead. Now she can only observe while her family manage their grief in their different ways. Her father, Jack is obsessed with identifying the killer. Her mother, Abigail is desperate to create a different life for herself. And her sister, Lindsey is discovering the opposite sex with experiences that Susie will never know. Susie is desperate to help them and there might be a way of reaching them...
Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones is a unique coming-of-age tale that captured the hearts of readers throughout the world. Award-winning playwright Bryony Lavery has adapted it for this unforgettable play about life after loss.
Contains strong adult themes which may be confronting, recommended for mature audiences.
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Actors Workshop - Finding the Truth
Sunday 29 October 2023
For actors to develop the skills to see beyond the surface level of a script and to develop the tools required to engage emotionally and realistically with the text.
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Chook Chook & Snagged - 2 short plays
Between Friday 24 November 2023 and Sunday 10 December 2023
Directed by Judith La Forest
Chook Chook is a very funny, satirical look at the various ways we can respond to the knowledge of confinement- political, emotional, traditional.
A story about some chickens in a shed but with a human moral issue. Battery hens Valmai, Crissy, Georgia and Bron refer to their cages as 'compartments' and eat the same food day after day, under the same continuous 'sun' (fluorescent light). Valmai, an older chook, tries to educate young 'hormonal' Crissy, explaining that "you just get on with things and don't think of roosters or the outside world". There is a surprising finale which is not to be missed!
Snagged is a poignant, yet seriously funny story about coming of age, discovering who you are and, of course, vegetarian sausages!
Sam and her best mate Beth plan to head to Brisbane as soon as the last year of High School ends to start their new careers and cut a swathe through Brisbane's eligible bachelors. That is until Sam meets Josh...
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Rock Painting Workshop
Tuesday 26 September 2023
Join us for a fun afternoon of painting chooks on rocks in the lead up to Z-PAC's next production 2 One Act Plays - Chook Chook & Snagged.
Led by talented local artist Miss Shelly Seashells, participants will learn techniques to create visual masterpieces to keep or share the joy of discovery by hiding them around Hervey Bay.
When: Tuesday 26 September, 1pm - 3pm
Where: Z-PAC Theatre, 15 Zephyr St, Scarness
Cost, $15 per person
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Sense & Sensibility, by Jane Austin, adapted by Kate Hamill
Between Friday 4 August 2023 and Sunday 20 August 2023
Pace, comedy and uncompromising wit – expect it all in the dazzling, on-steroids version of this classic you just won’t want to miss!
Newly widowed and under much reduced circumstances, Mrs Dashwood is forced to move herself and her daughters (the prudent practical Elinor, the exuberant romantic Marianne and the sprightly Margaret) from their grand family home to a humble country cottage. But diminished social circumstances do not translate to reduced torments of the heart. Suitors surround and gossip whirls as all of the Dashwood’s fight for purpose, place and love.
Directed by Theresa Saunders, this version of Jane Austen’s literary masterpiece explodes with invention and fun. Watch as the Dashwood’s navigate society with shrewdness, warmth, and comical folly.
“...an unconditional delight...invigorating...a bouncy, jaunty take on Austen...” - The New York Times
“Perhaps the greatest stage adaptation of this novel in history.” - The Huffington Post
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Dry Rot
Between Friday 12 May 2023 and Sunday 28 May 2023
Only Fools & Horses meets Benny Hill...
By John Chapman, Directed by Roger Jennings
A very funny British farce about some dysfunctional potential criminals and a horse ring-in. It deals with a crazy, but very likeable gang of bookies who, in order to be near the racecourse, are staying at a country hotel run by a retired colonel and his wife and daughter. Perhaps crime does pay……
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Cosi
Between Friday 31 March 2023 and Sunday 16 April 2023
By Louis Nowra, Directed by Jon Sharpe
A heart-warming and hilarious Australian comedy set in a psychiatric facility. Così is a play about friendship, romance, community and difference. It’s 1971 and Australia is protesting the war in Vietnam. But inside the hospital, the resident patients are listening to Mozart, learning their lines and occasionally skipping their medication. It’s art, it’s mayhem, it’s a wonderful roller coaster all the way to opening night.
Rated M - coarse language, drug use & sexual references.
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Nevermore (CANCELLED)
Saturday 25 March 2023
Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe.
Nevermore is a full musical production telling a fantastical history of the life of Edgar Allan Poe, incorporating many of his own works, and performed with a mixture of sung and spoken lyrics, but no true dialogue. With the driving beat of the music leading the players - stepping, from moment to moment, from the macabre to the mundane; from the natural to the supernatural with equal footing; this performance presents a look at Poe’s life, blending his dreams, his nightmares and his past into a seamless tale - where it is impossible to say for certain what is and isn’t reality.
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Terrifying Tales by the Campfire
Between Thursday 8 December 2022 and Friday 9 December 2022
A collection of tales to chill and surprise you.
Gold Coin Donation at the door. Doors open at 5:30pm
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Dry Rot (Cancelled) (CANCELLED)
Between Friday 18 November 2022 and Saturday 3 December 2022
By John Chapman, Directed by Roger Jennings
A very funny British farce about some dysfunctional potential criminals and a horse ring-in. It deals with a crazy, but very likeable gang of bookies who, in order to be near the racecourse, are staying at a country hotel run by a retired colonel and his wife and daughter. Perhaps crime does pay……
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Sing With Gunilla - Sing in Spring
Sunday 30 October 2022
Enjoy a magical afternoon in song!
Students from Gunilla Myren School of Singing accompanied by Kyle Downes on piano.
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Death in a Minute
Between Friday 21 October 2022 and Sunday 23 October 2022
Directed by Marjolijn Dudgeon
A weekend of mayhem and madness where three teams of actors improvise glorious wacky scenarios for an audience and three judges! The culmination of twelve weeks of workshops where actors hone their skills in improvisation. This is the third year we've run Death in a Minute and it has been really successful and a great opportunity for actors to play – and for audiences to gasp and laugh and admire the sheer virtuosity of the actors and their hilarious antics.
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Pride & Prejudice
Between Friday 26 August 2022 and Sunday 11 September 2022
Adapted by Kate Hamill, Directed by Theresa Saunders
Based on the novel by Jane Austen starring Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, Pride and Prejudice is a romantic and comedic satire about love, manners and imperfections. This theatrical version of the period romance is bold, surprising, boisterous and fast-paced, uproarious fun: the perfect mixture of the familiar and the unexpected!
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Puffs
Between Friday 1 July 2022 and Sunday 17 July 2022
By Matt Cox, Directed by Tim Holstein
For seven years a certain boy wizard went to Wizard School. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of The Puffs who just happened to be there too. PUFFS – a play for anyone who has never been destined to save the world.
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Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls
Between Friday 29 April 2022 and Saturday 28 May 2022
By Phillip Dean, Directed by Marjolijn Dudgeon
A "feel good" - sad but hilarious - two-hander, set in a tiny, far outback Queensland town in the late 1960's about an unlikely friendship between two young women of wildly differing temperaments, united in their abandonment by the men in their lives and their passion for country and western music. The play features great country and western classics, sung by the two women as they traverse their rocky paths to happiness.
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