A hapless vacuum cleaner salesman gets sucked into a world of espionage in a murderously funny story told by 6 actors….and a vacuum cleaner!
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REASONABLE DOUBT
STARC Productions – Marc Clement, Stefanie Rossi & Tony Knight are a force to be reckoned with. This trio of two talented actors and director stated their company last year and this is there 3rd production this year, the first one ‘TOYER’ recently just got nominated for ‘Best Ensemble’ in a Professional show. Their next show ‘Reasonable Doubt’ will sure to please.
‘What happens when you’re forced to reconsider your verdict two years afterthe trial?’ Anna and Mitchell were members of a ‘hung jury’ for a murder trial.But during the trial they became more than just acquaintances…two years laterthey reunite in a luxury hotel. What happens is beyond their expectations.REASONABLE DOUBT is a fast-paced thriller about lies, betrayal, guilt and the desperate search for truth, justice, honour and courage in the face of human desires that could lead to a person’s ultimate downfall. The audience become voyeurs to this search for redemption mixed with the very human need to be loved for who we are, despite our flaws
Old Wicked Songs
Old Wicked Songs is a play by Jon Marans
Goodwood Theatre 166a Goodwood Road, Goodwood
July 27, 28, August 2, 3, 4 @ 7.30, Matinees Sunday 29 @ 4.00; Saturday August 4 @ 2.00, Early Tuesday July 31, Wednesday August 1 @ 6.30
Vienna. 1986.
Kurt Waldheim is running for the chancellorship of Austria, despite his Nazi past.
Hoping to shatter the artistic block that has crippled his brilliant career, Stephen Hoffman, a young American piano prodigy, has come to study in Vienna. He is assigned to an elderly vocal teacher, Professor Josef Mashkan, who – to Stephen’s disgust – insists on teaching him, not the piano, but how to sing Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” song cycle about the birth and death of love.
It seems impossible that the two will ever get along: one is European, one American; one old-fashioned, the other modern; one passionate, the other technically precise; and, finally, one a seeming anti-Semite, and the other a Jew. As they struggle to work together, Stephen discovers that Mashkan is masking a darker history, and would die rather than confront it. Eventually, only the music – their one common bond – with its combination of suffering and joy, helps release the teacher’s emotions and melt the student’s frigidity.
Independent Theatre is privileged to re-mount this haunting play, with its unique mix of drama and vocal music. A great friend of Independent Theatre, playwright Jon Marans will again travel to Adelaide to assist with rehearsals, and speak to Patrons and Subscribers.
Tickets $20 – $37.50
https://www.independenttheatre.org.au/2018-season/old-wicked-songs