Production History
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1974
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December | “Babes in the Woods”, pantomime Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
| June | “Many Moods of SPAT”, excerpt, choral verse Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| December | “Cinderella”, pantomime Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| April | “Play Parade”, 3 x 1 act plays Directors: Pat Simpson, Molly Billings & Dic Morgan Producer: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| July | “No Coal Dumping”, Gilbert & Sullivan parody Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| December | “Dick Whittington”, pantomime Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| June | “Spot on SPAT”, variety, play excerpts Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| December | “Jack and the Beanstalk”, pantomime Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| April | “Night of Violent Theatre”, 2 x 1 act plays Director: Rod Lander |
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| August | “One Hand Clapping” Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| December | “Emperor of Trebizond”, musical play Director: Rod Lander |
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| April | “One Hand Clapping”, by Joy Wiedersatz, Director: Rod Lander |
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| Sept | “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder, Director: Lauren Mitsak |
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| December | “Platypus in Boots”, pantomime, Director: Rod Lander |
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| May | “Astonish Me”, 1 act play, Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| July | “Harlequinade” & “Browning Version” 2 x 1 act plays, Directors: Margaret Cruickshank and Debbie Galianus |
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| December | “A Christmas Story”, pantomime Director: Tony Harvy |
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| April | “Bush Night”, variety picnic supper Directors: Yvenne Terkildsen & Christine Johnson |
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| April | “Arsenic and Old Lace” Director: Margaret Cruickshank |
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| December | “Red Riding Hood” pantomime, Director: Alan Collis |
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| April | “The One Day of the Year” by Alan Seymour, Director: Carol Foran |
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| June | Adult acting workshop – Gordon Streek | |
| October | “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown”, Youth workshop Director: Alan Collis |
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| December | “A Mermaids Tale”" pantomime, by Viv Whittaker Director: Rod Lander |
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| April | “SPAT in Revue” variety/dinner Directors: Christine Johnson and Jan Chipperfield Catering: Lorraine Morgan |
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| August | “Love of Four Colonels” by Peter Ustinov Director: Dic Morgan |
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| September | “Oh, What a Lovely War” Youth workshop Director: Stephen Carr |
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| December | “Mother Goose”, pantomime Director: Alan Collis |
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| April | “Putting on the Ritz”, music/dance/dinner with SPAT Singers Directors: Thea Harris & Rod Lander Catering: Lorraine Morgan |
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| July | “Insect play”, Youth Workshop Director: Rod Lander |
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| August | “Floating World” by John Romeril Director: Mark Wilnott |
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| December | “Beyond the Yellow Brick Road”, musical play for children Director: Thea Harris |
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| February | “Here’s to the ‘Burgh”, play building workshop for Helesburgh Centenary Celebrations Director: David Efraemson |
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| May | “Dimboola” by Jack Hibbert Director: Rod Lander |
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| May-July | Youth Workshop Director: Margaret Cruickshank |
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| August | “Not Now Darling” comedy Director: Margaret Cruickshank |
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| November | “Venetian Affair” musical/dinner with SPAT Singers Directors: Thea Harris and Rod Lander Catering: Lorraine Morgan |
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| December | “Pirates at the Barn”, pantomime Director: David Efraemson |
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| February | “Daring Ditties and Dirty Deeds”, SPAT Singers Directors: Thea Harris and Rod Lander |
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| May | “Bullshot Crummond” Director: Rod Lander |
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| July | “Billy Liar” Director: Erik Mitsak |
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| August | “A Collection of Short Pieces & Sleeping Beauty”, Youth Workshop Director: Margaret Cruickshank |
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| September | “The Fantasticks”, musical Directors: Lauren Mitsak and Thea Harris |
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| December | “The Owl and the Pussycat”, pantomime Director: Sian O’Sullivan |
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| March | “Victoriana” dinner/show with SPAT Singers Directors: Thea Harris and Rod Lander Catering: Lorraine Morgan |
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| April | Youth Workshop Director: Margaret Cruickshank |
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| June | “Double Yolk, Hugh and Margaret Williams” Director Margaret Cruickshank |
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| July | “Between Mouthfuls”, by Alan Ayckbourne | |
| September | “An Evening of Coward” with SPAT Singers Directors: Thea Harris & Alan Collis |
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| December | “Cinderella” by Joy Wiedersatz, pantomime Director: Mike Mitsak |
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| March | “A Lasting Impression”, youth play building for Parkfest Bicentennial Celebrations Director: Paul Barrs |
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| April | “Stockade” by Kenneth Cook, with Bulli High School Director: Rod Lander |
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| June | Youth Workshop Director: Margaret Cruickshank |
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| August | “Bananas and Other Monkey Business”, 4 x Australian short plays Directors: Lauren Mitsak, Margaret Cruickshank & Liz Halkett |
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| August | “Bananas” and “The Forth Wall” SPAT’s entries to Theatrefest Chatswood |
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| September | “Pastimes with Goode Company” Renaissance music/dinner/dance/show with excerpts from “Rosencrants and Guilderstern are Dead” Helensburgh Community Centre, with Wollongong University’s Renaissance Players and SPAT Singers Directors: Rod Lander, Thea Harris Catering: Lorraine Morgan |
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| December | “Wind in the Willows” children’s play with music, from story by Kenneth Graham Director: Margaret Cruickshank |
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| February | “Musical Soiree” at Sonia Westwood’s home Rod Lander and SPAT Singers |
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| April | Five one-act plays by Alan Ayckbourn Director’s workshop |
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| May | “Mother Figure” by Alan Ayckbourn Entry into 1-Act Play Festival, Zentih Theatre, Chatswood Director: Janelle Hanley |
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| June | “The Real Inspector Hound” by Tom Stoppard Director: Margaret Cruickshank |
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| September | “Orphans” drama IPAC Wollongong, Proceeds to Illawarra Homeless Youth Director: Lauren Mitsak |
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| October | “Under Milkwood” by Dylan Thomas Director: Rod Lander |
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| November | Treetops garden party SPAT Singers and Sydney Technical College Boys High Catering: Lorraine Morgan Producer: Ruth Church |
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| December | SPAT Singers – Illawarra Choral Festival, Kiama | |
| December | “Frankenstein” pantomime by David Swan Director: Brent Percy |
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| April | “Auntie Mame” comedy Director: Kevin James |
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| June | “Endgames” 1-act plays: “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre, “Out of the Flying Pan” by David Campton and “Sorry Wrong Mumber” by Lucille Fletcher Directors: Rod Lander and Ed Hills |
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| July | “Out of the Flying Pan” and “No Exit” Entries in Port Maquarie Play Festival SPAT winner Best Production 4 nominations for best Actors |
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| July | “Dido & Aeneas”, opera by Purcell University Singers, SPAT Singers, orchestra and principals from Sydney Motet Choir Director: Rod Lander |
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| December | “Alice in Wonderland” musical play for children Director: Sian Morgan Producer: Maura O’Sullivan |
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| February | “Big Al’s Birthday” dinner/dance with cabaret, Helensburgh Community Centre, Director: Janelle Hanley Producer: Sonia Westwood Caterer: Lorraine Morgan |
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| April | “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard | |
| September | “Here to Save You, but Not Sure from What” a revue at Coledale by Kevin James Director: Kevin James Musical Director: Thea Harris |
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| December | “Dick Whittington” panotmime | |
| April | “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare at Wollongong University Director: Ed Hills |
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| November | “Divertimento – Musical Soiree” at Hillcrest House Director: Lindy Sharp |
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| December | “Scrooge” Australian translation by Lisa Skene Director: Margaret Cruikshank Musical Director: Judy Riley Producer: Sue Scott |
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| May | “Nacheral Gentleman”, local playwright Coledale Senior Citizen’ Centre and Woonona/Bulli RSL Director: Lauren Mitsak |
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| “Time and the Conways” by JB Priestly Director: Mark Wilmott |
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| December | “Marriage at Botany Bay”, by Adam Blackshore | |
| April | “The Dining Room” by A. R. Gurney Director: Taina Maleen |
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| December | “The Blue Hole”, by Erik Mitsak Director: Damion |
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| December | “Pinocchio” pantomime adapted by Bruce Carr Director: Margaret Cruikshank |
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| May | “Heddar Gabler” by Ibsen Director: Taina Maleen |
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| April | “An Evening of Cowards”, youth musical play Directors: Lauren Mitsak, Thea Harris |
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| June | “Virtues, Vices, and Victuals” Director: Tanya Leach |
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| September | “Diving for Pearls” by Katherine Thomson Director: Mark Wilmott |
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| December | “Jock & The Golden Lyrebird”, by Cameron Sharp Director: Stacey Bale |
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| April | “Over the Top” youth musical Directors: Lauren Mitsak |
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| June | “Play On”, comedy Director: Kevin James |
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| December | No pantomime! Variety show | |
| December | “Hansel and Gretel and the Three Pigs” by Cameron Sharp Directors: Stacey Bale and Thea Harris |
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| April | Youth Workshop – Story Telling Director: Erik Mitsak |
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| April | Start of SPAT Film, Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton silent Piano: Elida Dickson |
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| April | SPAT Singers perform for Heritage Week celebrations, Stanwell Park | |
| April | SPAT Dance – Old Time at Helensburgh Community Centre | |
| May | SPAT Singers perform for Thirroul Seaside Arts Festival | |
| June | “Pushin’ Up Daisies” by Terence Crawford Director: David Efraemson |
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| August | SPAT 25th Birthday party, retrospective, Directors: Thea Harris and Janelle Campbell |
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| September | 3 x 1-Act plays, “Facing the Truth” by Xenia Natalenko, “Louis and Dave” by Norm Foster Director: Ed Harris |
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| December | “The Ugly Sisters’ Adventure”, pantomime, by Cameron Sharp Director: Joshua Reed |
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| June | “Music Hall” musical with 1-act play “To Love a Lamp Boy” by Dic Morgan Directors: Dic Morgan and Sonia Westwood |
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| December | “Snow White Strikes Back” pantomime by Cameron Sharp Director: Olivia Duval |
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| May | “Shakespeare Revue” Directors: Dic Morgan and Sonia Westwood |
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| September | “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream” an outdoor performance Director: Wendy Regan |
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| December | “Aladdin Down Under” pantomime by Cameron Sharp Director: Cory Newman |
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| March | “Gentle Tiger Burning”, by James Michael Langley Director: Lauren Mitsak |
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| June | “What the Butler Saw”, by Joe Orton Director: Van Badham |
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| December | “Goldilocks & the Three Fiery Koalas”, by Cameron Sharp Director: Cory Newman Producer: Brian Hiscocks |
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| January | Youth Workshop Director: Wendy Regan |
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| April | “Pig Kazoo”, by Cameron Sharp, playwriting competition winner Director: Lajos Hamers |
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| September | “Wind in the Willows” by Graham Greene Directors: Cory Newman and Rosie Catalano |
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| December | “The Princess and the Lobster Potter”, by Cameron Sharp Director: Lisa Divall and Sally Redman Producer: Penelope Wood |
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| April | TheatreSports Director: Corey Newman |
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| July | “Youth Workshop” Director: Wendy Regan |
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| August | “Our Towne – Thirty Years of SPAT” by Eric Alexander Director: Eric Alexander |
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| December | “Tunnel of Love”, by Cameron Sharp Director: Lajos Hamers |
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| January | “Youth Workshop” Director: Wendy Regan |
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| February | Progressive Dinner, SPAT Singers Producer: Sonia Westwood |
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| June | SPAT Trivia Night; Producers: Penelope Wood and Wayne Turner |
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| July | “Youth Workshop” Director: Wendy Regan |
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| December | “Antarctica Ho!” by Cameron Sharp Director: Natalie Griffin |
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| March | “TheatreSports” Director: Cory Newman |
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| June | “The Magic Flout” Director: Rod Lander |
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| June | “The Magic Flout” Director: Rod Lander |
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