| 1974 | December | “Babes in the Woods”, pantomime
Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
| 1975 | June | “Many Moods of SPAT”, excerpt, choral verse
Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
| December | “Cinderella”, pantomime
Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| 1976 | April | “Play Parade”, 3 x 1 act plays
Directors: Pat Simpson, Molly Billings & Dic Morgan Producer: Joy Wiedersatz |
| 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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| 1977 | June | “Spot on SPAT”, variety, play excerpts
Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
| December | “Jack and the Beanstalk”, pantomime
Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| 1978 | April | “Night of Violent Theatre”, 2 x 1 act plays
Director: Rod Lander |
| August | “One Hand Clapping”
Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
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| December | “Emperor of Trebizond”, musical play
Director: Rod Lander |
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| 1979 | April | “One Hand Clapping”, by Joy Wiedersatz,
Director: Rod Lander |
| 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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| 1980 | May | “Astonish Me”, 1 act play,
Director: Joy Wiedersatz |
| 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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| 1981 | April | “Bush Night”, variety picnic supper
Directors: Yvenne Terkildsen & Christine Johnson |
| April | “Arsenic and Old Lace”
Director: Margaret Cruickshank |
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| December | “Red Riding Hood” pantomime,
Director: Alan Collis |
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| 1982 | April | “The One Day of the Year” by Alan Seymour,
Director: Carol Foran |
| 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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| 1983 | April | “SPAT in Revue” variety/dinner
Directors: Christine Johnson and Jan Chipperfield Catering: Lorraine Morgan |
| 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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| 1984 | April | “Putting on the Ritz”, music/dance/dinner with SPAT Singers
Directors: Thea Harris & Rod Lander Catering: Lorraine Morgan |
| 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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| 1985 | February | “Here’s to the ‘Burgh”, play building workshop for Helesburgh Centenary Celebrations
Director: David Efraemson |
| 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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| 1986 | February | “Daring Ditties and Dirty Deeds”, SPAT Singers
Directors: Thea Harris and Rod Lander |
| 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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| 1987 | March | “Victoriana” dinner/show with SPAT Singers
Directors: Thea Harris and Rod Lander Catering: Lorraine Morgan |
| 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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| 1988 | March | “A Lasting Impression”, youth play building for Parkfest Bicentennial Celebrations
Director: Paul Barrs |
| 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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| 1989 | February | “Musical Soiree” at Sonia Westwood’s home
Rod Lander and SPAT Singers |
| 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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| 1990 | April | “Auntie Mame” comedy
Director: Kevin James |
| 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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| 1991 | February | “Big Al’s Birthday” dinner/dance with cabaret, Helensburgh Community Centre,
Director: Janelle Hanley Producer: Sonia Westwood Caterer: Lorraine Morgan |
| 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 | |
| 1992 | April | “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare at Wollongong University
Director: Ed Hills |
| 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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| 1993 | May | “Nacheral Gentleman”, local playwright
Coledale Senior Citizen’ Centre and Woonona/Bulli RSL Director: Lauren Mitsak |
| “Time and the Conways” by JB Priestly
Director: Mark Wilmott |
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| December | “Marriage at Botany Bay”, by Adam Blackshore | |
| 1994 | April | “The Dining Room” by A. R. Gurney
Director: Taina Maleen |
| 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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| 1995 | May | “Heddar Gabler” by Ibsen
Director: Taina Maleen |
| 1996 | April | “An Evening of Cowards”, youth musical play
Directors: Lauren Mitsak, Thea Harris |
| 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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| 1997 | April | “Over the Top” youth musical
Directors: Lauren Mitsak |
| June | “Play On”, comedy
Director: Kevin James |
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| December | No pantomime! Variety show | |
| 1998 | December | “Hansel and Gretel and the Three Pigs” by Cameron Sharp
Directors: Stacey Bale and Thea Harris |
| 1999 | April | Youth Workshop – Story Telling
Director: Erik Mitsak |
| 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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| 2000 | June | “Music Hall” musical with 1-act play “To Love a Lamp Boy” by Dic Morgan
Directors: Dic Morgan and Sonia Westwood |
| December | “Snow White Strikes Back” pantomime by Cameron Sharp
Director: Olivia Duval |
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| 2001 | May | “Shakespeare Revue”
Directors: Dic Morgan and Sonia Westwood |
| 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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| 2002 | March | “Gentle Tiger Burning”, by James Michael Langley
Director: Lauren Mitsak |
| 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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| 2003 | January | Youth Workshop
Director: Wendy Regan |
| 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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| 2004 | April | TheatreSports
Director: Corey Newman |
| 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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| 2005 | January | “Youth Workshop”
Director: Wendy Regan |
| 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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| 2006 | March | “TheatreSports”
Director: Cory Newman |
| June | “The Magic Flout”
Director: Rod Lander |
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| October | “Kindly Keep It Covered”
Directed by Jennifer Woolsey |
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| December | “The Cucumber Crisis”
Directed by Sally Redman; written by Cameron Sharp |
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| 2007 | March | “Festival of Mud” – community event organised by David Mitsak |
| December | “Robinson Crusoe”
Directed by Jennifer Woolsey |
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| 2008 | January | “Children’s workshop”
Directed by Cameron Campbell |
| March | “Love Lies”
Written, directed and performed by David “Ratsack” Mitzak |
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| June | “3 One Act Plays”
Directed by Kevin James, Lauren Mitzak & Jennifer Woolsey |
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| December | “Santa in Space”
Directed by Jennifer Woolsey |
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| 2009 | April | “Tango in the Park”
Organised by Wayne Turner |
| June | “Seasons Greetings”
Directed by Jennifer Woolsey |
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| December | “A Mermaid’s Tale”
Directed by Rod Lander |
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| 2010 | July | “Three One-Act Plays”
Directed by Jennifer Woolsey, Cameron Campbell & Lauren Mitsak |
| December | “Rudolph Runaway Reindeer”
Directed by Rebecca Barrow & Cameron Campbell , written by Cameron Sharp |
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| 2011 | January | “Lisa and Jasmine Save Fairyland”
Workshop written & directed by Bernadette Le Mesurier |
| August | “Kindly Leave the Stage”
Directed by Jennifer Woolsey |
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| December | “Puss in Boots”
Directed by Mark Rylander |
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| 2012 | January | Children’s Workshop
Written & directed by Inez Playford |
| May | “Murder in the House of Horrors”
Directed by Wayne Turner |
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| June | “Victoriana”
Directed by Rod Lander |
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| December | “The Three Musketeer’s” pantomime
Directed by Kelly-Maree Michael |
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| 2013 | April | “Theatre Games Evening |
| May | “Love Lies”
Written, directed and performed by David “Ratsack” Mitzak |
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| August | “Three One Act Plays”
Directed by Bernadette Le Mesurier, Tom Peach & Lauren Mitsak |
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| September | “La Triviata – Verdi Undone”
Directed by Rod Lander |
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| December | “Blazin’ Suns” pantomime
Written by Kelly-Maree Michael Directed by Inez Playford & Wayne Turner |
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| 2014 | May | “Best Of Shakespeare”
Directed by Tom Peach |
| June | “Sins and Sensibilities”
Directed by Rod Lander |
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| November | SPAT’s 40th Anniversary Show
Directed by Wayne Turner |
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| December | “Babes in the Woods”, 40th Anniversary pantomime
Director: Lauren Mitsak |
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| 2015 | April | “Three One Act Plays”
Directed by Bernadette Le Mesurier, Tom Peach & Cameron Campbell |
| October | “Beasts and Bedlam”
Directed by Rod Lander |
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| December | “The Most Incredible Thing”
Directed by Lauren Mitsak |
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| 2016 | August | “Geri and the Pacemakers”
Directed by Rod Lander |
| September | “Bullshot Crummond”
Directed by Rod Lander |
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| December | “Wish for a Wife”
Written and directed by Bernadette Le Mesurier |
