Murwillumbah Theatre Company presents for your enjoyment in 2025
Plonk! by Colin Barrow, directed by Bryanne Jardine
This is one not to be missed with comedy, murder and mystery all in one! And if you book between now and Feb 2nd, you can take advantage of our $20 Early Bird Discount, a saving of $5 a ticket. Or if you can get a group of 8 together, again the cost is $20 a ticket!
Plonk! is set in the sitting room of the farmhouse at Worth Farm and Vineyard, where the elderly owner, Heather Watson hatches a plan that in her final handful of years of life, she will have a little fun promising various people they will be her sole beneficiary to the entire farm and vineyard in return for a reduction in their current wages.
One evening when everyone is invited to a gathering, Heather is murdered by one of them in her bedroom. Detective Harman has the job to try and unravel the clues to identify the murderer …….
Dates Fri March 7th – Sun April 6th
MARCH
Fri 7th at 7.30 pm
Sat 8th at 7.30 pm
Sun 9th at 2 pm
Fri 14th at 7.30 pm
Sat 15th at 7.30 pm
Sun 16th at 2 pm
APRIL
Fri 4th at 7.30 pm
Sat 5th at 7.30 pm
Sun 6th at 2 pm
The Great Divide by David Williamson, directed by Colin Elliott
Australia’s most prolific playwright David Williamson is back with The Great Divide, a comedy with wise-cracking commentary on wealth inequality and human greed.
Penny Poulter leads an almost idyllic life in one of Australia’s best kept secrets, Wallis Heads – golden sands, turquoise waters and a lush green golf course. But when this hidden coastal gem is discovered by the ruthless and immensely wealthy Alex Whittle, ambitious plans to put the town firmly on the tourist map spark a bitter rivalry. Can this human bulldozer with money to burn ever be stopped?
Dates Fri May 16 – Sun June 1st
May
Fri 16th at 7.30 pm
Sat 17th at 7.30 pm
Sun 18th at 2 pm
Fri May 23rd at 7.30 pm
Sat 24th at 7.30 pm
Sun May 25th at 2 pm
Fri May 30th 7.30 pm
Sat 31st at 7.30 pm
June
Sun 1st at 2 pm
The venue is Murwillumbah Civic Centre Auditorium with the popular cabaret seating and BYO style.
Puccini’s La Bohème
La Bohème is touring throughout New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in 2025
Opera Australia will bring La Boheme to Murwillumbah Civic Centre Auditorium on
Tuesday July 22 7.30 pm
On a freezing Christmas Eve, love sparks. Two hands meet in the dark and four friends’ lives change forever!
A poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher walk into a bar to celebrate a sudden windfall in a lean winter. It’s Christmas Eve, and the poet has just felt the first pangs of great love. When a seamstress knocks on his door searching for candlelight, the pair fall in love faster than she can sing “Yes, they call me Mimì…”
Between the ideals of love and art and the cruel realities of cold winters, bitter jealousies and empty pockets, two sets of lovers are trying to find their way.
Puccini’s score has always captured the soaring spirit of young love, and this new production breathes fresh life into one of the world’s favourite operas. Award-winning director Dean Bryant (Anything Goes, Sweet Charity) brings his trademark wit and vivacity to this new staging, which captures that giddy moment where you and your friends feel you’ll live forever.
Some emotions are too big for words alone, and for that, we have music. La Bohème exposes your soul to the feelings that only music can express. The music soars with the ecstasy of love, crackles with the pain of jealousy and cries with the agony of loss.
Experience the original bohemian love story. By the time this emotional opera finishes, you’ll know the answer to an eternal question: is love enough?
Director Dean Bryant
Set & Costume Designer Isabel Hudson
Lighting Designer Damien Cooper
This production is supported by The Opera Conference, Australia’s national partnership of professional opera companies, the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts and funding advisory body, by the NSW Government through Create NSW, and by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
To book seats for La Boheme go to https://www.trybooking.com/CZEXH or via our Box Office
Seating is in rows only with no BYO, but a wine bar will operate.
Tilly the Time Machine by Adrian Edmondson, directed by David Thomas
From the brilliant mind of Adrian Edmondson (Vyvan from TV’S “The Young Ones”) comes a tale of Time Travel and a child’s adventure with her father in search of a memory
When Tilly’s dad builds a time machine in the shed there’s only one place she really wants to go: back to her sixth birthday party, when she ate too many cupcakes, and her mummy was still here.
But then something goes wrong! Tilly’s dad gets stuck in the past and only she can save him . . . Will they make it back in time for tea?
Adapted for the theatre by David Thomas and Murwillumbah Theatre Company
October
Saturday 18th at 6 pm
Sunday 19th at 2 pm
Saturday 25th at 6 pm
Sunday 26th at 2pm
Friday 31st at 6 pm
November
Saturday 1st at 6 pm
Sunday 2nd at 2 pm
The venue is Murwillumbah Civic Centre Auditorium with row seating at the front and some tables for BYO groups.
