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2025 Season

Please note: The season is subject to rights confirmation.

Download the season brochure HERE.

Play 1
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Written by Ray Lawler

Directed by Tom Richards

14 February to 22 March


Wednesday, 12 Feb (Charity preview)

Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays, 16 & 23 Feb, 9
 & 16 Mar 
at 2pm

 

Box Office opens
Saturday, 1 February 2025

Synopsis:

 

The most famous Australian play and one of the most loved, this is the tragicomic story of Roo and Barney. Beautifully observed, humorous and poignant, Ray Lawler’s much-loved play is a tale of two Queensland cane-cutters who, for 16 years, have worked up north in the brutal sugar cane fields and travelled back to Melbourne to meet up for 5 months of partying and romance with their barmaid girlfriends. AussieTheatre.com said this play is “an iconic Australian work that should remain an important part of our Australian theatre-going repertoire and cultural education”.

Play 2

Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall
Written by Mark Kilmurry & Jamie Oxenbould
Directed by Sue Turner

9 May to 14 June


Wednesday, 7 May (Charity preview)

Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays, 11 & 18
 May, 1 & 8 Jun 
at 2pm

 

Box Office opens
Saturday, 26 April 2025

Synopsis:

 

It is opening night of director-writer Shane Tweed’s new murder mystery. Seven of the company’s cast are down with the dreaded lurgy, so the Middling Cove Players’ director and two of the remaining actors, and whoever else Shane can co-opt, pitch in to continue the long tradition of ‘the show must go on’. Juggling nerves, props and absurd miscasting, will they manage to pull it off? Or will everything go horribly, terribly and awfully wrong? A look behind the scenes at the world of amateur theatre where luck , determination and unbridled confidence rule the day.

Play 3
Seventeen

Written by Matthew Whittet
Directed by Susan Geldart

1 August to 6 September


Wednesday, 30 July (Charity preview)

Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays, 3, 10, 24 & 31 Aug 
at 2pm

 

Box Office opens
Saturday, 19 July 2025

Synopsis:

 

A unique coming-of-age story in which older actors, who have long passed the season of youth, portray a group of 17-year-olds on the brink of adulthood. Set in a playground on the last night of high school, the vulnerability, uncertainty and exhilaration
of youth are captured as six friends navigate the bittersweet transition from adolescence to the unknown world of adulthood. The play explores themes of friendship, love, identity and the inevitable passage of time, offering a moving and honest reflection on growing up and letting go. The finely tuned writing delivers both humour and tenderness, making this a heartfelt portrayal of the essence of life.

Play 4
Gaslight
Written by Patrick Hamilton
Directed by Michael Gooley

24 October to 29 November


Wednesday, 22 October (Charity preview)

Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays,
26 Oct & 2, 16, 23 Nov 
at 2pm

 

Box Office opens
Saturday, 11
 October 2025

Synopsis:

 

This is a classic thriller set in Victorian London. Jack Manningham, a suavely handsome man, is slowly driving his gentle, devoted wife, Bella, to the brink of insanity with an insinuating kindness that masks more sinister motives. But as his dark and disturbing past begins to catch up with him, the audience is taken on a thrilling ride through a series of gripping scenes, culminating in a breath-taking climax.

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