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2012 Season – Love in the Spotlight.
In 2012, LOVE is in the Spotlight at The Theatre on Chester.
The Theatre on Chester, with its hardworking volunteer committee and members, has been providing the community with quality theatre in North Epping for 56 years. And now in 2012, we are offering you three plays all with the universal theme of LOVE.
LOVE (like faith, hope and even theatre) might be an illusion, but that it’s an illusion that can generate its own reality. If you have ever been in love, have loved, are looking for love, imagine love or find love just too darn complicated, then this season is for you.
Love Song
Written by John Kolvenbach. Directed by Kenney Ogilvie.
13 April – 5 May
John Kolvenbach’s off-beat romantic comedy, Love Song is a hymn to an oddball, the misfit hero, who is either crazy or sees more clearly than everyone else. But more importantly, he has something to teach the others about the transformative power of love. The play opened in the prestigious Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago in 2006 and was transferred to the West End, London, where it was nominated for an Olivier Award, and in 2009 had a season at the MTC in Melbourne where it was described as an enjoyable fantasy with an edge of whimsy.
The Philadelphia Story
Written by Philip Barry. Directed by Joy Sweeney.
27 July – 18 August
A delicious comedy of manners set in Philadelphia high society during the late 1930s. Originally premiering on the Broadway stage in 1939, this witty, classy and romantic American classic was especially written by Phillip Barry for Katherine Hepburn, as Tracy Lord, a wealthy socialite, whose wedding plans are complicated by the
simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband, her estranged father and an attractive journalist. The 1940 film starred Katherine Hepburn, Carey Grant and James Stewart.
The Servant of Two Masters
Written by Carlos Goldini. Rewritten by Nick Enright and Ron Blair. Directed by Carla Moore.
9 November – 1 December
A simple, good fun (and mostly clean) knock-about comedy adapted from the original play by Carlo Goldoni in 1743. The rollicking and very Australian inflected translation/adaption was written by Nick Enright and Ron Blair in 1978. With uninhibited high spirits, this physical comedy, concerns itself with the not-so-bright Truffadino, both hungry for food and love, engaging himself to two masters and the complications which follow.
Subscribe now for 2012.
For the 2012 season of Chester St Theatre Group ticket prices are offered to subscribers at the discounted rate of $48.00 for all three of the season’s plays. Subscribers are given first choice of dates and are offered the best seats available.
Subscribers can also buy subscriptions for friends and relatives as a gift certificate. For further information on Chester St Theatre Group’s Subscription offer or Gift Certificates, please contact us.
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Subscriptions closed Monday 13 February 2012.
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