Accidental Productions presents the Australian Premiere of "A State of Affairs"

Marriage, sex and adultery are the subjects of Graham Swannell's first stage play. This witty and penetrating comedy quartet treats its theme with a moving and unforgettable compassion. A memorable debut for the writer.

A State of Affairs consists of four short plays:-

"Stuttgart"
The "same old grunts and groans" are beginning to pall for Terence. He feels that it's a bit like having dover sole every night. Not that there's anything wrong with dover sole. In fact he loves it. Its just that he wants to spend time over it. Gently ease it from its bones. Eat it with relish. And you can't do that if you eat it every day, or even twice a day, can you?

"Consequences"
Jack and Frances shook hands on the rules. They simply fancied each other. There was to be no falling in love. That would have been a "bloody cock-up" - especially since they were both already married. No, they would have the perfect affair with no consequenses............

"The Day of the Dog"
According to his friends, Allen has the haunted look of a trapped animal, which can only mean one thing. - He's been "dabbling". But who can resist when "there's so much of it about"?. They understand perfectly. What they can't understand is why he has broken rule number one and told his wife. She might think that he's having a "dabble" but she doesn't want to know that he's having a "dabble". That would mean she has to face it......

Commitment
Joanna and Ellis are new parents. Somehow amongst the nappies and the dishes, the fun and the sex seems to have disappeared from their lives. They are also missing some adult conversation with friends. Perhaps some help around the house could give them some time to re-vitalise their marriage. Unless of course they have the sort of help that their friend Julia has......

From reviews of the first production at the Lyric Studio, Hammersmith:

"Sharp, funny and pleasingly idiomatic"   Michael Coveney, Financial Times

"A writer who says new things about old subjects, and says them very well: with wit, sensibility and tenderness" Harold Hobson, Times Literary Supplement.

"Dialogue that leaps off the stage with the artful clumsiness and terrifying deviousness of real life. Thes four little pieces are full of pitiless observation and compassionate hilarity" - Sunday Times

PREVIEW AND FREE TIX NIGHT THURSDAY AUGUST 12TH @ 8PM

OPENING NIGHT FOR MEDIA FRIDAY 13TH @ 8PM

Bad Company is proud to present the return of its five star 2009 Fringe sell-out "The Adventures of Dead Jim", a play that explores the issues of drug addiction, alcoholism and recovery in a unique way.   The Adventures of Dead Jim starts in the realm of a black comedy and spirals down into the darkest recesses of the human condition.  It is returning one last time to challenge and delight audiences with its explosive narrative.

Jim and his two friends Louis and Liz are having the greatest drug and alcohol fuelled night of their life. Within minutes of returning home, Jim is dead. Liz and Louis, not to let a deceased loved one intrude on their partying, use Jim's lifeless body like a puppet, retelling the story of his life, demise and lost freedom.  The two friends each in turn use Jim as a confessional, his rigid demeanour acting like a mirror forcing them to face the harsh truth of the selfish lives they lead.

The escape, isolation, excitement, successes and tragedies of addiction are explored in multiple ways that transition smoothly from the absurd to the postmodern, the real and into the surreal.  It is complimented with interludes of cinematic time-lapse photography footage created by Nick Graalman of Quench Studios, adding another level for younger audiences to engage with.

The Adventures of Dead Jim  is a must see for adults and teens alike. The subject matter has been catered delicately to provide the maximum amount of relevant information combined with compelling and addictive entertainment. It is a relentles rollercoaster of engaging and challenging drama that leaves something for every parent and child to discuss afterwards.

Warning: Drug references - recommended for people over the age of 14

Opening Night for Media - Monday August 23rd @ 8pm

Free Tix Night for holders of Health Care/Pensioner Cards - Sunday 29th and Monday 30th

For school bookings for this show please email pamela@bakehousetheatre.com

From the novel by Sir Terry Pratchett.

We all know that man cannot survive on bread alone - unless of course he is Lord Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. 

Vetinari usually dines on bread and water followed by the oil that makes the city of Ankh-Morpork run smoothly.

In this year of the Pensive Hare, people were getting bored, and the oil was wearing a bit thin.  It was threatening to spread out of control via the vicious street game of foot-the-ball that people were turning to for their amusement. A game that they believed was more exciting than beating other people over the head with big weapons.

Football - like diplomacy and marriage. Short periods of fighting followed by long periods of negotiation.

"We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style" - Lord Havelock Vetinari

Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!

NOTE:
This show has a special bonus surprise being shown in the Studio Theatre during interval. The first 40 people to collect their tickets to the main stage will be given tickets to use in the Studio Theatre. Others may watch what is happening there on the monitor in the foyer.  So don't be late to pick up your tickets! Foyer doors open at 7.30pm. First in, first served!

Unseen Theatre Company  is proudly supported by AALT (Australian Audio & Lighting Technology)  8373 4222

www.aalt.com.au

SNIPPETS FROM REVIEWS:   (fulll reviews attached)

"Director Pamela Munt is wonderful at staging the epic and ridiculous, and here she's at the top of her game as she has her cast working their socks off...........the tale, of course, becomes absurdly comic and involves the world's greatest supermodel, a superb pie cook, goblins, orcs and monsters such as fashion designers and footballers...."
Stephen Davenport - Independent Weekly

"...this yarn of star crossed football fans, wizards and goblins was a delight with just the right amount of humour......Trudi Pavlovsky nursed those of us unschooled in Pratchett through the narrative...Mr. Nutt....was played with a soft and appealing demeanour by David Dyte....an honourable mention goes to Paul Messenger.........but the night belonged to Mark Ormsby and Philip Lineton...........this production deserves to be seen"
Howard Sumner - Australian Stage On-Line

"There's a crowd outside the Bakehouse Theatre. Instead of an orderly queue, it's a throng. A mob. A shove - which somehow seems appropriate for an audience waiting (impatiently) to see Unseen Theatre Company's presentation of Terry Pratchett's novel Unseen Academicals. What makes the production work is the quality of the supporting actors, the costumes, and the loving recreation of the Discworld by all involved."
Tony Busch - Adelaide Theatre Guide

Star Trek - The Trouble with Tribbles

Pratchett Pieces Two is presented by Unseen Theatre Company and Insight Presents.

Discworld is on air with an outrageous collection of short stories by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Pamela Munt. Performed as an old time radio show.

THRILL to the action!
LAUGH at live sound effects!
SWOON over handsome heroes, leading ladies, worn out warriors!
Join in the world of aural illusion!

SNIPPETS FROM REVIEWS:

Writer and performer Chirs Wallace presents a 19th century Mark Twain for a 21st century audience in an hilarious one man show that will leave you laughing, crying, stunned, provoked and challenged.

The Bakehouse Theatre Company presents

"The Drawer Boy"

A charmingly delicate comedy where one youth's self-discovery is the impetus for two old friends to re-examine their past.

Professional Collective presents

BORROWED TIME

Written and Directed by Stephen House

In an attempt to relive a glorious past seven people regroup after thirty five years apart. Can anything ever be as it was? Only time will tell. And time is running out...fast.

Starring some of Adelaide's most experienced professional acters: Wayne Anthony, Michael Baldwin, Roger Newcombe, Chrissie Page, Jacqy Philliips, Anna Pike and Bridget Walters.

Unseen Theatre Company

presents

Terry Pratchett's "Carpe Jugulum"

The de Magpyrs are the sort of vampires that would have Cound Dracula spinning in his grave. They are modern, forward-looking and no longer afraid of holy water, garlic, religious symbols or indeed, of anything else. They're out of the casket, and want a bite of the future. Not only that, they've got style and fancy waistcoats.

In a seedy suburban motel room Max, a detective, and Jayne, a legal aid lawyer, meet for sex, but maybe both have another agenda. Max's partner, Donny, sits in the cop car outside with a young man of "interest" to the law, though Donny is as much interested in the activity inside the motel room. Donny has separated from his wife Pam, since a spell of duty with the vice squad gave him an appetite for prostitutes. Can Pam reconstruct herself to suit Donny's new tastes and re-form the family?

The World Premiere, based on the novel by Sir Terry Pratchett.  Discworld is a world and a mirror of worlds. This is not a play about Australia. No, it's about somewhere entirely different which just happens to be, here and there, a bit... Australian. Still... no worries, right?

On the Discworld anything can happen.  Or even “not happen”. Sometimes its difficult to know which is which – even for the Wizards at Unseen University.   In this case, The Last Continent was “not happening”.  It was dying, even as it was being built, and even the Gods who were building it didn’t quite know what was going on.  Some thought it was to do with the spacetime continuum. Others thought that there was not enough magic left in the world to glue all the pieces together.  The one thing that they did agree on was that it needed a hero.  A hero who would eat a Pie Floater even when he was sober.

Disturbing, irreverent (and funny) 

Must finish June 13 to go to Melbourne's La Mama Theatre

In a world where mental health issues are reaching epidemic proportions, Tom the loneliest is a mirror to our time , reflecting wisdoms, observations, stories and habitual coping mechanismes of society's 'crazies'
Two men (both named Tom) inhabit a familiar yet strange world. They revisit painful memories. They explore moments between boredom and madness. They speak in languages and move in gestures uniquely their own. They're never quite sure if something just said is in the room or in their head.
A dark comedy, "Tom the loneliest" confronts isolation, depression, medication, psychosis, domestic violence, addiction and the disempowerment of modern masculinity with a disturbing irreverence that is a constant in this world of the Toms.  The result is funny, enlightening, unnerving.

Please note: There will be special signed performances on Wed June 10 and Sat June 13

Snippets from Reviews:-

       "A dense and intimate atmosphere is established as Crotti and Duncan...rattle the cages of their minds...both performances are special - Crotti so fluent and elegant on the ear, Luke sometimes almost robotic in his exactitude.......Paulo Castro (Director) .....giving it a sense of flourishing high art,. (Samela Harris - The Advertiser)
       "There are times when theatre's power to transfix and transform us hits us between the eyes.......there are these moments of insight, humour and sadness in " Tom the Loneliest". Duncan Luke and Julian Crotti play the Toms and their performances are sharp, funny and always entertaining........an entirely successful production which achieves everything it sets out to do.  (John Wells - Adelaide Theatre Guide)
        "There's a car crach quality about this show that makes it watchable - enter at your own risk!" - (Matt Byrne - Sunday Mail)
        "Tom the loneliest is a gem on many levels...Several times the opening night audience reacted with appreciative gasps; a high tribute indeed.(Myk Mykyta - Radio Adelaide)

This comedy borrows elements from both the Commedia Del' Arte and Burlesque traditions to send up doctors, wives, brutality and death. It is for a general audience, though children may particularly enjoy the exaggerated, absurd characters.  Norman has just learnt that he's about to die and his life changes dramatically as he finally stands up to his domineering Wife, the bullying Brute and the condescending Doctor. As it turns out, there has been a mistake on the part of the doctor, but Norman will never be the same.

Reviews are here

Moist Von Lipwig is given another offer that is too good to refuse.  Who would not wish to be the man in charge of the Ankh-Morpork Royal Mint?  It’s a job for life but, as former con man Moist Von Lipwig is learning, life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire, every day Moist has to take the Chairman for “walkies” and there’s something nameless in the cellar.  Oh, and it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss.  According to Moist, that’s what happens when you base the value of your monetary system on gold.  So just what should he base it on?  Potatoes?  Dibbler’s famous pies?  Golems?  Or maybe something as simple as trust?  Moist is thinking it should be based on trust.  But that could be difficult when he is about to be exposed as a fraud.

Starring a cast of thousands – most of them handmaidens.