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This modern musical is based on the 1988 MGM film of the same name. In the exotic French Riviera, Lawrence makes his living by smooth-talking rich women out of their money. He is an old hand and has got his technique down to a tee. But then he bumps into Freddy who takes a humbler, more laid-back approach, with emotional lies.

The men decide to form a double act, but their egos soon clash, and the French coast isn’t big enough for both. To settle their rivalry, they agree on a bet: the first to swindle the town’s latest young heiress can stay, and the other must leave. Hilarity and confusion ensue as they pull out all stops to prove who is the better conman. Don’t miss this laugh-a-minute musical gem!

In 1914, the outbreak of war was an exciting time for a generation of young Australians – a chance for adventure, an opportunity to see the world, and most important of all, a proud answer to the Empire’s call. And 14-year-old Jim Martin of Hawthorn was determined not to miss out. With his parents’ reluctant signature, Jim enlisted, and sailed to Gallipoli …

The incredible true story of a young local boy who became the youngest Anzac to fight in that terrible hell, Soldier Boy moves from the streets of Melbourne to the ships in the Dardanelles and the war-ravaged cliffs of Turkey. The novel Soldier Boy won multiple awards on its release in 2001 and is now an unforgettable play.

After 40 years of marriage, Bill and Nancy have settled into a comfortable new life in their retirement home, when Nancy suddenly decides to seek a divorce – and Bill agrees. For their two adult sons, the news is shattering, but their attempts to mediate a reconciliation expose unresolved issues for all family members.

Heart-breaking, profound and hilarious, Bess Wohl’s remarkable play explores family relationships, marriage, love, growing old, and discovering one’s true happiness, with characters that explode off the stage. Premiering on Broadway in 2020, nominated for Best Play (Tony Awards), and playing return seasons at the Sydney Theatre Company (2021, 2022), Malvern Theatre Company is proud to present the Melbourne premiere of this dazzling and beguiling play.

Taylor is lost in the memory of what ‘could have been’ almost a year after the failure of a potentially life-altering group project for his tertiary studies. At an awkward reunion of the dissolved team, Taylor discovers that he can teleport to the exact moment a polaroid photo was snapped. Can using ‘temporal snaps’ be the solution to reconciling friendships, saving the project and even winning the girl of his dreams? Only time will tell.

Temporal Snaps explores the complexities of life, failure and friendship with humour, pathos and no shortage of drinks! This hilarious ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ play invites audiences to decide which photo timeline Taylor dives into, and ultimately how each performance ends.

Scenes from the Climate Era is an ensemble work that maps the human experience of climate change – from the earliest stirrings of scientific doubt to an imagined future of new coastlines and different skies. Structured as a series of micro-scenes rather than a conventional narrative, the play moves restlessly between scientists, activists, journalists, bankers, firefighters, farmers, and ordinary people navigating an increasingly unstable world, drawing on their real conversations about the future of our planet. The play refuses both despair and false hope, sitting instead in the uncomfortable space between the two.

NOTE: We are excited that this show will be performed at Chapel Off Chapel in Prahran, taking advantage of their performance space, which is ideally suited to this production. Don’t miss this unique experience!

It’s opening night for the Middling Cove Players’ production of the classic who-dunnit, Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall and director, Shane Tweed, is ready … until seven of the cast call in with the dreaded ‘lurgy’. But this is theatre, and the show must go on! So, with two actors, the Stage Manager (and her niece), and anyone else Shane can pull in, the curtain rises. Juggling nerves, props, and absurd miscasting, will they manage to pull it off? Or will everything go horribly, terribly and awfully wrong?

In the tradition of The Play That Goes Wrong, this hilarious farce is an affectionate portrait of an amateur theatre company and the determined folk who make sure the show goes on, even when perhaps it shouldn’t!

Based on the Academy Award-winning screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard and transformed for the stage by Lee Hall (Billy Eliot), comes this joyous theatrical experience – a dramatic comedy!

Young Will Shakespeare is experiencing a bad case of writer’s block and desperately needs a muse. His new comedy Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter is less than inspired. He’s running out of time to deliver his next masterpiece. That is, until he meets Viola, and a real-life love story unfolds. But Viola has a secret, and this doomed Romeo play is turning out to be nothing like the comedy the Queen has demanded. Malvern Theatre Company is delighted to take Shakespeare off the screen and back where he belongs – on stage!

OUR REGULAR PERFORMANCE TIMES

Opening Night – Friday evening 8pm

Next day, Saturday – matinee 2pm & evening 8pm

Following Week – Wednesday to Saturday evenings 8pm & Sunday 2pm

Final Week – Wednesday to Friday evenings 8pm; Saturday matinee 2pm & Final Night evening 8pm