Tuesday 24th January 2023, 7.30pm at the Buderim War Memorial Hall.
All welcome!
Written by award winning director Bruce Olive, this is a comedy about the pitfalls of buying a home—any home, where everything works and the Neighbours are nice!
To be performed over two weekends from 21 April 2023 to 29th April 2023 at Buderim.
There are lots of good parts available for male and female adults of any age. Characters include: home buyers, neighbours, real estate agents, a builder, an Italian Mama and a ghost!
For any enquiries, please contact Bruce on 0457 438 236 or reaolive@gmail.com
BATS Theatre Company Inc presents Spiderella and The Pantomime Villain Academy. A childrens’ fun time and all the family. Opening January 2023. Keep an eye out.
The Edythe Brook Cooper Playwriting Competition has sadly come to an end. We would like to thank BATS Theatre Company Inc. for their participation since it’s inception in 2010.
A big thank you to all the entrants over the years and to the following winners:
2012 One Act Plays
PIECES by Sharyn Anne Durley QLD
ONCE BITTEN by Sue Sewell QLD
THICKER THAN WATER byNeil Anderson VIC
2014 Full Length Plays
DRIFTING by Jo Denver QLD
WARTS and ALL (runner up) by Bruce Hoogendoorn
2016 One Act Plays
SENSES WORKING OVERTIME
by Robert Attenborough
PIGEONS in TRAFALGAR SQUARE
by Bruce Olive
LOVE in a FOOD COURT
by Hugh O’BRIEN
2018 Full Length Plays
DEEP ETERNITY
by Cerise De Gelder
TRUE COLOURS
by Danny Vendramini (runner up)
2020 One Act Plays
ONE STARRY NIGHT
by Kevin Nemeth
WOULDN’T IT BE NICE
by Sue Sewell
ASHES TO DUST
by Yvette Wall
2022 Full Length Plays
THE BORROWING OF FRANKLIN’S
RAM
by Sue Sewell
FAKE PLASTIC TREES
by Kel Vance (runner up)
The Borrowing of Franklin’s Ram Cast 2022
Thank you to the following adjudicators for their contribution:
Ian Austin
Glenda O’Connor
Peta Beattie
Joy Marshall
Felicity Bassingthwaighte
Ron Kelly
Catherine Steer
Alison Lambole
Jacqueline Twigg
Simon Denver
Ranald McCowan
A big thank you to our coordinators:
Susie Pritchard and Jacqui Mata Luque who devised this entire competition and have seen it through so enthusiastically and efficiently.
Master of Ceremonies
John McMahon
Also a big thankyou to John McMahon. Edythe chose him to give her eulogy and we very much appreciated his major supporting role as Master of Ceremonies.
SPIDERELLA AND THE PANTOMIME VILLAIN ACADEMY, BY PETER NUTTALL WHEN: TUESDAY 4TH AND THURSDAY 6TH OCTOBER, 2022 LOCATION: BUDERIM WAR MEMORIAL HALL,KING AND CHURCH STREETS, BUDERIMAT 7.30 P.M.
Directed by Kathy Hickson contact: kathyhicko59@hotmail.com or phone 0400 446 197 for more information.
Character information and further details on the production, can be found by clicking our Auditions page.
Hope to see you at the audition for this exciting and fun production .
Rehearsals are well underway for BATS next production “Picasso at the Lapin Agile”, written by Steve Martin and directed by Nick Smith. This absurdist comedy takes place in the famous Lapin Agile and features the characters of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, who meet there. It is set on October 8, 1904, and both men are on the verge of disclosing amazing ideas (Einstein will publish his special theory of relativity in 1905) and Picasso will paint Les Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907). At the Lapin Agile, they have a lengthy debate about the value of genius and talent, while interacting with a host of other characters.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile was the first full-length play written by Steve Martin. The first reading of the play took place at Steve Martin’s home, Tom Hanks read the role of Picasso, and Chris Sarandon read Einstein.
Martin then held a nine-day professional workshop of the play in Melbourne, at the Malthouse Theatre (in conjunction with Belvior St Theatre, which ended with two public staged readings of the play. The play has since been performed in various theatres around the world.
We are pleased to announce that a benefit performance of Picasso at the Lapin Agile will take place on behalf of the Buderim Foundation on 30th September 2022. Come join us to help this fabulous local organisation or, if not, enjoy the show during the run of this absurd and very funny Steve Martin play. Further performances follow on 1st October (2pm and 7.30pm), 7th October (7.30pm) and 8th October (2pm and 7.30pm).
By arrangement with Origin Theatrical, on behalf of Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals company.
