148 results for author: GrowlTheatre
Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic, has just become engaged to the girl-next-door, and his sweet, spinster aunts couldn’t be happier. However the joy of his announcement is overshadowed by the antics of his wildly eccentric brother Teddy (who thinks he is President Roosevelt) and the arrival of another long-lost, maniacal and murderous brother, Jonathan. The aunts are most put out as Jonathan’s arrival and plan to bury his latest victim in the cellar could seriously hinder their “charity work”.
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Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970s Women's Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her ground-breaking work and numerous best-sellers followed. Now she has writer's block. Molly, an unannounced visitor and committed fan of Margot and her work, offers a potential solution - until Molly produces a gun and calmly informs Margot that she intends to kill her because she blames her for warping her mother's mind and ruining her life with her hit book The Cerebral Vagina.
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The Female of the Species
by Joanna Murray-Smith
Directed by Leisa Bye & Rebecca McMahon
SHOW DATES:
Saturday 10th February, 7:30pm
Sunday 11th February, 2:00pm
Friday 16th February, 7:30pm
Saturday 17th February, 7:30pm
Sunday 18th February, 2:00pm
Friday 23rd February, 7:30pm
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The third and final play in the Christmas at Pemberley Trilogy, this is a holiday tale filled with music, ambition, sisterhood, and forgiveness.
Georgiana Darcy is the only, and much beloved, sister of Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy. She is an accomplished pianist but wary of romance. Kitty Bennet is the second-youngest of the five Bennet sisters. She is a bright-eyed optimist and a perfect best friend.
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A brilliantly tense play from Patrick Hamilton, the author of Gaslight, which was performed by Growl Theatre in 2022.
Believing themselves to be intellectually superior to their contemporaries, two flatmates murder their friend purely to see if they can get away with it.
They then throw a cocktail party, serving food from the top of the trunk where they have hidden his body. Tension and suspicions increase as the evening wears on.
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Tickets are on sale now for Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley - our final show for 2023. Georgianna & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley By Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon Directed by Julie Bray
Synopsis
Georgiana Darcy is the only, and much beloved, sister of Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy. She is an accompli...
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One hotel suite, four tenors, two wives, three girlfriends, and a soccer stadium filled with screaming fans. What could possibly go wrong?
It's 1930s Paris and the stage is set for the concert of the century—as long as producer Henry Saunders can keep the amorous Italian superstar Tito Merelli and his hot-blooded wife Maria from causing runaway chaos.
Filled with characters from Ken Ludwig’s famous Lend Me A Tenor, this new addition to the Ludwig canon is an uproarious ride full of mistaken identities, blissful romance and madcap delight.
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In this delightful, touching comedy, four unique Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by Fate—and an impromptu happy hour—and decide it’s high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they’ve lost through the years.
Over the course of six months, filled with laughter, hilarious misadventures, and the occasional liquid refreshment, these middle-aged women successfully bond and find the confidence to jumpstart their new lives.
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What absurd ends would a couple of lovesick young men in the late 19th century be willing to go to in order to win the affections of two attractive young women?
This classic evergreen farce is set in Oxford during the 1890s. The imminent visit of Charles Wykeham’s aunt from Brazil, Donna Lucia, provides an excuse for Charles and Jack to invite their young ladies to meet her.
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Jack Manningham is slowly, deliberately driving his wife, Bella, insane. He has almost succeeded when late one evening, a stranger comes to the house while Jack is out and explains he is there to help Mrs. Manningham.
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