Serving up a mouth-watering oeuvre of inexpensive, accessible + provocative plays, MIDSUMMA’S PLAYING-IN-THE-RAW @ THE CHAPEL takes the playreadings out of the chairs + the productions out of the theatre + sets you up on a spicy date with some of the world’s most internationally acclaimed writers + plays.
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Britney Spears The Cabaret (extended to 3rd Feb)
4 new shows on Sale now – be quick!
Starring Christie Whelan
‘Not to be missed… sensational… a masterpiece.’ Herald Sun
Not so much a cabaret show as a cry for help, Britney Spears: The Cabaret – starring Christie Whelan – was commissioned for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and has since enjoyed sell-out...
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Deep Rimming In Poplar (25 Jan – 4 Feb)
by Tim Fountain starring Robert van Mackelenberg
Directed By Ross Thompson
Reg has lived with Terry for 20 years in the same housing association flat in Notting Hill. Terry’s a butcher with a passion for genealogy, Reg is a pub drag act with a love of gardening. But when Reg meets the...
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Courting Mae West (28 Jan, 2pm)
by LindaAnn Loschiavo
Directed By Cameron Menzies
Starring Marie-Therese Byrne
She was the queen of innuendo, the original Madonna, with mouthfuls of witty sass! Mae West was the first true sex symbol who, with her razor sharp tongue and challenging stage shows, arrived with the force of a hurricane. Frustrated with the male-dominated world...
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12 (29 Jan, 2pm)
by Alex Broun
Directed By Kym Davies
Cullum has lost everything – his job, his friends, his family, even his sanity and now he finds himself lying on the floor of a no-star hotel sucking cheap vodka out of the disease ridden carpet. Over him stands his long-suffering wife Michelle, who can bear...
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Public Property (4 Feb, 2pm)
by Sam Peter Jackson
Directed By Giuliano Ferla
When popular news anchor Geoffrey Hammond is caught by photographers in a rather compromising position, he is forced to come crawling back to his recently-fired publicist Larry to spin him out of what seems like an impossible situation. As the media wait, hungry for...
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The White Garden (5 Feb, 2pm)
by Adrienne Perry
Directed By Danny Delahunty
In 1921, Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis had an lesbian affair that rocked Edwardian society. To dispel further scandal, Violet left for Paris and Vita threw herself into a life as a novelist, gardener and diplomat’s wife. She also wrote a nasty little book, which implied Violet had...
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Bad Blood Blues – Limited Return Season (8-19 Feb)
‘Riveting’ The Age
The acclaimed production of BAD BLOOD BLUES returns to Chapel off Chapel for a limited two week run. Described as the ‘perfect play’, this powerfully intense and totally engrossing new play deals with the AIDS drug trials in Africa…..and the ever increasing complex relationship between researcher and student.
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Ruth Roshan & Tango Noir CD Launch (10 Feb)
“Darling … Keep it to Yourself” CD Launch. Bringing you the atmosphere of a 1930′s French salon, laden with flair, elegance and sauciness, Ruth Roshan and Tango Noir take you on a musical journey into the thrilling world of tango. Originating in lower-class districts of Buenos Aires, Argentina in the...
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When I Fall In Love – The Nat King Cole Story (8-10 March)
Back by popular demand after a sell out season at Chapel Off Chapel in 2011.
Nat King Cole was once described as ‘a song’s best friend’. He lived, breathed, and died for music. Cole was the first black man to host an American television show; he fought racism all his life;...
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VAN PARK – A MUSICAL COMEDY (21 March – 1 April)
Mix the Antipodean humour of ‘Kenny’ with a dash of the camp musical ‘Priscilla’, add a couple of rock legends, sprinkle with a splendidly solid soundtrack –and bring to the boil. What do you get? Theatre you might actually enjoy!
A huge hit at the inaugural Sydney Fringe Festival – starring...
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COMICUS ERECTUS (4-5 April)
From the same producers who bought you IL DAGO comes Comicus Erectus – The Ethnic Comedy Evolution. An all star line up of the best local and international ethnic comedy superstars ever assembled on one stage. A show guaranteed to sell out across the country. Each performer is a star...
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UNPACK THIS! (11-29 April)
A comedy about a men’s Anger Management Workshop.
Pain. Regret.Tears. And that’s just the counsellors.
Written by Geoff Paine
Performed by Michelle Nussey, Syd Brisbane, Geoff Paine and Ross Daniels
Geoff Paine is a nice guy, who played nice guy Clive Gibbons in the early years of Neighbours. Then he moved next door to...
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Looking Through A Glass Onion (2 – 6 May)
UP CLOSE & PERSONAL, WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
“It’s clear that Looking Through A Glass Onion has stood the test of time and can be called now a classic piece of Australian repertoire”. Sydney Gig Guide Dec 10, 2011 **** 4 stars
In 1992, John Waters and Stewart D’Arrietta took to the...
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ANGELS IN AMERICA (16 August – 1 September)
Millenium Approaches – Part 1”
By Tony Kushner
Directed by Peter Kalos
Winner of four Tony Awards and a Pulitzer prize, this play is set in New York in the Reagan years, the very first years of reports of a then mysterious disease in gay men – AIDs.
There are three interlinked storylines throughout...
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