Theatre - 2010 Calendar

Many Shoalhaven Bushwalkers may not be aware that the club gets a discounted price for Nowra Player productions - currently $16. Musicals are slightly more expensive. Nowra Players shows are performed at the Players Theatre (opposite Bomaderry Railway Station) and commence at 8pm.

Contact Lauri Ball (4448-3106) for all bookings, payments and details.

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, directed by Kathy Hudson.

Thursday September 9th

Arcadia is set in Sidley Park, an English country house, in the early 1800's and the late 1900s in the original production. The activities of two modern scholars and the house's current residents are juxtaposed with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier.

In 1809, Thomasina Coverly, the daughter of the house, is a precocious teenager with ideas about mathematics well ahead of her time. She studies with her tutor, Septimus Hodge, a friend of Lord Byron (who is an unseen guest in the house). In the present, a writer and an academic converge on the house: Hannah Jarvis, the writer, is investigating a hermit who once lived on the grounds; Bernard Nightingale, a professor of literature, is investigating a mysterious chapter in the life of Byron. As their investigations unfold, helped by Valentine Coverly, a post-graduate student in mathematical biology, the truth about what happened in Thomasina's lifetime is gradually revealed.

The play's set features a large table, which is used by the characters in both past and present. Props are not removed when the play switches time period, so that the books, coffee mugs, quill pens, portfolios, and laptop computers appear alongside each other in a blurring of past and present.

When: 8pm on Thursday September 9th

Tickets : $16 from Lauri Ball - money in envelope to Lauri by August 18th (cheques payable to Shoalhaven City Council)

(Information about the play courtesy of Wikipedia)

Other plays for 2010

A Christmas Family Production directed by Lyn Harnwell. November 27th to December 11th

Prices have increased to $16 for a standard play in 2010.