BEECHWORTH THEATRE COMPANY

The Beechworth Theatre Company is a dedicated group of amateur performers. Throughout the year they stage various performance ranging from the thought provoking to the outright hilarious. There's always great fun to be had and the audience is often unwittingly drawn into the plot. The group welcomes new members, and for those not ready to tread the boards, buy a ticket to the latest production.

The Beechworth Theatre Company Inc.
Editorial 28th June 2007

Beechworth Theatre Company wins Best actress and Most Popular Play at the Corowa short play festival last weekend.

Members of The Beechworth Theatre Company showed their talent and dedication when they took four ten minute plays to the Corowa Short Play festival, “Unleashed on the Murray”.

Following two successful shows in Beechworth, members of BTC enjoyed success at the festival winning two of the three prizes with Ildiko Howlett taking out best actress honours with her fine portrayal
of Miss Westlake, a retired headmistress of an elite girls school wanting to get into a very respected retirement home when an unexpected event from her past comes back to haunt her. Ildiko’s strong characterisation of Miss Westlake was utterly convincing and sensitive as she grapples with the situation as it emerges.

And the second honour, the audience voted most popular was won by Roberta Baker and Wendy Stephens, Judges commented on the sense of fun that the actors managed to portray as Betty (Roberta Baker) and Wynn (Wendy Stephens), fast aging and long time friends resting at an outdoor café after an afternoon of ballroom dancing at the senior citizens club. Together they discuss the problems of finding suitable male dance partners and reminisce with hilarious repartee, about good times, past beaux, husbands and future possibilities.

Coming Soon

Brighten up you AGM or meeting with an entertaining short play in September.

“ Down came a Jumbuck” by Ian Austin is now in rehearsal with a very strong cast. This thirty minute play tells the story of how the young copywriter, Banjo Patterson may have written “W altzing Matilda” with the help of a strong suffragette secretary, Winifred, and Hubert, the unimaginative owner of a Sydney advertising agency in the 1890’s, This entertaining play has modern overtones and will be staged in Beechworth in September and is available to travel to Clubs and groups to their own venues. Contact Linda Rayner (03) 5728 3239 for further details and bookings.

Previous Productions
October 2006 “Life After George”
June 2006 “Early Blight” (Corowa 10 Minute Play Festival)
April 2006 “Chase Me Up Farndale S’il Vous Plait”
September 2005 Two One act Plays “Evidence” & “Gosforths Fete”
May 2005 “Garden Of Granddaughters”
November 2004 “ Ladies In Retirement”
September 2004 “The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe”
February 2004 “Secret Bridesmaids Business” (Wangaratta Players”)
November 2003 “The Importance of Being Earnest”
April 2003 “Squatters, Strumpets and Sly Grog”
March 2002 “Alice In Down Underland”
September 2001 “Controversial Conversations’
April 2001 “California Suite”
September 2000 “Steel Magnolias”

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