Category Archives: Theatre

Following their five-star show, I, Elizabeth, the award-winning Dyad Productions (A Christmas Carol, Lady Susan, A Room of One’s Own, Christmas Gothic, Austen’s Women, Female Gothic) return to the Elizabethan era.  To the famous and fabulous Elizabethan explorer, sailor, dandy, and warrior, Sir Walter Raleigh. Elizabeth I’s favourite and James I’s knave.  This is a journey through […]

Gruoch is a feminist, myth-centred examination of the bereaved and abused girl who became Lady Macbeth as an act of revenge for the death of her father. She did indeed manipulate Macbeth to kill Duncan, but not through vaulting ambition… this “icon of evil” may be the power behind the throne, but as the only […]

A Company Gavin Robertson presentation Written and Performed by Gavin RobertsonDirected by Nicholas Collett. Following performances in USA, UK and recently, Australia, Gavin Robertson focuses his attention on the fortune-hunter movie  phenomenon encompassing everything from ‘Indiana Jones’ to ‘National Treasure’ via ‘Romancing The Stone’ – in his latest physical cartoon style adventure – spoofing the […]

“The world is changed by the women you push too far” It’s 1956.  On the international stage the Suez crisis hits and Soviet tanks roll into Hungary.  In the UK Sara Wesker is writing a letter. Back in the day Sara led the “singing strikers of 1928” to win better working conditions for the female […]

Written and Performed by Award winning actress Heather Alexander Direction & Dramaturg by Dominique Gerrard A journey into the psyche of Miss Havisham from Great Expectations ‘If you knew my story, your heart would break too. A cobwebbed tale of heartbreak’ This is the story that Dickens left out…. Who was the woman being behind […]

Written and performed by Jenny Lockyer Directed by Vern Griffiths Born in the year the Wright Brothers made their first flight and into an age where the romantic heights of flying captured her heart, Amy Johnson became the second woman in the world to qualify as a ground engineer and then, in 1930, the first […]

Written and performed by Jenny Lockyer Directed by Vern Griffiths Born in the year the Wright Brothers made their first flight and into an age where the romantic heights of flying captured her heart, Amy Johnson became the second woman in the world to qualify as a ground engineer and then, in 1930, the first […]

Written and performed by Nicholas Collett and directed by Gavin Robertson. Award-winning solo performer Nicholas Collett (British Arrows Best Actor, Special Performance Award World Duo Festival, Seoul South Korea, Best Theatre Award Adelaide Fringe 2023) tells the story of his father’s service during the Atlantic Convoys of World War Two. A true odyssey, that takes […]