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Play 1:   Mister Johnson
by Norman Rosten
adapted from Joyce Cary's novel
     
 

NIGERIA, 1922

Mister Johnson is a young Nigerian clerk in the British Colonial Service. He is warm-hearted, eager, and totally irresponsible. He loves parties, singing, dancing, and his beautiful new wife, Bamu. But, most of all, he loves the King of England, and all things British.

Pursued by creditors and greedy in-laws, Johnson tries - with the aid of creative book-keeping - to help his superior officer, Rudbeck, complete the building of a new road, which will bring "civilisation" to his village. But, when Johnson helps himself, things go disastrously wrong.

Gloriously funny, sad and wise, the play contrasts the richness of West African life with the sterile formality of English bureaucracy.

Exuberant, full of African music and dance, the production welcomes many of the cast of Independent Theatre's landmark production of Cry, the Beloved Country, headed by SHEDRICK YARKPAI (Free Man of Colour) as the irrepressible, irresistible Mister Johnson.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

   
Where: Odeon Theatre
  Queen Street, Norwood
   
When: April 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 at 7.30pm
  April 25 at 4.00pm
  April 27 at 6.30pm
  May 1 at 2.00pm and 7.30pm
   
Tickets $30 / $25
  Available online in January 2010
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Play 2:   Les Trois Dumas
by Charles Smith
author of " Free Man of Colour"
     
 

PARIS, 1848

All three men of the Dumas family were extraordinary. Dumas junior created "The Lady of the Camellias". Dumas senior created "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo". And grandfather Dumas was a black general in Napoleon's army.

Enjoying a life of debauchery in his luxurious Parisian chateau, the elder Dumas' passion for writing is matched only by his passion for living - much to the horror of his prudish son.

Negotiating a series of backstage intrigues, Dumas senior tries to get his latest play produced, while Dumas junior struggles to restore the family name to respectability.

Charles Smith's high-spirited jaunt through the escapades of the Dumas family sports an array of fascinating characters - the cross-dressing George Sand; novelist Victor Hugo; jealous, devious theatre managers; ambitious, luscious young starlets; and even the ghost of General Dumas!

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

   
Where: Odeon Theatre
  Queen Street, Norwood
   
When: July 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 at 7.30pm
  July 25 at 4.00pm
  July 27 at 6.30pm
  July 31 at 2.00pm and 7.30pm
   
Tickets $30 / $25
  Available online in January 2010
  Phone (08)8411 6661 for assistance
   
     
Play 3:   Some Sunny Day
by Martin Sherman
adaptor of "A Passage to India"
     
 

CAIRO, 1942

As war rages in the desert, and the city faces invasion by Rommel, several highly eccentric residents at a boarding house struggle to come to terms with love, lust, and fate in an alien country.

There's the exotic Robin, from New Zealand (or possibly much, much further afield); the civil servant, Horatio, besotted with Fatima, Cairo's most famous belly dancer; Horatio's neurotic wife, Emily, hysterically jabbing needles into a voodoo doll of Fatima; and crazy Polish (or is she Russian?) Duchess, desperate to get out of Egypt.

Amid the strains of Vera Lynn, Carmen Miranda and muezzins, and with hints of reincarnation and extra-terrestrial travel, Martin Sherman's witty comedy inhabits a world where everyone has something to hide, and anyone may be a spy.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

   
Where: Odeon Theatre
  Queen Street, Norwood
   
When: November 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 at 7.30pm
  November 7 at 4.00pm
  November 9 at 6.30pm
  November 13 at 2.00pm and 7.30pm
   
Tickets $30 / $25
  Available online in January 2010
  Phone (08)8411 6661 for assistance
   
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