By Jones, Hope Wooten
Directed by Sonya Cameron

Season: 3 - 12 October 2024

​Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids, and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage, the “Sweet Delilah” on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other’s lives. THE SWEET DELILAH SWIM CLUB focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years. Sheree, the spunky team captain, desperately tries to maintain her organised and "perfect" life, and continues to be the group’s leader. Dinah, the wisecracking overachiever, is a career dynamo. But her victories in the courtroom are in stark contrast to the frustrations of her personal life. Lexie, pampered and outspoken, is determined to hold on to her looks and youth as long as possible. She enjoys being married—over and over and over again. The self-deprecating and acerbic Vernadette, acutely aware of the dark cloud that hovers over her life, has decided to just give in and embrace the chaos. And sweet, eager-to-please Jeri Neal experiences a late entry into motherhood that takes them all by surprise. As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) that life flings at them. And when fate throws a wrench into one of their lives in the second act, these friends, proving the enduring power of "teamwork" rally ’round their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction. THE SWEET DELILAH SWIM CLUB is the story of these five unforgettable women—a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever…

Cast:
Sheree - Amanda Shields
Lexie – Victoria Clare
Dinah – Lesley Hamel
Vernadette – Debbie Hattan
​Jeri-Neal – Donna Palmer

By Geraldine Aron
Directed by Susan Cameron

​Season: 21 - 24 August 2024

​In this brilliantly observed one-woman play, middle-aged Angela attempts to find a new life when husband Max leaves for a younger woman. Using a wonderful mixture of comedy and pathos, she recounts her journey back to happiness.

​Cast:
Angela - Claire Bruce
Axl - Himself

Voices:
Brian - Mark Reid
Warren - Martin Bouse

By Michele Amas
Directed by Garry Thomas and Steve Millar

Season: 11 - 20 July 2024

The inaugural Pink Hammer Workshop is an absolute disaster. Annabel, Helen, Louise and Siobhan turn up, looking forward to learning carpentry skills from a pioneering, female furniture maker… but instead they find Woody, an out-of-work, disgruntled builder who’s less than impressed to find four sheilas amongst his claw hammers.  Not the sort of women to back down from a challenge, the group convince Woody to teach them the tricks of the trade in this hilarious and heart-warming Kiwi comedy that’ll have you doubled over in laughter.

Cast:
Annabel - Donna Bilas
Louise - Lesley Hamel
Helen - Sylvia Barnes
Siobhan - Kat Forrester
Woody - Steve Millar ​

Written and Directed by Barry Grant

Season: 17 - 27 April 2024

When sociology PhD student Carrie needs a thesis topic, she convinces her flatmates to take part in a replication study which practically guarantees them compatible partners.  However, she didn’t anticipate those flatmates “improving” her $10 text voucher participant reward.  No wonder so many people respond to her advertisement …  ​

Cast:
Carri - Rhiannon Greer
Abbey - Joni Brand
Becky - Georgia Dann
Man - Liam Gilmore
Jerry & Davy - Jacob Coxhill
Ken & Ralph - Sam Bowden Cooke
John & Zane - Seamus Burgess

Written and Directed by Garry Thomas and Steve Millar

Season: ​20 - 28 January 2024

Cast:
Daisy Devon - Sonya Li-McHenry
Dragon - Bradley Mutch
Mrs D - Victoria Clare
Mayor Judkin - Holly Sutcliffe
Foley/Troll - Genna-Kate Ryan
Mr Devon - Steve Millar

Reduced for Quick Sale
By Kent R Brown
Directed by Pat Hannah

Cast:
​Kathy - Lesley Hamel
Margie - Victoria Clare
Dorothy - Melanie Turner
Jim - John Ashton

Is This Seat Taken?
By Sean Baker
Directed by Syliva Barnes

Cast:
​Will - Sam Primrose
Laura - Jenny May Hargreaves
Andy - Scott Morrow
Carrie - Annie King

A Cut in the Rates
By Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Sonya Cameron

Cast:
​Ratchet - Graeme Randle
Rosalinda - Sarah Bohan-Ashton
Miss Pickhart - Genna Ryan

By Roy Clarke
Directed by Matt Holland

Season: 12 - 22 April 2023

Everyone’s favourite Lady of the House, Hyacinth Bucket (“It’s Boo-kay!), is at it again.  While setting up her entry in the local art festival, Hyacinth learns that Emmet needs a leading lady for the murder mystery that he is directing for the local theatre group, but is shocked to discover her relatives, Daisy, Rose and Onslow are also in the play, and Daisy is playing the Duchess. Hyacinth is further horrified to discover one of her own roles in the play is the Cook, and she is expecting Councillor Mrs Debden at any moment, whom she thinks is going to appoint her to a high position in society.  Desperate to hide the fact she’s playing a servant, a classic Hyacinth farce follows.​

Cast:
Hyacinth - Fi Mills
Emmet - Martin Bouse
Liz - Sarah Bohan
Onslow - John Ashton
Daisy - Leeann Apps
Rose - Louisa Clarkson
Milly - Mark Reid
Mrs Debden - Pat Hannah
Artist - Teneka Lamont
Daddy - Russell Haigh

Written and directed by Steve Millar and Garry Thomas
​
Season: 21 - 29 January 2023

Elmwood Players’ Kidz Theatre returned with a rollicking pirate adventure.  Lucy and her talking cat Mittens searched for the Pirate King’s lost treasure.

Cast (from left to right in the picture below):
Scott Morrow as Father/The Pirate King
Louisa Stewart as Mother/First Mate Fairweather
Keira Conyers as Mittens the talking cat
Sam Primrose as Cap'n Willard
Sonya Li-McHenry as Princess Lucy
Genna Kate Ryan as Pie Face
Michael Woods as One-Leg Pete

Written by Amanda Whittington
Directed by Marilyn Ollett

​Season: 5 - 15 Octobder 2022

Work, love, and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley, and Linda. But their fortunes are set to change when Linda finds tickets to Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot.

​Out go the hairnets and overalls as the four ditch work, do themselves up, and head off for a drink, a flirt, and a flutter.

Cast:
Claire Bruce as Pearl
Lesley Long as Jan
June Pfister as Linda
Ashlyn Morriss as Shelley
Mark Reid as Joe/Jim
Scott Morrow as Fred/Kevin/Barry
Brock Cottrell as Patrick

Sequence of Events
Written by George Macewan Green
Directed by Sylvia Barnes

A hangman, a prostitute, a murdered and murderer's stricken parents are the ingredients in this taut Edwardian drama.  In a fascinating chopped time sequence they spin a strange web of sex and death.

Cast:
Mark Reid as Hangman
Jack Mould as Claude Vole
Douglas Shields as Herbert Vole
Sylvia Barnes as Margaret Vole
Genna Kate Ryan as Lily-Ann Turbett