Productions

The Pink Hammer

11/7/2024

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

D A T E L I N E

17/4/2024

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

Daisy and the Dragon

20/1/2024

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

Daisy Devon is tired of the boys being the hero. When her village is threatened by an evil, greedy mayor and a not-so-convincing Troll, Daisy and her newfound friend – a shy, timid dragon - come to the rescue

12 Angry Jurors

27/9/2023

By Reginald Rose
Directed by Dimitri Gibara

Season: 27 Sep - 7 Oct

Cast:
Jury Foreperson - Geoff Kendall
Juror 2 - Claire Bruce
Juror 3 - Noam Wegner
Juror 4 - Graeme Randle
Juror 5 - Beth Gibson
Juror 6 - Mark Reid
Juror 7 - Sylvia Barnes
Juror 8 - Jodine Hardwicke
Juror 9 - Michele Johnson
Juror 10 - Elizabeth Woods
Juror 11 - Dimitri Gibara
Juror 12 - Sandy Wilson
Guard - Matt Holland

And featuring the voices of:
Judge - Raoul Neave
Clerk - Holly Sutcliffe

A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a person; of a man or woman we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it is, with each juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes. Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the group of strangers become 12 angry jurors. The jurors' final verdict and how they reach it add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic literature.

Array 23

17/7/2023

Season: 17 - 19 August 2023

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

Big Big Sky

6/7/2023

By Tom Wells
Directed by Garry Thomas

Season: 6 - 15 July 2023

Cast:
Angie - Lisa Tonkin
Lauren - Sophie Wallace
Dennis - Steve Millar
Ed - Jonty Coulson

Set in a seaside cafe, popular with bird-watchers, manager Angie and 19-year-old Lauren, who waits tables, have an almost mother-daughter closeness, and both have experienced loss: Lauren of her mum, and Angie, 20 years ago, of her baby girl. Lauren’s widowed dad Dennis, hovers every day at closing time, pecking at Angie’s leftovers mainly as an excuse to be near her. Then Ed, a sweetly nerdish young conservationist, arrives to start a new job and rents Lauren’s old bedroom in Dennis’s house. As the seasons change, relationships bud and blossom, and their lives begin a cycle of renewal.

Keeping Up Appearances

12/4/2023

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

The Princess and the Pirate King

21/1/2023

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

Ladies' Day

5/10/2022

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

Array '22

17/8/2022

Season: 17 - 20 August 2022
Our season of one act plays, original scheduled for August 2021 finally made it on the boards in 2022!

One Good Beating
Written by Linda McLean
Directed by Garry Thomas

Two adult children confront their abusive father following their mother’s death.

Cast: Jamie Billings, Helen Fearnley, Steve Millar

What's For Pudding?
Written by David Tristram
Directed by Matt Holland

Mary and Jack's dull Saturday evening is interrupted by the arrival of Maureen, Ted and Dennis and the occasion rapidly dissolves into a drunken gathering.

Cast:
John Ashton as Jack
Diane Heather as Mary
Matt Holland as Ted
Sarah Bohan-Ashton as Maureen
Rod Turner as Dennis

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