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jeffhansen · 21 September 2012
Tonight is the final performance of Life After George at Melville Theatre. There is no Saturday performance. Feedback has been great, and audience numbers have been surprisingly good in general, for w…
Read more →jeffhansen · 21 June 2011
Well, lines are learned, set is built, bar is stocked, tickets are all sold... What? There are still lots of tickets available to see Don's Party? You're kidding. I thought it would be sold out by now…
Read more →jeffhansen · 19 November 2009
I first became aware of The Return, by Reg Cribb, when my brother was involved in a production of it in June of last year. From memory, it was directed by Karen Francis under the banner of Stray Cats…
Read more →jeffhansen · 18 October 2009
We are two weeks into our three week season of "First Sunday in December", an Australian comedy by Eric Scott. Audience numbers have been very pleasing so far, as the show is probably unknown to most,…
Read more →jeffhansen · 18 June 2009
It's a busy time at Melville at the moment. Coming up this Saturday is auditions for our one act season. I directed my first show in last years one-acts, and in keeping with our policy of giving new d…
Read more →jeffhansen · 25 April 2009
I was planning to have a rest after Doctor In The House was all over. It was all going to plan. I popped into the theatre to refocus the lights last Wednesday night for Absent Friends, as tech rehears…
Read more →jeffhansen · 4 February 2009
I chose to submit Doctor In the House because, well, we decided on a year of mostly light hearted stuff to get some bums on seats, and I had a copy of D.I.T.H. at home. OK, laziness on my part. Down P…
Read more →jeffhansen · 23 November 2008
Just a couple of rehearsals left, and A Chorus Line will open to the public this Friday night. If you were intending to come along to opening night and haven't yet booked, you may well be too late. As…
Read more →jeffhansen · 12 October 2008
Theatre is an odd pastime. It's not like joining any other sort of social club that I can think of. That's what it is, of course. It's a social club, that brings together like minded people. Yet, unli…
Read more →jeffhansen · 29 September 2008
Over the last year or two, I've gotten out and seen precious little theatre. I've been way too involved in my own club, either onstage, backstage, biobox, directing, committee meetings or front-of-hou…
Read more →jeffhansen · 22 September 2008
I sit perusing my script and damning the writer for having my character say "Don't worry, everything will be fine, leave it to me." or various similar combinations 10 or so times in the script, which…
Read more →jeffhansen · 8 August 2008
Just 2 performances left for Melville's one act season. Had a fairly decent audience tonight. Lots of walk-ups, which is great. Makes it hard to get the amount of soup right, but we had enough. My spi…
Read more →jeffhansen · 30 July 2008
The Melville one-act season -Winter Warmers- commences this Friday night, and continues on the 2,3,7,8 & 9th of August. The evening performances are curtain up at 8pm, and the Sunday matinee at 2pm. W…
Read more →jeffhansen · 16 July 2008
Auditions were held tonight for Suddenly at Home. While it was great to see a few new faces turn up at the theatre, we didn't have enough turn up to fill the available roles. Now......the problem with…
Read more →jeffhansen · 15 July 2008
The annual Winter Warmers - our one act season, is coming up on the 1,2,3,7,8,9 of August. FREE SOUP AND A ROLL AT INTERVAL! Our act season has been in a state of flux lately. With the dearth of avail…
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