Valley Artists

Short Takes - A short film workshop
Date: POSTPONED
The proposed film making workshop on 16, 17, 18th July, 2010 has been postponed

David Williamson's Money and Friends
Date: 2-4, 7-10 July 2010
Valley Artists presents David Williamson's Smash hit MONEY AND FRIENDS

A revealing clash between materialism and ideals, it is David Williamson at his best demonstrating as always his acute observation of the Australian character.

Peter (Craig Howe), a mathematician who is niceness itself, is in financial trouble because of his brother's bankruptcy. His neighbour Margaret (Micaela Elphick), decides that he needs help from his friends, who are all wealthy. What happens is funny and confronting.

First performed in 1991 this play is found to be every bit as relevant to us in 2010.

Great characters and superb comedy - Don't miss it!

Valley Artists Sponsors Dinner 2010
Date: Saturday 08-May-10 18:00
Valley Artists invites you to sponsor the company and attend our annual SPONSORS DINNER 6-10pm, Saturday May 8th 2010 at Laguna Hall. This year's theme: THE FABULOUS TIVOLI

Mad Cow's production of Romeo & Juliet
Date: January 2010
Valley Artists has commissioned Mad Cow's production of 'Romeo & Juliet' to be performed in Laguna Hall for four performances only on 22nd, 23rd, 24th & 25th January, 2010.

Valley Artists Sponsors Dinner
Date: Saturday 14-Nov-09 18:00
This year promises to be bigger than Quo Vadis, and your opportunity to revel in a night of Bacchanalia... if you're a sponsor, of course.

The Ugly Duckling
Date: 30 October to 7 November 2009
A A Milne's play The Ugly Duckling will open October 30 at Laguna Hall, with performances on October 31, and November 1, 5, 6, 7.

Wollombi Valley Short Film Festival
Date: Saturday 03-Oct-09 19:00
Since 1998, the Film Festival has encouraged locals and the rest of the world to show their video activities to a most enthusiastic audience. Screening on October 3, the Wollombi Valley Short Film Festival. Three prominent judges this year - Michael Noyce, Wendy Squires and David Brown.

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Date: 17 to 25 April 2009
Valley Artists brings you the magical, emotional musical roller-coaster, of 'The Rise and Fall of Little Voice'. The stage play was written by Jim Cartwright, specifically for English impersonator Jane Horrocks (Absolutely Fabulous), and was premiered in Cottlesloe in 1992. In 1998 it was released as the movie 'Little Voice'.

ECLECTICA
Date: 21 to 29 November 2008
This show will provide three great opportunities: First, for local playwrights to see their work staged. Second, for new local directors to put theory into practice (these new directors will have attended Bob Philippe's 'Introduction to Directing' course, July 26-27). Third, for theatre-goers to enjoy an evening of original thespian art.

Valley Artists Sponsors Dinner
Date: Saturday 24-May-08 18:30
The 2008 Sponsors Dinner will be held on Saturday 24th May 2008

Away
Date: 18 to 26 April 2008
The much loved 'Australian Classic' by Michael Gow - Director Bob Philippe.

Away opens with a school performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the great Shakespearean themes of suffering, regeneration and reconciliation persist. The characters and families of this play must confront and come to terms with loss, betrayal, love, anger, resentment, redemption, jealousy... in short, all the good stuff that makes an audience feel that it has experienced real 'drama'.

Absurd Person Singular
Date: 10 to 18 November 2007
Director Fiona Burless.

The play is set over three Christmases in the kitchens of three couples: Sidney Hopcroft (Darren Philip), an ambitious tradesman, and his submissive wife Jane (Shae Thommeny); architect and adulterer Geoffrey Turner (Steve Pembroke) and his depressed wife, Eva (Karen Butler-Hues); Ronald Brewster-Wright (Neville Newman), a banker, and his wife Marion (Bronwyn Duncan). The three couples range from working to upper class.

Wollombi Valley Short Film Festival
Date: Friday 21-Sep-07 19:00
2007 Wollombi Valley Short Film Festival

Sponsors Night
Date: Saturday 14-Jul-07 19:00
2007 Sponsors night review

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Date: 18 to 27 May 2007
Director Bob Philippe

Each summer Roo and Barney escape south, back from 7 months of backbreaking work in the Queensland cane fields to 'lay off' in Melbourne for five months with Olive and Nancy. On the first summer Roo brought Olive, among other gifts, a cupie doll. She loved it and he's brought her one each summer ever since. This is the summer of the seventeenth doll.

Wind in the Willows
Date: 11 to 19 November 2006
One of the best loved stories of our time, 'The Wind in the Willows', written in 1908 by Kenneth Grahame, has enchanted young and old alike for generations.

Director Janine Oliver

The Importance of Being Earnest
Date: April 2006
Director Bob Philippe

The Finnys
Date: 10 to 18 December 2005
Director Janine Oliver. Writer Peter McDonough

This exciting new play, written by Peter McDonough is being directed by Janine Oliver and starring a cast of well known actors from the Wollombi Valley, with great support from a highly skilled production crew.

Wollombi Valley Short Film Festival
Date: Friday 23-Sep-05 19:00
2005 Wollombi Valley Short Film Festival

The Circus of Life
Date: 2005
Director Neville Newman, Julie Simpson and Claude Aliotti. Writers Pencil Orchids