Valley Artists

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

Wollombi 2004 Short Film Festival
Date: Friday 24-Sep-04 19:00
2004 Wollombi Valley Short Film Festival

Wollombi High
Date: 2004
Sponsor's dinner written and directed by Alan Glover

The Anniversary
Date: 8 to 16 May 2004
A black comedy by Bill MacIllwraith - Director Fiona Burless

Janine Oliver plays a Mum who adores her three sons and will not admit they have any failings. She has dominated her family so long that she becomes frightened when they threaten to leave and lashes out with every means at her disposal and then the home truths start flying.

Snow White Pantomime
Date: 2004
Director Jacqueline Hickmott

Honour
Date: 2003
'Honour' was first performed by Playbox Theatre Centre of Monash University, at the The C.U.B. Malthouse, on 14 th November, 1995. Written by Joanna Murray-Smith. 'Honour' won the 1996 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Drama and has since been widely produced. A provocative drama that challenges our notion of honour, our sense of decency and our belief that love will prevail.

Wollombi 2003 Film Festival
Date: Friday 26-Sep-03 19:00
2003 Wollombi Valley Short Film Festival

Hearts of the Valley
Date: 2003
Sponsor's dinner directed by Alan Glover

Quest Perilous
Date: 2003
Director Wayne Van Keren

The Commedia
Date: December 2002
All in all, it was a thoroughly enjoyable production, enhanced by Gilli Moon's musical accompaniment, which was very faithful to the tradition of commedia del' arte.

Wollombi Short Film Festival
Date: Sunday 29-Sep-02 19:30
At the Wollombi Festival

The Exchange Hotel
Date: September 2002
Performed at the Wollombi Festival