Cathouse Players
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A ripper of a British farce
Kyneton’s not-for-profit Cathouse Players will soon prove that laughter is the best medicine, in their cosy pop-up theatre at the Kyneton Masonic Centre, 7 Yaldwyn Street West. Not Now, Darling by Ray Cooney and John Chapman, is a ripper of a British farce, and is set in the exclusive London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley…
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Love Letters on stage
Beginning with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards between two dorky third graders Melissa Gardiner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, Love Letters offers a memorable and unique theatrical experience. Set in an era well before the advent of faxes, texts, emails and all forms of social media, it’s a celebration of language. Words…
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Who is telling the truth?
It’s the 1950s. In a rented chalet in the French Alps, newly-wed Daniel Corban calls the local police inspector reporting that his wife Elizabeth is inexplicably missing. A local priest arrives to tell Daniel that his wife has come back, to beg for his forgiveness. A stunned Daniel immediately rejects her as an imposter, that…
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A psychological thriller
After the 2023 critically-acclaimed production of Columbo-Prescription:Murder, Cathouse Players artistic director Bette Sartore is taking audiences back in time to Victorian London, and Gaslight, the original version, written by Patrick Hamilton in 1938. It is insightful and accurate in its depiction of the lengths to which an individual will go to inflict psychological menace. Bella…
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More than a ‘who-dunnit’
Columbo – Prescription: Murder by William Link and Richard Levinson will be presented by Kyneton’s not-for-profit Cathouse Players, in their cosy pop-up theatre, at Kyneton’s Masonic Centre.
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Thought-provoking and humorous theatre
There’s something for everyone in not-for-profit Cathouse Players’ June production of Deception. Their pop-up auditorium at the Kyneton Masonic Centre, 7 Yaldwyn Street West, is cosy and warm, and the lavish interval refreshments from their hospitality team are legendary. A carefully curated program of four One-Act Plays – Over She Goes (a World Premiere), Disturbed,…
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Cosi comes to Kyneton
Cathouse Players are excited to bring audiences Louis Nowra’s Cosi this month. An iconic Australian piece, Cosi is set in a Melbourne mental institution in 1971 where we meet Lewis – a fresh-out-of-university director. His brief is to, “put on something that will bring the patients out of their shells”. Lewis encounters manic-depressive Roy who has a…
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Perceptions, assumptions and prejudice
Cathouse Players are looking forward to bringing their first production of 2022 to audiences. Rooms is a contemporary piece with a focus not only on relationships but also perceptions, assumptions and at times prejudice. In each room we meet a new group facing different challenges and in some ways, life lessons. Dee and Richard. If two…
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Join Windarring for an end-of-year wing ding
Windarring disability services is holding an end-of-year ‘Wing Ding’ concert, plus a special performance of Haiku, an award-winning play by the Cathouse Players, in the hope of welcoming the community to get to know its participants. Windarring board member and Cathouse director Bette Sartore said it had been her dream for seven years to host…