The Mount Players
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Laugh-out-loud humour and pathos
After a short break, the Mountview Theatre is again buzzing, with rehearsals in full swing for The Mount Players’ first show, The Cemetery Club by Ivan Menchell. In this comedy, three New York widows meet once a month for tea before visiting their husbands’ graves. Ida is sweet-tempered and ready to begin a new life.…
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Magical and charming
Puffs is a show full of magic for the whole family to enjoy. The Mount Players’ final show for 2025 is one for the whole family (10 years +) to enjoy together, and you might be lucky enough to still secure a ticket! Puffs or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic…
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A dark Irish comedy that’s six feet deep
The Mount Players next production, A Skull In Connemara by Martin McDonagh, runs from August 15 – 31. If you’re lucky you may still get a ticket! Featuring dark deeds and daft locals, this razor-sharp dark comedy is set in a quiet Irish village where the dead don’t always stay buried — and neither do…
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High farce and dazzling wordplay
The Mount Players invite you to come to their lovely Mountview Theatre in Macedon to sit back and enjoy Oscar Wilde’s classic play, The Importance of Being Earnest. The set will delight you and the cast, dressed to kill, will entertain you! With a complimentary sherry on arrival, tea/coffee and treats at interval and a…
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Mount Players present A Bunch of Amateurs
The Mount Players’ final production for the year opens Friday November 1 – A Bunch of Amateurs by Ian Hislop and Nick Newham. In a desperate plight to save their theatre from developers, a washed-up Hollywood star is flown in to play the title role in King Lear at ‘Stratford’ believing he will be appearing…
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Humorous, thought provoking and deeply moving
For more than 50 years, David Williamson has been the most produced playwright in the history of Australian theatre. The writer of iconic plays such as Don’s Party, The Club, Money and Friends, The Removalists, Emerald City … the list goes on. He has also written numerous film scripts and TV series. Williamson’s characters are…
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Pulitzer Prize winning play
The Mount Players’ second production for 2023, Buried Child written by Sam Shepard, was first presented in 1978 and won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for drama launching Shepard to national fame as a playwright. The play is an intense drama set in an old farmhouse, in mid-century Illinois. A macabre look at an American Midwestern…
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Players present comedy classic
Step back in time with an adaptation of a comedy classic. Last year marked the 100th anniversary of radio broadcasting. In November 1922 the BBC (then called 2LO) made its first broadcast. Australia followed in 1923. Within just a couple of years listeners were enjoying a ‘theatrical experience’ without leaving their own homes as radio…