Theatre Royal Castlemaine
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Fringe film premiere tonight
The Castlemaine Documentary Festival is teaming up with the Castlemaine Fringe Festival and the Theatre Royal tonight to present the premiere screening of Walking The Fish. Celebrating 30 years of the Castlemaine Fringe Festival, this film by Michael Harkin commemorates how it all began. This premiere will also be accompanied by a stand-out selection of…
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Royal and C-Doc to celebrate IWD
To celebrate International Women’s Day on Wednesday March 8, the Theatre Royal Castlemaine and Castlemaine Documentary Festival will be joining forces to present two sensational films. The films to feature will include All The Beauty and The Bloodshed at 5pm followed by Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova at 8pm. With film introductions and a…
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BABBA headed to the Theatre Royal
“Dare I say it! As good as ABBA” – Molly Meldrum. What a way to start an editorial on one of the longest running tribute shows here in Australia. From BABBA’s very beginning’s back on December 2, 1994, there was something very special about this talented group of vocalists and musicians. During those 28 years…
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Pseudo Echo’s Ultimate tour
Jade Jungwirth Pseudo Echo have returned with an epic national tour, performing their last concert of the year at the Theatre Royal in Castlemaine this Friday. The tour coincides with the release of the Ultimate double album and DVD, chronicling their expansive 40-year music career. The Ultimate tour features a six-piece lineup, fronted by founding…
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Dosed doco to screen
Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal will screen the Canadian documentary, Dosed 2 – The Trip of a Lifetime, this coming Sunday at 1.30pm. Organised by the Victorian Goldfields branch of the Australian Psychedelic Society, the screening and panel discussion will be followed by a performance in the courtyard by the local psychedelic rock group, Aplegate. Dosed 2…
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Masterclass and music
After the roaring success of LOCALS at this year’s Castlemaine Documentary Festival they’ll be doing it all again in 2023! In order to assist entrants to prepare for the 2023 event, CDOC is hosting a Storytelling Masterclass at Castlemaine’s Northern Arts Hotel with three veterans of the documentary world next month. CDOC director Claire Jager…
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Help keep the Royal alive
Once again the team at Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal is calling out for lovers of live music, independent cinema and the arts to get behind the historic theatre’s annual membership drive and become Loyal Royal members for 2022/23. Loyal Royals not only get their hands on a coveted Loyal Royal tote bag and discounted film tickets…
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Filmmaker puts body on the line
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to support the completion of a local documentary film celebrating the journey of the Mt Alexander Falcons Women’s Football Club. The community is urged to get behind the campaign to help complete Equal the Contest, a feature-length documentary film following the development of the new women’s football club and their…
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A film lover’s feast
Eve Lamb True stories that cut to the core of what it is to be human offer film lovers a weekend-long big-screen binge as Castlemaine Documentary Festival opens this Friday at the town’s Theatre Royal. “The theatre can fit 300 and we hope it’s packed,” says festival director Claire Jager who’s strongly advocating a “bingey…
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Writing with fire
The countdown is on until the 2022 Castlemaine Documentary Festival, set to feature at the Theatre Royal from July 1-3. The theme for this year’s event is ‘Realise the Possible’ and the team behind this year’s event has once again gone above and beyond to source an array of films that feature ‘Real stories. Real…
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Operas return to the Royal
Opera lovers from across the region have been working with Theatre Royal Castlemaine management to get New York Metropolitan Opera films back on the big screen. The 2022 season begins with Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos screening Saturday May 7 at 11am. The operas are set to return monthly, but will require a decent audience to make…
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Dance ya socks off
Eve Lamb Expect some quality sound when Castlemaine Sound hosts its Pride edition dance party at Castlemaine’s Village square this evening. That’s a main message from organiser Casey Rice who knows a thing or two about dispensing dance grooves with satisfying bass. “We’re going to be bringing our own sound system so there will be…