By Peter Kemp
Mt Evelyn residents are being encouraged to get behind the Lilydale Athenaeum as it presents: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
After his mother’s funeral, middle-class Englishman Monty Navarro learns an incredible secret, he is the son of the daughter of the grandson of the nephew of the second Earl of Highhurst, making him an aristocrat. If he can just find a way to prevent the eight earls preceding him from inheriting the earldom first…
An Edwardian-style operatic farce, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical.
Season started on Thursday 17 February and will run until 6 March.
The 1812 Theatre is presenting Dracula – The Bloody Truth from next week.
Travelling across Europe from the dark and sinister Transylvanian mountains to the charming seaside town of Whitby, Professor Van Helsing, and his three amateur actors stage a life- changing theatrical production of Dracula, hoping to establish once and for all, the bloody truth.
The result is a delightful Cully silly, fast-paced, and relatively faithful adaptation by John Nicholson of Bram Stoker’s novel. This play is performed by four actors playing 40 characters.
Season: 24 February to 19 March.
The Basin Theatre Group is presenting Photograph 51 which takes us back to the 1950s London, where the discovery of the DNA double helix structure would unlock the secret of life and Rosalind Franklin’s contribution would be overlooked for decades. This delicate play puts her back into the picture and shines a light on the challenges she faced as a woman in a male-dominated field and the price she paid.
Season: 24 February to 6 March
