Darlinghurst Theatre Company

SEASON 2007

THE NO CHANCE IN HELL HOTEL

By Kate Smith and Drew Fairley

"Hilarious... deeply silly... terrific, crowd-pleasing entertainment"
Sydney Morning Herald

"... utterly ridiculous, utterly hilarious. No Chance In Hell Hotel is fabulously entertaining."
Vibewire

Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Smith and Fairley

$20 Preview Thursday 4 January @ 8pm - phone bookings only

Friday 5 January to Saturday 3 February 2007

Tuesday to Saturday @ 8pm and Sunday @ 5pm

Tickets $30 Adult, $25 concession and $20 subscribers

The No Chance In Hell Hotel is the latest razor-sharp offering by Smith and Fairley, creators of the international smash hit comedy Bangers and Mash.

This flawless, nail-biting comedy thriller, set in the backstreets of Kings Cross, subverts the cop/ love story genre with panache and pizzazz.

Diane, a lonely woman on the run from love, struggles to keep the last dive bar in the Cross afloat. Jack, an alcoholic ex-ad man needs a change and gets a job as the new barman.

When Diane is kidnapped, Sarge, a jaded cop with 20 years on the job and nothing left to lose, realises this could be the case to save him from oblivion. His fresh-faced rookie partner is desperate to avenge the death of her father and prove herself to her acid- tongued boss. Together they set out to blow the case wide open.

What will they do when destiny dances with desperation and deceit? Will they end up paying the price �for believing?

The No Chance In Hell Hotel slips effortlessly between physical comedy, song, dance and jaw-dropping plot twists � think Fame meets CSI - leaving the audience slapping their thighs and roaring for more.

�Filled with one-liners�wildly hilarious and entertaining�
Vibewire.com

Featuring Drew Fairley and Kate Smith

Directed by Jo Turner

Set design by Leonie Evans

Lighting design by Sean Pardy

Sound design/ composed by Ross Johnston

Photography by Sophie Howarth

Graphic Design by Cameron Baird

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All tickets purchased are non-refundable. Tickets may be transferred to another night within the run of a show, with at least 24 hours notice.
Tickets can be collected from the Darlinghurst Theatre Company Box Office, from 6pm Tuesday to Saturday, from 4pm Sunday,

and 1hr prior to Special Performance times.

BOSTON MARRIAGE

By David Mamet

By arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd

on behalf of Dramatists Play Service Inc New York

�Devastatingly funny � exceptionally clever.� -The New York Times

Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Gaiety Theatre

in association with

$20 Preview Wednesday 7 February @ 8pm - phone bookings only

Thursday 8 February to Saturday 24 February 2007

Tuesday to Saturday @ 8pm and Sunday @ 5pm. Saturday matinees @ 4pm on Saturday 17 and Saturday 24 February.

Tickets $30 Adult, $25 concession and $20 subscribers

Today debate rages over gay marriage, but in the 19th Century, a Boston Marriage was the accepted term for two women who lived together, independent of men..

Anna and Claire are two outrageously arrogant women on the fringes of upper class, fin-de-siecle society. United against the tyranny of men in a Boston Marriage, Anna accepts expensive gifts from a wealthy married man while Claire attempts the seduction of a younger woman with Anna as accomplice. Lashings of irony, sarcasm, ribaldry and levity abound, endemic of any long surviving unity of two.

"[Mamet's characters] are at each other's throats with a wit akin to characters out of Wilde and a vengeance not unlike those from Pinter, Edward Albee, or Mamet himself." -The Boston Globe

"One of Mamet's most satisfying and accomplished plays, and one of the funniest American comedies in years." -New York Post

Featuring Di Smith (The Great Outdoors), Amanda Bishop (Losing Louis) and Sarah Grenfell (Fallen Angels).

Directed by Stephen Colyer

Produced by Michael Huxley

Lighting by Chris Twyman

Costumes by Grant Buchanan

Image by Patrick Jones

For further information on Gaiety Theatre

www.gaietytheatre.com.au

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A DAY IN THE DEATH OF

JOE EGG

By Peter Nichols

Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Whoosh Productions

$20 Preview Wednesday 28 February @ 8pm - phone bookings only

Thursday 1 March to Saturday 24 March 2007

Tuesday to Saturday @ 8pm and Sunday @ 5pm.

Tickets $30 Adult, $25 concession and $20 subscribers

Drifting between the sacred and profane A Day In The Death of Joe Egg is part recital, part vaudeville, part tragedy, part black comedy but always courageous and heartfelt.

Bri and Sheila are a young married couple whose relationship is collapsing under the strain of caring for their disabled daughter, Joe, nicknamed "Joe Egg". Bri, after ten years caring for Joe, working in a dead end teaching job and slowly slipping away from his once vivacious wife, is just about at the end of his tether... and beginning to contemplate the unthinkable.

Forty years after it's world premiere this thought provoking and funny classic of the English theatre still packs a punch as justified by its inclusion in the National Theatres' list of 100 Most Significant Plays of the Twentieth Century.

In the world of Bri, Sheila and Joe, fantasy can become reality can become fantastic, with humanity - all it's levity and frailty included - the driving force behind it all.

"Every cloud has a jet-black lining" Bri

Directed by Kim Hardwick

Lighting design by Martin Kinnane

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LOVE'S TRIUMPH

By Terence Crawford

�Terence Crawford's Love's Triumph is consistently funny, utterly charming and sneakily clever.�

Tim Benzie, Sun Herald

Presented by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and The Muldoon Wing

$20 Preview Wednesday 28 March @ 8pm - phone bookings only

Thursday 29 March to Saturday 21 April 2007

Tuesday to Saturday @ 8pm and Sunday @ 5pm.

Tickets $30 Adult, $25 concession and $20 subscribers

Edwina Brumble is the Queen of Kings Cross, a colourful business identity and proprietor of The Love Palace � but Edwina is not having a good day! She's about to lose her best working girl to love, a pile of her money to an unlikely nag in the 4th race at Randwick, and her only daughter to a country bumpkin. On top of all that, tough and hard-hearted Edwina Brumble is experiencing �romantic feelings�... for a copper, of all people! Could things possibly get any worse?

On an extraordinary set inspired by a kitsch, 1950s romanticised Sydney, Love's Triumph is a wild theatrical ride that shamelessly plunders - in a very Australian way - the great theatrical traditions of pantomime, burlesque, vaudeville, farce, slapstick. Terence Crawford has woven a classic, heart-warming and very Australian comedy that leaves audiences on a high � with the redemptive nature of love making the world a better place.

�� gleefully funny and vastly entertaining.... Director Brendon McDonall gathers an excellent cast.�

Stephen Dunne, Sydney Morning Herald

Featuring Garry Scale, Mark Owen Taylor, Octavia Barron Martin, Andrew James, Rob Thomas, Damion Hunter, Karen Pang and Robert Woodhead

Directed by Brendon McDonall

Set and costume design by James Brown

Lighting design by Luiz Pampolha

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