Adventure on the High Seas
August 15th – 24th 2025
Hoist yer sails and join our jolly crew for a rip-roarin’ yarn filled with swashbucklin’ adventure, fearsome sea beasts, scurvy pirates, beguilin’ mermaids… and a sleepy wee French fishin’ village just across the channel, aye. We fish, we frolic, we roar with laughter!
And the tale be so original, not even the saltiest sea dog’s dreamin’ mind could’ve conjured it before…
It’s A Wonderful Life
November 8th – 16th 2025
The classic 1945 move about George Bailey and his family is brought to life on stage at Powderkeg Players. Starring a large caset of 9 actors and over 30 charactres, It’s A Wonderful Life brought a beatuiful reminder of all the good things in life!
James And The Giant Peach
June22nd – 29th 2024
Our 2024 Family show was Roald Dahl’s James And The Giant Peach. It was our first production in our new venue in St. Albans!
Wind In The Willows
September 1st to 10th 2023
Our 2023 Family show was the classic tale of Wind In The Willows!
Yes Prime Minsiter
May 4th to 13th 2022
From the writers of the original television series Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, comes the equally sharply satirical stage version, staged by Powderkeg Players in May 2022, as King Charles was being crowned.
Chalotte’s Web
August 12th – 20th 2022
Our 2022 Family show was Charlotte’s Web by E.B.White and celebrated our return to the stage after the covid lockdown
Popcorn
By Ben Elton
Directed by Ash Weidner
April 16 – May 1 2021
Ben Elton’s wrote the novel and play was sparked by the controversy of Oliver Stone’s Tarantino-scripted film Natural Born Killers over whether watching a violent film can make people commit violent acts.
Elton sets his story in the Hollywood mansion of film director Bruce Delamitri just before and after he wins an Oscar for his film about a young couple who go on a killing spree. However the real-life murderers break into Delamitri’s house on Oscar night and reveal that they are huge fans of his movies and they want the world to know about it.
The Almost Totally True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Directed by Rachael Wrights
November 8-17 2019
Hansel and Gretel is a well-known German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812.
Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister kidnapped by a witch living in a forest in a house constructed of cake, confectionery, candy, and many more treats. The two children escape with their lives by outwitting her…. or so we believe. Exactly what are Hansel and Gretel up to?
Photos by Nicci Duffy
God of Carnage
Directed by Liam Gillespie
Oct 11th – 19th 2019
Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play, God of Carnage relates an evening in the lives of two New York couples: The Novak’s and the Raleigh’s. Residents of a hip Brooklyn neighbourhood, the Novak’s have invited the Raleigh’s onto home turf (the sitting room of their brownstone terrace, of course!) to discuss a violent playground incident that occurred the day before, between their 11-year-old sons. What follows is an 80-minute display of churlish, childish and disastrous parental carnage, the likes of which resembles all the brutality of a battlefield, rather than the setting of a civilised, or polite grown-up encounter.
CAST: Casey Bohan, Jonathan Best, Seth Kannof & Melanie Rowe
Photography by Shane Anthony, Kadey McIntosh & Liz Astin
The Beast
After surviving a nasty near-death experience, a group of 30-somethings decide it’s time for a change of scenery, upping stumps to invest in a tree-change. The couples swap the hustle and bustle of inner city Melbourne for the quiet calm of the countryside, to dabble in sustainable produce and dress in farm-chic designer wear on the reg.
DIRECTED BY: Tess Maur
WRITTEN BY: EDDIE PERFECT
STARRING:
Rob Lloyd as ROB
James Antonas as SIMON
Julia Lambert as MARGE
Ben Mitchell as THE SKIPPER
KYLIE RYAN as SUE
Caitlin Yolland as GEN
Div Collins as BAIRD
All For Peter Pan
By Stephen Andrews, Directed by Gemma Francis
November 17-25 2018
Our annual youth theatre show took on the J.M. Barrie classic of the boy who wouldn’t grow old.
“Peter Pan is a boy for no one else. No one not any, but only himself. The years mean nothing without cause, for Peter Pan lives outside these walls.”
Photo’s by Nic Duffy and Stephen Andrews
A Conversation
By David Williamson, Directed by Lee Cook
October 5-20 2018
Would you sit in the same room as the man who murdered your child, let alone have a conversation? This creates fertile ground for drama with anger, loss, confusion and hate all making an appearance.
Will they be able to find a way forward?
Cast: Peter Prenga, Liza Balzar Whitney, Kerry Davis, Terese Maurici, Adrian Valenta, Connor Byrn, Ron Fenton, Kadey McInstosh.
Slut
By Patrica Cornelius, directed by Natasha Boyd
Slut was inaugural entry onto the One Act Play Festival circuit around Victoria in 2018. This 45 min play focuses on the central character ‘Lolita’ and a chorus of young women who watch her rise and her final devastating fall.
Slut was tremendous success and won Best Production at the One Act play festivals in Macedon, Dandenong, South Gippsland and Seymour. Runner Up at Anglesea.
Natasha Boyd won Best Director three times.
The cast won a swag of acting and ensemble awards
Cast: Jacki Lombardo, Julia Lambert, Casey Bohan, Reschelle O’Connor, Malaynee Hayden
Photo’s by Shane Anthony Photography
The Adam/Even Protocl
Written and Directed by Donna Prince
June 2018
The first of our one act plays for 2018 in an original production by Donna Prince. Adam/Eve explores the human condition of relevance in the context of an uncertain future.
Cast: Lee Cook, Kadey McInstosh
Photo’s by Shane Anthony Photography
Agnes Of God by Pielmeier
Directed by Drew Mason
May 4-12 2018
Agnes of God is tells the story of a novice nun who gives birth and insists that the child was the result of a virgin conception. A psychiatrist and the mother superior of the convent clash during the resulting investigation. The title is a pun on the Latin phrase Agnus Dei (Lamb of God).
Cast: Gemma Francis, Marti Ibrahim, Veronica Hannebery
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