HotHouse Theatre will go back to where it started to mark its 20th anniversary season.
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The Border theatre company announced its 2017 season program on Wednesday with five diverse shows plus a rehearsed community play reading of Tes Lyssiotis’ Hotel Bonegilla.
The play, written in 1983, was for six actors but was expanded to accommodate a cast of 34 community performers.
“Well over 300,000 migrants from 30 nations settled here between 1947 and 1971,” HotHouse artistic director Lyn Wallis said.
“It’s a really substantial story in this community and that influx of people effectively doubled our population over the years.
“HotHouse’s very first production, in 1997, was Hotel Bonegilla by Tes Lyssiotis.
“It was created for and with the migrant community. It had 34 professional and community actors but was basically this huge community exercise, a large scale production.
“And what we’re going to do on November 16 to 18, is to re-stage Hotel Bonegilla as a large scale community reading, for four performances.
“We’re going to have 34 actors, and that will provide incredible opportunities for people who actually want to be part of that.
“It’s a living, breathing birthday celebration.”
HotHouse’s 2017 season will open with The Orchid and the Crow on March 21-25.
The uplifting Daniel Tobias one man musical was originally part of this year’s program but was rescheduled.
Home-grown performer Tom Flanaghan will bring his hilarious slapstick show Kaput back to The Butter Factory Theatre on April 4-8, with a special family red carpet night on Saturday, April 8.
Ian Michael’s Hart – a personal examination of the impact of the forcible separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families – runs during National Reconciliation Week, May 26-June 3.
Hurt, by Catherine McKinnon, is a powerful and emotion-packed drama set in a hospital waiting room as a mother waiting for news on her injured daughter is joined by her estranged husband and a comforting young businesswoman.
The final show, Rice, is about two women at work in a corporate highrise office. The career opposites find common threads as their stories unfold.
Rice plays August 29-September 2.
HotHouse will also host their popular Galah Bar scratch nights between March and December.