In 2025, the Mordialloc Theatre Company is presenting a fantastic lineup of plays at the Shirley Burke Theatre that are sure to captivate and inspire audiences.
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Holmes and Watson (by Jeffrey Hatcher, Directed by Amy Calvert)
27 February - 8 March
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Sherlock Holmes is dead. Or so it is assumed. The world knows the great detective went over the falls at Reichenbach with his nemesis Professor Moriarty. But as Holmes' body was never retrieved, a number of frauds, fakes, and charlatans have come forward since to lay claim to his identity, and it falls to Dr. Watson to disprove them.
Then a telegram arrives informing Watson that three men, each claiming to be Holmes, have been committed to a remote asylum off the coast of Scotland. Now Watson must discover if one of the mad men is the real Sherlock Holmes.
NOTE: This performance will have recorded gunshot sound effects.
the children (by Lucy Kirkwood, Directed by Peter Newling)
22 - 31 May
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In a small English coastal cottage, former nuclear scientists Hazel and her husband Robin are enjoying a quiet retirement, despite living just outside the exclusion zone of a dangerously crumbling nuclear power plant.
She practices her yoga, while he tends to his cows and, bar the rolling blackouts, their lives seem mostly untouched by the chaos outside – until a visit from an old friend and colleague with hidden intentions shakes their peaceful existence, forcing them to confront their secret jealousies and their past and future.
NOTE: This performance has adult themes.
LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME (by Constance Cox, Directed by Deborah Fabbro)
24 July - 2 August
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It is 1925, and the social season is in full swing. Wealthy, debonair young man-about-London, Lord Arthur Savile, is on top of the world. He is doted on by his elderly, aristocratic relatives, and engaged to Sybil Merton, the girl of his dreams.
At a party, his palm is read by a fashionable cheiromantist, who foretells that he will commit a murder. Horrified at the potential shame this will bring his bride, Arthur decides that it’s his duty to get the murder out of the way, discreetly, before he marries Sybil. But, which of his relatives is the most expendable? Aided by the services of his Jeeves-like butler, Baines, and a seedy German anarchist, with an array of guns, bombs and poisoned chocolates, Lord Arthur sets about his noble task – with increasingly hilarious results.
NOTE: This performance will have recorded gunshot sound effects.
BROADWAY BOUND (by Neil Simon, Directed by Michelle Swann)
4 - 13 September
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Following BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BILOXI BLUES, this is the poignant and funny conclusion of Neil Simon’s semiautobiographical Eugene trilogy. Eugene and his brother Stanley are trying to break into the world of professional comedy writing, while coping with their parents’ messy and gut-wrenching split.
When their material is broadcast on the radio for the first time, the rest of the family is upset to hear a comedic rendition of their own trials and tribulations. How will Eugene and his brother balance their loyalties to their family and to their art?
BIRTHDAY CANDLES (by Noah Haidle, Directed by Helen Ellis)
13 - 22 November
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Ernestine Ashworth spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough it’s her 18th birthday. Even sooner, her 41st. Her 70th. Her 101st. Five generations, dozens of goldfish, an infinity of dreams and one cake baked over a century. What makes a lifetime...into a life?
A poignant new play as fearless in scope as it is tremendous in heart -‘Broadway World.’ This poignant and funny Broadway hit, about the extraordinary moments that make up one woman’s ordinary life, explores the highlights and heartbreaks of 100 years in just 90 minutes.