St Jude's Players Archives
Christmas Eve 1948..... a group of parishioners staged a Nativity Play in Grundy Hall, Brighton South Australia and thus began the St. Jude’s Players.
August 2023 – Mr Bailey’s Minder
Abusive, cantankerous and burned out by booze, Leo Bailey is one of Australia’s national treasures. A gifted and renowned painter and chronic alcoholic, he can no […]
Read More APRIL 2023-All About Eve
Set in the 1940’s, during the most vulnerable point in her career, a leading lady of the time, Margo Channing, encounters an aspiring young actress, Eve […]
Read More AUGUST 2022 – Dogfight
Set in November 1963, Dogfight tells the story of three young marines, on the town for their last boys’ night out of partying before deployment into […]
Read More APRIL 2022 – Vincent in Brixton
St Jude’s Players is proud to present its first production for 2022, Nicholas Wright’s Vincent in Brixton. It’s 1873, and at the age of 20, Vincent […]
Read More NOVEMBER 2022 – Oliver Twisted
Synopsis Oliver Twisted, written and directed by Larry Waller, creates a very different version of Dickens’ original tale, using a mix of adventure, shock and mirth. […]
Read More The Pig Iron People
The winds of conservative political change are blowing hard in Australia, but satirist John Doyle’s moving, funny and at times shocking play The Pig Iron People is not about politics. It’s an absorbing and sharply observed tale about different generations and how life, love, prejudice and memories impact the way we see ourselves and others.
Read More Musical Memories
We will be presenting a night of fun, friendship and fabulous entertainment as we re-visit some of the wonderful songs we have presented over our 70 years.
Read More I’ll Be Back Before Midnight
A psychological thriller by Award winning playwright Peter Colley. This play has been produced in over 35 countries and is also a major motion picture.
Read More Things I Know To Be True
Bob and Fran Price have four adult children. Each child has his or her own unique struggles and secrets they try to keep hidden from their parents. Fran has a knack for knowing what is true in each of their lives, whether it is an unhappy marriage, heartbreak, confused sexuality or drug use....
Read More Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Jeffrey Archer’s first stage play - ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt’
In the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, Sir David Metcalfe, distinguished QC and Chairman of the Bar Council, is conducting the most important defense of his career – his own...
Read More Man of La Mancha
Tony Award winning musical Man of La Mancha written by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion is a remarkable show and one of the great theatre successes of our time.
Read More The Memory of Water
What do you leave behind after death?
In Vi’s case, there’s a ward-robe full of dresses and three daughters – each with their own version of the events of their childhood.
Read More A Man for Four Seasons
This play reading was directed by our new committee member Gigi Jeffers. The play was written especially for this event by her son; definitely a St Jude’s Players family theatre experience.
Read More Taking Steps
This riotous farce is set in a dilapidated Victorian three-storey country house, reputedly a former bordello and said to be haunted by a deceased prostitute.
Read More The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest is classic Oscar Wilde at his wittiest best. Last year David Suchet played Lady Bracknell in London and this year Andrew […]
Read More Rose’s Dilemma
Neil Simon’s light hearted script will warm up a cold winter night. In her beach house in the Hamptons, celebrated writer Rose Stern stands at a […]
Read More M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang’s beautiful, heartrending play was winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize. Based on a […]
Read More Calendar Girls
‘Calendar Girls’ was first a movie and then adapted for the stage. It won the ‘What’s On Stage’ Award for Best New Comedy 2010.
Read More Boeing Boeing
August 2016 – One of the funniest and longest-running comedy/farces ever to hit London’s West End stage!
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