Very soon we’ll be circulating info about how to get involved with our inaugural PATH program in 2025, which will see Music Theatre Projects produce a youth music theatre production of Newsies Jnr. It will be produced as part of a new program we’ve created for young triple and quadruple threat performers from our region […]
Author Archives: Dianna
Book in for a lovely Sunday arvo escape to Yazzbar on Nov 3rd and 10th. The Gentleman’s Companion returns for 2 performances. Get a group together, or just come along yourself, and we can promise you great food, cocktails, company, and some reminiscences, music and storytelling. Tickets for 3 November 2024 Tickets for 10 November […]
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Dianna Nixon spent the weekend of 16, 17, 18 August at St Clements Monastery, Galong, for the culmination of the Southern Tablelands Arts Peer 2 Peer program. Over the past few months, pairs of peers worked together to explore, define, forward plan and troubleshoot their arts careers. On this weekend in August the peers came […]
Grab your tix for a special fundraising event at Collector Memorial Hall on Sunday 21st July, 3pm. You will hear the 100 year old classic, Fire, written by a former resident of our region, Millicent Armstrong. Drinks & nibbles & chat included in your ticket. Bookings: https://www.123tix.com.au/events/44531/fire-at-collector-memorial-hall Online auction: https://www.myminiauction.com/create
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In April, thanks to donations to our Australian Cultural Fund campaign, a group of diverse artists will sit down with Millicent Armstrong’s forgotten 4 act drama, “Fire”. We will read, respond, discuss and debate the play’s potential for a contemporary production. We are very grateful to all those who donated to the ACF campaign. We […]
It only took a century. On Sunday 29 October, as part of Gunning Arts Festival, Music Theatre Projects presented a reading of Millicent Armstrong’s long form play, Fire. The work was written in 1923, and published in serialised form in May 1923 in The Daily Telegraph. We presented our reading at Gunning Court House for […]
Drought and Other Plays by Millicent Armstrong – is coming soon to Yass, Cobargo, Merimbula and Lanyon Homestead, Tharwa, as part of Floriade 2023. Let us introduce you to the dramatic output of an amazing person – Millicent Armstrong – university educated, who lived in the Gunning/Goulburn region after her nursing service in WW1 in France, running a soldier settler farm, while writing astoundingly […]
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Tickets are on sale for our next show of “The Gentleman’s Companion” at Yazzbar. Sunday 8th October at 4pm. Start getting your group together. Tix available here: https://www.123tix.com.au/events/39536/the-gentlemans-companion-at-yazzbar
We are running an EOFY year campaign with the Australian Cultural Fund to support the following activities: 1/ Touring “Drought and Other Plays by Millicent Armstrong” (with an initial one week tour pencilled in for September 2023 – we’ve had strong interest from rural and regional communities for this show) https://www.musictheatreprojects.com/productions/in-production/drought-and-other-plays-by-millicent-armstrong/ 2/ Continuing to develop the musical “Camelia” (writing/creative […]
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Tickets are on sale via this link:https://www.123tix.com.au/events/38576/the-gentlemans-companion Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/2Vubo7IXK