Past Productions
A snapshot of a great couple of years!
The Fremantle Theatre Company presents a new opportunity to the local landscape; an open performance space and a vital new production company that ensures the stories of our town are told, our local talent is celebrated and the important aspects of our lives are comprehensively shared.
The Other Place (2020)
October 17 - November 8 2020
Starring Hollywood's Kate Walsh, The Other Place ran to a SOLD OUT audience during 2020. "Juliana Smithton is a successful neurologist whose life seems to be coming unhinged. Her husband has filed for divorce, her daughter has eloped with a much older man and her own health is in jeopardy. But in this brilliantly crafted work, nothing is as it seems. Piece by piece, a mystery unfolds as fact blurs with fiction, past collides with present and the elusive truth about Juliana boils to the surface".
MEAT by Gillian Greer (2021)
18 August - 12 September 2021
Penned during the pandemic, and deeply plugged into where our world is at right now. This incredible writer mucks-in where many might not, bringing forth a work of touchingly genuine feeling, searing wit and very tasty theatrical turns.
BANKWEST Shakespeare in the Park - A Midsummer Night's Dream
29 December 2021 - 29 January 2022
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the most beloved of Shakespeare’s canon, is a dazzling romantic comedy, celebrating young love, reveling in courtship, and honouring the marriage of true minds.
This glorious adventure is the perfect poetry with which to serenade a warm summer’s night in WA’s most beautiful landscapes and lit by a sky full of sparkling stars.
Last Train To Freo by Reg Cribb
3rd August - 27th August 2022
This is the 20 year revival of the Patrick White Award winning play The Return by Perth's own champion of the theatre Reg Cribb. Reg will be directing this fresh edition of this thrilling show, speeding down the tracks to our very own port-city, as the Last Train to Freo.
Last Train to Freo is set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a Perth train compartment, where two rough and wayward misfits take advantage of a guards' strike to terrorise the occupants.
Mary Stuart by Kate Mulvaney
In association with the Perth Festival & Performing Lines - March 3 -19, 2022
The Regal talent of Kate Walsh returns to our stage as Queen Elizabeth alongside the indomitable might of Caroline Brazier as Mary Queen of Scots in Kate Mulvaney's incredible play about the life of one of our forgotten Queens.
A power house performance to headline the Theatre category of the Perth Festival's 2022 Program and a true delight, an incandescent cast, in a spectacular presentation on the Heath ledger stage at the State Theatre Center.
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
29 December - 21 January 2022/23
Shakespeare's final and finest comedy is one of consummate costume-swapping, role-reversal and a genuine no-holds-barred, dogged pursuit of love – replete with love triangles, terrible tricks and devilishly mistaken identities. 'Oh disguise, I see thou art a wickedness!'
In this down-under re-telling of a true topsy-turvy tale, hearts are on sleeves, swords in hand and all manner of tongues are firmly pressed in cheeks!
This glorious adventure is the perfect poetry with which to serenade a warm summer’s night in WA’s most beautiful landscapes and lit by a sky full of sparkling stars.
The Effect by Lucy Prebble
18 May 2023 - 3 June 2023
THE EFFECT takes on the subject of antidepressants, their importance, our need for them and the consequences of chemical design; all examined via the taut gauntlet of a human drug-trial. Replete, of course, with the Docs and the Lab Rats... In this case, that's patients Connie and Tristan, the two volunteers on a drugs trial who begin to develop some strange attractions in Lucy Prebble’s love-sceptical play.
We know little about them all before the trial, and they even less about each other. But it's clear that a spark has ignited between them – Is it the drugs? Or their own personal chemistry? And how could either of them be able to tell the difference, if we are all just a skin-bag of electricity and chemicals to begin with?
The Effect is a difficult and touching exploration of the rarest thing.
The dearest thing: The tiny spark that binds two hearts.
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