By Peter Kemp
Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre:
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
After his mother’s funeral, middle-class Englishman Monty Navarro learns an incredible secret – he is the son of the daughter of the grandson of the nephew of the second Earl of Highhurst, making him an aristocrat – if he can just find a way to prevent the eight earls preceding him from inheriting the earldom first.
An Edwardian style, operatic farce, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder won the 2014 Tony Award for best Musical.
Season: 17 February – 5 March.
Bookings: www.lilydaleatc.com or 9735 1777. Office hours Monday, Tuesday and Friday 10am to 2pm.
A Reminder:
The 1812 Theatre is presenting Dracula – The Bloody Truth.
Travelling across Europe from the dark and sinister Transylvania mountains to the charming seaside town of Whitby, Professor Can Helsing and his three amateur actors stage a life-changing, theatrical production of Dracula – hoping to establish once and for all the bloody truth.
Season: 24 February – 19 March.
Bookings: 9758 3964
The Basin Theatre:
Photograph 51
Anna Zeigler’s Photograph 51 goes back to 1950’s London where the discovery of the DNA helix structure would unlock ‘the secret of life’.
Season: 24 February – 4 March.
Contact: 1300 784 668
