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Quality line-up for theatre season

Posted on November 28, 2009, 9:09am

Stage icon Max Gillies and television comedy legend Kym Gyngell are among the stars who will appear on the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre stage next year in Country Arts SA’s packed 2010 performing arts program.

A performance of songs from the great Cat Stevens, a family circus show, complete ballet and the return of the Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow also feature, along with children’s shows and the Morning Melodies collection.

“The year ahead promises to be an exciting one when Country Arts SA’s 2010 Performing Arts Season hits the South East,” Country Arts SA chief executive Ken Lloyd said.

“Next year there’s an explosion of entertainment at the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre, from comedy to music, theatre to dance — with such a vast array of exciting performances on offer at surprisingly affordable prices, we are sure there is something for everyone to enjoy.”

Season 2010 kicks off with Max Gillies in Godzone, a political and social satire from the Melbourne Theatre Company in February, followed by a collection of eight short plays “Shorter and Sweeter” in April.

The 10-minute works, chosen from recent international festivals, cover the spectrum from controversial and rib-tickling to dramatic and absurd.

A poignant, witty and revealing portrait of how we inhabit the age we are in throughout our lives is presented in May with The Age I’m In, while in July one of the most loved ballets of all time returns to the stage when The Australian Ballet presents Don Quixote.

The always-popular Circus Oz returns in August with exquisite aerial mastery, new stunt jumping acrobatics and comedic mayhem backed by live eclectic tunes from the Circus Oz band.

Irreverent characters will take over the stage in acts of exuberant physicality from clowning and musical feats, to aerial dance and rubber-limbed tumbling.

In October, Kim Gyngell of The Comedy Company fame stars in the State Theatre Company’s God of Carnage in a story about two couples whose children have come to blows in the schoolyard deciding to meet about the incident, only to have their diplomatic civilities give way to drunken tantrums.

The season will end with Peace Train — the Cat Stevens Story is a night of music starring Darren Coggan recreating 23 hits with a six-piece band and telling the stories behind the songs.

To collect a program or book tickets, visit the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre box office, call 8723 8741 or go to the website www.helpmanntheatre.com.au.

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