NEW EPISODE: THE WATSONS

The Watsons

Written by Laura Wade

Directed by Matthew Chapman

The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild

SEASON: 1st - 10th August 2025

📍The Little Theatre

This episode of For the Love of Theatre Podcast is hosted by Annabel Whitford, featuring interviews with Director, Matthew Chapman, and cast members Lindy Lecornu (Lady Osborne), Genevieve Hudson (Miss Osborne) & Imogen Deller-Evans (Emma Watson), all from the upcoming production of The Watsons, written by Laura Wade, produced by The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild.

SUMMARY

The Watsons are in crisis. Cut off financially from her benefactor, the youngest, Emma, returns to her dying father and spinster sisters with the task of finding a husband - and finding one now. Matchmakers, match breakers, cads, stuffy clergymen and an overactive rumour mill all conspire as wedding bells ring in the distance and Emma eyes off a certain man…and that’s where we leave it.

See, Jane Austen never finished the story.

So it’s up to Emma, with the help of modern-day Laura, a jaded playwright with a rapidly approaching deadline, to find her own happy ending…

And that’s where the fun really begins.

Laura Wade’s witty, bold adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel is a playful, provocative exploration of choice, control, and who really gets to write the ending.

BOOK YOUR TICKETS

SEASON: 1st - 10th August 2025

📍The Little Theatre

Tickets from http://trybooking.com/cxjin

MORE ABOUT OUR HOST

Annabel Whitford is the Administrator of the Theatre Guild. She dances through life as a cheeky mix of backstage boss and jazz-handed showoff. A passionate arts advocate, champion for the underfunded, spreadsheet whisperer, and sequinned menace, Annabel is here to make the world more fabulous and slightly more organised.

📸 Headshot taken by Richard Parkhill

MUSIC FOR THE EPISODE

The Tile Track - For the Love of Theatre Podcast,

Written and Composed by Ben Waller.

All other music for this episode was sourced in the Public Domain.

Freccero - 6th Street (Austin), Pixabay

Scarlatti - Sonata in G major, K.547 - Arranged for Harpsichord by GregorQuendel, Pixabay

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QUERENCIA CALLING

PRODUCED BY: PITCHWHITE PRODUCTIONS

WRITTEN BY: SHARYN HENDERSON

DIRECTED BY: GEOFF BRITTAIN

CAST: Cheryl Douglas, Georgia Stockham, Alicia Zorkovic, Perrin Abbas, & LA Foale.

SEASON: 19TH - 28TH of JUNE

VENUE: STAR THEATRES

This episode of For the Love of Theatre Podcast features an interview with Pitchwhite Productions Founder, Lochie Daniel. This discussion focuses on their production company and their latest show, QUERENCIA CALLING.

SUMMARY

“Everyone carries an invisible backpack. Filled with past experiences, emotions, dreams, pain, challenges and successes.

Some days it feels too heavy to bear. On those days, who will you ask to help carry the load?”

Five friends whose connection spans from their university days to their current “mid-life” examines the bonds that can remain strong even afterlife and distance get in the way.

This original production was written by an emerging Melbourne Playwright, Sharyn Henderson.

WHERE?

VENUE: STARS THEATRE 2

Stars Theatres

145 Sir Donald Bradman Dr,

Hilton South

Australia 5033

WHEN?

Thursday 19 June 2025

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Friday 20 June 2025

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Saturday 21 June 2025

Matinee 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Evening 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Thursday 26 June 2025

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Friday 27 June 2025

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Saturday 28 June 2025

Matinee 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Evening 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

BOOKINGS

www.trybooking.com/DAVIB

MUSIC

Title Track - For the Love of Theatre Podcast composed and performed by Ben Waller.

Beautiful, by Giulio Cercato

Moody Acoustic Minor Folk Full catch22music from Pixabay

IMAGE

Photo by Connor Martin: https://www.pexels.com/photo/zigzag-road-between-green-trees-5526447/

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COMIC POTENTIAL

Written by, Alan Ayckbourn

Directed by Greg Elliott

Blackwood Players

This episode of For the Love of Theatre Podcast is hosted by Mark Wickett, and features interviews with the Director of Comic Potential and Blackwood Players President, Greg Elliott, Assistant Director, Brooke DuBois, Tech lead and Blackwood Players Life Member, Tim Gladdis and Amber Faull who stars as Jacee Triplethree, Comic Potential's lead character.

MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST HOST - Mark Wickett

Mark has been working in Adelaide’s community and professional theatre for more than twenty years, much of it designing technical and creative solutions in video projection. Productions include: Les Misérables, Next to Normal and Oliver! For the last ten years, Mark has been directing corporate video and working with high schools in theatre and video, with productions including Matilda, The Book of Everything, and Where Words Once Were. Mark supports South Australia’s performing arts as a critic for Australia’s Stage Whispers magazine and through serving on the Board of the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild. He was Assistant Director for the Guild’s 2023 production of The Tempest, and directed The 39 Steps for them in 2024. Later this year, he will be Assistant Director to Lesley Reed for St. Jude’s production of Neighbourhood Watch.

SUMMARY

A sensation in London and New York, this is one of the funniest and most inventive plays by Britain's grand master of comedy.

A hilarious satire of television and a touching romantic comedy, it begins in a television studio where a hospital soap opera is being taped. One actor starts speaking gibberish; he is an "actoid" a robot and his programming is off kilter.

Adam, the young nephew of the producer and an aspiring writer who worships the director (once a great movie director and now a broken down has been), is on the set. Adam starts chatting with Jacie Tripplethree, the actoid (serial number JC333) playing the nurse and finds, to his surprise, that not only can she carry a conversation but, due to what she calls a fault in her programming, she has a creative imagination.

Adam wants to build a new television series around her but the studio will not hear of it. He also finds he is falling in love with the charming robot!

Will Adam get the green light on his series? Will love prevail?

Jacie is one of Ayckbourn's greatest characters; her portrayer won all of London's major acting awards.

VENUE

BLACKWOOD MEMORIAL HALL

Fridays 16 & 23 May (8pm)

Saturdays 17 & 24 May (2pm & 8pm)

Tickets: $25pp; $20 concession; $15 students

Please note: No cabaret seating

Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1363859

More info: 0402 616 924 / blackwood.players@gmail.com

MUSIC

Title Track For the Love of Theatre Podcast, Written & Performed by Ben Waller.

'Glow' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

IMAGE

https://pixabay.com/illustrations/ai-generated-nurse-doctor-health-8846722/

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