Director
Megan Dansie
Performance Dates
Fridays & Saturdays 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, 31 March at 8pm
Sundays 18 & 25 March at 4.00pm
Tickets: Adult $20, Concession $16, Groups of 10 or more $14
Sundays 18 & 25 March at 4.00pm
Tickets: Adult $20, Concession $16, Groups of 10 or more $14
Next Production - The Compleat Female Stage Beauty - Australian Premiere
Written by Jeffrey Hatcher, Directed by Megan Dansie
Samuel Pepys’ Diary 18 August, 1660
Restoration actor, Edward Kynaston is the toast of London, excelling in all female roles, which women, themselves, are banned from playing. But when the fun-loving King Charles II changes the law, allowing women to act, and banning men from playing them on stage, Kynaston’s world is turned upside down. He loses his livelihood, his lover and his sense of self. While his former dresser and the king’s mistress, Nell Gwynn, become stars, he’s reduced to drag roles in music halls…until fate and his desire for revenge give him the chance to take to the stage again.
Contemporary American playwright, Jeffrey Hatcher, was fascinated by Kynaston’s story in Pepys’ diary, and his bold, bawdy, poignant comedy is the result. Now, for the first time in Australia, The Stirling Players, directed by Megan Dansie, will bring you the intrigue, the manners, the bitchiness of 17th Century society, its court and its theatre. Be prepared to be delighted and shocked!
Megan Dansie was the 2011 Adelaide Critics Circle Award winner for Best Individual Achievementt in the Amatuer category for The Pillowman (Adelaide University Theatre Guild). The Stirling Players won the award for Best Comedy at the Adelaide Theatre Guide’s Curtain Call Awards in both 2011 & 2009. We invite you to the theatre in March to see why!
Cast
 | Edward Kynston | Aldo Longobardi |
 | Thomas Betterton | Lindsay Dunn |
 | Samuel Pepys | Peter Bleby |
 | Maria | Karen Burns |
 | Lady Meresvale | Maisie Fabry |
 | Miss Frayne | Ruth Horry |
 | Sir Charles Sedley | Barry Hill |
 | Margaret Hughes | Alison Scharber |
 | Charles II | Joshua Coldwell |
 | Nell Gwynn | Kate Vanderhorst |
 | Hyde | Neville Phillis |
 | Mistress Revels | Debbie Tester |
 | Sir Peter Lelly/Ruffian/Ensemble | Steve Marvanek |
 | Male Emelia/Ruffian/Ensemble | Anthony Vawser |
 | Ruffian | Saul Vanaxton |
 | Production Coordinator | Jan Farr |
| Director | Megan Dansie |