Cinderella
(The Slightly Deviated Version) Well this has certainly been a full-on year. Our 40th Anniversary Celebrations and Awards Night are done and dusted. Congratulations to all the nominees and award winners. Next up is our panto “Cinderella” (the slighly deviated version). Written by Yvette Wall and directed by Michael Balmer, neither are strangers to the ITP. Some of you will remember Yvette’s outragous comedy “The Sisters of Saint Judas” which was produced by the ITP in 2018 and was directed by Michael. Yvette is an award winning, Perth based playwright, theatre producer, director, educator, mentor and founder of Off The Wall Productions. With her strong background in facilitating workshops in schools and community groups across Australia we feel privileged to be presenting her work. She is passionate about working with young people and is well known for her original fractured fairytales. And with a cast of 21 - children and adults this promises to be an absolute blast. Michael Balmer has the unenviable task of keeping the 21 cast members focussed and on script, it will like herding cats. But no bother to Michael who is a well known actor and director with a long track record of successful productions with country and metropolitan theatre groups over 35 years. Who
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could forget his outstanding performance as Charlie in the 2019 ITP production of Hugh Leonard’s “Da”.
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You have probably seen lots of versions of the Cinderella story, I can guarantee, you haven’t seen one like this. RUNNING FROM WEDNESDAY 15TH TO SUNDAY 19TH DECEMBER, WITH MATINEES ON 18TH & 19TH, BOOK EARLY ON www.trybooking.com/BUSLF AND DON’T MISS OUT.
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