Sir Terry Pratchett's at Holden Street Theatres
Dates: (10/30/2024 - 11/2/2024 )
Holden Street Theatres |
Sporadic Productions
32-34 Holden Street, Hindmarsh SA 5007
Hindmarsh,South Australia 5007
Tickets: $35 Adult / $28 Concession / $28 Group (6+)
Sporadic Productions is proud to present a stage adaptation of Sir Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld novel “Maskerade”. This comedic murder mystery parodies The Phantom of the Opera while weaving a fantastical tale about the masks – figurative and literal - that we all wear.
Welcome to the Ankh-Morpork Opera House, home to music, theatrics, and a masked ghost… where dying on stage is a bit more than just a metaphor.
Young not-quite-a-witch, Agnes Nitt has left her home in Lancre to seek a career at the Opera House. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, on their way to Ankh-Morpork for... unrelated reasons... would much rather she return home and join their coven.
Opera is nothing if not dramatic, and now all three are caught up in a maelstrom of masked mayhem and maniacal laughter (delivered via handwritten note), but most certainly not featuring a precariously hanging chandelier.
As the corpses pile up and the corps de ballet clamour for additional hazard pay, only one thing is certain – the show must go on!
“Maskerade” written by Sir Terry Pratchett
Adapted by Stephen Briggs
Directed by Danny Sag
Cast and Creative team for Sir Terry Pratchett's at Holden Street Theatres
Cast
Kahlia Tutty
Granny Weatherwax
Aimee Ford
Nanny Ogg
“I’ll just help out backstage.” That’s how it starts. Next thing you know it’s 9 years later and you’ve been involved in numerous theatre productions, radio plays, fundraisers and a national fan convention. Having found her People and made life-long friends, Aimee sincerely recommends getting involved in community theatre and book clubs! Aimee is chuffed to be playing Nanny; she too likes crafts, music, and cats. She also enjoys innocently surprising people with the odd double entendre (though a single one will do – if you know how to work it in).
Natalie Haigh
Agnes Nitt
Natalie might have a figure for opera but unfortunately a voice for karaoke. With musicals off the cards, Natalie jumped into community theatre in 2016. Since then she has performed in a number of theatre productions, radio plays and also behind the curtain as stage manager. Outside of the theatre, Natalie is a fan of the Discworld books, well, a fan of reading in general. Natalie also enjoys playing tabletop board games and watching Korean dramas (it’s TV with bonus reading!)
Chris Coulter
Seldom Bucket
This is Chris’s first performance since moving back to Australia from British Columbia. While living in Canada, Chris had the privilege of working with some of Vancouver’s historic theatre companies including Metro Theatre, Deep Cove Stage and Theatre Under the Stars. Chris is very pleased to have been given the opportunity to work with the talented Sporadic Productions, theatrical family.
Mike Shaw
Salzella
Josh Mitchell
Andre
Josh has dabbled on and off in community theatre since 2015, mostly for the quality company. He has been an avid Discworld reader for nearly as many years as he's been reading, and is excited to be making a pipe organ wish it was a pianola for the first time since his mandated piano lessons as a teenager.
Kristin Kleinman
Mrs. Plinge
Kristin is honoured to join the Sporadic company as the resident old lady, a role she played countless times in high school productions. Sometimes she feels like maybe she was meant to be a little old granny, since she's already so little and her joints are only getting worse.
This is her first production since 2017 when she performed with a small company in Paris. She has spent the last eight years travelling and is happy to have landed in a corner of the world filled with the fellow cheerful nerds of the Sporadic crew.
Shaun Helbig
Walter Plinge
Alycia Rabig
Christine
David Dyte
Dr. Underschaft
David has been involved in the theatre for many years, moving from acting in an amateur theatre company to creating Sporadic alongside his friends. He has acted in many productions based in the Discworld and other works, as well as been involved in dance. His appreciation for the works of Sir Terry Pratchett drive his performance and production of Maskerade while also, on occasion, driving his children crazy. One of them may have helped write this.
Tony Cockington
Enrico Basilica
A relatively late discoverer of Pratchett, Tony has nonetheless been on stage or in the audience for many of Unseen Theatre Company’s productions of the Discworld works. Maskerade is his second outing with Sporadic Productions having been in their Fringe performance of Doctor Who’s Midnight previously. “Sporadic are a great bunch of people and I love working with them” he was heard to utter while being strung upside down, covered in honey and beset by a swarm of angry bees.
Molly Dyte
Tammy
Molly has been in the performing arts since the age of four. Beginning with dance she moved to stage work and then into acting. She has been working with Sporadic since the company’s inception and, as a long time fan of Sir Terry Pratchett’s work, put her passion for the Discworld and the stage into her performance of the character Tammy in Maskerade.
Danny Sag
Kevin
Colloquially, fans of Terry Pratchett are known as Kevins, and Danny is probably Adelaide’s biggest Kevin. Now, after years of being a fan, acting in Discworld plays with Unseen Theatre Company, and helping to run both the City of Small Gods fan club and several Australian Discworld Conventions, Danny has turned his hand to directing Discworld… and embodying an actual Kevin.
Hugh O'Connor
Mr. Goatberger
Hugh’s first time on stage was playing Death in The Last Continent in 2009; the start of his affection for both the Discworld and amateur theatre. In 2015, he, along with Paul Messenger and David Dyte, started Sporadic Productions to provide an environment for other actors, directors, writers, and creative types to also fall in love with amateur theatre. Hugh has worked with a number of theatre companies over the years, but keeps coming back to the Discworld - this time playing a dodgy businessman who tries to swindle an old lady and, one of his favourite characters, a cat! While this time he’s not in his old Death robes, he’s certain this won't be his last Discworld show.
Paul Messenger
Mr. Pounder
Paul has been treading the boards on and off in Adelaide for over two decades, and has appeared in numerous Discworld adaptations since 2010. He founded Sporadic Productions with David Dyte and Hugh O’Connor in 2015 with the intention of producing interesting and humorous theatre… but here in the Discworld, it turns out that sometimes when you put money in, you get opera out! Sort of.
Bel Spangenberg
Giselle
Bel has dabbled in both community theatre and musicals since 2015, and over the last 7 years has been performing with Soul Factor Gospel Choir. It is said that photographic evidence exists of Bel dressing up as a ballerina at 5 years old (if you believe her mother). Now a lot taller and whole lot less coordinated, Bel is thrilled to be joining the Sporadic Productions family on the stage for the first time, rather than sitting in the audience.
Creative Team
Paul Messenger
Producer / Production Manager
Hugh O'Connor
Producer
David Dyte
Producer / Assistant Director
Danny Sag
Director
Alexandra Roberts
Technical Director
Charles Dyte
Stage Manager
Kathryn MacKinnon
Propmaster
Jeff Sawade
Photographer
Alycia Rabig
Media Manager
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