ESSENDON THEATRE COMPANY

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5 – 8 & 12 – 14 September 2024

Recent widower, writer George Schneider, is encouraged by his younger brother Leo to start dating again, which sends George into even more of a depression after a series of bad matches. Then Leo comes up with Jennie Malone and she’s a keeper. Still, it’s a bumpy trip on the road to Dreamland for these not-so-young lovers. George and Jennie stumble on, overcoming both their hesitation on the rebound and emotional neediness. In a hilarious, farcical subplot, Leo has a fling with Faye, Jennie’s neurotic married friend.

Auditions will be held on August 18, 24 and 25. 

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Accusations, mistaken identities, and romances run wild in this traditional, laugh-out-loud farce. Two nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing have been secretly making wine to keep the convent’s doors open, but Paul and Sally, reporters and former fiancees, are hot on their trail. They go undercover as a nun and priest, but their presence, combined with the addition of a new nun, spurs paranoia throughout the convent that spies have been sent from Rome to shut them down. Wine and secrets are inevitably spilled as everyone tries to preserve the convent and reconnect with lost loves.
We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Lands on which Essendon Theatre Company is located, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging and acknowledge that Sovernity was never ceded