Sunday Night Theatre

For over 40 years Sunday Theatre Night at Curtin has been presented by Theatre Arts and the Hayman Theatre Company. Each Sunday two short plays are produced and presented by the students of Theatre Arts. The 2024 Sunday Night Theatre ‘Spring’ program includes comedies, new works and contemporary drama.

Sunday 4 August, 7pm

CUT THE CAMERAS. DEADASS!

By Leigh Atin and Jaybe Rybicki.

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When hopeless romantic Amora gets dumped a month into her newest relationship, she spirals into the five stages of grief and is forced to navigate the horrors of life as a single, heartbroken woman in the 21st century. With the help of her best friend, her slightly concerned Dad and a whole lot of angsty music, Amora departs on a life-changing journey with one goal in mind: finding a new guy to fill the void within her. Take a deep dive into the shallow waters of modern dating, seeing the world of digital romance through Amora’s rose-tinted gaze. In the end, happiness comes from within…but there’s no harm in searching for it in other people, right?

Directed by Leigh Atin

Sunday 4 & 11 August, 7pm

STAND AND DELIVER

By Arthur Brown.

Teamwork is debatable.

One hour to prepare. One private school team to destroy. One speaker missing (she’s probably fine). Abigail, Bryn, Sonnie, Madeline, and Olivia are seasoned high school debaters ready to slay some speeches – if they don’t slay each other first. With the shadow of their missing leader Rachael looming over them, the team must race against the clock to pull together their case. But as scholarships are given, friendships are tested, and secrets threaten to surface, they must scream to make their voices heard – for better or for worse.

A coming-of-age comedy-drama about learning to use your voice – and the cost of that power.

Directed by Arthur Brown

Sunday 11 & 18 August, 7pm

I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON (No, Seriously)

By Toby Shepherd.

Two guys explore an absurd world of arson, mythical beasts and… is that Cthulhu?

Among the population of this planet we call Earth, there are two incredible heroes, named Robbie and Jules, and some mythical beasts, and some wild animals. Throw in some silly dancing, non-kid-friendly jokes, a few tentacles and whatever you find in the Cave of Wonder, and you’ve got I Don’t Know What’s Going On (No, Seriously) as they try their best to find someone who finally understands them.

Directed by Toby Shepherd

Sunday 18 & 25 August, 7pm

RED TICKET

By Josie Walsh.

A psychological thriller and drama, inspired by the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum (now the Fremantle Art Centre). The third most common reason that women were sent to the asylum was Puerperal Insanity, now known as, Postpartum Depression.

Lily is a new mum struggling with postpartum depression after the birth of her first child. In search of community and answers to her depression, which she refuses to talk about, she takes up art classes at a local community art centre. She soon discovers that the centre was previously a lunatic asylum for women in the early 1900s, the rooms previously being cells. After uncovering the story of Poppy Florence Grey, a previous patient at the asylum, Lily starts to feel like someone, or something is watching her…and the line begins to blur between what is real and what isn’t.

Directed by Josie Walsh

Sunday 25 August, 7pm

HELL-ISH

By Jack Önell.

All he wants is for him to look at him, talk to him, compliment him, that would have been enough…

Flick is a seemingly normal insurance officer worker, despite being a demon, he puts in extra hours at the office just so he can get the chance to be noticed by his boss. Momo his worried friend and co-worker tries their hardest to get Flick out of the office and have fun but their words falls on deaf ears. The decision of moving on from someone, people say is wrong for you, while all you want is to be near them, is impossible. Hell-ish is a story about not believing rumours or gossip, it’s a show of love and unique characters in a world not so different from our own.

Directed by Jack Önell

Sunday 22 September, 7pm

EGG SALAD SANDWICH

By Cat Broom & Matt Bilman.

A Meal. A Guest. A Host.

Egg Salad Sandwich brings horror to the stage, following two siblings as they grapple with the sudden deaths of their parents. In the aftermath of their loss, the two come together in the festering basement of their old family home. An examination of cruelties – real, imagined and otherworldly – and what it means to rot, the pair must decide whether to follow the path their parents have carved for them.

Directed by Matt Bilman

Sunday 22 & 29 September, 7pm

ANTPOCALYPSE

By Conor Flint.

It’s the Ant of the World as we know it

Humanity. The Magnum Opus of Evolution. Beginning as nothing more than a single cell, it has grown into a worldwide epidemic of populous, a species that has ruled the earth for generations. However, One species has begun to grow alongside these Homo-Sapien Allies… Ants. The year is 1941 and the World of this Stereotypical American Family, The Johnsons, will be turned upside down forever as everyone’s favourite six-legged picnic invaders have decided it is time to invade the World… Who will live? Who will die? Could you survive the Antpocalypse?

Directed by Conor Flint

Sunday 29 September & 6 October, 7pm

FAERIES TELL NO TRUTHS

By Aydee Bull.

Faeries Tell No Truths

When Celeste is drawn into the realm of the faeries and dealt her fate, she must do everything in her power to break the curse placed upon her. As conviction turns to desperation, Celeste is confronted by a simple fact; faeries tell no truths, and all is not as it seems to the mortal eye. Faeries Tell No Truths is a musical that weaves two worlds together and examines the strings of fate that guide us all.

Directed by Aydee Bull

Sunday 6 October, 7pm

SUDS

By Isla Simeoni.

Every girl knows, the strangers in the bathroom are always the best friends.

This is play is about the unlikely friendship between a woman and her boyfriends murdered mistress when they find that he has trapped them in a bathroom together. For the woman, the choice is simple, accept her boyfriend’s proposal or team up with a dead girl. Through this intriguing concept we meet two people who feel out of control of their lives and are forced into boxes they don’t fit in. As their makeshift sleepover commences, we see the lives they dream for slip through their fingers, through no fault of their own.

Directed by Isla Simeoni