Directed by: Jan McLachlan

Embers recounts the courage, survival and community strength shown when residents faced the extreme adversity of the 2003 fires in the Eastern Alpine area of Victoria. Campion Decent's award winning play uses material from Government transcripts and interviews with residents from the rural townships involved. These are true stories with real emotions from actual people and events. The content is still relevant today as we continue to battle bushfires.

A marvellous piece of verbatim theatre, with 10 actors playing multiple roles. The Director acknowledges the support received from the playwright Campion Decent.

It is both ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. # Warning - special effects will be used.

Directed by: Jennie Bazell

The Peach Season is a powerful, salutary tale showing what it’s like to be a young person desperate for independence and the pitfalls of being a parent during the painful process of letting children fly the nest. A story of first love and the love between a mother and a daughter.

A moving and suspenseful story

Directed by: Rob White

Natural Causes is a black comedy/thriller dealing with the subject of death through misadventure and misunderstanding. Suicide, murder, manslaughter, affairs … it sounds pretty serious – but it’s hilarious!

Liberating - joyful, enlightening, funny.

Directed by: Joy Sweeney

That famous mismatched couple, Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, have become Florence and Olive, two complex and complicated women. Audiences will have a ball as they navigate the pitfalls of relationships and friendships of single women in 1980s New York. Be prepared for a play full to the brim with heart, warmth, spirit and cracking one-liners.

Directed by: Racquel Boyd

A well-meaning neighbour innocently passing information to redheaded Rhonda, unwittingly sets in motion a catastrophic sequence of events. A complicated story unfolds as seemingly unconnected characters contribute their points of view and disclose, to the audience, their own involvement in the events.

Directed by: Diane Howden

Summary: When the commission to transform a Victorian era slum in South London into modern low-rise community-friendly dwellings comes his way, David, a passionate and idealistic architect, couldn’t be more excited. But the potentially career changing utopian development on Basuto Road soon takes on a very different shape. Moving back and forward in time between the late 1960s and early 1980s London, Benefactors encompasses universal themes that resonate powerfully today. Against the backdrop of urban renewal, this edgy and intriguing play gives us four people whose intentions are not always as they seem.
Approximate running time 2 hours and 20 minutes including Interval.

Directed by: Joy Sweeney

Set in England in the 1950s, when convicted murderers faced the hangman’s rope, this famous thriller will have you on the edge of your seat. When what seems like a foolproof plot, involving blackmail, coercion, murder and intrigue, does not go exactly to plan, the results are devastating. The suspense is heightened as Inspector Hubbard races against the clock to set a trap to bring the real criminal to justice.

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

Directed by: Vivien Wood

Reginald, Wilfred and Cissy, three former opera singers, have their companionable existence at the retirement home for musical artists challenged by newcomer Jean. A gala concert is planned for Verdi’s birthday. Can differences be settled, histories put aside and beautiful music recreated?\

The Production runs for approximately 2 hours and 25 minutes including interval.

Can you teach an old dog new tricks?

Directed by: Catherine Potter

Ross Gardiner, a young business executive, is sentenced to six months of community service visits to Mr Green, an elderly, curmudgeonly widower. Both resent being forced together and, in the relationship that develops, prejudices are challenged as family and social issues are discussed. Against the backdrop of Mr Green’s tired Manhattan apartment, Jeff Baron skilfully and humorously raises some profound questions about the value of tradition and the true nature of loving and being loved.

Life sometimes takes an unexpected turn.

Directed by: Jan McLachlan

A community committee in a small NSW country town meets to plan celebrations for the forthcoming Australia Day. With its assorted local stalwarts and politicians, long-time residents and unwitting newcomers, they attempt to create the perfect celebration for this most Australian of days. You will laugh out loud.

A fair dinkum, politically incorrect comedy.

Directed by: Helen Williams

When the mysterious Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly at the prosperous Birling family home, their dinner party is shattered by his investigations into the death of a young woman. Secrets are exposed, individual truths are revealed and a web of deceit is unearthed as each family member is placed under the spotlight.

All people are intertwined... all actions have consequences.

Directed by: Julia Griffith

Following the death of her husband from leukaemia, Annie and best friend, Chris, resolve to raise money for a new settee in the hospital waiting room. They persuade fellow members of the Women’s Institute to pose with them for an “alternative” calendar. As media interest snowballs, the girls find themselves exposed in ways they never expected.

They dropped everything for a good cause.

Directed by: Patsy Templeton

Now the one thing that the Gregg family loved to do more than anything else was to go hunting. But not everyone felt the same way. Particularly our 8 year old heroine. “I can’t stand hunting. I just can’t stand it.” And so she decided to do something about it. Something magical. Suitable for children aged 5 to 105.

” A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”

Directed by: Racquel Boyd

This play is for anyone who has ever owned a dog, loved a dog, or wanted to wring a dog’s neck. Here is a delicious and dizzy romantic triangle between Greg, Kate and a mongrel called Sylvia, who, as Kate puts it, eats a serious hole in their 22 year marriage.

“good Sylvia good”

Directed by: Jennifer Willison

Feeling lost and unsettled in the shifting social currents of post WW1 London, two women rent a villa in Italy. They recruit two other very different women to share the costs. Having left their husbands behind, and now in the Tuscan light and warmth, these women rediscover themselves in ways they could never have imagined.

This beautiful play will leave you positively glowing.

Directed by: Dave Went

Two couples meet to resolve an unfortunate playground incident between their sons. As the evening proceeds, the thin veneer of civility, refinement and manners is stretched to breaking point. This skillfully written, award winning play holds the mirror up to middle class hypocrisy to great comic effect. This Play runs for 80 minutes without an Interval. Refreshments will be served before and after the show.

A comedy of manners...without the manners!

Directed by: Diane Howden

A sweet-natured dominatrix arrives at her next appointment only to find that what she's been hired to do does not fit her job description. Suddenly caught up in a web of deceit and murder, and fearing for her life, she manages to escape. But does she? What unfolds in this clever comedy thriller is an intriguing series of twists and turns that will eventually determine her fate.

As one door closes another opens, but to where...and to when?

Directed by: Vicki Nield

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, Pymble Players has had to CANCEL this production for 2016. We look forward to bringing you Roald Dahl’s Magic Finger as our Christmas show in 2017.

Directed by: Jennifer Willison

This is Ayckbourn as you have never seen him before. Two sisters are reunited at the family home following the death of their father. Each haunted by her own past, a blackmailing nurse preys on their vulnerabilities...or so she thinks! This ghostly tale of intrigue and suspense will keep you hanging on its every twist and turn.

A ghost story revealing insights into human nature.

Directed by: Jan McLachlan

In an English country house an eccentric inventor is murdered and his important formula stolen. One man immediately senses a potent brew of despair, treachery and deception among the house party. That man is Hercule Poirot. Enjoy the classic Christie setting for a Poirot whodunnit - French doors, elegant women, country tweeds and knowing housekeepers.

A clever, beguiling mystery - your coffee will never taste the same again!

Directed by: Nanette Frew

A young man is on trial, accused of stabbing his father to death. This is 1950s New York. Eleven jurors are convinced of his guilty: one juror is not. It will be a long, hot night. While tempers fray and arguments grow heated, we are caught up in the tension that will eventually seal the fate of one young man.

A gripping, thought-provoking drama.

Directed by: Patsy Templeton

Backstage at the King's Theatre we enter the world of Nell Gwyn and her fellow actresses as they are first allowed to perform on stage. After years of Puritan rule, London society clamours to see women playing roles previously the domain of beardless youths. Follow the mixed fortunes of these women who struggle out of the gutter towards the stars.

A powerful human drama with great heart.

Directed by: Sharon Mullin

After spending her first 7 years in India as the well loved, only child of wealthy Captain Crewe, Sara travels to London to study at Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls. She thrives at school and is mostly well liked. On her 11th birthday disaster strikes and Sara is thrown from riches to ruin.

A gentle, heart-warming story told with song and dance.

Directed by: Angus Templeton

Sex, Love, betrayal... belligerent sexual tension... jealousy and forgiveness: much ado about nothing! Shakespeare's most modern comedy introduces confirmed bachelor Benedick, smart and sassy Beatrice, card carrying villain don John and a host of others and pits them in a war of the hearts.

Set in post war Australia, this comedy shows the timelessness of Shakespeare's themes.

Directed by: Carla Moore

75 year old Aunt Augusta, a free spirit with a casual disregard for money and conventions, takes her dull retired bank manager nephew Henry Pulling on an odyssey. They exchange suburban London for South America and meet a smorgasbord of crazy characters. Through their adventures - dealing with pot-smoking, currency smuggling and shielding former war criminals - Henry is coaxed out of the prison of suburbia and finds freedom.

Directed by: Vicki Nield

Peter George, charismatic academic maverick, is dead. Two ex-wives, his daughter and his current wife come together to mourn a man who was a life-eater, a dashing bastard with feet of clay.
As the true nature of the man unfolds, the women discover much about themselves and their lives both in and out of his shadow.

Raw. Complex.Compassionate. Full of passion and dangerous wit.

Directed by: Keith Potten

Is it good to have pipe dreams? Is the grass greener on the other side?
In this powerful and evocative mid-twentieth -century domestic drama, father of the family, Jim Cherry, dreams of retiring to a cherry orchard in Somerset ... but has he got what it takes?

another masterpiece from the playwright of A Man for All Seasons.

Directed by: Jan McLachlan

This Christmas play " Spin Me a Tale " written by Director Jan McLachlan, will come with fun , music, and much laughter for everyone.It purports to be the usual load of nonsense , song and dancing to give lots of fun to you all.

Directed by: Catherine Potter

Influence is about how easy it is to whip up hatred and how difficult it is live a decent and tolerant life" says David Williamson. This is a stinging but funny play about power, manipulation and fear created by the "shock jocks" of the airwaves.

Directed by: Helen Williams

LaBute is a well known American playwright/director in film and theatre. Here we have a modern take on Adam's seduction by Eve, where Adam goes to extraordinary lengths to satisfy her. The denouement will leave you stunned.

Directed by: Jennifer Willison

Three Australian families set out for the summer holidays. The conflict within each family is replicated by the violent storm which drives them together. The Shakespearian themes of comedy and tragedy are interwoven throughout the story which is at times funny and at times poignant. It ends with the eternal feeling of hope.

Directed by: Jan McLachlan

Can you ever really go back ? A group of baby boomers joined the accepted back-packing exodus to Europe and found themselves working on an idyllic Greek island where they formed "The Swimming Club". Now they return hoping to rekindle the magic from that era but have the intervening years made this an impossibility? Lives, loves, relationships and human frailties are examined in this witty but searching play

Directed by: Diane Howden

The Aviator, the King, the Fox and the Rose are just a few of the wonderful characters the Little Prince meets on his journey through the Solar System

Directed by: Vicki Nield

Bleak Mid Winter … cut off by snowdrifts.
Not the best start for Molly and Giles, Proprietors of Monkswell Manor … especially when some people are not what they seem.
Three blind mice …??? See how they …???
Mystery! Malice! Murder!
Can you pick ‘Whodunit??’ If so; SSSSHHHHH!!!

Experience what's kept this play onstage for over 50 years.

Directed by: Sue McIntosh

With a setting in the late 1930’s Dymphna Cusack takes her audience deeply into the world of a girls’ college, where three teachers attempt to defend a student allegedly engaging in ‘immoral behaviour’. The action takes place over a few days in the hotbed staffroom, at a time in society when dedicated women were booted out of the teaching profession if they married or if their slightest moral indiscretion set off a landslide of innuendo.

The play evokes strong emotions.

Directed by: Des Harris

Sit back and enjoy some of the theatre’s most famous larger than life characters as they are revealed in this production of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning play. Big Daddy, Big Mama, Brick and Maggie the Cat, fill the stage with an ‘odour of mendacity’, as the Southern plantation Pollitt family unveil the repressed themes of death, greed, homosexuality and family relationships. Watch as the truth is drawn out in climactic revelations that bring the characters tumbling back to reality from their haze of superficiality.

A true classic not to be missed.

Directed by: Racquel Boyd

It is the night before Meg’s long awaited wedding. She and her bridesmaids have gathered for one last night of bachelorette fun … but as the tensions rise and scandals are revealed Meg’s dream of marriage is challenged and her friendships are rocked. Before she walks down the aisle, Meg will have to decide what really is important and who will be standing with her.

Friendship isn't always what it seems!

Directed by: Jodine Muir

Scruffy Ruffkin is a goofy, fun-loving teddy bear on a brand new Christmas Adventure!

It's Christmas Eve and all Scruffy wants is to be delivered by Santa to a forever home and a new best friend, but a greedy elf has other plans - and Scruffy and his crew of crazy friends are toy-napped from Santa's sleigh. Now they're a long way from home and gotta get out of a whole sackful of trouble!

So join the fun and laughter of this exciting new family show as this raggedy bunch of misfits sets out to save Christmas.

Suitable for those aged 4 and up!

Directed by: Catherine Potter

A young corporate CEO has recently been appointed to a charitable organisation to apply new methods to its fund raising efforts. She encounters such resistance to her business style by some of the longer serving members of staff that Jack Manning is called in to resolve the conflicts. Is it just about management style or are there other factors driving the division? In the face of heightened emotions and sustained resistance, can Jack help clarify what's really going on?

A vital, intense and humourous play from our best known Australian playwright.

Directed by: Nanette Frew

This double bill of two short plays, written by Ireland's greatest living playwright Brian Friel, is based on a story and a one-act play by Anton Chekhov. In The Yalta Game, an innocent game at the famous Black Sea resort turns into a passionate affair for a Moscow bank clerk and a young married woman. In The Bear a man-hating widow and a woman-hating creditor square off over one of her deceased husband's debts. Both plays explore the love that affirms life in the face of convention and routine, the mundane and the commonplace.

A delightfully intriguing double-bill from Russia with love.

Directed by: Jennifer Willison
by special arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd

In this macabre comedy, the two elderly Brewster sisters extend their well intentioned but lethal charity towards lonely old men seeking lodgings, assisted by their nephew who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt. Add a second nephew, a drama critic recently engaged to be married, his murderous brother who looks like Boris Karloff, a gangland surgeon and various local police, and we enter the madcap farce that became the much loved film adaptation with Cary Grant.

A classic comedy of elderly ladies dispensing elderberry wine with crazy consequences

Directed by: Patsy Templeton

"Even water has memory - you can dilute and dilute but the pertinent thing remains......it still exerts influence" Three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. As the differences in their own memories of their childhood are revealed, conflicts and tensions emerge, and the sparks fly. But ultimately it is the fabric woven in that early family life that finally allows them to forgive each other and become united. This cleverly written play will resonate, particularly if you have siblings!

Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 2000

Directed by: Jan McLachlan

Hey Diddle Diddle, a pantomime written especially for Pymble Players, brings the cat, the fiddle and the jumping cow to the stage. Come see the Dame, the Principal Boy, and all our favourite characters from the traditional nursery rhymes. Songs, dancing and plenty of audience participation will entertain the young and the young at heart with a pantomime that has a magic all of its own.

Suitable for those aged from 2 years to 92 years.