Saturday
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- Taree parkrun, Endeavour Place, 8am.
- Forster parkrun, Pebbly Beach, 8am.
- Wingham Farmers Market, Wingham Showground, 8am-noon.
- Bulahdelah Markets, Visitors Centre Grounds, Bulahdelah, 8am to 1pm.
- Manning Valley Relay For Life, Club Taree, 9am.
- Drag-ens Hot Rod Club "Rattletrap", Crowdy Head Beach, 9am (both days).
- Motorcycle Expo, Gloucester Showground, 9am.
- Taree Collectors Club Antiques Fair, Taree PCYC, 9am (both days).
- Hallidays Point Open Gardens Day, Hallidays Point, 10am-4pm.
- Microchipping Day, Taree Pet Barn,10am-1.30pm.
- Colour Ya World, Oyster Parade Park, Forster, 1pm.
- Upper Lansdowne Players, 6.30pm for 7pm (see below for details).
Sunday
- Black Head Bazaar, Reserve, 8.30am-2pm.
- Upper Lansdowne Players, 2pm for 2.30pm (see below for details).
Event spotlight: Upper Lansdowne players present new play
The kitchen is ready to cater for the May dinner shows and afternoon tea matinées.
The homecooked meals will accompany a truly hilarious nautical play within a play, with probably the longest title ever – ‘We Found Love and an Exquisite Set of Porcelain Figurines Aboard the SS Farndale Avenue’.
Mrs Reece, the indomitable and insufferable leader of the Farndale Avenue Dramatic Society, takes her small troupe on an ambitious production in which they lurch from crisis to mismanaged crisis.
Set in the 1930s on a luxury ocean liner and then a desert island, its cast do not always manage the full switch between their multiple roles, or if they do, they forget to stay in them.
Nor do the special effects always go as planned, or the right props turn up. She even sets them to singing and dancing, which often deliver the unexpected.
It's too well directed by Vivienne Scott to be silly and too well written by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr. to be slapstick, but it will have the audience in stitches.
The cast of Cathrine Newall, Natasha Buckley, Richard Coleman, Sharyn Munro and Sue Lythgoe are supported by Ian Lythgoe upstairs in the light and sound attic, and Juno and John Jenkins behind the scenes with the very large amount of props.
Jodie Lee arranged the choreography, Rita Preece advised on the music, and Sue Lythgoe made the costumes that the players couldn't source. Dinner shows are on Saturdays May 6,13 and 20, seating 6.30pm for 7pm, $37.50, BYO, for three course meal and show.
Matinées are on Sundays May 7, 14 and 21, seating 2pm for 2.30pm, $25 for afternoon tea and show.
Book at upperlansdownehall.org.au/bookplays or call Pieta on 0409 456 846.