1972-1979

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1979

  • Eat Your Heart Out (April)

    By: Alan Parker

  • Driven to Murder ​(July)

    Director: Frank Booth

    Stage Manager: Ian Jeans

  • Mother Goose (August)

    Pantomine

    Director: Janet Slattery

  • Ride a Tiger (September)

    One-Act Play

    Entered in both the Kyneton Festival and the Ballarat South Street Competition. 

  • Bell, Book and Candle (September)

    Music by: John Kander
    Lyrics by: Fred Ebb 

    Director: Loris Blake

  • Oh What a Lovely War

    By: Helen O'Connor & Simon Hopkinson 

    ​Director: Margaret Pierce

    Production: Wendy Blake

1978

  • Who Says Murder? (April)

    Director: Patti Whiteley

    Producer: David Reeves
    Stage Manager: Margaret Pierce
    Technical Director: Kerry Birchell 

  • Mixed Doubles (September)

    A series of 8 two-handed short plays staged at the Kyneton Arts Festival)

1977

  • Official Opening of The Original Mountview Theatre

    Two plays were performed, both directed by Nevil Thurgood

    The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women 
    by Alan Hopgood
     

    Don't Utter a Note

    by Philip King & John Boland

  • The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women 

    By: Alan Hopgood

    Directed by: Nevil Thurgood

  • Don't Utter a Note

    By: Philip King & John Boland

    Directed by: Nevil Thurgood

  • Cinderella (December)

    A pantomime by: K.O. Samuel 

    Director: Jenny Shaw

1976

  • Further Furtive Fortunes of Fickle Fate

    By: Neville Thurgood

    Directed by: Neville Thurgood

  • The Fly By Twilight (June)

    By Paul Dornhorst

    Director: Nevil Thurgood 

  • Two One Act Plays (September)

    - No Man's Land
    - Autolycus Regained

    Entered in the Kineton One-Act Play Festival

  • Much Ado About Nonsense (December)

    Director: Nevil Thurgood

    Music Hall/Melodrama, toured to Ballarat, Romsey and Broadmeadows

1974 - 75

  • Three One-Act Plays (May 1974)

     - Needle and Pins
    - Wolves
    - The Dear Departed

  • Mystery at Greenfingers (July 1974)

    Directed by Nevil Thurgood

  • Pitfall (October 1974)

    One-Act Play

    Directed by Nevil Thurgood

  • Furtive Fortunes of Fickle Fate (1975)

    By: Neville Thurgood

    Directed by: Neville Thurgood

  • Three One Act Plays (August 1975)

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1972 - 73

  • One Wedding, Two Brides (1972)

    One-Act Play

    Performed at Kyneton One-Act Play Festival.

    Directed by Nevil Thurgood

  • Three One-Act Plays (1972)

     - The Man in the Bowler Hat
    - The Crypt
    - The Witching Hour

    Directed by Nevil Thurgood

  • Queer Street (1973)

    One-Act Play

    Performed at Bendigo OAP Competition

    Directed by Nevil Thurgood