{"id":279836,"date":"2020-10-06T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T08:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=279836"},"modified":"2021-04-09T16:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T06:13:41","slug":"book-a-night-of-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/10\/06\/book-a-night-of-laughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Book A Night Of Laughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_279845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279845\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201006cucumber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-279845 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201006cucumber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201006cucumber.jpg 740w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201006cucumber-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201006cucumber-269x167.jpg 269w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201006cucumber-285x177.jpg 285w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201006cucumber-340x211.jpg 340w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201006cucumber-263x163.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-279845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Un-Cucumber Man &#8211; a comedy of errors &#8211; stars Des Hall, Valerie Mathews, Mathew Carlson, Mattia Micco Iraci and Joclyn Richardson, front (missing Kelsey Anderson) (Photo: NTC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>October 6, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Audience numbers are limited to just 24 for each session of Nanango Theatre Company&#8217;s upcoming short season of romantic comedies &#8211; so you&#8217;d better book your tickets straight away!<\/p>\n<p>The NTC&#8217;s first production for 2020,\u00a0dubbed &#8220;Make It A Date!&#8221;,\u00a0 is a collection of four one-act plays: &#8220;Blind Date&#8221;, by Peter Quilter; &#8220;Short Term Affairs&#8221;, by Donna Spector; &#8220;Pastiche&#8221;, by Nick Hall; and &#8220;The Un-Cucumber Man&#8221;, by Ian Austin.<\/p>\n<p>They will be staged under a COVID Safe plan at the NTC&#8217;s theatre building on the corner of Elk and George streets, Nanango, on October 23-24 and 30-31 at 7:00pm plus a matinee session from 1:30pm on October 24.<\/p>\n<p>A second matinee session on October 31 has also been pencilled in but has not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Bookings &#8211; in cash &#8211; can be made at the Nanango Visitor Information Centre (the Energy Museum) in Henry Street.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The four comedies &#8211; who doesn&#8217;t need a laugh in 2020? &#8211; promise to provide a huge night of fun entertainment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8221; &#8216;Pastiche&#8217; is an English fast-paced situational comedy that we presented 10 years ago, and has a strong cast,&#8221; NTC president Jon Fearnley said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s being directed by Anne Davoren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anne also directs &#8216;Blind Date&#8217;, a short reflection of the difficulties of mature people dating, and featuring Lloyd Macpherson and new member Karen Denniss,&#8221; Jon said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brad and Kieran Boynton then feature in the witty &#8216;Short Term Affairs&#8217; that examines the elements of attraction and how personal differences affect relationships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jon is directing this play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The program finishes with the comedy of errors, &#8216;The Un-Cucumber Man&#8217;, by Queensland playwright Ian Austin. Also directed by Anne Davoren, it features a strong cast of Des Moore, Valerie Mathews, Mattia Micco Iraci, Mathew Carlson\u00a0and newcomer Kelsey Anderson,&#8221; Jon said.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $20 (adults) and $15 (concession).<\/p>\n<p><strong>[UPDATED with correction]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audience numbers are limited to just 24 for each session of Nanango Theatre Company&#8217;s upcoming short season of romantic comedies &#8211; so you&#8217;d better book your tickets straight away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":279845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[863,3],"tags":[23,30],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Book A Night Of Laughs - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Audience numbers are limited to just 24 for each session of Nanango Theatre Company&#039;s upcoming short season of romantic comedies - 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