As I write those words, I reflect that it is probably just as hard, or maybe harder, to get it wrong as it to get it right. Beaumaris should give itself a hearty pat on the back for pulling this off.

Would you believe They Came From Mars required over 100 props? And as many were not available ‘off the shelf’, items such as the cardboard shark and cow, semaphore case, fake hands, crown, Polaroid photos, cutouts of clouds, the moon, rainbow, comet, Mars Bar and even foam rubber sandwiches all had to be created. Indeed, whole set build days were dedicated to their creation.

Introducing the fabulous cast of They Came From Mars & Landed Outside the Farndale Ave Church

Our shows this year attracted audiences of more than 3,000 people. The four shows included 40 cast members, 25 crew and 22 musicians. This is over and above the more than 50 volunteers who provide all necessary things that a production needs, including set building, wardrobe (costumes), props, publicity, front of house, managing our website and Trybooking page, cleaning the Theatre and surrounds ordering supplies ensuring maintenance items are completed. So thank you to all our volunteers for ensuring Beaumaris Theatre can provide a great venue.

They Came From Mars and Landed Outside the Farndale Avenue Church is a play within a play so characterisation can be quite challenging at times developing the character as the Farndale character intermittently with the role that character is playing in their play about Mars! You have to see it to believe it! Often the dialogue is interspersed with both characters and as actors, we are playing two to three roles each throughout the play.

Working with Neil, Annie, Georgy and Meredith is an absolute delight. The more mishaps that happened during rehearsals, the more we laughed and the more Georgy, Meredith and Annie will say: "Let’s keep that in"!!!

Oh, I love the Farndale plays! The hilariously funny and clever scripts of David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr are about a group English ladies, who every year, put on a play at the local community theatre. There's only one small problem: they're abysmal actors. Abysmal. They can't remember their lines, they have no sense of timing, and every once in a while they just skip pages of the script. To make things worse, the bumbling stage manager is always required to step in, because one of the Farndale ladies inevitably succumbs to some sort of catastrophe...and the sound and lighting technician can never get anything right...ever!

What a wonderful year we have had! With four very different shows but each successful in their own way.

On Friday 29 November we gathered to celebrate a wonderful year of theatre, outstanding creative achievements and the people who made them possible.

Beaumaris Theatre prides ourselves on producing theatre of extraordinary standards, none of which would be possible without our 2019 creative teams, casts and crews and our entire Beaumaris Theatre family. We can’t thank you enough for your devotion and commitment to your craft and giving our audiences four magical theatrical offerings which were each triumphant in their own unique way and we made them laugh, cry, applaud and ultimately uplift and entertain them and we couldn’t be more thrilled with our 2019 theatre season and our Talbots Re-Imagined.

Meet the talented Liam McWhinney who is currently starring as Buddy Holly in Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story!

I could gush and write effusively with exaggerated enthusiasm at length, however, I would like to reflect on the overwhelming reactions of our adoring audiences. The original ten shows sold out in record time and we added three additional shows which also sold out before our opening weekend was over.