Flashlight Theatre Company

14/09/2024

4th festival done and dusted!
Seymour was another wonderful festival and a stellar way to conclude the season for Flashlight 2024 x

No nominations were announced but we were the lucky recipients of:
* Adjudicators Award - Katherine Mathieson (for her performance as Darcie)
*Best Lead Male Runner Up - Ben Peake
*Best Director - Natalie Burns
*Best Staging

Thanks to our wonderful cast and crew this season; for being such incredible humans and performers! It was an absolute pleasure working with you these past few months and sharing non stop laughs as we rehearsed and performed (and everything in between)! Xx

08/09/2024

Festival #3 at Kyneton today!
Another fabulous and fun festival with an awesome vibe :)
No nominations were announced but we were fortunate enough to take home a few wins!

Design Award (sets, props and costumes)
Best Supporting Actress for Di Thompson
Best Supporting Actor for Ben Peake

25/08/2024

Festival #2 FAMDA (South Gippsland)
Another great festival down in Foster this weekend performing 'Turbulence'.
We received a number of NOMINATIONS for our performance:

Best Supporting Actor
Di Thompson

Most Outstanding Lead Actor
Nat Burns
Ben Peake

Best Playwright
Natalie Burns

Congrats to our theatre friends who took home the wins!

Next, we hit up Kyneton in a fortnight's time!!

18/08/2024

First festival down and dusted at the Dandenong Ranges One Act Play Featival this weekend!
Today was our very first performance of our new play 'Turbulence'. We were all extremely nervous and excited for the debut of Flashlights 10th play, but none more than Stuart McCarthy who, after operating as tech crew for our 9 previous plays, stepped into the spotlight in the lead role. And he smashed it!! Congrats to our stellar cast - Di Thompson, Ben Peake and Katherine Mathieson, and to Beck Birch as our tech crew! What a fun time today was!

We received a few NOMINATIONS for our efforts :)
*Best Suppprtong Comedic Actor (Diana Thomspon and Nat Burns)
*Best Original play
*Best Comedy
*Best Ensemble

Thanks so much to all our family and friends who came along today - we appreciate your love and support so very much!

Now onto Foster for our second festival next Saturday!

07/08/2024

In 2024 Flashlight is once again hitting the One Act Play Festival Circuit with our new production 'Turbulence'!

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Come along and see us perform at one of the following festivals:
Dandenong Ranges OAPF Sunday 18th August @ 2:30pm
South Gippsland OAPF Saturday 24th August @ 2:30pm
Kyneton OAPF either Saturday 7th or Sunday 8th September time TBC
Seymour OAPF Saturday 14th September time TBC

10/09/2023

And that's a wrap for 2023!
It has been so wonderful to share the stage with such an amazing cast and work with an awesome crew this season as we travelled the festival circuit.
Having not performed since 2019, it was such a joy for us to 'get creative' again, share in many laughs and eat a whole lot of 'pie'!

Sincere thanks to everyone who was involved with 'Roadside' (such an amazing bunch) and all to those that came along to watch us perform, get slammed with whipped cream and slip on a whole lot of blood (fake of course). Thanks for the memories!

Until 2024...

03/09/2023

Such a fun performance today at the Kyneton One Act Play Festival. So many laughs!
Working with this ensemble is such a joy. Just one show left!

Nominations:
Best Supporting Actor - Ben Peake
Best Supporting Actress - Natalie Burns
Best Supporting Actress- Katherine Mathieson
Best Director - Natalie Burns
Best New Play - Roadside
Best Production - Roadside

Winner:
Best Sets and Costumes

27/08/2023

South Gippy One Act Play Festival!
Such a good time with this crew at a wonderful festival. We were lucky enough to win the *Design Award * and received nominations for the following:
Best Playwright
Best supporting actor female - Katherine Mathieson
Best supporting actor male - Shane Marenghi
Best actor male - Ben Peake

21/08/2023

21/08/2023

First OAP festival and debut performance of 'Roadside' done and dusted! So amazing to finally hit the stage with this show after a 2 years hiatus!
We are all so excited to do it all again this coming weekend!
We will be performing at 10am Sunday 27th at the Foster One Act Play Festival (Foster War Memorial Arts Centre). Come along and enjoy the festivities!

16/08/2023

Flashlight's first performance of 'Roadside' is this Sunday 20th at the Gemco/ Dandenong Ranges One Act Play Festival. We are performing second in the afternoon session and would love to have your support in the audience!

We are also performing next weekend at the South Gippsland One Act Play Festival in Foster on Sunday 27th in the morning slot.

Come along and have a laugh!
Kyneton and Seymour details to follow.

23/07/2023

Flashlight is back for 2023! We are soooooo excited to finally be bringing our comedy ‘Roadside’ to the stage in the coming months, performing at several One Act Play Festivals around Victoria. We will not be doing an independent showcase this year, which means if you would like to catch the show, you will need to come visit us at either Forster, Kyneton, Seymour or Emerald. Speaking of which – Emerald is first up! Flashlight will be performing at the Gemco Theatre (19 Kilvington Drv, Emerald VIC 3782) on Sunday 20th August in the 3:00pm timeslot. Tickets are limited so book in fast to secure your seat!
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1089557

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