Last minute tickets still available for opening night

AFTER a very successful 2023 year of live theatre with well received and highly acclaimed productions of Australians All by Jonathan Baggins and Rebecca Lister’s 2.20AM, Offshore Theatre Inc is about to bring their first show of 2024, Sunset Strip by Suzie Miller to local audiences in the Newhaven College Black Box Theatre.

Opening tonight at 7.30pm the staged play reading of Sunset Strip evolves around four characters. Ray, Caroline, Phoebe and Teddy. At its core the two sisters, Caroline and Phoebe are chalk and cheese. Both are shaped by their shared childhood and their more recent experiences which include cancer, addiction, a Social Services intervention and more.

As they wrestle through memories and their own experiences of love, the audience sees that they are desperately trying to find a way to fit back together with adult understanding and acceptance. Ray, their father, is struggling with dementia and his fading life and Teddy, Phoebe’s fiancé, is awkwardly trying to be a better person while fighting his demons.

Sunset Strip is essentially a play which explores human vulnerability while highlighting the power of love, devotion and family loyalty no matter how clumsy and compromised it may be. Audiences will find themselves wanting Caroline and Phoebe, their dad Ray and Phoebe’s Teddy to have redemption and the chance of a fresh start and a better future. Perhaps they will, perhaps they won’t. Either way Sunset Strip is about a family reconnecting and determined to triumph over the lousy cards life sometimes deals.

Directed by the versatile Remi D’Agostin, Sunset Strip introduces three new local actors – Jason Good as Teddy, Ruby Spencer as Caroline, and Christy Spottiswood plays Phoebe, and they are joined by well-known and highly regarded Simon Furness as Dad, Ray.

Don’t miss this contemporary and involving quality drama.

Performances are at the Black Box Theatre Newhaven College, 1770 Phillip Island Road.

Tickets are available now on TryBooking for the two evening performances at 7.30pm on June 13 and 14 and two matinees at 2.30pm on June 15 and 16, tickets are also available at the door.

Audiences are advised to arrive half an hour before shows start.