Glenbrook Players Blog

At the end of one of our many recent lockdowns, Glenbrook Players did what they do best. They committed to bringing arts back to the community through talented volunteers as a way of tackling the isolation that had enveloped the community. I had recently been asked to...

The following post was written during the production of Cloudstreet which ran during May 2022. Going to the theatre serves many purposes. Escape. Entertainment. Reflection. Coming to see Cloudstreet will make you feel emotions. It will challenge you. It will encourage...

Tim Winton’s beloved Cloudstreet is a show of epic proportions. Normally a five hour show, director Ainslie Yardley poured numerous hours of her life into editing it down to two and a half hours. Not an easy task! With her detailed vision of the show, stage manager...

Lara Campbell’s love for performing started at age seven, doing ballet at the Glenbrook School of Arts where she is now treading the boards in Cloudstreet with the Glenbrook Players. When asked what brought her to the Glenbrook Players,  Lara explains “ After high...

Growing up in Alice Springs with parents who were heavily involved in their local theatre group, how could Madeleine Sheehy not become involved in theatre? Madeleine has been with the Glenbrook Players for twenty six years. In that time, she has been in nineteen shows...

Even in the afterglow from seeing the first show staged under my direction become a success, I recall the first rehearsal for Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton. After settling in, I mixed-up stage left and stage right with only my endless pointing helping the poor...

Having type 1 diabetes and working in the theatre are a combination, growing up, that Angela Pezzano didn’t think would be possible. Diagnosed at five and a half, in a time when technology wasn’t as good as it is today, a diabetic faced a potentially grim future of blindness, kidney failure, amputations, and heart disease. “Life then was very strictly regimented, to minimise those harms I had to learn, quite early, about really, truly, looking after myself.” 

Glenbrook Players would like to thank Stage Whispers for attending our May production of Orson’s Shadow. Please find excerpts and a link to the original article below.