Something for everyone

TWO revuestyle gala shows will bid a ‘‘Farewell to the Fortune’’ next month.

This joyful oldfashioned celebration will feature songs and excerpts from four of the Fortune Theatre’s most popular productions: ❑ Danny Mulheron and Stephen Sinclair’s

The Sex Fiend sees newly elected university sexual harassment officer Matt, trying his hapless best to be sensitive to all.

❑ The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s most enduring play. In this ‘‘trivial comedy for serious people’’, Mr John Worthing hopes to marry Miss Gwendolen Fairfax. Having been found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station, he is considered an unsuitable match by her formidable mother.

❑ In Roger Hall’s Conjugal Rites, it’s the morning of Gen and Barry’s 21st wedding anniversary. They talk of film stars and crushes, bad habits and change, and wonder where the time went.

❑ A spoof of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic movie, Patrick Barlow’s worldwide hit The

39 Steps takes you on a frantic train ride from London to Edinburgh with underwear salesmen, a man on the run, police, a beautiful woman, and others.

Produced by Karen Elliot and fellow Stage South members, and supported by the Otago Community Trust, ‘‘Farewell to the Fortune’’ will be on at the Mayfair Theatre on November 9 and 10.

The excerpts in the gala will be linked by commentary from MCs Peter Hayden and Pip Laufiso, as well as additional songs from Roger Hall shows.

The excerpts will feature local theatre professionals, including Alex Martyn, Barry Dorking, Danny Still, Fran Kewene, Jodie Bate, Katherine Kennedy, Kris Bate, Matt Wilson, Orion CareyClark, Patrick Davies, Rosella Hart, Ross Johnston, and Sara Georgie.

Join Stage South to bid farewell to the Fortune Theatre, and to look to Dunedin’s theatre future.

‘‘Farewell to the Fortune’’: