Welcome to the world of Prospect Productions
Our works include the Emmy Award-winning children’s telemovie “Captain Johnno” the break-out theatrical comedy “Alzheimer’s the Musical: A Night to Remember” and for the Adelaide Festival of Arts the stage production, “Lovers & Haters: The Turbulent Times of Don Dunstan.” Recent productions include 3 highly successful documentaries for the SA History Festival and “Coral Browne: This F***ing Lady” which had seasons in Adelaide, Melbourne and London.
Brand New for the Adelaide Fringe
Don’t miss it!!
Book now at adelaidefringe.com.au
Hot flushes are so last century! Old is the new black! Yesterday we were chicks now we’re chooks! WTF happened? Retired, but not retiring we’re everywhere – volunteering in op-shops, gardens, galleries, as lollypop ladies.
From the team behind ‘Alzheimer’s the Musical: A Night to Remember!’ – performed around Australia and the Edinburgh Fringe – comes another riotous ride with women behaving badly, singing loudly & embracing life. Y.O.L.O!
Lock up your grandfathers! These old girls just wanna have fun! Just be grateful there isn’t time to shoot the nude calendar – or is there?!
Written by Maureen Sherlock and starring Kathryn Fisher, Sue Wylie, Rose Vallen and Maureen Sherlock.
March 1, 2, 8, 9 @ 3.30pm Holden Street Theatres
March 6 @ 2pm Domain Theatre, Marion Cultural Centre
Concession $25, Full $30 (plus booking fee)
Recent Projects
Film
Madge and Bibs and the Advancing Girls
Madeline Rees George (“Madge”) dominated girl’s education in South Australia for almost half a century. She was the long-serving Headmistress at the very progressive Advanced School for Girls and an indomitable figure in the colony and always with her, but in the shadows, was her younger sister, Marian (“Bibs”).
The Many Loves of Geoffrey Dutton
Geoffrey Dutton made his mark nationally and internationally as a writer, poet, publisher of Sun Books and the ABR and founder of the Adelaide Festival of Arts and Writer’s Week. He was married to broadcaster and ceramicist Ninette Dutton but after 40 years Geoffrey walked away from his family and from Adelaide.
Von Loves Her Modernist
Precocious, brilliant and energetic poet, Max Harris, is Adelaide’s own enfant terrible. In the late 1930s he sets out to throw hand grenades at the cultural establishment. He falls in love with Von Hutton while still at school and they stay together for 55 years.
The Battle for Jericho
When sorting out her mother’s estate, Sarah uncovers evidence that the real cause of her sister’s death was an attack by a mutant, brain-eating jellyfish that had infiltrated the water supply.
Stage Plays
Alzheimer’s the Musical: A Night to Remember!
Residents of the Jurassic Park Retirement Village, Mary, Rose and Jo are determined to ‘never say die!’ In a fast-paced series of sketches and songs they show why growing old disgracefully is the only way to go.
Ada And Elsie: Wacko-the-diddle-oh!
Step back in time to the golden age of radio comedy with those two old-fashioned girls, Ada and Elsie. When the wireless was the centre of the entertainment universe, Ada and Elsie’s unique brand of comedy was broadcast around Australia for sixteen years.
Books
It’s 1947 and in the remote South Australian town, Honiton, a skeleton is discovered encrusted in salt in the middle of the dry, Lake Beauty, that borders the town.
Newly arrived sergeant, Sam, and his wife, ex-policewoman, Annie, have to battle local prejudices, post war domestic tensions, pressure from senior police and a lake that occasionally fills and then dries to a thick salt crust, to solve the mystery.
Lake Beauty reveals a world that no longer exists – one where rural societies were independent and in self-sustaining. Where people shared phone lines, printed their own newspapers, baked their own bread, made their own furniture and where the GP and the local hospital were the only source of medical treatment and expertise. It was also a world in which damaged men returned from war to find their community had changed while they were away, attitudes challenged. They resisted.
It’s 1947 and in the remote South Australian town, Honiton, a skeleton is discovered encrusted in salt in the middle of the dry, Lake Beauty, that borders the town.
Newly arrived sergeant, Sam, and his wife, ex-policewoman, Annie, have to battle local prejudices, post war domestic tensions, pressure from senior police and a lake that occasionally fills and then dries to a thick salt crust, to solve the mystery.
Lake Beauty reveals a world that no longer exists – one where rural societies were independent and in self-sustaining. Where people shared phone lines, printed their own newspapers, baked their own bread, made their own furniture and where the GP and the local hospital were the only source of medical treatment and expertise. It was also a world in which damaged men returned from war to find their community had changed while they were away, attitudes challenged. They resisted.
About us
Rob George
Rob is a graduate of Adelaide University with a diverse body of work in film and television. His credits include the Emmy Award-winning telemovie Captain Johnno, the family series The River Kings, and the action/horror film Fair Game, which was re-released in the US in 2022. He co-wrote the feature film Passion, based on his stage play Percy and Rose, featuring Richard Roxburgh and Barbara Hershey.
Maureen Sherlock
Maureen has an extensive background in writing for both stage and screen. Her award-winning comedy show, Alzheimer’s the Musical: A Night to Remember, has been performed across Australia, as well as in Edinburgh and Surprise, Arizona.
