TICKET PRICES
General Admission $40 (plus $3.33 booking fee)
Lake Mac Arts Member $36 (plus $3.12 booking fee)
Tickets available at the door subject to availability.
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Please note there is no need to print your tickets off for this event, the staff can provide electronic check in upon entry.
RUNNING TIME
Approximately 90 minutes with a 10 minute interval
CAST
Jo Bloom is our Nurse in Romeo & Juliet, and in our other productions plays Lady Macbeth, Helena, Cleopatra, and Caliban. She has performed Shakespeare across the UK and Australia in castles, theatres, cathedrals and botanical gardens. She’s worked with the British Shakespeare Company, Australian Shakespeare Company, and has performed in every production by Come you Spirits, which she founded. Jo also works as an energy healer and plant medicine practitioner.
Sontaan Hopson plays Juliet in our Romeo & Juliet, and in our other shows is Ariel, The Witch, Charmian and Hermia. She is a multiple award-winning actress of stage and screen, who has toured theatre across Australia including Sydney Opera House with Oneness - Voice Without Form, as Calpurnia in Julius Caesar, and winning People’s Choice Award for Pride an Prejudice Short and Sweet.Sontaan is also a qualified Spiral Practitioner, emotional clearance facilitator, and energy worker, helping raise the vibrations of all across the globe.
Charles Mayer is our Friar Laurence in Romeo & Juliet, and also plays our Macbeth, Prospero, Antony, and Demetrius-Bottom. He is a graduate of Guildhall School of Music & Drama and a former infantry commander in the British Army. He has performed in many TV and film productions and on the West End stage, Shanghai, and across Australia and New Zealand with State Theatre Company of South Australia and Pop-Up Globe, and is co-founder of Come you Spirits, performing with the other actors in all five productions.
Ciarán O'Riordan is Romeo in our Romeo & Juliet, and also plays our Ferdinand, Lysander-Puck and MacDuff. Recent other credits include Grain in the Blood at KXT, Mel Stanwyck in Chimerica (New Theatre), and original plays What Have You Done (Chippen St. Theatre) and Sydney The Folk Musical (Newcastle Fringe, Sydney Folk Festival). He has also devised and directed a pop-up production of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Past Shakespeare credits include Pistol in The Merry Wives of Windsor (New Theatre), Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Acting Factory), Pericles in Pericles of Tyre (The Acting Factory), Ned Poins in Henry IV Parts One and Two with Streamed Shakespeare, as well as Silvius in As You Like It and Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night as part of ACA's Graduating Company of 2020.
Nathan “Bear” Meola is a storyteller and healer who helps people connect more deeply with their bodies and awaken their mythic imagination through story, ceremony, and the art of slowing down. He weaves between communiites bringing people together shairng the ancient craft of storytelling, running storytelling workshops, retreats and working with private clients in in service to art, love and connection.
VENUE INFORMATION
PARKING
Parking is available in designated areas surrounding the venue, including two accessible parking spaces in front of the theatre.
ACCESSIBILITY
Accessible access to Rathmines Theatre is available via the ramp on the lake side of the theatre. There are two accessible parking spaces in front of the theatre. There is one accessible unisex toilet (right-hand transfer), and one accessible male toilet (ambulant).
HEARING LOOP
A Hearing Loop is available in the theatre. To receive the signal directly a patron can switch their hearing aid or cochlear implant process to the T Switch, or Telecoil position.
ACCESSIBLE SEATING
Accessible seating is available inside the theatre. Please indicate when booking your tickets or contact the theatre on 02 4921 0400 or email [email protected]
DRINKS AND SNACKS
Beer, wine, soft drinks and snacks will be available for purchase. Please note, Rathmines Theatre is an EFTPOS only venue.
This event may be photographed and filmed and your image could be used in advertising and promotion by Lake Macquarie City Council. Should you wish to not be photographed or filmed please advise event organisers on entry at the event.
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