EPISODE: Neighbourhood Watch

Written by Lally Katz

Directed by Lesley Reed

Produced by St. Jude’s Players

Season: 7th-16th of August, 2025

This episode of For the Love of Theatre Podcast features interviews with Director, Lesley Reed, Actors, Nathan Brown, Taya Rose, Christopher Cordeaux, Megan Robson and Dylan McGaw. We welcome back Mark Wickett, as our Host, who is also the Assistant Director of Neighbourhood Watch.

MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST HOST - MARK WICKETT

Mark has been working in Adelaide’s community and professional theatre for more than twenty years, much of it designing technical and creative solutions in video projection. Productions include: Les Misérables, Next to Normal and Oliver! For the last ten years, Mark has been directing corporate video and working with high schools in theatre and video, with productions including Matilda, The Book of Everything, and Where Words Once Were. Mark supports South Australia’s performing arts as a critic for Australia’s Stage Whispers Magazine and through serving on the Board of the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild. He was Assistant Director for the Guild’s 2023 production of The Tempest, and directed The 39 Steps for them in 2024. Later this year, he will be Assistant Director to Lesley Reed for St. Jude’s Players' production of Neighbourhood Watch.

STAGE WHISPERS ARTICLE

Click the link below to read Mark Wickett's Stage Whispers' Article on the For the Love of Theatre Podcast.

https://www.stagewhispers.com.au/community-theatre/love-theatre-podcast

Actor and Director Olivia Jane Parker talks to Stage Whispers’ Mark Wickett about her role in promoting South Australian community theatre through a podcast.

MORE ABOUT NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

Memories are windows into the past, not only for 80-year-old Hungarian refugee Ana, but also for young actor Catherine, the only neighbour Ana truly befriends in the Australian neighbourhood where she now lives.

With a story drawn from playwright Lally Katz's elderly Hungarian-Australian neighbour's real experience, NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH takes audiences from an Australian street into WWII- ravaged Hungary and back again.

With Julie Quick as Ana and Ellie Schaefer as Catherine.

SEASON

Evenings - Thursday August 7 & 14, Friday August 8 and 15, 7.30 pm.

Matinees - Saturdays August 9 and 16, 2pm.

VENUE

St Jude’s Hall,

444 Brighton Rd,

Brighton, South Australia.

BOOKINGS

Tickets https://www.trybooking.com/DCCMU

Or call 0436 262 628

Or email bookings@stjudesplayers.asn.au

MUSIC

Title Track For the Love of Theatre Podcast, Written & Performed by Ben Waller.

Original Music Composed and Performed by Sarah Bradley

IMAGE

Courtesy of Christian Hardi

www.pixabay.com

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