BATHURST Memorial Entertainment Centre’s (BMEC) 2018 season will showcase a wide range of productions for varying audiences.
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The latest season of entertainment was unveiled to the public at a special event on Tuesday evening.
From March, people will be able to enjoy everything from family entertainment to Shakespeare and acrobatics.
BMEC general manager Stephen Champion said it was an exciting program filled with some unique and new productions.
“There is definitely something for everybody,” he said.
“Some things won’t have been seen anywhere else, for example we have the world premiere of The Climbing Tree, and that’s a work that we’ve commissioned that I’m really proud to be directing and we’ll involve as many regional artists as we can.”
The Climbing Tree is about what it is like being a teenager growing up in Bathurst, but it is not just set in the present, instead covering the past 200 years.
It will premiere in early November, 2018.
Also premiering at BMEC in 2018 will be L-FRESH The Lion, a Western Sydney hip-hop artist who will combine with the Mitchell Chamber Orchestra for one night only in October.
“L-FRESH is definitely a get up and dance and definitely appeals to a younger audience, although we hope some of our older patrons will go along to that as well,” Mr Champion said.
For the younger primary school and preschool audiences, BMEC will offer adaptations of Alice in Wonderland and Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvelous Medicine, along with Patch Theatre Company’s Yo Diddle Diddle.
“The development of the stage version started here in Bathurst in primary schools as part of our long-standing relationship with Patch Theatre Company, to involve young people in the processes that lead to performance, not just going along as an audience,” Mr Champion said.
Friends of BMEC members can purchase their tickets for any of the productions in the 2018 season up until January 15.
After this date, sales will be opened to the general public.
Mr Champion said it takes several years to develop a season of shows and work was already underway for the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
Visit the BMEC website for a full list of productions coming to the venue in 2018.
