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Kucom Theatre (formerly known as Mackay Community Theatre) has been entertaining audiences in Mackay and surrounding areas since 1947

SNAPSHOTS - PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS

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An overview
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In the beginning .....  

Mackay Community Theatre – the beginnings

Milestones: the first Management Committee

Milestones: the first production

A treasure Trove of theatre history – early MCT productions

Philip Johnson’s plays – lost in the mists of time?

Club Nights

Kucom Youth Theatre 

Kucom Film Unit

Radio plays

Club Night - the golden days of radio with John Pickup

Behind the scenes

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People

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Life Members (in alphabetical order)

Anne Clutterbuck

Biddy Docherty (dec.)

Bronwyn Grannall

Bruce Shepherd (dec.)

Catherine Parr

Heather MacTavish

Ian Hobday

Jan Smith

Jim Kelly

Joe Clutterbuck (dec.)

John and Barbara Tait

John Irvine

John Taylor (dec.)

Ken Sanders

Lorraine Smith

Maureen Coleman

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Some of our favourite people

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Mackay Community Theatre

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1940s

One-act plays (1947)

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1950s

The Holly and the Ivy (1954)

The Hasty Heart (1958)

 

1960s

Johnny Belinda (1963)

The Shifting Heart (1965)

Doctor at Sea (1966)

Seven Nuns at Las Vegas (1968)

 

1970s

Hello Dolly! (1971)

Half a Sixpence (1972)

Milestones: 25 years (1972)

Dark of the Moon (1975)

Billy Liar (1975)

Anything Goes (1975)

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​Kudos and beyond
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Kudos and beyond

Hotel Paradiso (1976)

Abelard and Heloise (1976)

Sweeney Todd (1977)

Move Over, Mrs Markham (1979)

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Kucom

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1980s

Inherit the Wind (1980)

What the Butler Saw (1981/2002)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1981)

A Taste of Tudor (1981)

The Man from Muckinupin (1982)

Stop the World, I Want To Get Off! (1983)

Chicago (1985)

Death Trap (1987)

Seven Nuns at Las Vegas (1989)

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1990s

Once in a Blue Moon (1994)

The Odd Couple (1996)

Unexpected Pleasures (1996)

My Three Angels (1996)

Milestones: 50 years (1997)

Fatal Attraction (1997)

They Came from Mars ... (1997)

Disconnections  (1997)

And So Say All of Us (1999)

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The new millennium

Fish, Farce & Femmes (2000)

A Night with David Tristram (2001)

No Names, No Pack Drill (2003)

Salt (2003)

Veronica’s Room (2004)

A Different Way Home (2005)

The Farndale ‘Mikado’ (2005)

Shirley Valentine (2005)

Skate (2005)

Beautiful Thing (2006)

The Memory of Water (2006)

Rumours (2006)

Milestones: 60 years (2007)

Blurred – where are they now? (2007)

Secret Bridesmaids’ Business (2007)

The Exorcism (2007)

Bazaar and Rummage (2008)

Agnes of God (2008)

Triple Treat 2009 (2009)

Fallen Angels (2009)

We Found Love ... (2009)

Triple Treat 2010 

It’s My Party (And I’ll Die If I Want To) (2010)

The Shoe-Horn Sonata (2010)

Triple Treat 2011 (2011)

Brilliant Lies (2011)

Night Watch (2011)

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​The homeless years
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Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (2012)

A Year in the Death of Eddie Jester (2013)

Aladdin (2013)

Run For Your Wife (2014)

Plays at Paxtons (2014) 

The One Day of the Year (2015)

Caught in the Net (2015)

The case of the missing piano (2015)

The Diary of Anne Frank (2016) 

North Queensland Festival of One-Act Plays (2016)

Milestones: 70 years (2017)

The Anniversary (2017)

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Our new home

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The Sum Of Us (2018)

The Vicar of Dibley (2018)

The Mousetrap (2019)

The Drive Home (2019)

Honey Spot (2019)

First Things First (2020)

Cinderella’s Halloween Adventure (2020)

2020 – A Retrospective (2020)

When the Rain Stops Falling (2021)

Milestones: 75 years (2022)

Sound & lighting platform construction (2022)

Dinkum Assorted (2022)

The Vicar of Dibley 2 (2022)

The Foreigner (2022)

Quartet (2022):

A Lady of Letters

Murder Most Fowl

Putting Back the Fest

In Good Spirits

Perfect Wedding (2022)

Things I Know To Be True (2022)

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