Synopsis

We connect with the ‘Man in the Chair’ as they look back at the 1928 comedy production of The Drowsy Chaperone, a golden age musical about an eccentric group of characters gathered for the wedding of Janet Van de Graaff and Robert Martin. Before the wedding has even begun, a calamity of characters, each with their individual opinions on the event, collide as they try to reach their own ends. The show becomes a fiasco of colour and ridiculously exaggerated personalities accompanied by an eclectic but energetic score. Despite all scheming, ‘cheating’, and ice-water related incidents, everyone finds love in the end: what’s not to love?

Show Dates

Thursday 12th December, 7pm - 9pm.

Friday 13th December, 7pm - 9pm.

Saturday 14th December, 7pm - 9pm.

Location

Kaleide Theatre, RMIT City Campus, 360 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Accessibility

Friday 13th December will feature captioning. The Kaleide Theatre is a wheelchair accessible venue.

Acknowledgement

RMIT RedActs acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we rehearse and perform this story. RMIT RedActs respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.

Contact the host of RMIT RedActs Presents: The Drowsy Chaperone