The Mysterious Amateur Tramp

A REHEARSED PLAY READING (Two Performances Only)
MARCH 1, 2025 at 2.00pm and 7.30pm
Richmond School or Arts
Corner March and West Market Streets, Richmond NSW

Matinee Show: Doors open at 1.30pm and the show starts at 2pm.
​Evening Show: Doors open at 7.00pm and the show starts at 7.30pm.
​Did you know that a play reading was how Richmond Players began – over 70 years ago?
WHAT IS A REHEARSED PLAY READING? I HEAR YOU ASK!
It’s reading a play in front of an audience as the name suggests - but the actors who are ‘reading’ have spent a little time together getting to know the play, discussing what it’s about, learning about the objectives of the characters and actually doing several readings of the play so that they begin to take on the roles and make the characters more real.
THE WRITER
Jenny Davis OAM with collaboration by Melanie DeCull.
ABOUT THE PLAY
This one-act play is the reimagining of the extraordinary walk of journalist and mystery crime writer Aidan de Brune - the first person to walk solo and unassisted around the perimeter of Australia - and survive.

20 September 1921 to 4th March 1924. 10,600 miles, 29 months and countless boots.
Everywhere he walked people signed his travel diary, evidencing his presence at the places he passed through.

During his walk he followed the railway lines and telegraph poles and visited newspaper offices along the way which helped in documenting and authenticating his walk.

There was more to Aidan than anyone truly knew. Who was he? What was he escaping? What was he trying to find?

​Watch Melanie's interview on ABC TV here: More About Aidan De Brune​
CAST
​AIDAN DE BRUNE |
​Michael Eadie
​HERBERT CULL |
​Steven Wimmer
ENSEMBLE
Kelly Cairns
Rachel Crew
Megan Garnsey
Michael Garnsey
Rhonda Jones
​Aurel Vasilescu
Steven Wimmer
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CREW​
DIRECTOR |
Carol Wimmer
 PRODUCTION MANAGER |
Steven Wimmer
STAGE MANAGER |
Caitlin Maxx
LIGHTING DESIGN |
Steven Wimmer
SOUND DESIGN |
Courtesy of TAZ Entertainment 
SOUND OPERATOR |
Katja Maxx
LIGHTING OPERATOR |
Toby Walker
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ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Enjoy a wonderful performance on the Richmond School of Arts stage, in the tradition of a classic radio play, great characters and always a little something more prior to the reading.

​Tickets just $10. A great chance to introduce you or a friend to theatre.
Photos: Penny Johnson