A comedic and poignant portrayal

Everything Must Go on at Phee Broadway Theatre

Nancy Browne

Turn off the main road, follow the gravel road up the hill. Nancy Browne is having a garage sale. There will be treasure like you can’t imagine. Like you really can’t imagine. 

Everything Must Go is the first show in the 2013 Phee Broadway Theatre Season and it’s on Friday 19 April at 8pm.

Eccentric and reclusive, Nancy Browne has lived in the same house, the same Tasmanian valley all her life, but now the valley is changing — farms are being sold and city people are moving in bringing with them new ideas and new ways.

And now the farm has been sold. A developer has bought it and is going to create a suburb on it, ‘Perfect Ponds.’ The wider world has encroached and Nancy has to make sense of it. She also has to move house.

Directed by three-time Barry Award nominee Damian Callinan and performed by Rachel Leary, Everything Must Go is a comedic and poignant portrayal of a mis fit finding her way. 

Set in Tasmania’s Huon Valley the show explores the mixing of subcultures that occurs as city folk move into rural areas. It centers around one character, Nancy Browne, whose family has been living on the same farm for many years, but now, she must go.

Charming and odd, Nancy draws out family stories from the items she is selling in her garage sale, as well as highlighting her own original take on the world. She tells stories of the valley where she lives, her neighbours and the changes that are taking place. 

Hilarious, ridiculous and very touching, this is a fabulously unique Australian character.  

Tickets for Everything Must Go are $25 or $22 for concession. To purchase your tickets contact The Capital Box Office on 5434 6100 or buy online at www.pheebroadwaytheatre.com.au

The Phee Broadway Theatre is in Mechanics Lane, Castlemaine.