The Lane Cove Theatre Company’s first production of the year is Calendar Girls.
This production is a perfect way to start the 2026 Lane Cove Theatre Company’s Season.
Calendar Girls premiered in the United Kingdom in 2008 and has since become one of the most frequently produced contemporary plays worldwide.
Tim Firth’s hilarious play, based on the true story of eleven women who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls is a witty and heartwarming story of friendship and determination.
The season runs from 20 February 2026 to 1 March 2026.
What Would You Do In the Face of Grief?
Set in the rolling hills of Yorkshire, Calendar Girls follows a group of ordinary women who, in the face of grief, decide to do something extraordinary.
When Annie’s husband John dies of leukaemia, she and her best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room.
They persuade four fellow Women’s Institute members to pose nude with them for an “alternative” calendar, with a little help from the hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence.
The news of the women’s charitable venture spreads quickly, and a swarm of press soon descends on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales.
The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie’s friendship is tested by the strain of their newfound fame.
The ensemble cast includes Michael Bellamy, Anita Lenzo, Pauline Gardner, Josephine Birch, Jannette Chambers, Georgina Philpott, Karen Firmstone, Darren Gibson, Blake Nicholas and Anastasia Vokhmyakova.
How to Book
Where
The Pottery Lane Performance Space
Lower Ground Floor/ 1 Pottery Lane, Lane Cove Parking available in the Little Street underground carpark (next to the Lane Cove Aquatic Centre).
Tickets
CALENDAR GIRLS
By Tim Firth
Directed by Kathy Petrakis
20 February – 1 March 2026
www.trybooking.com/DHVSR
Showtimes
Friday 20 February 7.30 pm
Saturday 21 February 7.30 pm
Sunday 22 February 3.00 pm
Friday 27 February 7.30 pm
Saturday 28 February 2.00 pm
Saturday 28 February 7.30 pm
Sunday 1 March 3.00 pm
Lane Cove Theatre Company Website
Website: www.lanecovetheatrecompany.com
An amateur production by arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical, on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.
Lane Cove Theatre Company’s 2026 Season
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
By Lally Katz
Directed by Kathryn Thomas
20 – 31 May 2026
AFTER DINNER
By Andrew Bovell
Directed by Andrew Castle
21-30 August 2026
ALL THINGS MUST PASS
By David Potter
Directed by Luke Derrick
September 2026
XANADU JR
Book by Douglas Carter Beane
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar
Directed by Trent Gardiner
13-29 November 2026
Would You Like To Be in a Lane Cove Theatre Company Production?
Why not audtion for their next play: Neighbourhood Watch
“Many people will want to kill you. Better you is ready.”
This glorious comedy about hope, death and pets, takes on a sense of enormity in the midst of the ordinary, questioning whether we really know what’s out there in the ‘burbs’.
Auditions are running on 22 and 24 February 2026, and bookings are open now.
BOOK YOUR AUDITION
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