Entertainment
19 November, 2022
Retro Cent Sale
CAIRNS award-winning playwright, Angela Murphy from Veranda Theatre Co, will hold a Retro Cent Sale to support her latest work called More Than Tea and Scones, which tells the stories of the members of the Country Women Association (CWA) across the region.
On Saturday, November 19, the Veranda Theatre Co and members of the Freshwater CWA Hall will hold an event to raise funds for the project with a Retro Cent Sale, a sample of the show, live music and tango dancing.
“Our Cent Sale is a fundraiser and promotional event for the CWA script I’ve been writing for the last 18 months,” Ms Murphy said.
“We decided to make a Cent Sale, a CWA fundraiser; they’ve done those for many years, and people might be familiar with them.
“On top of that, rather than just making a Cent Sale, we’re having some singers from Cairns, Andrea and Louie, and we’re having an extract from my script More Than Tea and Scones with some actors.”
Murphy’s research for her new work involved travelling 2,200kms, visiting 18 CWA Halls across North Queensland and interviewing over 50 women, whose stories are woven together to create a verbatim theatre piece which she describes as “a funny, insightful, and eye-opening revelation into what the women in the CWA do, and it’s not all tea and scones.”
Everyone is invited to join the Retro Cent Sale at the Freshwater CWA Hall this Saturday from 1pm to 5pm to support More Than Tea and Scones.
