SYNCHRONICITY Performing Arts is planning to develop more community connections thanks a new relationship with Impact Recovery.
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The relationship will see Synchronicity return to the stage and bring their next production to Temperance Hall in View Street.
Temperance Hall is the home of Impact Recovery and Teen Challenge who work to provide programs that have an impact on the community.
Synchronicity founder Wendy Collishaw said Impact Recovery have allowed the theatre company to use the hall for their production of Agatha Christie's Go Back For Murder.
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"They have very kindly given us the use of the hall for our next performance," Ms Collishaw said.
"They recognise the role of performing arts in community both as an expression of soul but also as a way to build up and encourage individuals in their strengths.
"We've come to agreement with the people running the programs and they are happy to make community connections.
"We also want to use the hall for community activities. Part of what Synchronicity is moving into is training activities. So that might be music or drama training classes."
Go Back For Murder will be presented in March and is Synchronicity's first production since coronavirus shut down the arts sector.
"We are all so keen to get going," Ms Collishaw said. "(The shutdown) was really horrible. We closed in March and had a show scheduled mid April that we had cast.
"The training options (planned for this year) were meant to start last year. Like every company, it just all got shelved."
Ms Collishaw said Go Back For Murder was originally a book featuring detective Hercule Poroit.
"She wrote Poirot out (when adapting) the play. The lead characters are a lawyer and a girl wanting to prove her mother didn't murder father," she said.
Nick O'Meara and Saari Frochot-Chauhan will take on the lead roles and be support by Jacob Baird, Zeljko Vanis, Craig Sheppard, Sharon Newth, Tanya Maxwell, Thomas Moore and Tara Glozier.
Ms Collishaw plans to use the 1980s and 1960s eras as part of the production and move the setting from England to Australia.
"Like Mousetrap it is all wrapped up with lots of twists and turns," she said. "Very typical of Agatha Christie, it slowly opens and the plot develops."