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History
The Melville Theatre Company
was the brainchild of David J. Burton who, in 1982, called a meeting
for interested people in the community to form a theatre company
in the Melville area.
 As
a result of this meeting the Melville Theatre Company was born.
The newly formed company's first production was the farce, Not
Now Darling. With its second production, The Sound of Music,
the young company won the Finley Award for the Best Production
of the Year in Community Theatre. Since then, actors and directors
have consistently featured in the list of awards at the annual
State Drama Festival.
Initially our seasons were
performed in the Melville Civic Centre, but since 1987, our venue
has been the Roy Edinger Centre, on the corner of Stock Road and
Canning Highway, Palmyra. For many years we shared this venue
with a multitude of other users, which created difficulties for
all parties, however, in 1998 we were granted sole management
by the City of Melville and have thus been able to create a real
theatre within the centre, including raked seating, carpeting
and a new lighting and sound system.
We
aim to present four major productions each year, together with
a One-Act season and we try to include one musical or pantomime
in our annual programme, if possible.
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