Presents
TWO by TWO
4 short plays at Gulgong Prince of Wales OperaHouse
29th November 2025 at 5pm
Tickets https://www.trybooking.com/DDXIE
ABOUT US
The founding members have written, directed and performed in stage productions across Europe, the USA, the UK and Australia. They are producer, Gaye MacFarlane and playwrights Lucy Grant and Brian Twomey. The pair have written two each of the four plays that will feature in the inaugural November 2025 short play season to be performed at Gulgong’s historic Prince of Wales Opera House. Built more than 150 years ago, it is the oldest still-operating Opera House in the Southern Hemisphere.
Gaye MacFarlane
WHO WE ARE
Gaye MacFarlane
As a 14-year-old Gaye’s ambition was to be a singer. This dream paid off as an 11-year student she was given the chance to join the TV channel 9 show Sound of Music. Then Gaye scored a successful audition for the musical Evita. From that point onwards her career followed the “yellow brick road” of musicals. Invited to Germany to audition, she was bound for Berlin having won the coveted role of Velma in Chicago.
For 11 productive years from 2007, Gaye was in demand as an agent for opera singers in Germany. She credits this time as giving her the organisational skills and knowledge of production to enable her to produce, not only her own shows, but also those for other organisations. Gaye sums up her career as follows: “It echoes the lyrics of the Sondheim song ‘I’m still here’ from the musical Follies. The lyric is ‘Then you career from career to career’. My life has been enriched with a myriad of experiences ranging from opera to musicals and even rock ‘n roll.”
Lucy Grant
Educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and London, Lucy trained in dance and drama in London. She starred in Working by Studs Terkel in Boston USA and appeared in the Sydney production of the Vagina Monologues in Sydney. Lucy also featured in Sydney Dance Company’s blockbuster ballet, Berlin. In Blackheath she has written two plays performed by the BTC and played Coco Chanel in their highly successful production of More than a Little Black Dress. Trained as a journalist, Lucy worked in London on the world’s largest selling woman’s magazine. Arriving in Australia she became section editor on the Australian newspaper and then a researcher and script editor with SBS television.
Brian Twomey
Born in Ireland, but educated in England, Brian started his working life as a journalist in Southeast London before moving into public relations and marketing. His entire career has been devoted to delivering the written word in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia. His promotion credits range across sectors such as aviation, technology, finance and the arts. Brian has written two plays for the BTC and is currently finishing a novel.
Lucy Grant
Brian Twomey
THE PLAYS
Raining on my parade
A woman scorned, or a husband outfoxed. A tale that explores the creative conflict of a successful literary couple where the credit may not be publicly recognised nor the rewards fairly shared. But the spirited revelation by the wife invites the audience into some titillating secrets. And the climax brings the curtain down on a satisfying literary justice.
Too much poly whatsit
Two male friends spar about their own recent medical adventures. One believes his condition is serious but is set straight by a female professor of rheumatology. Comic dialogue but with an underlying recognition of the imbalance of medical care available when a regional community brings its broken bodies, worrisome wounds or terrible traumas and asks for help.
Two Chairs
A troubled relationship between a vulnerable son and a father whose life focus was on surviving his own fractured childhood is the centrepiece of this drama. This poignant play gives them a belated chance to reconcile. Truths and misunderstandings are laid bare as the pair fumble their way through memories that define their present state. A mysterious “counsellor “is the catalyst to a surprising climax.
Sweet Dreams Baby
The Melbourne Cup, famed as the race that stops the nation, is one of Australia’s biggest wagering events. The play is set inside a typical small business office which is about the hold its annual Melbourne Cup lunch. Then one of the staff announces she has dreamed about the winning horse three nights in a row. As her colleagues’ rush to declare how they plan to spend the winnings, they misread her vital clues to the winner.
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