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AN ill-judged April Fool’s email has sent shock waves around the local musical theatre community. An email sent to 60 members of a Canberra theatrical interest group earlier this morning (April 1) said that from 2022 The Q, the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, would no longer allow amateur companies to perform there. That, the email said, would include  Queanbeyan Players and Free-Rain Theatre, and the Players would move back to the Bicentennial Hall. Such a move by The Q appeared credible, given that a similar change in direction at The Street Theatre some years ago had seen amateu...

Obituary / Norma Roach, OAM CM, September 25, 1930 – February 1, 2021. By Bill Stephens.  WITH the death of Norma Roach in the Queanbeyan District Hospital on February 1 at age 90, the Queanbeyan and Canberra theatre community lost one of the region’s most energetic, passionate and dynamic theatre pioneers. Possessing an enormous capacity for friendship, Norma has been described as a matriarch, trail-blazer, joyful, creative, kind, capable, a caring spirit with a great sense of humour. Born in the industrial city of Sunderland, England, Norma and her two sisters enjoyed an idyllic childh...