Acclaimed musical set to tell a powerful story

The Sunshine Club is a performance not to be missed

Set is 1946, the joyful and acclaimed musical The Sunshine Club, tells the story of Aboriginal soldier Frank Doyle, who is just returning home to Brisbane after serving in WW2, to find that, while the world may have changed, the same attitudes and prejudices still exist at home.

But this only fills Frank with a strong desire to change things for the better by setting up The Sunshine Club.

A place where all people are welcome to come together, laugh, romance and dance the night away as Frank sets out to win the heart of Rose, the girl from next door.

The Sunshine Club is a gloriously energetic, thought provoking and above all entertaining night of theatre and it is headed to Mount Gambier to the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre on June 15.

With Wesley Enoch directing, The Sunshine Club builds on HIT’s work with First Nations artists and is a great successor to The Sapphires – another HIT production about four Yorta Yorta women who sing soul music against a backdrop of social upheaval. Writer and director Wesley Enoch, AM, a proud Nunukul and Ngugi man, said he wrote The Sunshine Club to bring people together.

“I initially wrote this as a way of bringing people together, especially in the reconciliation movement, this notion of black and white dancing together and the stories of our history, especially post World War II…..in this post or living with COVID world, it’ll be even more important to see that cultural bonds can be formed by gathering as groups & dealing with social issues together.”