Potato Shed announces whirlwind of entertainment

THE Potato Shed is well and truly into the swing of things with the 2025 season, and the great shows keep coming.

Lyster Opera returns 2pm Saturday, April 5 with their take on Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio.

This hilarious, action-packed opera focusses on heroes and heroines and how they outwit their captors. One of Mozart’s first successes as a composer, The Abduction from the Seraglio is a farcical, colourful romance.

Join in for some school holiday fun 11am Wednesday, April 9 when Polite Mammals wander into the theatre and into audience members’ hearts.

Meet more than 20 animals, including farting skunks, a dancing praying mantis, Frankenstein cockroaches and even a singing bin chicken (that’s an Ibis to the uninitiated). This is all ages Aussie comedy at its silliest.

Niusua will explore the relationship between a grand-daughter and her grandmother who survived the Holocaust.

How do you honour the legacy of a woman you hardly knew, and didn’t really like? These questions are at the heart of Niusia, 4pm Sunday, May 4. This modern Australian play explores the sometimes-complex relationship between a grand-daughter and her Holocaust survivor grandmother.

Another grand and larger-than-life woman is celebrated in The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez, 8pm Saturday, May 17. The scandalous tale of the wildest showgirl in the known world is brought to life by the ethereal Caroline Lee as Lola Montez, produced by Finucane & Smith.

The worlds of government and the makeup counter of David Jones collide in an unlikely friendship between women of different generations and class backgrounds in Monument, 8pm Saturday, June 14.

The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez tells the tale of a wild showgirl.

Theatre 3triple2 return with three sessions of their hugely popular Winter Solstice One Act Plays on June 20 and 21. Celebrate the 17th anniversary of the best of local playwrights, directors and performers. Live music, mulled wine and warm fires included.

Morning Show time shows for April, May and June traverse the gamut from wartime and 1960s popular music and the little-known stories of some of Geelong’s incredible women.

Join in at 10:30am Tuesday April 22, to celebrate the best of Dame Vera Lynn. Issi Dye presents The Vera Lynn ANZAC Tribute Show, with the incomparable Leslie Martin giving voice to all of Dame Vera’s greatest war-time hits.

Polite Mammals will take the stage across the school holidays for a family-friendly show. The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez tells the tale of a wild showgirl.

The Beatles will be front and centre when All You Need is Love lands 10:30am Tuesday, May 27. Colin Mockett explains who wrote which song, to whom, and why – then Adam Parsons performs it with his astonishing flair.

From 10.30am Tuesday June 24, Colin Mockett presents his homage to the region’s historic women, Wonder Women of Geelong, who received a rapturous reception at the Beta Sigma Phi women’s convention in Melbourne.

All shows are on sale via the Potato Shed website, potatoshed.com.au or in person at the Box Office, Monday-Friday 10am – 4pm.

Phone the Box Office on 5251 1998 to book.

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