Exploration, adventure, and a yearning to be anywhere else but here is the theme at the Civic Theatre, which has launched its 2021 season program under the banner of "Wanderlust".
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Theatre manager Carissa Campbell said she, like everyone else, was itching to go outside and explore after having spent much of 2020 cooped up indoors with cabin fever.
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Although overseas travel remains off limits, Ms Campbell said that drama was still an avenue for those wanting to be transported into other worlds.
"I think that's part of the theatre: you feel like you're going somewhere different. I'm a bit over sitting in my own lounge room, I wanna go somewhere different," Ms Campbell said.
"We're really close to normal. Our capacity is close to 90 per cent because we can have one person per 2 square metres. You can still get a drink, but you have to sit to drink it - that's the last non-normal part of this experience."
Pining for the spotlight is local actress Phoebe Pinnock, who will be dazzling the crowd in the role of Dolly Parton in Everyone Loves Dolly.
Ms Pinnock said 2020 had been a gloomy year to be an actor, with COVID wiping out her entire calendar almost overnight.
"It was tough. Normally we have shows to look forward to. We had a huge tour for Dolly booked all the way up the east coast at huge venues and it was entirely wiped out," Ms Pinnock said.
"I can't wait tot be back on stage after such a traumatic last year, to have to sit back and not have the big hair and nails on. I'm ready to go."
This year's calendar will be a particularly jam-packed one, with several cancelled shows from 2020 carrying over into 2021.
One of last year's cancelled shows is Voyagers, an original cabaret created by Wagga writer and performer Andrew Strano. It will instead be given a run in August this year.
Due to popular demand the theatre will also be bringing back the cabaret shows from last year's Re-Ignite, which were scaled-down COVID-safe shows originally intended as a way to keep local actors and staff in a job.
The 2021 Season offers plays including Bell Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Appleton Ladies Potato Race and Animal Farm, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Opera Australia's Carmen, dance from The Australian Ballet, and improvised comedy with Jekyll & Hyde.
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