Maggy Franklin has been involved in theatre and musical theatre in Sydney for many years. She has a teaching diploma in Speech and Drama, has attended Darlo Drama classes, acted and directed in Crash Test Drama, directed at Short and Sweet Sydney, is a regular judge at Short and Sweet and has directed in the Sydney Fringe Festival.
She runs the large internet based social theatre group Theatre Time Sydney which organises groups to attend and support independent theatre. An ex-high school teacher, she works in aged care, plays tennis, gets to the cinema whenever possible, and is a Lifeline volunteer.
She believes one can never go to too much theatre, and there is always something to be experienced at every production.
The Americas, A Theatre Company, are currently putting on a production of Neil LaBute’s IF I NEEDED SOMEONE. This is a biting, edgy story of two people coming together for the first time in an endeavour to manoeuvre …
While “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear” by David Macgregor, has all the trademarks of a traditional Sherlock Holmes story, this play is certainly an updated version of Sherlock and his companions with concepts & living styles …
For a great night of musical theatre get to Hornsby Musical Society’s production of City Of Angels. The Tony Award winning musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and a book by Larry Gelbart is not …
Ben Colley’s I’LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT is yet another fun and highly entertaining production from Castle Hill Players. Director Ben Freeman brings all aspects of the show together to achieve a type of murder mystery with all the right …
In a departure from their usual performance of a play, Castle Hill Players present production is the modern heartfelt love story musical “The Last Five Years”. Written and composed by Jason Robert Brown this tells the story of five years …
REHEARSAL FOR MURDER, staged by Castle Hill Players, is a highly entertaining night out at the theatre – an intriguing plot in the true “murder mystery” genre with plenty of twists and turns. I doubt many audience members picked the …
Castle Hill Players have opened their 2025 season with Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy Improbable Fiction. As the author of over 90 plays Ayckbourn has certainly let the imaginative and creative spirit run free as we move from a regular meeting of …
Castle Hill Players latest production, Grand Horizons by Bess Wohl, is a very well-presented comedy drama looking at the ups and downs of married life. There are lots of laugh out loud moments mixed with some very biting & telling …
Castle Hill Players have chosen THE GHOST TRAIN, a comedy thriller written in 1923 by Arnold Ridley, who is better known as Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army, for their present production. Directed by Stephen Snars this worked more as a …
Mrs Warren’s Profession is yet another very polished production by Castle Hill Players and highly recommended viewing. Written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893 it was banned in 1894 for 30 years by the then-official theatre censor Lord Chamberlain. It