trybooking.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\nAbout the playwright<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAngela Murphy, founder of Veranda Theatre Co, is a Cairns-based playwright. She completed a Master of Letters in Creative Writing at CQU in 2005 and the following year JUTE and Darwin Theatre Companies produced her first, full-length play, The Boathouse. Drawing on her experiences as a high-school teacher she wrote Survival Instincts<\/em> which was an award winner at the Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra Short and Sweet Festivals in 2009-10. In 2011, Angela\u2019s box-office hit What are the Odds?<\/em> set on Melbourne Cup Day was produced by JUTE, and in 2015 the Company brought her office comedy Stewed <\/em>to the stage. In 2020, Prospect Terrace<\/em> produced by Angela\u2019s own Veranda Theatre Co, reignited theatre after the Covid-lockdowns, at the CPAC Studio. In 2021-22, with the support of Arts Queensland, and the FNQ community, she embarked on the journey of interviewing, recording and writing More Than Tea and Scone<\/em>s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than Tea and Scones is a new theatrical production about the women of the QCWA recognising 100 years of effort in 2023, its centennial year. Written by award winning Cairns playwright Angela Murphy of Veranda Theatre, the show could be set in any CWA hall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191038138,"featured_media":100037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Where would we be without them? - The women of the CWA celebrated in a brand-new local show I Australian Rural & Regional News","_seopress_titles_desc":"More than Tea and Scones is a new theatrical production about the women of the QCWA recognising 100 years of effort in 2023, its centennial year. ","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703272972,703273091,703273315,103,36526,703274946],"tags":[703275080,703272901,703285568,703285567,703285569],"position":[703284327],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Playwright-Angela-Murphy-Rita-Merrick-from-Port-Douglas-CWA-who-was-interviewed.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcBp7h-q1r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191038138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100119,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100033\/revisions\/100119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100033"},{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=100033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}