Reviewer - Gail Sjogren

In a Home for retired opera singers, four aging stars find themselves asked to perform their most famous quartet at a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday. By turns very funny and equally poignant Quartet makes the most of this potentially explosive situation as the four singers show that age may have weakened them physically but it has not diminished their desire for the limelight or their ability to command an audience.
Quartet is directed by Gabrielle Leeds, well known for roles in many local productions as well as her film role in Dalkeith. The outstanding cast includes two of Ballarat’s best known actors in Wendy Holgate and Peter Nethercote, playing the dotty contralto and the artistic, highly strung tenor. They are joined by two equally talented newcomers to the Ballarat scene, Ellis Ebell as the raunchy and ever optimistic baritone and Margaret Jarvis as the domineering but ultimately touching soprano.

The intimate setting of the Courthouse Theatre is ideal for a play which takes us into the lives of four people whose indomitable spirit makes the best of growing older. Their dilemma, to reproduce their youthful success with voices no longer at their peak, is resolved in a manner which provides a triumphant conclusion to an excellent night's entertainment.