A new production of this contemporary classic and a riveting insight into one of the most impactful days in Australia’s history. Visitors leave. Right? On a sweltering day in January 1788, seven clan leaders gather on a sandstone escarpment overlooking the harbour. The attendees, six of them Elders and one new initiate, catch-up, laugh together,… Read More »The Visitors
It’s 1959, in a bar in South Philadelphia. It’s a bit rundown. You wouldn’t know it, but we’re in a moment of history – one of Billie Holiday’s legendary last performances. As she sings her set (and it’s the greats – ‘Taint Nobody’s Business If I Do, Strange Fruit, What a Little Moonlight Can Do,… Read More »Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill
A thrilling, high-powered, utterly engrossing tale of revenge from an award-winning US playwright. Vengeance is theirs The recipient of the pre-eminent American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award, Is God Is tells the vivid and violent story of twin sisters Racine and Anaia and their cross-country odyssey of revenge. They’re on a mission to track down their… Read More »Is God Is
Debra Oswald fell in love with theatre aged eleven. But did it love her back? How do you cope with rejection and success and then more rejection? How does a child hypochondriac, with a blundering romantic history learn to cope with the demands of writing in showbiz? Will the success of OFFSPRING change things or… Read More »Is There Something Wrong With That Lady?
It’s 1593. Theatres are closed, players out of work, houses bolted, people terrified by the touch of another’s skin, the breath of another’s air. Shakespeare, syphilitic and dangerously bored, publishes a scandalous response to the pestilence—an epic work about the very things lost to us, like intimacy, identity, and the erotic freedom of touch.His searing poem, Venus and Adonis, rips and tears at the founding myth of why human beings are cursed to love each other, in every form—him and her, her-as-him, him-as-her, love as equal and unequal, obscenely arousing and utterly destructive.
Dimanche uses physical theatre to tell a dreamlike story about the uncontrollable forces of nature. Combining puppetry, video and deadpan mime, Dimanche observes the ingenuity of humans as they try to preserve their day-to-day habits despite the chaos of an ecological collapse.
Set in Sweden in 1900, actress Desiree Armfeldt is caught in a love triangle with lawyer Fredrik Egerman and Count Carl-Magnus Malcom…and their wives. After an unexpected invitation, suspicion and jealousy heighten as the characters all meet for one climactic weekend in the country.
Mary, Catherine and Teresa are sisters who share a common past. A world of disputed bicycles, midnight ice-cream sodas, cocktail dresses and their Mum’s perfumed advice. A seaside childhood punctuated by the odd monosyllable from Dad. Where does reality end and family mythology begin? Why has sibling war broken out in their Mother’s bedroom? Why are past recollections still so with us? THE MEMORY OF WATER takes a new look at the age-old traditions of recollecting family stories. A beautiful bittersweet comedy, bound by sisterly love, anger, tears and of course laughter.
Viola is shipwrecked and believes her twin Sebastian lost to the ocean.
Washed up in a strange new land, determined to survive, Viola disguises herself as a man named Cesario and finds work with Duke Orsino, only to fall head over heels in love with him. But Orsino is in love with Olivia, who – grieving for her brother – refuses all offers of romance. Until, that is, she meets Cesario for the first time. A whirlwind of passion ensues, leaving no one unaffected, not even Olivia’s prudish housekeeper Malvolia.
Discover the secret power of words
It’s 1886 and the very first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is being compiled. Four-year-old Esme Nicoll has a front row seat. Well, she’s hiding under the sorting table, anyway. As her father and his male colleagues decide which words stay and which go, Esme collects the discarded (often gendered) scraps to compile her own far more radical, far more magical dictionary.
A sweeping historical tale in the spirit of The Harp in the South, The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme from her childhood in the 1880s, into adulthood at the height of the women’s suffrage movement and the beginning of the First World War.
War rips your world apart, shredding your life in a flash of violence and leaving your family adrift without any place to call home. You have a new name now—refugee—and a new life to construct. Treehouse Theatre presents Why Us?, the real-life stories of teenage refugees who are learning to call Australia their new home. Through spoken word, lights, sound and movement, these young survivors share their stories of joy and horror, humour and pain, loss and belonging. You will laugh with them, cry with them and be inspired by them.
An epic, globe-trotting, century-crossing night of theatrical magic that explores the deeply relatable bond between a mother and daughter.
A time-bending epic that drills deep
In a remote English farmhouse at the end of the nineteenth century, a young woman witnesses the blinding light of an oil lamp for the first time before running into the midwinter night. She’s sacrificing the world she knows and the man she loves to build a better life for the daughter she’s soon to have. So begins the story of May and Amy.
The Wharf Revue is back for another year of sensational value! Satirical content is up by 7%, the average laughter quotient is indexed at 8.3% over the forward estimates but the Wharf Revue defies the cost-of-living pressure by keeping the ticket price at the same level as last year! Take that, Phillip Lowe!
From Little Eggs Collective comes The Lost Boys, a devised, multidisciplinary, ensemble-based theatre work inspired by the classic text, Peter and Wendy, by J.M. Barrie.
Peter and Wendy’s Neverland presents an opportunity for unending play, real magic, joyous chaos, and intoxicating ferocity—an opportunity to experiment with elements of the classic to harness the power of young people forgotten by the real world.
Working across live music, movement, and spoken word to deliver highly collaborative, accessible, timely, and compelling performances, Little Eggs Collective represents a unique contribution to Australian contemporary theatre.