Building on the landmark success of Because The Night (2021), Malthouse Theatre ambitiously realises Australia’s next chapter of large-scale immersive theatre. Hour of the Wolf introduces you to Hope Hill, a town that is yours to freely explore on the longest night of the year. Interweaving stories unravel the disturbing disappearances occurring between the hours …
Edward Albee’s classic slugfest Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, at least on the surface, is an ode to the heartbreak of middle age, a vicious dissection of a marriage straining under the cumulative rage and disappointments of many years. When it burst on to the stage in 1962 it tapped into a growing unease about …
Written and directed by Kamarra Bell-Wykes, Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM is a post-traumatic performance thesis, winning the 2021 Patrick White Playwriting Award. Starring Maggie Church-Kopp, Corey Saylor-Brunskill, and Maurial Spearim, accompanied by a live improvisational score by smallsound, Whose Gonna Love 'Em? I am that i AM is an absurd …
Meet Chase. She’s living her best life. Just a shame there’s no one left to see it. Compelling, repelling, and funny. Joined by her zany crew of besties and YouTube subscribers for company, at the party to end all parties. The party to end the world! That's if any of them actually even exist… Equally …
One of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom by Charles Busch tells the saga of two fatally seductive vampiresses whose paths first collide in ancient Sodom. Their bitter rivalry as bloodsuckers, but more importantly, as actresses, endures for two thousand years with stops along the way in 1920’s silent movie …
Neil Simon’s revision of his hugely successful play, The Odd Couple, sees the lead characters transformed into Olive Madison and Florence Unger. Olive and their group of girlfriends are enjoying their weekly Trivial Pursuit night in Olive’s messy and ill-equipped apartment. As the game continues, Florence arrives, fresh from being dumped by her husband. Fearful …
Maria Fassnauer, known as 'Mariedl, the Tyrolean Giantess' was born 1879 to an extremely poor farming family in Tyrol, Austria, and died there 38 years later. But those simple dates bookend an extraordinary life. Her fame spread from the small village out into the wider world. Inevitably people came calling, including a man who was …
It’s murder most foul. The crime of the century. It’s Agatha Christie, improvised! Step into the world of a classic English murder mystery. Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit is the critically-acclaimed improvised comedy experience that brings the world of Christie to life, complete with mysterious characters, devilish red herrings, clever clues, and an amateur sleuth …
The jewel in the Shakespeare comedy crown. Get set to take a riotous ride through the interwoven world of Lovers, Fairies and Fools. See the gardens lit up at night, glowing and sparkling beyond your wildest imaginings. Reel with laughter as you witness the comedy that is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. When the feuding king …
