Agatha Christie’s breathtaking masterpiece, And Then There Were None is coming to Australia in 2025. From the producers of the hugely successful Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap comes a brand-new production of the best-selling crime novel of all time. Ten strangers are lured to a solitary mansion on an island off the English coast. When a …
From Andrea James (Sunshine Super Girl) comes The Black Woman of Gippsland – a story of Victoria’s dark past that is in dire need of revisiting, told as a thrilling modern mystery that unfolds with beauty, tragedy and rebellion. A woman is tossed ashore from the sea, bedraggled and lost. A century and a half …
Overnight, the weather has turned in a small town. A war has been declared and there’s no one who can stop it. One family sounds the warning, but what can you do when denial is as easy as keeping your head down? Award-winning actor Paula Arundell (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) sends your pulse …
Floundering a bit after the death of his aged mother, Manley Carstairs, a selfstyled literary artist, engages a housekeeper, Annie Dankworth, to look after his large Victorian house (and himself). When Annie first arrives, wearing sneakers and carrying her belongings in a grocery cart, Manley is taken aback, but she seems so eager to please …
It’s going to be a scorcher in Melbourne today, and Aoife and Jackie have pulled a 12 hour shift. Standing at opposite ends of a roadwork site, the two women realise that they couldn’t be more different. Aoife, earnest and outgoing, smiles warmly at passing cars through her lipstick and lashes, while Jackie, practical to …
WITTY | INSIGHTFUL | THOUGHT-PROVOKING Massive artificial reefs, Mirror clouds. Zombie mice. Beaches where once there were none. Travelling the world when aeroplanes are gone. How we deal with big, breathtaking ideas – and the crazy excitement of living in hope. It’s sixty-five short scenes – comic, tragic, and everything in between. Jam-packed with info, …
Super is a bold new work by celebrated playwright, essayist, and poet Emilie Collyer. Directed by acclaimed theatre maker Emma Valente (Co-Artistic Director of THE RABBLE) and featuring Caroline Lee and First Nations actor Laila Thaker (Five Bedrooms, Wentworth), this hilarious show follows Phoenix and Nel. Two friends who both have superpowers, they take a …
by anthony hill “Once in a generation a mysterious wish for war passes through the people. Their instinct tells them that there is no other way of progress and of escape from habits that no longer fit them . . . There is no other way. Only by intense sufferings can the nations grow” – …
"One mistake. One life. One community torn apart." It’s Toby Ackland’s birthday party down near the surf club and that should mean heaps of grog, drugs and good clean fun. But by the morning a young girl is dead raped by three boys and bashed with a rock. Who is responsible? The boy? The girl? …
by simon starr and joseph sherman In a smoky, moonlit afterlife, Jewish writer Isaac Babel meets his most notorious invention: the gangster king of Odessa, Benya Krik. As they spar, remember, and relive the past, stories blur with history, and fiction bites back. Set to music and rich with humour, heartbreak, and Yiddish soul, this …
After its acclaimed 2024 Broadway debut – earning four Tony nominations, two Drama Desk Awards, and an Outer Critics Circle Award, Mother Play comes to Melbourne in a powerful new production, starring the legendary Sigrid Thornton. Directed by Lee Lewis and featuring a stellar cast including Yael Stone (Orange is the New Black) and Ash Flanders, …
