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, …
Adapted from the original play by Federico García Lorca Blood Wedding tells the story of a forbidden love between two people born into feuding families. Originally penned in 1933 amidst political unrest and calls for revolution, this bold new adaptation brings Lorca’s work into sharp focus for a contemporary audience—resonating deeply in today’s uncertain world. …
In this intimate new work by talented Melbourne playwright, Keziah Warner (Control, Red Stitch), Jo and Simon are in love for eight years before breaking up. Simon later falls for Jo’s best friend, Lia. Ten years, a broken friendship, and several failed IVF attempts later, Simon and Lia ask happily child-free Jo to donate her …
by Kathleen Mary Fallon In this bold, modern reimagining of Othello told through Desdemona’s eyes, three actors explore love, suspicion, domestic abuse, and pathological jealousy—often called ‘the Othello Syndrome’—in an inter-racial setting. As professional performers, they not only enact their characters but also reveal themselves, their relationships shaped and confined by the theatrical legacies of …
Passion, power, and class tensions reach boiling point in the heart of a Melbourne kitchen. On the night before Greek Easter, the daughter of a high-profile restaurateur and a brooding sous-chef face off after hours. As lamb roasts and ouzo flows, ambition and desire collide—with explosive consequences. Recent acting graduate Annalise Gelagotis makes her professional …
Congratulations! You’ve inherited a redundant cherry orchard, a crumbling climate, a failing economy, inept institutions and the final play written by Anton Chekhov. What will you salvage? How much are you willing to let go? How much will be taken from you? Welcome to The Orchard, where doomed inheritances and impossible expectations collide. Choices must …
Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess isn't as easy as it looks... Home, I'm Darling is Laura Wade's new dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife.
Tony Wendice is convinced he’s devised the flawless crime. After uncovering his wife Margot’s affair, he plans her murder—intent on claiming her fortune and escaping suspicion. After all, who would suspect a devoted husband? But when he places a call through the Mayfair exchange to set his plan in motion, one wrong number unravels everything. …
4 ACTORS, 130 CHARACTERS AND 100 MINUTES OF HILARITY Mix Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller with a dash of Monty Python-style chaos, and you get THE 39 STEPS — a turbo-charged, Olivier and Tony Award-winning comedy smash. After thrilling more than 3 million fans across 39 countries — from London’s West End to Broadway — …
This stage adaptation stays true to Roald Dahl’s beloved tale, where a young boy and his fearless Grandmother take on the terrifying Grand High Witch and her coven, who are secretly gathering at a seaside hotel. In the battle that unfolds, the boy is transformed into a mouse. These witches aren’t your typical broomstick-riding, hat-wearing …
A razor-sharp queer black comedy and drag-fuelled spectacle exploring power, privilege and high school politics. It’s the night of the Grand Final of Melbourne’s most prestigious Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament, and the elite all-boys team from St Imperium College are ready to crush their sister school rivals—until everything starts to unravel. Performed entirely by …
Josie Alibrandi is in her final year of high school. Whip-smart and aspirational, she is a third-generation Italian teenager and scholarship kid, with the shadow of a family curse and a penchant for rule-breaking. Juggling grades, boys, and the claustrophobia of an overbearing Nonna and saintly mother, Josie’s life becomes tangled in the webs of …
From the team that brought you The Human Voice and Moth comes the radical 1909 dystopian epic that predicted the internet. Be transported by this world premier of a new adaptation of the brilliant novella The Machine Stops by EM Forster (A Room with a View). In this chilling tale of a futuristic information-orientated society …
A razor-sharp queer black comedy and drag-fuelled spectacle exploring power, privilege and high school politics. It’s the night of the Grand Final of Melbourne’s most prestigious Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament, and the elite all-boys team from St Imperium College are ready to crush their sister school rivals—until everything starts to unravel. Performed entirely by …
‘The Humans’ is a poignant, award-winning drama (Tony Awards, Best Play) that, with humour and compassion explores the tensions and bonds in family life today. In Brigid’s run-down New York apartment, with bad wi-fi and strange noises upstairs, the Blake family comes together to celebrate Thanksgiving, bringing with them their anxieties, fears, and hidden struggles. …
