Forbidden Love
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne
From Debussy’s and Wagner’s doomed lovers to Richard Strauss’ colourful Fantasy, this program explores the passion and catastrophe of forbidden love, conducted by Fabien Gabel.
10-12 October
mso.com.au
Melbourne Fringe Festival
Melbourne Fringe Festival
Over 400 shows across Melbourne
until 20 October
melbournefringe.com.au
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Princess Theatre
Experience the inspiring life story of Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock n’ Roll, who didn’t just break the rules – she rewrote them.
Featuring more than 20 of her iconic songs, including “Simply the Best”, “What’s Love Got to Do with It” and “Proud Mary”, this smash-hit musical is not to be missed.
Tina Turner’s contribution as an iconic music artist and performer, her influence on fellow artists and her inspiration to generations who followed, is legendary. Through her life story and her music, Tina Turner inspired and taught so many people around the world to find strength from within. This is a loss that will be deeply felt.
tinathemusical.com.au
SIX
Comedy Theatre
Six is a modern retelling of the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. They have come together as a band to stage a pop concert and invite the audience to hear their stories. They cannot decide who should be the lead singer, so they initiate a competition, or singing battle, to see who suffered the most as Queen. Each wife believes they had it toughest and they belittle each other’s attempts to prove their hardship. However, they become frustrated that their place in history is defined by one man. Together, they decide to pick up the pen and the microphone, and re-write their own stories. They are more than a rhyme, more than a wife, and much more than one King could handle.
sixthemusical.com.au
Sweet Charity
Karralyka Theatre, Ringwood
Though the job may be decidedly undesirable, Charity’s hopeful romanticism and unfailing optimism lift her out of her circumstances and help her reach for a life beyond. In the past, she’s been strung along and hung out to dry by a series of bad relationships and lousier men. When she meets Oscar, a neurotic, shy actuary seemingly from another world, will she finally find true love at last?
18-27 October
mdms.org.au/sweetcharity
True Minds
Malvern Theatre
Daisy Grayson is the author of a very successful book, which claims that, despite being an old-fashioned notion, ‘no man will marry a woman that his mother doesn’t approve of’. Tonight, Daisy is set to meet her fiancé’s mother, a frightening, fierce, arch-conservative, and hopes to win her approval. But a sudden storm brings unwelcome visitors: her alternative-thinking mother, her Marxist father, and, even worse, her ex-boyfriend, just out of rehab. ‘True Minds’ is a fast-talking, frenetically-paced romantic comedy about love and relationships, that explores the area between following the heart and listening to the head, from one of Australia’s most popular and successful playwrights.
25 October to 9 Nov
malverntheatre.com.au
Your Name Means Dreams
Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, St Kilda
Aislin is getting older in a world that is becoming increasingly unfamiliar to her. Her caregiver Stacy is perfectly toned, ageless, and utterly in control. She’s also a robot. While Aislin suffers the inevitable indignities of being human, Stacy wonders what she’s missing out on.
“Five ladies quit on me in the last year. So they send the machines. The fucking, soulless, plastic fuckin’ machines.”
Oscar nominee and Obie-winning José Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) examines how we live, die, and form our sense of self in a world where the line between humanity and machine is blurring by the second.
Opens 26 October
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Golden Blood (Melbourne Theatre Company)
Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne
In the wake of their mother’s death, a teenage girl is taken under the wing of her older brother.
Trouble is, his gangster swagger is the real deal, and thug life doesn’t come with a parenting manual.
Golden Blood takes us beneath the skyscrapers and shopping malls of Singapore into the seedy realm of violence, drugs and chaos that forms its underbelly. The aspirational world above finds its mirror below, as the orphaned siblings at this story’s core envision a future glittering with Chanel and Miu Miu bling. At the same time they’re reckoning with the ghosts of their own past and the half-remembered rituals they’ve inherited.From 30 October
artscentremelbourne.com.au
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