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Event Series The Peasant Prince

Monkey Baa Theatre Company: The Peasant Prince

Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Penrith, NSW, Australia
Prepare to be mesmerised as Monkey Baa’s multi award-winning production The Peasant Prince returns to the stage for a limited time. In a poor village in northern China, Li, a 10-year-old boy is taken away from everything he knows and sent to a ballet academy in the big city. He is afraid,…
Event Series The Peasant Prince

Monkey Baa Theatre Company: The Peasant Prince

Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Penrith, NSW, Australia
Prepare to be mesmerised as Monkey Baa’s multi award-winning production The Peasant Prince returns to the stage for a limited time. In a poor village in northern China, Li, a 10-year-old boy is taken away from everything he knows and sent to a ballet academy in the big city. He is afraid,…
Featured Featured Event Series Luminaries

Selby & Friends: Luminaries

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Iconic Australian ensemble, the Goldner String Quartet in their farewell season, joins our Artistic Director for this stunning program of gorgeous favourites performed by musicians extraordinaire! Beginning with a rarely played early Mozart Piano Concerto in the composer’s own arrangement for piano and string quartet followed by Tchaikovsky’s great String…
Editor's Choice Event Series Parrwang Lifts The Sky

Victorian Opera: Parrwang Lifts The Sky

Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s family opera is based on a traditional story from Wadawurrung Country explaining how a magpie created the first dawn. Long ago, the sky sat like a blanket on the land. When youngsters Tjatjarrang (Big Sister) and Koki (Brother) climb an ancient gum tree, they discover a new…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Almighty Sometimes

Melbourne Theatre Company: The Almighty Sometimes

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Kendall Feaver’s knotty drama takes an unflinching look at mental illness and medication among young people. Anna threw herself out of a window when she was seven. The following year, having read her somewhat macabre stories, her worried mother Renée took her to see a child psychiatrist, who prescribed a…
Event Series Ulster American

Ensemble Theatre: Ulster American

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Jay is the Oscar-winning actor. Leigh is the ambitious director. Ruth is the young playwright with a gritty historical drama that is destined to make them the talk of Tinsel Town. With the shiny accolades of Hollywood within their clutches, the three rendez-vous to secure the play and discuss the…
Editor's Choice Event Series Medea

Queensland Theatre: Medea

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
When Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks adapted Euripides’ Greek tragedy Medea, they told it from the perspective of Medea’s two doomed children, seen playing in a contemporary bedroom. The extraordinary, award-winning play premiered at Belvoir in 2012 and was staged overseas with Sarks directing. Now, Daniel Evans directs it for…

Bell Shakespeare: Shakespeare on Film – Ran

The Seed, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Rd, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
Join us in The Seed, Pier 2/3 to revisit some classic adaptations of Shakespeare’s stories on film, curated by Artistic Director Peter Evans. Shakespeare on Film will include a pre-show briefing and film screening, with classic movie treats available for purchase at the venue. Get comfortable, settle into your beanbag…
Featured Featured Event Series Luminaries

Selby & Friends: Luminaries

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Iconic Australian ensemble, the Goldner String Quartet in their farewell season, joins our Artistic Director for this stunning program of gorgeous favourites performed by musicians extraordinaire! Beginning with a rarely played early Mozart Piano Concerto in the composer’s own arrangement for piano and string quartet followed by Tchaikovsky’s great String…
Event Series Homo Pentecostus

Malthouse Theatre: Homo Pentecostus

Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Join an odyssey of self-discovery and liberation. Actor, dancer and writer, Joel Bray invites you to an intimate exploration of his secret queer identity within the confines of a 1990s Pentecostal Church. Partake in a shared ritual that immerses you in the transformative power of music, movement, and collective ritual.…
Event Series Esmé Quartet

Musica Viva Australia: Esmé Quartet

Queensland Conservatorium 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Eloquent. Spellbinding. Monumental. Exquisite. How else can we describe the Esmé Quartet? Based in Germany, this ensemble launched its international career by winning first prize at the 2018 International String Quartet Competition at London’s Wigmore Hall. The ensemble then embarked on a whirlwind year of concerts in North America, Hong…
Event Series World Problems

Melbourne Theatre Company: World Problems

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
A woman summons up her childhood with an intensity so visceral it seems to be playing out in front of us. But as her memories draw closer to the present, the space between the personal and the speculative grows ever more blurry. Where do you end, and everything else begins?…

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