Event Series Story Soup

Playhouse Pantomimes: Story Soup

ACMI Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne
Playhouse Pantomimes is proud to present… absolutely anything you want! Our hilarious team of improvisers will make up a brand-new musical pantomime on the spot. But we need your help! Bring along a head full of ideas and we’ll create a fairytale based on suggestions that you, the audience, give…
Event Series Atlantis

New Theatre: Atlantis

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown
A play about ovaries and climate change and pursuing your dreams. Australian writer ‘Lally’ is on a quest to make sense of her life, seeking to rediscover the lost innocence of her childhood in America, when things were simple, carefree and defined. Using both autobiographical fact and flights of imagination,…
Event Series The Sun and The Hermit

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival: The Sun and The Hermit

The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton
Judge’s Pick 2023 Melbourne Fringe. A delectably nightmarish hour of character comedy you won’t want to wake up from. Squeeze a month’s worth of weird into a delightfully beautiful hour, all while Belinda quietly cradles you like the adult baby, lover of strangeness and person who thrives on constant stimulation…
Event Series Dissent

Arts House: Dissent

Arts House 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Four players take on the role of a fellow community member. As the rest of us watch on, an unnerving and hyperlocal world is created through imagination and play. The streets of North Melbourne become a site of escalating and discomforting choices, where the lines of responsibility between ‘individual’ and…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Lewis Trilogy

Griffin Theatre Company: Summer of the Aliens

SBW Stables Theatre Sydney
The SBW Stables Theatre in Sydney’s Kings Cross, home to Griffin Theatre Company, is about to close for a major renovation. By way of a farewell, Griffin is staging one of its most ambitious projects – a triple bill of Louis Nowra’s semi-autobiographical plays that can be viewed individually or in one…
Event Series Cowboy Mouth

Soft Shock Productions: Cowboy Mouth

Flight Path Theatre 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville
Conceived on a typewriter in the chaotic infamy of New York’s Chelsea Hotel, Cowboy Mouth, is an urban fable about a woman who kidnaps a young man at gunpoint, taking him hostage from his wife and child to make him a pop prophet, ''like a rock-and-roll Jesus with a cowboy…
Event Series Frankenstein

Brisbane Arts Theatre: Frankenstein

Brisbane Arts Theatre 210 Petrie Terrace, Brisbane City
Board the “Prometheus”, an exploration vessel trapped in the shifting ice of the Northern Pole with an unexpected shipmate brought aboard… a man in pursuit of his own demons and a creature of his own creation. This production follows the story, based on Mary Shelley’s novel, of Victor Frankenstein and…

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