Adapted from John Wyndham's iconic sci-fi novel exploring human survival after large-scale catastrophe and the rise of the Triffids, mobile carnivorous plants. A bold, new theatrical experience from Newtown Theatre.
Unflinching and unsettling, Grace Malouf's bold new play spotlights questions of whether there are limits to medical ethics and to the right to personal self-determination.
"Mockingbirds just make music. they don't eat up people's gardens; don't nest in cornribs; they doon't do one thing but sing their hearts out. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." This Genesian production of an old classic asks the audience to experience its warmth, tension, humour and injustice up close.
An smart and insightful play, set in the aftermath of the Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines in 2013, playwright Happy Feraren examines
the blurred boundaries between corporate humanitarianism and self-interest. Feraren brings a first-hand insight and a sharp wit to what is both eye-waveringly funny and sharply satirical theatre. Another exceptional Griffin production.
Koreaboo, from the fabulous Griffin Theatre Company, is a warm, witty and heart-wrenching two-hander, exploring the search for belonging and the pain of rejection.
Glowing, dynamic, mysterious and completely 21st century, Illume gives tangibility through music, dance and imagery to the allusive connection between the physical and the spiritual worlds.
Law & Life: Transgender Stories features a cast of five trans people who generously share an inside view of their experiences with a lively wit, colourful anecdotes and songs.
Directed and choreographed by Bangarra’s artistic director and national treasure, Stephen Page, and co-written by award-winning playwright, Alana Valentine, Wudjang: Not the Past promises to be a breath-taking theatrical experience.
Riverside Theatres must be congratulated on having ensured that their audiences can stay connected and entertained during the Covid-19 lockdown through Riverside Theatre Digital. Now as theatres re-open, Riverside’s An Enchanted Evening eases the transition back to theatre-going by offering audiences the choice of seeing the show in-theatre or live-streamed into their homes.
While it was a joy to be back watching a live theatre performance, we might ask is there need for yet another stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s well-known and loved defence of women’s need for creative freedom. If audience reaction is an indication, then Carissa Licciardello and Tom Wright’s latest adaptation has been completely validated, not by a noisy standing ovation but by something much deeper, a few seconds pause, an intake of breath, the sound of thinking before the clapping begins.
Hayley Megan French’s small (9 x 11 cm) painted-over Polaroid photographs mounted on Tasmanian oak are beautifully presented, placed at a comfortable eye-level in...
Bangarra Dance Theatre’s new work, SandSong, telling the stories of the land and the people of the Kimberley country, was set to tour Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne and Bendigo in June to September this year but owing to Covid-19 the tour was postponed until 2021.
Following the success of Lyle Kessel’s Orphans, Red Line Productions (Artistic Director, Andrew Henry), presented a live-streamed reading of Gruesome Playground Injuries by award-winning American playwright, Rajiv Joseph. The reading featured actors Rose Byrne (in New York), Ewan Leslie (in Sydney) with musical accompaniment by guitarist John Butler (in Perth) and stage directions by Anna Houston.
ArtsLab: Behind Closed Doors is the youth-led Shopfront Arts Co-op’s annual emerging artists’ festival, featuring a program of five works exploring the theme of personal and intimate experience.
The award-winning play The Campaign brings the courageous and determined struggle by Tasmania’s LGBTQI activists to repeal their state’s harsh and archaic anti-gay legislation to the mainland.
Acclaimed Murawari playwright, Jane Harrison, has re-imagined the arrival of the First Fleet in The Visitors – the latest game-changing production by Moogahlin Performing Arts.
Belvoir St Theatre launched its 2020 season with one of its biggest successes of last year, the compassionate and heart-warming exploration of depression and suicide, Every Brilliant Thing. While the play does not avoid the anguish inherent in its subject, it affirms life by offering ways in which we can talk about suicide, and asking us to consider how we treat those impacted by a loved one’s suicide.
Bangarra Dance Theatre is a precious and fragile national and international treasure. As this year marks the 30th year since its inception and foreshadows a generational change, the immersive installation Knowledge Ground: 30 years of sixty five thousand celebrates the launching of an archival platform which catalogues and curates Bangarra’s history online.
Sad, violent and true, The Deadly Run (Season 2: Deadhouse: Tales of Sydney Morgue) is an immersive theatre experience dramatising notorious cases which passed through the Sydney Morgue and Coroner’s Court in The Rocks.
Making a return to magic realism, Paul Gilchrist sets his new short play Simple Souls in an abandoned night club, a venue reflecting the despondent mood of its central character, Marguerite (an impressive Madeleine Withington).
Described as “a piece of theatre that talks to the #MeToo movement … from real Australian women, whose experiences we could learn from and be inspired by”, I’m With Her fulfills its brief with compelling energy and conviction.
In her latest dance-theatre ensemble work director-choreographer Cloé Fournier explores the ways in which women have been constructed by a patriarchal society to adapt constantly to male demands.
Yve Blakes’s Fangirls celebrates the majority of teenage worshippers for whom their idols provide individual comfort in a “cruel and messy world” and through whom they connect with a community who share their personal interests.
Enthusiastically received by a delighted audience, the charming Once (music and lyrics by Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova) is deceivingly simple but deeply touching.
It has always been a privilege to be invited into the world of the Bangarra Dance Theatre, and especially so as the company celebrates its 30th anniversary by paying homage to the work of those who have contributed through their passion and energy to its spectacular success.
In this evocative and playful queer reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s fairytale, the opposition between the coldness of the world and the warmth of emerging love is delicately maintained.
Alana Valentine worked with designers, brides and health-based scientists to write Made to Measure, a play based on a large-bodied woman’s search for her dream wedding-dress.
Interim, a work in progress shown at 107 Projects, Redfern on May 1, investigates residents’ personal connections to Waterloo and their feelings of uncertainty...
Winyanboga Yurringa, which translates from Yorta Yorta as “Women of the Sun”, is a moving, funny and beautiful play about Indigenous culture, community and women.
Set in the very realistic kitchen of a Harris Park restaurant, Curry Kings of Parramatta gives its audiences a comical and often heart-wrenching insight into the lives of migrants from South East Asia.
The Genesian Theatre, a very well-loved, small, central-Sydney theatre, is to be ingested by a new 187-bedroom, 18-storey hotel and ground level retail and restaurant development that will be built beside it and cantilevered over it.
Stephanie Somerville is rehearsing for her role as Jedda in A Little Piece of Ash, written and directed by Megan Wilding of Blackie Blackie Brown fame.
