Following a sell-out, critically acclaimed premiere season in 2023 and a smash-hit national tour in 2024, one of Australia’s hottest pieces of theatre, Joanna Murray Smith’s political drama Julia, bursts onto the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre stage for an unmissable two-week season from 3rd to 13th September.

In 2012, Julia Gillard gave a speech that sent shockwaves around the world.

Now, over a decade later, Julia is both a compelling insight into the person behind the mask, and a reflection on the experience of women in contemporary politics. In a thrilling coming together of history and art, this incredible dramatic imagining renders a powerful monologue that takes us through key moments in Prime Minister Gillard’s life, culminating in an electrifying verbatim performance of the ‘misogyny speech’.