The inaugural program of Artistic Director Ebony Bott includes the world premiere of Suzie Miller’s latest play Strong is the New Pretty about the creation of the AFL Women’s Competition, and a new movement piece about mortality from The Farm called No One Gets Out of Here Alive (see page 63). La Boite presents Michelle Lim Davidson’s personal drama Koreaboo about her visit to Seoul to meet with her somewhat disinterested birth mother. The best-selling pub-themed show The Choir of Man has a season in the Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent, while Luke Murphy’s part crime-drama, part psychological thriller Scorched Earth arrives after a New York season. This year’s new Festival Village – a large-scale riverside precinct at South Bank – also promises to be a lively spot with plenty of free and ticketed events.

Limelight Editor’s Choice

A single mum, a teenage daughter, and a new life in a regional town where neither quite fits.

It’s always been just the two of them against the world, dancing in supermarkets, getting the hell out after the ‘Very Bad Thing’. Now Mum is finding rebellion in the sweaty, radical world of roller derby, while Billie’s anxieties are manifesting in unnerving ways.

Windmill Production Company’s Mama Does Derby is a no-holds-barred riot of reinvention and reckoning – about falling down, getting back up, and making friends with your demons.