Dark Mofo: Machine Girl

Odeon Theatre, Hobart 167 Liverpool Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Furious digital hardcore for the collapse of civilisation.

Dark Mofo: Forest Swords

Altar Bar 112 Murray St, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Immersive electronic landscapes from the post-industrial guts of Liverpool.
There Is Nothing Like A Game!

Adelaide Cabaret Festival: There Is Nothing Like A Game!

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Beloved cabaret star and musical comedian Gillian Cosgriff (Thank God You’re Here, Spicks and Specks) brings you a late-night show like no other. Sure, there’ll be killer music and special guests, but finally you, the audience, will have a chance to be part of the late night chaos. Quizzes, games,…

Dark Mofo: Borderlands

Odeon Theatre, Hobart 167 Liverpool Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
The outermost edges of experimental ambience, in a sit-down listening experience. Lisa Gerrard + Cye Wood + William Barton Felicia Atkinson Hand To Earth
La Danse Macabre

Dark Mofo: La Danse Macabre

Dark Park 41 Evans St, Hobart, TAS
A blistering allegory of capitalist apathy: Comte’s video work depicts two pianists performing Saint-Saëns’ symphonic meditation on death, while a wooden sculpture is consumed by flames and a motocross rider jumps through the inferno.

Dark Mofo: Berlin Atonal – Nox Omnia III

The Playhouse Theatre 106 Bathurst Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
A sit-down journey of hypnagogic, experimental soundscapes curated by the German capital’s venerated music festival.

Hayes Theatre Co: Rizo

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
This beloved, genre-defying goddess of song makes her Hayes debut with a show that explores the fleeting, funny, and profound nature of “home”—proving that yes, you really can go big and go home. From her childhood on an Oregon commune, to 15 years of traveling the globe (where home is…

Dark Mofo: The Peep Tempel

Altar Bar 112 Murray St, Hobart, TAS, Australia
The post-punk rockers break a long hiatus with raw portraits of life in the burbs.

Dark Mofo: Boy Harsher

Odeon Theatre, Hobart 167 Liverpool Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Murky, synth heavy electro-pop, throbbing with desire and loneliness.
The Selkie Project

Liminal Theatre: The Selkie Project

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
The Selkie: creature of myth; a seal who removes her sealskin to enjoy the pleasures of the human body for a night. But when the man she meets steals her sealskin, she is imprisoned on land. Grotesquely animal, bewildered by the human world, she is trapped in the wrong skins…
Peter & The Wolf and Colours 2025

Utassy: Peter & The Wolf and Colours 2025

The Round 379 - 399 Whitehorse Road,, Nunawading, VIC
zUtassy’s annual production of ‘Peter and the Wolf’ captures children’s imagination. The intricacies of the friendships between Bird, Cat, Peter and Duck are cleverly portrayed – and the remaining characters Grandfather, Wolf and Hunters add further interest and drama. Young children relate extremely well to our performers who serve as…
Wolfgang in the Stars

Circa: Wolfgang in the Stars

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Join the boy-genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as he embarks on an interstellar journey to seek inspiration for his beloved early masterpiece "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”. As he floats through the wonders of zero-gravity, he encounters a cast of quirky characters from dancing space dinosaurs to zany aliens - every moment…

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