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Story Soup: The Improvised Pantomime

Playhouse Pantomimes: Story Soup: The Improvised Pantomime

ACMI Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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…

Sydney Opera House: Grug and the Rainbow

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
A magical adaptation of Ted Prior’s beloved picture books, Grug and the Rainbow sees our grassy little friend embark on an epic adventure to bask in the colours of the illusive rainbow. Featuring exquisite puppetry and heart-warming humour back to delight audiences, this smash hit is not one to miss…
Ratburger

: Ratburger

Join Zoe and her dancing pet rat Dapper, in this hilarious, action-packed adventure! Her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her. The school bully Tina Trotts makes her life a misery – mainly by spitting on her head. And now the evil Burt…
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Melbourne Theatre Company: The Removalists

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
David Williamson’s dark satire The Removalists premiered in 1971 but remains as shocking as ever. Set in an inner suburb of Melbourne, two sisters report an act of domestic violence to the police, hoping things will be quickly resolved. However, the local constabulary likes to handle things its own way.…

That Science Gang: You are a Doughnut!

Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre 2 Blair Street, Bunbury, WA, Australia
It’s true! YOU are a great big fleshy lump with a remarkable hole running all the way through your middle — your digestive system. Join biology teachers Oesoph A. Gus and Dewey Dean as they embark upon an utterly brilliant allsinging, all-dancing (and all-clowning!) exploration of every twisting tube and…
ArtsLab: Reverb – ‘ULTRAREALITY!’ by resinperson

Shopfront Arts Co-Op: ultrareality

Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
ultrareality is a performance piece conceptualised and operated by resin person. with a background in puppetry, theatre making and music production, they will install something further than reality – ultrareality! a journey through this cosmic, an exploration of life, self and technology. part deep-sea expedition, part puppet rave, part audio-visual…

essential workers: Amber

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
Meet Amber. She's a Richard Curtis Rom-Com fanatic and has been praying for God to send her the man of her dreams ever since she was fifteen. When she's first kissed and half-fingered by the coolest boy in school at the back of Edgecliff Centre, she's pretty sure her love…
The Machine Stops

Theatre Works: The Machine Stops

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
From the team that brought you The Human Voice and Moth comes the radical 1909 dystopian epic that predicted the internet. Be transported by this world premier of a new adaptation of the brilliant novella The Machine Stops by EM Forster. In this chilling tale of a futuristic information-orientated society…
Glass Child

Seymour Centre: Glass Child

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
Glass Child depicts the sibling relationship between Kayah, a young man with Down Syndrome, and his sister Maitreyah. Glass Child is a beautiful portrayal of intertwining sibling relationships performed by real-life brother and sister Kayah and Maitreyah Guenther. Expressed through dance, theatre and storytelling, Glass Child highlights their connection and how their lives…
The Lotto Line

Studio 5 Productions: The Lotto Line

Flow Studios 57 Denison St, Camperdown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The Lotto Line is an original absurdist comedy written by John Tsakiris, making its world premiere at Flow Studios in April 2025. Presented by Studio 5 Productions, this show is bound to have you in stitches whether you’re a regular theatre-goer, a first-timer, or a stack of toddlers in a…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Launceston Players: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Earl Arts Centre 10 Earl Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
Christopher Boone is an extraordinary thinker. He is exceptional at maths and observes things that nobody else sees, but everyday life is a little trickier. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his street, he detests being touched and he is wary of strangers. Now, Christopher is in…

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