In the underdeck chilldrippery of a sunken galleon, in its deepest bowels, two ancient pirates dwell in suspended misery: Saucy Jack and Bagfoot, their lives sustained by the ecosystem that has overtaken the bilge around them. Thanks to the bile-green phosphorescent bladderwrack that thrives on the flooded deck, their air…

Roman General Titus returns from war victorious against the Goths, rejects the political power offered him and sets in motion his own violent demise. After begging in vain for the life of her eldest son, fed by Titus to the sacrificial flame, Tamora, Queen of the Goths, embarks on an…

Will McDonald (Heartbreak High) plays Tom Ripley, an orphan and a striver, barely scraping by in 1950s New York. But beneath his woebegone exterior, Tom cultivates certain talents that set him apart: an extraordinary capacity for mimicry and deception. He is a man with a face no-one remembers. Whereas no…

Equus by Peter Shaffer is an electric play about passion and worship. Equus is very confronting and sets out to shock, excite and captivate its audience. It is an exploration of the human condition with its confusions, paradoxes and unanswerable questions, blending the naturalistic with the surreal. The play exposes…

Dark Erotica Quartet by James Hazelden A blackly comic take on kink, sexual proclivities and satisfaction. Three seemingly disparate scenes that fit together, Russian-doll style, into a celebration of the lost art of spoken erotica. A play about the kind of sex we think about, and not the kind we…

Young Will Shakespeare has a bad case of writer’s block and desperately needs a muse.  His new comedy, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter, isn’t turning out how he’d hoped and he’s up against a tight deadline to deliver his next masterpiece. That is until he meets Viola de Lesseps,…

It’s the late 70’s and the Australian Aviation Industry is a boy’s club. The only job women are allowed involves wearing heels, lighting smokes and serving nuts. Deborah Lawrie’s got the chops to fly the big jets, but Reg Ansett won’t let her. Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore use their…

Coriolanus is a ferocious warrior and defender of Rome. But his contempt for the public, and his refusal to play the political game, see him banished from the city he once protected. When he joins forces with his former enemy to seek vengeance against Rome, the fate of the city,…

“Everybody worships me. It’s nauseating.” Actor Garry Essendine is possibly the most desired man in the world. He is handsome, charming, self-deprecating, self-obsessed, and in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Over the course of a few days, on the eve of an overseas tour, he finds his life bombarded…

Logie Award-winner Kat Stewart makes her Sydney Theatre Company debut with wit, authenticity, and unbridled fire in this celebrated production of the twentieth century’s most ferocious comedy of manners. A leading figure in American theatre and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, Edward Albee’s most famous play is a wild, brainy…