• Control by Keziah Warner

    flatpack.: Control

    For the first time since its original Red Stitch production in 2019, Keziah Warner's epic sci-fi odyssey makes its return to Melbourne. In the not-so-distant future, a heavily pregnant ex-ballerina, a child detective, a bitter puppeteer and a feminist pop princess hurtle towards Mars in a Big Brother-style spaceship. The…
    Dying: A Memoir

    Melbourne Theatre Company: Dying: A Memoir

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    When the acclaimed author Cory Taylor was diagnosed with a terminal illness, what followed was an astonishing creative surge that resulted in a memoir Barack Obama named as one of his favourite books of 2017. Taylor’s wry insights into the rituals, language and taboos surrounding mortality can be witty, provocative or eye-opening…
    Whitefella Yella Tree

    La Boite: Whitefella Yella Tree

    La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
    Once in a blue moon, in the middle of nowhere, two teenage boys meet under a lemon tree. When they look at each other, it’s tense, exciting, and strange. Ty and Neddy fall madly in love, as teenagers are wont to do. After a rough start, a fragile friendship fruits…
    Malacañang Made Us

    Queensland Theatre: Malacañang Made Us

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    The fall of a dictator and the reverberations on the generation he jeopardised. 1986, Manila, the Philippines. The world finally looks on as history is being made by a society tearing at the fabric of a regime and demanding change. On the fateful evening of President Ferdinand Marcos’ exile, young…
    Editor's Choice Shirley Valentine

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Shirley Valentine

    Twelfth Night Theatre 4 Cintra Rd, Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia
    Following seasons in Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra, Willy Russell’s life-affirming one-woman play, which premiered in 1986, is headed for Sydney and Brisbane with Natalie Bassingthwaighte as Shirley. It tells the story of a middle-aged, working-class Liverpool housewife who finds herself stuck in a rut. Talking to her kitchen wall, she…
    Heart is a Wasteland

    Yirra Yaakin Theatre: Heart is a Wasteland

    Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco, WA, Australia
    Raye, is a country-music star in the making, playing in one back-water pub after another along Australia’s vast desert highways. Trying to make a living in the hope of returning home to her young son Elvis, her lyrics blaze through the landscapes of love and longing. A chance meeting and…

    OzAsia Festival: Milestone

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Celebrating his 80th birthday, pioneering artist, William Yang, reflects on his extraordinary life in Milestone. In this ambitious new performance, Yang weaves together an epic slideshow of documentary photographs from his vast collection. Through personal stories, he explores themes of family, sexuality, and culture with his signature humour and candour. Set…
    The Play That Goes Wrong

    GMG Productions: The Play That Goes Wrong

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    The Play That Goes Wrong is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes, things go from bad to utterly disastrous when the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society performs a classic murder mystery. You all know the classic whodunnit story; there has been a murder at a country manor and…

    Ensemble Theatre: Fly Girl

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    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…
    Romeo & Juliet

    Bell Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet

    Theatre Royal, Hobart 29 Campbell Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Did my heart love till now? After a chance meeting, an intense but forbidden love is ignited between two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet. And despite the unending, violent feud between their families, they will risk everything to be together. This raw portrayal of Romeo & Juliet will envelop you in the…
  • Um, I Think the Psych Teacher is Dead

    Bakker Productions: Um, I Think the Psych Teacher is Dead

    Earl Arts Centre 10 Earl Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    The students are ready, pencils are sharpened, nerves are frayed - and their teacher is face down on the desk. Possibly unconscious. Possibly dead. Definitely inconvenient! With their phones locked away, the classroom door sealed, and the test answers resting under the teacher’s lifeless head, chaos erupts. What starts as…