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Live Nation: You Paid For This

Melbourne Town Hall 90-130 Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
This is the official bio for my brand-new show You Paid for This. Not to be confused with any of the fake ones out there. I had to write this bio myself, which really threw my morning plans. I thought coming up with the title was the hard part, but…

Queensland Ballet: Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo & Juliet

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Kenneth MacMillan’s romantic masterpiece returns to set hearts alight. Shakespeare’s legendary tale takes us to Renaissance Italy where a young star-crossed couple fall in love on the streets of fair Verona. Amidst violence, passion, and feuding families, Romeo and Juliet’s love is immediate and intense, with tragedy following rapidly behind.…

Clocked Out: Peak Plastique – Clocked Out

Queensland Conservatorium 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Ordinary plastic objects transformed into extraordinary soundscapes through 11 exquisite musical compositions accompanied by evocative animations, that explore our complex relationship with plastics. Drawing on decades of sonic curiosity across the fields of classical, jazz and experimental music traditions, pianist Erik Griswold, violinist Anna McMichael, percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson and video…

Clocked Out: Peak Plastique – Clocked Out

Queensland Conservatorium 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Ordinary plastic objects transformed into extraordinary soundscapes through 11 exquisite musical compositions accompanied by evocative animations, that explore our complex relationship with plastics. Drawing on decades of sonic curiosity across the fields of classical, jazz and experimental music traditions, pianist Erik Griswold, violinist Anna McMichael, percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson and video…

Queensland Ballet: Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo & Juliet

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Kenneth MacMillan’s romantic masterpiece returns to set hearts alight. Shakespeare’s legendary tale takes us to Renaissance Italy where a young star-crossed couple fall in love on the streets of fair Verona. Amidst violence, passion, and feuding families, Romeo and Juliet’s love is immediate and intense, with tragedy following rapidly behind.…

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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.…
Gesualdo Tenebrae

Luminescence Chamber Singers: Gesualdo Tenebrae

The Neilson, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
More than 400 years later, the music of Carlo Gesualdo still seems strikingly avant-garde. Composed for his own private use during his final years, and likely unheard during his lifetime, Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories are of unmatched intensity. This is music at the end of an epoch; at once steeped in…
Editor's Choice The Player Kings

Sport for Jove: The Player Kings (Part 1)

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
In its most ambitious undertaking yet, Sport for Jove is staging a new version of Shakespeare’s great history cycle, adapted and directed by Artistic Director Damien Ryan. Tracing the journey from Richard II to Richard III, including the Bard’s plays relating to Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI, the epic production…

Shopfront Arts Co-Op: Mummy I’m Scared!

Shopfront Arts Co-Op 86-88 Carlton Pde, Carlton, NSW, Australia
The year is 1892 and seances are all the rage. Put on your ghostly best, cause you’re invited to the hottest candle lit seance table at the house of the FeatherBottoms. As the dinner starts, Mummy FeatherBottom reveals that she is dying, but chokes halfway through the reading of her…
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…

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…

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