Melbourne Women in Film Festival

Melbourne Women in Film Festival: Melbourne Women in Film Festival

ACMI Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) is an unmissable celebration of cinema, offering everything from daring feature films and captivating short screenings to inspiring masterclasses and lively panel discussions. Audiences will be immersed in thought-provoking narratives, innovative storytelling and exciting new voices in cinema, all while celebrating the groundbreaking work…
Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo & Juliet

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.…
Melbourne Women in Film Festival

Melbourne Women in Film Festival: Melbourne Women in Film Festival

ACMI Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) is an unmissable celebration of cinema, offering everything from daring feature films and captivating short screenings to inspiring masterclasses and lively panel discussions. Audiences will be immersed in thought-provoking narratives, innovative storytelling and exciting new voices in cinema, all while celebrating the groundbreaking work…
Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo & Juliet

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.…
Melbourne Women in Film Festival

Melbourne Women in Film Festival: Melbourne Women in Film Festival

ACMI Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) is an unmissable celebration of cinema, offering everything from daring feature films and captivating short screenings to inspiring masterclasses and lively panel discussions. Audiences will be immersed in thought-provoking narratives, innovative storytelling and exciting new voices in cinema, all while celebrating the groundbreaking work…
Melbourne Women in Film Festival

Melbourne Women in Film Festival: Melbourne Women in Film Festival

ACMI Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) is an unmissable celebration of cinema, offering everything from daring feature films and captivating short screenings to inspiring masterclasses and lively panel discussions. Audiences will be immersed in thought-provoking narratives, innovative storytelling and exciting new voices in cinema, all while celebrating the groundbreaking work…
Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir

Andrew Kay and Associates: Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir

Brunswick Ballroom 314 Sydney Rd,, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
Hailing from the very heart of Australia, the 30-strong Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir is drawn together from seven remote communities of Australia’s vast central desert. Singing in English alongside Western Arrarnta and Pitjantjatjara – two living languages of the Northern Territory and South Australia – and led by Choir Master Morris…

Sydney Theatre Company: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Five modern teenage girls recount a story burnt into the Australian psyche. In Tom Wright’s lyrical and daring adaptation, Joan Lindsay’s hypnotic classic becomes a form-shattering mix of storytelling, gossip, and reenactment. Seen through the eyes of STC Resident Director Ian Michael (Stolen, Constellations), “the most exciting new director of…
Editor's Choice

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.…
Editor's Choice

Queensland Theatre: Calamity Jane

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
First seen at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co in 2107, Richard Carroll’s inspired, side-splitting production, starring Virginia Gay in the title role, proved an enormous hit. Reviewing it for Limelight, Clive Paget wrote, “this tiny jewel of a production hits every note square between the eyes.” Naomi Price now steps into…
Jacob Sacher: Promising Young Mensch

Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Jacob Sacher: Promising Young Mensch

The Motley Bauhaus 118 Elgin St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
When Jacob Sacher's Jewish school was implicated in the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, he was forced to reflect on his ultra-orthodox childhood. Jacob Sacher is an award winning alternative comedian. He has performed his unique brand of comedy around the country, in New Zealand and the United States.…
A Chance to Adress the Amish Rumours

Stephanie Hare: A Chance to Adress the Amish Rumours

The Butterfly Club 5 Carson Place, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Stephanie Hare grew up off-grid in rural Tasmania without internet, television, or even a fridge. When Stephanie’s mother was twenty-three, they relocated out of Melbourne, bought a goat, and built a house out of firewood in the middle-of-nowhere Tasmania. Now Stephanie is twenty-three and she’s written a comedy show about…

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