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    • Awakening Histories

    : Awakening Histories

    Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 51 James Street, Perth, WA, Australia
    The Awakening Histories exhibit at PICA explores the deep and enduring connection between First Nations Peoples across the north of this continent (now known as Australia) and the Makassan seafarers of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Re-positioning Australia’s pre-colonial international relations from a global south perspective, this powerful exhibition reflects on the…
    Painting Itself/绘画本身

    : Painting Itself/绘画本身

    Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 51 James Street, Perth, WA, Australia
    Painting Itself/绘画本身 is an exhibition of five painters from Hong Kong, Malaysia, London, Shanghai and Singapore. The exhibition explores a new horizontal culture in painting, where fundamental ideas about its history and vitality—long the influence of European and American values—are being reshaped in East and Southeast Asia. A common understanding…
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    Sandyland: An evening with Sandra Bernhard

    Frontier Touring: Sandyland: An evening with Sandra Bernhard

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Welcome to Sandyland. A wild, unfiltered evening of comedy, cabaret and the finest of storytelling. A place that will turn your world upside down with perfectly curated music, perfumed breezes and musings about her exotic adventures around fame and the globe. If your setting is continental, even a little sentimental,…
    La Mama: Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret

    La Mama: Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret

    La Mama HQ 205 Faraday St, Carlton, VIC, Australia
    Secrets once spoken can't be unsaid. When a woman dies, three letters are sent to her adopted children from the Stolen Generation asking them to return to the remote homestead for the reading of her will. So begins an epic journey for the siblings. Their arrival at the old farm…
    Editor's Choice Torch The Place

    Queensland Theatre: Torch The Place

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    When Benjamin Law’s debut play, Torch The Place, premiered at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2020, Limelight reviewer Patricia Maunder described it as “a tragicomic tale about a dysfunctional Asian-Australian family . . . written with wit and warmth.” When Mum turns 60, her children arrive with a birthday cake, presents and a…
    Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When Ray Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll premiered in 1955, it was a watershed moment in Australian theatre, given its groundbreaking portrayal of distinctly Australian characters. Set in Melbourne in 1953, it features cane cutters Roo and Barney, who return to the city between harvests to spend time with Olive and Nancy.…
    Trophy Boys

    State Theatre Company South Australia: Trophy Boys

    Adelaide Festival Centre Festival Drive, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    It is the biggest night of Melbourne’s academic calendar, the Grand Finale of the Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament, and the all-boys team from the elite St Imperium College are ready to totally annihilate their sister school — until things take a dark turn… Performed by a female and non-binary…
    RBG – Of Many, One

    Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One

    Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Australian legend, Heather Mitchell, returns to the stage in her award-winning performance as Ruth Bader Ginsburg - an intimate theatrical portrait of one woman who changed history. The second woman appointed to the US Supreme Court. A trailblazer in the American judiciary. A fierce advocate for gender equality and reproductive…
    Julius Caesar

    Bell Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Betrayal and chaos rock the republic as Rome teeters on the brink of collapse It’s been more than 450 years since a monarch ruled in Rome. But now, in the senate and the streets, the forum and the marketplace, the word ‘king’ is being whispered again. Julius Caesar has triumphed…
    Editor's Choice West Gate

    Melbourne Theatre Company: West Gate

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Dennis McIntosh was 12 when Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge collapsed on 15 October, 1970. He and his friends heard the terrible thud from their school – something he has never forgotten. Thirty-five men died in what remains Australia’s deadliest industrial accident. For the past decade, McIntosh has been working on a play…
    The Book of Mormon

    JONES Theatrical Group: The Book of Mormon

    Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Hello! The Mormons are back! First seen in Australia in 2017, The Book of Mormon is blasphemous, scurrilous, puerile, rude, satirical – and one of the funniest, sweetest, most joyous musicals ever staged. Written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with Robert Lopez, the 2011 show won…
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    Griffin Theatre: The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A landmark work of Australian theatre returns to the stage where it first sprang to inglorious life. Steve J. Spears’ The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin scandalised and mesmerised in equal measure when it premiered in 1976, touring across the world and collecting awards everywhere it ventured. Now, on its 50th…