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1984 by George Orwell

shake & stir theatre co: 1984 by George Orwell

The Events Centre, Caloundra 20 Minchinton St, Caloundra, QLD, Australia
Big Brother is back. Strap in for an electrifying take on the George Orwell classic – from the multi-award winning creative minds at Shake & Stir (Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Animal Farm and Dracula). It was a bright cold day, and the clocks were striking thirteen...  Winston Smith, an editor at the Ministry…
Control

Theatre Works: Control

A slick sci-fi odyssey exploring humanity’s desire to dictate how we are perceived by others. 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 world is watching. Isn’t it? On the…
La Ronde

Strut & Fret: La Ronde

The Grand Electric 199 Cleveland St, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia
NEWCASTLE, IT’S YOUR TURN TO BE SEDUCED BY THE WORLD’S VERY BEST VARIETY ARTISTS. Blending the exquisite, the elegant and the extraordinary, with the twisted and the utterly delightful. Taking home 14 five-star reviews in its debut season at this year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival, La Ronde is set to dazzle…
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…
LauZone

OzAsia Festival: LauZone

Nexus Arts Lion Arts Centre, 68 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Get ready for a euphony of dialects including Cantonese, Putonghua, Chiuchow, and Shanghainese as Rick Lau and Anna Lo pay tribute to LauZone, an old colloquial Cantonese term for non-Cantonese natives. Brimming with song and laughter, Lau and Lo celebrate their ancestral roots and honour the many lives and memories…
Duck Pond CIRCA
Duck Pond

Circa: Duck Pond

IPAC 32 Burelli St, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
The world's most romantic ballet is re-imagined as a circus spectacular, full of Circa’s signature physicality and shot through with cheeky humour and a thoroughly contemporary energy. Be swept away by this tale of swans and hapless princes sparkling with quirky touches like the sequinned flipper-wearing duck army and a…
Jeromaia Detto: When I Grow Up…

Sydney Fringe Festival: Jeromaia Detto – When I Grow Up…

Erskineville Town Hall 104 Erskineville Road, Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Full of absurd characters, wild whimsy and a healthy sprinkle of silliness, multi award winning master of play, Jeromaia Detto, returns with a fringe experience like none other - creating a brand new show each night based on your childhood dreams. What did you want to be when you grew…
Control by Keziah Warner

flatpack.: Control

Theatre Works Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
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…

Muses Trio: In Conversation with Natalie Nicolas

Hayes Street Studio 11 Hayes Street, Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia
An intimate evening featuring a complete live performance of Muses Trio’s Music for Calm and Catharsis album, interspersed with relaxed interviews with Natalie Nicolas, the composer. Music for Calm and Catharsis is an album of short works written to make the listener feel. Music is so insurmountably powerful, it has…
Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

Lyric Opera of Melbourne: Song from the Uproar – The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne’s multi-award-winning Lyric Opera returns to fortyfivedownstairs to present the Australian premiere of this “dazzlingly original score”. First staged at The Kitchen in New York, it has been hailed as a masterpiece of modern opera, drawing influences from baroque to minimalism to indie rock. Isabelle Eberhardt’s journals were a rich…
Voice, Rejoice!

Salut! Baroque: Voice, Rejoice! (Canberra)

Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
The versatility of the voice has fascinated composers through the ages, from its purest form to its most virtuosic. This concert presents music of extraordinary variety and exquisite beauty – from the rhythms and colours of Spanish song, the majesty of the German choral tradition, the refinement of French opera,…
Editor's Choice Rebecca

Melbourne Theatre Company: Rebecca

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel was adapted as a suspenseful film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This new production, adapted and directed by MTC Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, takes us back to Manderley, the grand mansion where Maxim de Winter returns home with his second…

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