Thanks to the ongoing renovation of its Kings Cross base, Griffin Theatre Company remains temporarily homeless in 2025. Until the expanded Stables Theatre reopens in 2026, the company will be a creative couch-surfer at other venues across Sydney.

Griffin 2025: Paula Arundell, Nucleus. Photo © Brett Boardman

Griffin’s 2025 season opens with a new work, Nucleus, from one of Sydney’s most recognised and prolific playwrights, Alana Valentine. Presented in association with the Seymour Centre, it opens against the background of one of Australia’s most divisive environmental issues.

Gabriel is a nuclear engineer. Cassie is an anti-nuclear campaigner. For nearly 30 years their lives have collided, with Cassie’s cause dominating public opinion across the decades. But with political change rumbling underfoot, her life’s work could yet be undone.

Paula Arundell (The Bleeding Tree) is booked to star in a production directed by Griffin’s Associate Artistic Director Andrea James (Jailbaby, swim). It plays from 14 February at the Seymour Centre in Chippendale.

In April, Griffin moves to Woollomooloo’s Old Fitzroy Theatre from 26 June for...