La Boite Theatre’s 2026 season spans ancient Greece, zombie-infested Australia, corporate space missions and a mother-daughter reunion in Seoul in a four-show season championing new voices and new perspectives on our turulent times.

Opening on the eve of International Women’s Day, Antigone (5–21 March) launches the season with raw energy and political fire. Artistic Director Courtney Stewart (Macbeth, Congratulations, Get Rich! ) teams up with fight and intimacy specialist Nigel Poulton to deliver a visceral, three-hander reinterpretation of Sophocles’ timeless tragedy. At its centre is a young woman who refuses to be silenced: Antigone’s defiance of a king’s decree becomes a rallying cry against tyranny and moral complacency.

Starring Maddison Burridge and Billy Fogarty, the production promises a charged collision of poetry, power and protest that feels as contemporary as the nightly news.

La Boite 2026: Antigone; Eat, Slay Zombie; Second Coming and Koreaboo. Photos supplied

From ancient myth to apocalyptic mayhem, La Boite dives next into Eat Slay Zombie (14–30 May), a serrated-edge horror-comedy by Githabul-Migunberri-Yugumbeh writer Alinta McGrady. Co-directed by McGrady and Lisa Fa’alafi (Hot Brown Honey), the play unfolds in a bowling alley-turned-bunker where two Blak women livestream their survival amid the zombie apocalypse – and the ruins of colonisation. The cast features Juliette Coates, Shahnee Hunter and Jalen Sutcliffe.

Mid-year, La Boite and Playlab join forces for the world premiere of Second Coming (6–22 August), a sci-fi eco-thriller that trades the undead for the unthinkable.

It’s 2065, Earth is burning and geneticist Evie and her crew are hurtling toward Mars aboard a corporate ark, tasked with rescuing what remains of the planet’s biodiversity. When Evie discovers she’s unexpectedly pregnant mid-mission, however, personal crisis meets planetary stakes.

Written by Kathryn Marquet (The Dead Devils of Cockle Creek) and directed by Ian Lawson, the play combines cosmic absurdity and tragicomedy to probe the ethics of survival in an age of boundless capitalism. The cast includes Ashlee Lollback, Gideon Mzembe and Anthony Standish.

Closing the season is the Queensland premiere of Koreaboo (2–19 September), Michelle Lim Davidson’s touching debut as playwright. Inspired by her own experiences, the two-hander follows an Australian woman who travels to Seoul to reunite with her birth mother, only to find herself lost in translation – literally and emotionally.

Directed by Jessica Arthur (The Dictionary of Lost Words) and starring Davidson alongside Heather Jeong, Koreaboo explores belonging, identity and the sometimes awkward dance between cultures and generations.

For more information on La Boite Theatre in 2026, visit laboite.com.au