Playwright - Laura Wade Director - Janine Watson Colder Than Here is an offbeat comedy about finding light even in the darkest of times. Wade’s heart-breaking journey through love, loss and laughter earned her a Critics’ Circle Theatre Award and an Olivier Award nomination. Myra’s typically middle-class family are scarily normal in their eccentricities, especially […]
By Matthew Whittet What did it feel like when you were seventeen? What’s it like to be seventeen now? Joyful and profound, Matthew Whittet’s Seventeen tells the story of a group of high school students, experiencing something we all remember well, the last day of school – for ever. Through a fog of stolen alcohol, six teenagers […]
Trouble is afoot in the old CFA hall on the outskirts of town. When a fracture forms in the local choir, a small band of community misfits are pushed out into the cold. The only thing left to do? Rebrand! They’ve formed a new group, got a cracking new name and the town’s winery is […]
For our last Theatre Group event for 2024 we will be seeing a Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece by America’s most performed living playwright. By Lynn Nottage Directed by Zindzi Okenyo Blood, sweat and explosive drama Lynn Nottage is the superstar writer of two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays and, in 2023, became America’s most produced living playwright. In 2024, […]
A play by Tom Wright Adapted from the novel by Joan Lindsay Directed by Ian Michael Our most beguiling modern myth, boldly reimagined 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. […]
Set in 1968 and the present, Song of First Desire was written by Andrew Bovell and first produced by Octubre Productions, Spain in 2023. Jorge Muriel and Borja Maestre from the original 2023 cast join Kerry Fox and Sarah Peirse for the English premiere. This is a play of passion, history and politics, intimate in its detail and epic in […]
Inspired by his own turbulent life, Tennessee Williams’ timeless portrait of a shattered family is one of the most iconic dramas of the 20th century. Amanda Wingfield can’t help but dream of the past — a long-gone adolescence of lavish parties and high society suitors. But her present is anything but dazzling. Living in squalor […]
A gripping new play from S. Shakthidharan (Counting and Cracking, The Jungle and the Sea) and co-directed by Hannah Goodwin, The Wrong Gods melds a mother-and-daughter struggle with the economics of progress, asking, what are we worshipping? And what price will we pay? In a valley in India, paintings on a cave wall bear testimony to the presence […]
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Written with heart and humour, Lauren Gunderson — America’s most-produced living playwright — perfectly captures the resilience and determination that define true pioneers and the enduring friendship of two remarkable women devoted to scientific and social change. When two Nobel Prizes prove inadequate armour against a scandalous affair, Marie Curie turns to fellow […]
Based on Helen Garner’s novel, starring Judy Davis as Helen and Elizabeth Alexander as Nicola, this is a tour-de-force of modern Australian theatre. When Helen’s old friend, Nicola, comes to town for treatment, it only makes sense she should stay in the spare room. Nicola has put her faith in a shady alternative cancer clinic, and Helen […]