The Play Saving lives. Sending aid. Swiping right. Just another day at SAVIOR International. A typhoon hits the Philippines and local project officer Michelle lands her dream assignment. It’s her first time co-ordinating a global relief effort for a sleek American NGO. A chance to change lives, to be the changemaker she always dreamed of! All […]
The Play Isla and Violet are a ‘lethal combination’. Their self-righteous headmaster thinks that’s an insult. They think it’s a cute name for a girl group. Too-smart, too precocious and way too outspoken, it’s no surprise when these self-proclaimed soulmates are separated until the end of the year. But the world outside their South London school is […]
The Play A landmark work of Australian theatre returns to the stage where it first sprung 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 anniversary, Simon Burke takes on the towering role […]
Virginia Woolf’s most beloved and brilliant novel takes to the stage in a joyous new adaptation. Orlando is young, rich and handsome. A courtier in the time of Elizabeth, he sets out in search of love, life, and a fabulous destiny – but he has to travel through 400 years to find it. He dashes […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Written by Grace Chapple Directed by Hannah Goodwin Northern Ireland, 1987. Deirdre is stuck – between arguments, nations, and the lives she almost lived. But when her old schoolfriends gather in her kitchen yet again for Christmas Eve, their growing differences push to the surface a powder-keg, waiting the tiniest spark. And then one of […]
The love story which defined a generation, and a classic of the Australian stage, in a brand new production. ADAPTED BY TOMMY MURPHY FROM THE BOOK BY TIMOTHY CONIGRAVE DIRECTED […]
Charlotte Wood - Original Author Sue Smith - Adapter Sarah Goodes - Director Four women have known each other for decades, and have a friendship that goes with it – good-humoured, caring, and forthright when required. But Sylvie has died, and when the remaining three come together to pack up her beach house, they find […]