If your looking for cutting edge theatre to stir your inner senses then look no further than Looking Glass, currently staged at fortyfivedownstairs. Be prepared for a challenging and entertaining evening to see through the end of winter. Looking Glass…
Benignly provocative and utterly eccentric sibling performance-makers Tobias and Kerith Manderson-Galvin trespass our comfort zones and smuggle their wit across the audience’s personal borders in their new show The Eternity of the World. Performed as part of the Provocare Festival…
A new theatrical adaptation of short stories by Melbourne author and The Slap provocateur, Christos Tsiolkas, Merciless Gods, paraded an underworld of need before a packed audience, elevating us to godly places. A must see show adapted by Dan Giovannoni, this…
The Book Of Revelations is an exciting new contemporary performance theatre production. Alison Richards is the writer and solo performer and teamed up with Nancy Black from Black Hole theatre along with puppeteers, sound and visual designers to develop a…
Taking inspiration from Aristophanes Ancient Greek comedy The Frogs, Poetic License uses poetry, music, dance, rap, comedy, and storytelling to reassert the timeless question – can the spoken word inspire change? In a world of pointless entertainment Poetic License is…
The power of dangerous emotions to corrupt are writ large in Dirty Pretty Theatre and Critical Stages’ adaptation of a famous 19th century realist thriller, Thérèse Raquin. Adapted and directed by award-winning Gary Abrahams, a stellar cast is at…
A swashbuckling night of rough bravado awaits in Melbourne Theatre Company’s version of the Scottish play, Macbeth. Set in a warring world, this is a one-off telling that will hold you breathless. A play about ‘leaping ambition’, it’s a classic…
In Book Of Exodus – Part I, the performance begins with us staring for a minute in silence at a white background wall. Before the wall are piles of broken white foam smothering the territory. The ocean of detritus resembles…
A thrilling night of thought-control by the Ministry of Peace came alive for us in an urgent telling of George Orwell’s social manifesto, 1984 The Play. Directors Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s bold revisioning of post-WWII paranoia is presented for…
Maverick Bristol live-art performance duo Action Hero (Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse) present their third work as the 2017 Art House Company in Residence, Wrecking Ball. We raved about their previous play Hoke’s Bluff, and they deliver again with a theatrical work…