Tag: Poppy Seed Festival

‘LOST: 5’ by Illumi-Nation Theatre at the 2017 Poppy Seed Festival

‘An unengaged mind, is an empty mind.’ The world premier of Daniel Keene’s LOST: 5 provided insight into where the mind wanders when there is emptiness or hopelessness. Illumi-Nation Theatre invites audiences to consider homelessness through five distinct monologues. The Rain, Two Shanks,…

Poppy Seed Festival: ‘What’s Yours Is Mine’

‘What’s Yours is Mine‘, produced by independent theatre company Hotel Now, is intelligent and funny. Inspired by Chekhov’s The Proposal, ‘What’s Yours Is Mine’ explores the themes of greed, possession, ownership and excess throughout Australia’s history and popular culture. The…

Poppy Seed Festival: ‘F.’

Riot Stage, the production company behind ‘F.‘, is a youth theatre company that gives kids access to the arts and tells their stories through performance. ‘F.’ addresses what it is like to be a teenager in this day and age….

Poppy Seed Festival: ‘Ladycake’

The Poppy Seed Theatre Festival‘s mission has artists swooning. Put simply, the festival aims to ‘help artists excel’. They achieve this goal by providing a select number of curated projects with cold hard cash, a theatre venue, and a publicist. In…

Poppy Seed Festival: ‘Blessed’

When hope is dashed against the rocks of reality, and clouds of pessimism obscure all dreams, what becomes of love?  This is one of the main questions put to us by ‘Blessed’ — though I might also be speaking of the recent…

‘Gin Sister’ at the Poppy Seed Festival

Welcome to the intoxicated world of bad relationships, narcissistic women, and giant leopards. ‘Gin Sister’ is a devised theatre piece that explores the many alcohol-induced situations that women find themselves in. Enjoy reckless, cheeky and drunken dancing as Trades Hall’s…