2016 LINEUP

  • MASTERCLASS 2

    12 - 30 JAN

    Charlie Garber takes your hand. He leads you through gloom and mist, murmuring soft encouragement. You see Gareth Davies walking slowly in front of you with a torch, illuminating a path you never knew existed.

    “I’m scared”, you whisper to Charlie.

    “I know”, he whispers back. “But trust me, he’s the best there’s ever been”.

  • THE WHALE

    2 FEB - 4 MARCH

    On the outskirts of Mormon Country, Idaho, a six hundred pound recluse hides away in his apartment, and slowly eats himself to death. Desperate to reconnect with his long-estranged daughter, he reaches out to her, only to find a viciously sharp-tongued and wildly unhappy teen.

  • 80 MINUTES NO INTERVAL

    8 MARCH - 9 APRIL

    Louis is a failed novelist, which wouldn't be the case if he'd stop messing with tense and obscuring the narrative. e was a theatre reviewer, and he'd still be doing that if a black box hadn't been invented that runs on an algorithm having it write perfect reviews. His girlfriend would still be around if he'd stopped taking her to plays where directors wrecked simple stories, and he'd be sitting in his home right now if he hadn't worn out his welcome at his parent's investment property. One thing Louis does have is grit; he ain't gonna let no thing or no body bring him down. But sometimes art happens, and when it does... two words... pens and eyes. Pens. Eyes.

  • BELLEVILLE

    12 APRIL - 12 MAY

    Young Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and Zack’s noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he’s supposed to be at work, the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life.

  • HOWIE THE ROOKIE

    17 MAY - 11 JUNE

    The Howie Lee gets dragged into a bizarre feud of honour involving a scabies-infested mattress against The Rookie Lee, which spirals out of control and ends in his own personal tragedy.

  • INNER VOICES

    15 JUNE - 9 JULY

    Knowing Only his name, a boy has been locked away since childhood. He is groomed to become leader of Russia. But will chaos erupt when he gains power?

  • LOW LEVEL PANIC

    12 JULY - 12 AUG

    Here is a careful examination of the role of pornography in our society and the way it affects three young women in particular. Short scenes show how popular images of women influence the way they are seen by others and the way they see themselves.

  • LOOK BACK IN ANGER

    16 AUG - 10 SEPT

    The seminal British drama of the 20th century, LOOK BACK IN ANGER, exploded onto London's post-war theatrical landscape in the midst of silly comedies and splashy musicals. It took no prisoners and gave no quarter, mercilessly skewering the leftover relics of the Edwardian class system while blazing a trail for every British dramatist who followed.

  • 4 MINUTES 12 SECONDS

    13 SEPT - 8 OCT

    Di and David have devoted their lives to giving their son every opportunity they never had — and now Jack is smart and outgoing with a brilliant future ahead of him. But a violent incident outside the school gates and a cell phone video gone viral threaten to ruin everything they’ve worked for. As events accelerate, Di and David start to doubt their closest friends, their own son, and ultimately themselves.

  • THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT

    11 OCT - 12 NOV

    Petra Von Kant's life is fantastic. The divorce is done, she's as hot as she's ever been and she's cashed up. Her obsessive PA does everything for her, her mother's about to bugger off on a six month holiday and her daughter has been shunted off to boarding school. Even old friends can't bring her down. But then she meets

  • THE SHADOW BOX

    15 NOV - 10 DEC

    In this compelling dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital's grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter's dementia; Brian and Beverly, whose marital complications are exacerbated by Brian's new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe's impending death and its effect on their teenage son.

  • BABES IN THE WOODS

    13 DEC - 21 DEC
    6 JAN - 21 JAN

LATE NIGHT SHOWS 2016

  • SWEET PHOEBE

    1 - 12 NOV

    When pet dog Phoebe goes missing, Helen and Fraser desperately search the Sydney streets, encountering the unexpected and are irrevocably changed.

  • RESPLENDENCE

    29 NOV - 10 DEC

    A man struggles to understand his reality.

    He sits alone in a room assailed by the world around him.

    He does not know how to act, nor what impact his actions could possibly have. When he is faced with a situation that forces him to respond, what will it reveal? Probably nothing.

  • TENDER NAPALM

    19 - 30 JAN

    A young man and woman meet at a party. They are drawn to each other. They have sex. They fall in love. Then something happens.

    Their fantasies take charge: tales of golden shores, snakes, serpents, unicorns, kings, queens and blood. Dangerously and absolutely, they're thrust into the secret places of love and desire.

  • ALPHA

    9 - 20 FEB

    Devour my sex, It’s on sale. ALPHA BETA CHARLIE DELTA. A high-speed collision of bodies and ranting rhyme.

    A L P H A is a beat poet’s journey to the identity of I, You, Me and Us. Want to be on top? No time to bottom out... Let’s run with the alphas.

  • THE ULTIMATE LESBIAN

    23 FEB - 5 MARCH

    Spasm chasm. Thatched cottage. Knish.

    The Ultimate Lesbian Double Feature (pun intended) is a double bill, consisting of 'Love in the Time of Sexting' and 'The Party'.

  • SWANSONG

    19 AUG

    Austin ‘Occi’ Byrne is the illegitimate child of a single mother in the Catholic west of 1960’s Ireland. Shunned by church, state and family, Occi must fight his way to adulthood in a dog eat dog world.

  • KAYAK

    29 MARCH - 9 APRIL

    The woman seeks revenge, the boy's guardian becomes involved, and the tables are turned again and again as all three characters struggle for the moral high ground. A fast-moving thriller with strong comic undertow.

  • ORPHANS

    14 APRIL - 9 MAY

    Two grown orphan brothers live in an old dilapidated row house in North Philadelphia—deserted in childhood by an unfaithful father and by the death of their mother.

  • SMASHED

    3 - 7 MAY

    On the verge of adulthood, the future is bright & the past is a disco blur. With impossible high heels stalking through black holes, diva hair and a map to anywhere, these girls know how to play dress-up and how to make believe.

  • BRIGHT THOSE CLAWS THAT MAR THE FLESH

    31 MAY - 11 JUNE

    It's a stormy midsummer's night in the middle of nowhere.

    The recently accredited facilitator of a sobriety support group is preparing for his first session. One by one, the addicts arrive. Unable to be restrained, they become increasingly distracted, maniacal, and, yes, intoxicated.

  • BICYCLE

    21 JUNE - 2 JULY

    Upon meeting an enigmatic Transylvanian Count, a Victorian Englishwoman is given a bicycle. But this gift comes with a price: midnight supper at his place. This invitation proves too tempting to resist and her mortal life is changed forever. Bicycle is a one-woman play about conquering fears, parting legs and the unexpected turns life can take after dining with a monster.

  • HENNA NIGHT

    5 - 9 JULY

    When Judith's boyfriend leaves her for another woman, she descends into a depression fuelled by cigarettes, alcohol and Dairy Milk. One night, in the hope of bringing him back, she leaves a desperate voicemail announcing her pregnancy, and threatening either to slash her wrists or henna her hair. To her horror, however, it’s his new girlfriend, Ros who turns up at her door, determined to iron this out once and for all. Confronted with the woman who has 'stolen her life', sparks fly between chaotic Judith and dependable Ros.

  • FRACTURE

    2 - 12 AUG

    Charlie lives a seemingly regular life with his two housemates in a rundown Perth apartment. Their 20-something lives seem occupied by the mundane, which suits them just fine. The apartment, and their lifestyle, is repetitive/regular/routine; it’s modest, inconspicuous and safe. However, life for Charlie has not always been so simple and he will soon learn that there is only so long that he can run away from his past.

  • WHERE DO LITTLE BIRDS GO?

    30 AUG - 10 SEPT

    London, 1966. Lucy Fuller is 18 years old. She likes musicals and make up, and her job is at Winston’s Nightclub.

    One night Lucy is kidnapped by the infamous Kray twins and locked in a flat with an escaped murderer. This is the terrifying story of Lucy’s time with Ronnie, Reggie and Frank ‘The Mad Axeman’ Mitchell.

  • THRENODY

    27 SEPT - 8 OCT

    A loose morality play.

    A group of women weave the strange story of a girl who, for the first time in her life, ventures outside to experience the world and its cruelty.