DISRUPTION: 2018 LINEUP
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THERE WILL BE A CLIMAX
9 JAN - 3 FEB
An assorted few are convinced they are stuck on a spinning revolve.
"YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND, BABY
RIGHT ROUND LIKE A RECORD, BABY
RIGHT ROUND ROUND ROUND "
- DEAD OR ALIVE, 1984
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METAMORPHOSES
8 FEB - 10 MARCH
“Bodies, I have in mind…”
Set in and around a body of water, Metamorphoses collides the ancient and the modern to celebrate the primal body and the staying power of love and desire in the face of constant and inevitable change.
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THE WOLVES
14 MARCH - 14 APRIL
Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A female indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigour of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine young women who just want to score some goals.
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THE EFFECT
18 APRIL - 19 MAY
Two young volunteers agree to take part in a drug trial and succumb to their mutual attraction, threatening to derail the trial to the frustration of the clinicians involved.
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STALKING THE BOGEY MAN
23 MAY - 23 JUNE
“This time last year I was plotting to kill a man.”
Twenty-five years after he was sexually assaulted, David Holthouse learns that his 'bogeyman' has moved into his new neighbourhood. Armed with a pistol and a plan, he plots to enact revenge on the man who stole his childhood.
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PERMISSION TO SPIN
3 - 8 JULY
A black comedy for anyone who thinks children’s music is torture.
Meet Cristobel, better known as Miss Polkadot. She’s a sure bet to win Children’s Album of the Year and well on the way to being a global franchised phenomenon. Her agent Jim has been waiting for this moment, and her producer Martin has invested everything he has into the 'Miss Polkadot' juggernaut.
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KING OF PIGS
1 AUG - 1 SEPT
“Do you know how many times I’ve told this story? Cops, counsellors, the family court... I mean, fuck.”
One Woman. Four Men. She could be with any one of them.
At 22, on a date on the Gold Coast.
At 31, moving into an apartment in Albert Park.
Or at 40, happily married with a nine-year-old son living in Campsie.
Four very different worlds share an identical space; our homes. -
THE HUMANS
5 SEPT - 6 OCT
The Blake family have assembled for Thanksgiving dinner at the run-down Manhattan apartment of youngest daughter Brigid and her boyfriend Richard. Tragically, this middle-class clan seems to be spiralling toward perilous entropy.
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DEGENERATE ART
17 OCT - 10 NOV
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
- Oscar Wilde
A twice-rejected art school applicant rises to political power through the use of charm, cunning and violence. From there, he declares merciless war on ‘cultural disintegration’, ordering an aesthetic purge of the entartete Künstler - the ‘degenerate artists’ - and their work.
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EURYDICE
14 NOV - 15 DEC
Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine.
Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the Underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love.
UNDERGROUND LINEUP 2018
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BANG BANG RADIO
Comedian/actor/improviser, Jane Watt, rounds up some of Sydney's finest comedic actors and improvisers for a bucking wild night of improv.
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BURLESQUE WITH HANNIE RAEGAN
Join Hannie Raegan and a melting pot of divine creatives as they spice up your Monday night with audacious Burlesque.
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JUST THE TWO OF US
Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unpredictable. Scott Witt and two crazy/brave actors improvise two 45-minute shows.
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TOBY SCHMITZ
Toby Schmitz Live at the Old Fitz Theatre for four nights only.
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THE RECIDIVISTS
Sydney comedy duo Mantaur present a hilarious and nightmarish original sketch and cabaret show embracing the absurd limits of human ambition.
"Impossible to explain, just like all the most-memorable dreams." - Aussie Theatre
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MANSPLAINING
How do women survive in a man’s world? Allow award-winning duo, Alice Tovey and Ned Dixon to explain as they re-write the man-ual with their razor-sharp new show, Mansplaining.
"Feminist, political and brilliantly cynical." - The Australian
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TOM CAMPBELL'S ONE HANDER
A one-handed gay actor, desperate to be in a big Broadway musical, shares his take on the world as the world shares its take on him.
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GENERAL LEGENDS: FIRST DATE
Come watch some of Sydney’s most talented performers make up a bunch of s#!t at Sydney’s favourite pub theatre, the Old Fitz.
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JANE WATT'S GATE 64
Winnie didn't always live at the airport... With a heavy dose of whimsy, Gate 64 is a playful look at life on the fringes. "An incredibly heartwarming, thought-provoking and hilarious one woman show that left me laughing through tears." - Theatre Now
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SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT
Shakey is back. And he’s back BY NIGHT.
Selected Shakespeare scenes lit only by candlelight.
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BLUEBERRY
Being 17 is awkward. Having to take care of your sick dad when you’re 17 is another story, especially when he keeps trying to shave his eyebrows off.
Blueberry Play explores the high highs and the low lows of being a teenage girl in a small town.
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CASCADIA: A MAGIC SHOW
Harry Milas is going to make an audience member vanish every night of Cascadia. Things will fall apart.
"I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to shake him by the hand or burn him at the stake. ✭✭✭✭✭" - Broadway Baby