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Coranderrk
Dec 7 – Jan 5, 2014
Coranderrk is about what might have been. In the neglected storehouse of Australian history, this is one of the definitive stories. At a Victorian Parliamentary...
The Cake Man
Nov 14 – Dec 8, 2013
Back in the early 1970s a group of pioneering Indigenous theatremakers occupied a dilapidated terrace in Redfern and started the National Black Theatre. The first...
Hamlet
Oct 12 – Dec 1, 2013
Every generation feels the irresistible compulsion to attempt to stage this, the greatest play by the greatest playwright. Then, when we try, we’re haunted by...
Small and Tired
Sep 26 – Oct 20, 2013
Orestes has come back to bury his father. He has been away a long time. His mother is hardened, his sister is strangely ill. He...
Miss Julie
Aug 24 – Oct 6, 2013
We love watching plays about couples tearing each other to pieces: George and Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Elyot and Amanda in Private...
The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe
Aug 15 – Sep 8, 2013
Yarrie Bangura grew up in a camp in Guinea. She is doing her HSC. Aminata Conteh is from Sierra Leone. She is an ambassador for...
Persona
Jul 24 – Aug 18, 2013
Adena Jacobs’ staging of Ingmar Bergman’s film packed out houses at Melbourne’s Theatre Works in 2012. It was one of the finest pieces of theatre...
Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
May 28 – Jul 14, 2013
Actually, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is not one play but two. Millennium Approaches and Perestroika were the closing statements of...
Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
May 29 – Jul 14, 2013
Various forces have gathered in New York: the ex-boyfriend and his Mormon squeeze, the squeeze’s pill-popping wife and Mormon mother, a rabid Republican lawyer, a...
Forget Me Not
Apr 20 – May 19, 2013
Gerry is almost 60, and he is going to meet his mother for the first time since he was three. His daughter Sally has had...
Stories I Want to Tell You in Person
Mar 21 – Apr 14, 2013
On the one hand, Lally Katz has been writing the funniest and most original plays in the country for the last decade – Neighbourhood Watch,...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Feb 16 – Apr 7, 2013
Tennessee Williams is one of the giants of twentieth-century drama and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is his Lear. One era is ending, how...
This Heaven
Feb 7 – Mar 3, 2013
Sometimes you need to push. Sissy Gordon’s father died in custody at Mount Druitt Police Station. The cops got a fine, Sissy’s family got $9,000...
Peter Pan
Jan 5 – Feb 10, 2013
Everybody knows Peter Pan. He’s the boy who hasn’t grown up in 113 years. But one night not long ago we sat down and read...
Beautiful One Day
Nov 17 – Dec 23, 2012
Palm Island. An Aboriginal man is arrested, allegedly for insulting a police officer. Within 90 minutes, he lies dead on the watchhouse floor, his liver...
Don't Take Your Love to Town
Nov 29 – Dec 23, 2012
"You can think of me as Ruby Wagtail Big Noise Anderson Rangi Ando Heifer Andy Langford.Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Don’t Take Your Love to Town is...
Medea
Oct 11 – Nov 25, 2012
Two young children on a stage play games to distract themselves. Off-stage and unheard their parents are having a very famous showdown. At some inevitable...
Private Lives
Sep 29 – Nov 11, 2012
AMANDA: Darling, I believe you’re talking nonsense. ELYOT: So is everyone else in the long run. Let’s be superficial and pity the poor Philosophers. Let’s...
Conversation Piece
Aug 25 – Sep 23, 2012
In every show we strive to be breathtakingly original. Choreographer Lucy Guerin’s new show for Belvoir takes this to an extreme by striving to be...
Death of a Salesman
Jun 23 – Aug 12, 2012
Will you take that phoney dream and burn it before something happens?Willy Loman is feeling his age. He and his wife Linda are struggling to...
Strange Interlude
May 5 – Jun 17, 2012
A family under threat – from what, we don’t know – hires a young security guard, Chris. He spends long hours, day and night, by...
Food
Apr 26 – May 20, 2012
A country highway. A greasy takeaway joint. Two sisters. One of them left, one stayed behind. One chose chaos, the other control. One chose sex,...
Every Breath
Mar 24 – Apr 29, 2012
No-one would doubt that Benedict Andrews has a vivid imagination. As a director he has taken some of our most revered classics and turned them...
Babyteeth
Feb 11 – Mar 18, 2012
Time for a comedy – a mad, gorgeous, bittersweet comedy about how good it is not to be dead yet.A group of more or less...
Thyestes
Jan 15 – Feb 19, 2012
"Presented by Belvoir and Sydney Festival in association with Carriageworks. Originally created by THE HAYLOFT PROJECT.A Malthouse Theatre Commission.This production will be staged at Carriageworks,...
I'm Your Man
Jan 12 – Feb 5, 2012
For 18 months theatre-maker Roslyn Oades and her trusty tape recorder followed a determined, young boxer from Bankstown through his preparations for a world-title fight....
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