Theatre Archive

What a week to open a play that questions women’s place in sport. Just as the photo that showcases AFL footballer Tayla Harris’s wonderful athleticism made headlines and created controversy, Jane E Thompson’s play provokes discussion and highlights the difficulties women face …

This is such a raw and honest story, and so powerfully told by Kate Mulvaney as the Narrator, that it would be easy to forget that it is not Mulvaney’s own story. In fact, it is by Duncan McMillan who co-wrote it …

The things we do for love – or is that addiction? And what’s the difference? Mary Rachel Brown’s newest play is all about addiction. Addiction to booze, to love, to unrequited love, to past love, to hurt, to anger. Whatever. As she …

Sick of the “Canberra bubble”? And the people who use, and misuse, the term? Well, here comes Nakkiah Lui to burst that bubble and tell it like she sees it. And in her latest satire, she also shares her tips on how …

Despite its title this play is about two queens. Two women, two brands of Christianity, and one crown. Scotland’s Mary Stuart and England’s Elizabeth Tudor were cousins, their paternal grandfather was Henry VII. The pursuit of power in Tudor times was a …

May the farce be with you! Sorry, couldn’t resist that. A couple of hours of highly physical comedy, silliness and slapstick – all delivered with split-second timing – will do that to you. Peter Pan does go very wrong, and it’s pure fun and …

Jim Cartwright’s Rise & Fall of Little Voice, now playing at the Eternity Theatre until February 24, is an absolute theatrical gem. I expected it to be good knowing the wonderful Caroline O’Connor was in the cast but the entire production was a …

With a broad sweep of his polished playwright’s pen, David Williamson gives us themes of betrayal, loneliness, treachery, theft, jealousy, mistrust and all kinds of skulduggery in the cut-throat world of entertainment, aka The Big Time. No doubt he has had plenty …

Billed as an ‘hilariously disturbing gothic musical’, Tom Cone’s Herringbone is part vaudeville, part horror and part ghost story. It’s set in Depression-era Alabama and sees eight-year-old George, who has a talent for the stage, become possessed by the spirit of a …

Get ready to lose yourself into another world. Counting and Cracking is an immersive experience that will compel you to think, touch your heart and make you wonder. We’re only just starting 2019 but this play is going to be one of the year’s …