Coming Up Archive

  Deborah Lawrie was Australia’s first female commercial airline pilot – and what a fight it was for her to overcome the aviation world’s chauvinistic male attitudes to women being anything other than hostesses back in the even more patriarchal 1970s. Writers …

Sam Shepard’s scorching look at sibling rivalry, masculinity and aspects of the American Dream is darkly comedic. Austin (Darcy Kent) has agreed to housesit his mother’s place in a remote part of California while she takes a holiday because it will provide …

Wildly funny and completely outré, Garry Starr’s Classic Penguins had the audience in fits of laughter all the way through his 70-minute foray into the world of books. Starr’s ‘mission’ is to save literature by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written. …

Playwright Melanie Tait has penned a paeon to A Country Practice with this supremely entertaining take on what happens when a writing team decides it has to up the ratings of an already exceedingly popular soap by ‘killing’ off a beloved young …

In this immersive theatre event, audiences – let’s call them ‘inductees’ – are invited to ‘seize the night’ (carpe noctem, as opposed to carpe diem) and indulge in the hedonistic pleasures of ‘the society’, itself heralded as ‘neat, discreet and elite’. To …

  ‘Bomb away!’ said Major Thomas Ferebee aboard his B-29 aircraft on 6 August 1945, as the atomic bomb dropped into Hiroshima and destroyed the city and killed up to 140,000 people. Hisashi Inoue’s The Face of Jizo opens three years after …

Check into another world when you book yourself into L’Hotel. It’s a head-spinning mix of burlesque, cabaret and circus expertise with artists on stage, dancing around diners’ tables and performing jaw-dropping acrobatics overhead. Add to that live music and an atmosphere that …

  ‘This Is Our Happy Place’ declares the sign on the classroom where the school’s Executive Committee (all parent volunteers, of course) are gathered to discuss and pontificate on matters of importance. Anyone who has ever attended a committee or a strata …

This is an absolute gem of a play. The language is delightfully eloquent, full of humour and insights along with some wonderful turns of phrase, the subject matter universal and the two cast members play their parts beautifully. Fifty-somethings Mal and Mairead …

  Deliciously snarky, both in the performances and Harold Pinter’s precise dialogue, the first play in this double bill, The Lover, lays bare power dynamics in a bourgeois marriage. Set in the 1960s, the scene is a perfectly tidy living room, presided …