A local theatre company that is dedicated to the creation, production and promotion of Australian work.
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A is for Atlas is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the collaborative development of Australian artists and arts practices, and to the evolution of our creative community.
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The Act-O-Matic 3000 is a talented, hard working actors' company. The Age (May 2007)
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Andrea Keller is a Melbourne-based composer, pianist and improviser. She has released three albums as leader featuring her original compositions and arrangements.
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An inventive company exploring issues of social justice and masculinity.
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Brian Lipson and Wendy Lasica have been working together for six years to produce small scale but high profile theatre work.
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Anthos pursues an approach to theatre that encourages long-term creative collaborations between artists, delivering work that is fragile and bold, and leaves its audience courageous and inquiring.
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Aphids is a strange creature: independent, non-profit, project-based and committed to artistic risk-taking behaviour. Aphids has been creating and producing collaborative performance projects that combine contemporary music and other art forms.
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Arena Theatre Company creates dynamic, contemporary performances for young audiences. With a forty-year history, the company is Australia’s longest running producer of theatre for children and young people.
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Led by Artistic Director, Paul Grabowsky, the 20-piece Australian Art Orchestra is a world leader in employing improvisation that ranges freely across styles, traditions and cultures to create truly 21st century music.
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The Australian Shakespeare Company presents exciting, accessible and contemporary productions of Shakespeare and other dramatised classics in innovative and unique theatre performances.
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Australian Vietnamese Youth Media aims to provide opportunities for Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese young people to learn, share, make and express themselves through various medium such as film, television, theatre, internet and other creative platforms
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Back to Back is a company of actors with intellectual disabilities – not constrained by convention, logic or the imperative to be normal.
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BalletLab is regarded as one of the most visionary choreographic companies working in Australia today.
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Bambuco builds vast structures from bamboo. Each project is proposed as a performance. Bambuco take your public space away from you for a period then return it transformed.
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(deep) trash theatre. Creating original new works and radical re-workings of classical texts. They fuse live music, visually arresting imagery, choreographic movement and poetic text into dynamic works capable of thrilling, challenging and sometimes infuriating its audience.
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Black Hole Theatre Inc was formed in 1993 in Melbourne by Paul Newcombe, Cliff Dolliver and Rod Primrose to create cutting edge visual theatre, using puppetry and animation.
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The Black Lung is the resident company of The Black Lung Theatre, a curated independent theatre and art space, incorporating resident and visiting companies dedicated to new, experimental and devised theatre.
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create & be creative excite & be excited challenge & be challenged
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Prolific producers of quality independent theatre.
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Established in Melbourne in 1989, Born in a Taxi produces original physically based works for arts and street theatre festivals, performance seasons, tours internationally and performs at over 100 corporate events each year.
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The Butterfly Club creates and /or hosts cabaret shows that reflect the style of performance that cabaret was originally created for – shows that satirise modern life and enlighten audiences.
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Writing and producing new musical theatre works
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Chamber Made Opera is Australia’s leading development and production house for contemporary opera, music-theatre and cross-genre works.
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Emerging from the vibrant creative music scene in Melbourne, the Christopher Hale Ensemble has quickly earned a reputation as one the country’s finest and most distinctive improvising groups.
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Chunky Move constantly seeks to redefine contemporary dance within an ever-evolving Australian culture. The company’s work is diverse in both form and content, including a number of works for the stage, site-specific projects in its home city of Melbourne, and new-media and installation work.
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Circus Oz is Australia’s anarchic pioneer of contemporary circus.
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commonplace is committed to presenting thought-provoking new theatre.
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Company in Space are leaders in the field of performance and new technology.
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We are the Barwon region’s No.1 venue for youth arts and culture.
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Cracked Actors are an independent theatrical production company founded in 2007 and committed to providing quality and affordable entertainment for everybody.
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WELCOME TO DANCEHOUSE, Australia's premier centre for contemporary dance, combining research, training and performance.
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David Chesworth Ensemble features a vast array of orchestral and exotic instruments in a feast of striking, scraping, blowing, shaking, pushing, pulling and plucking.
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David Corbet is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist working primarily in dance and music. He has developed and created work as a musician, composer, dancer, choreographer, director and editor.
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Northcote playwright Liza Dezfouli and sad-core country crooner t.k. bollinger (Fairfield) combine their talents to create works that are honestly innovative. More than musicals or cabaret, their productions make for unusual and deeply satisfying theatre. Their current production is Festina Lente/Hasten Slowly.
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Dislocate was born out of the desire to combine the exciting form of circus with the intricacies of language and the humanity of theatre. On the street, in theatres and in the air, Dislocate has spellbound audiences worldwide.
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Recognised as one of Australia’s premiere ensembles, the multi-award winning Duo Sol, Caroline Almonte (piano) and Miki Tsunoda (violin), perform with exhilarating energy, technical virtuosity and great sensuality, creating a remarkable rapport with the audience.
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Eagle's Nest Theatre is one of Melbourne's most prolific unfunded theatre companies. It is a not-for-profit cultural organisation dedicated to producing the work of emerging and more established artists.
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Echelon Productions is a theatre production company that aims to provide greater opportunities for independent theatre throughout Australia.
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The Eleventh Hour began because: William Henderson and Anne Thompson wanted to work over time with an ensemble of artists who shared both their fascination with the possibilities of language and theatre space and their wish to rediscover a genuine process of composition in the theatre.
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EPP's desire is to create interesting, accessible theatre that crosses generations and brings new audiences to the theatre.
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The members of The Ennio Morricone Experience, Patrick Cronin, Graeme Leak, Dan Witton, David Hewitt and Boris Conley, are multi-arts performers with strong backgrounds in theatre, comedy, contemporary dance, film and a plethora of musical styles. They share an interest in new music, sound effects and unusual performance making.
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Creating and mentoring performance and events.
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Moira Finucane is one of Australia’s most extraordinary performance artists. Her collaboration with award winning theatre creator and director Jackie Smith has created the signature work of Finucane & Smith.
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Award-winning Fly-On-The-Wall Theatre is one of Australia’s most distinctive and popular young theatre producers. No other theatre company in Melbourne, perhaps Australia, lavishes such attention on aesthetic and mise-en-scene.
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Albury-Wodonga’s Flying Fruit Fly Circus has established itself as one of the world’s premier youth performing arts companies.
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Full Dress Productions is a Melbourne-based, independent theatre production company which produces unique, sustainable performing arts projects to engage, inform and entertain audiences across Australia.
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Green Cyc Productions endeavours to produce innovative and exciting theatre for a modern audience. Green Cyc's core work is with Shakespeare, but has recently ventured into the genre of children's theatre.
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The Hayloft is a theatre laboratory. Each Project is based on a series of questions and hypotheses; investigations, not only into our chosen subject matter, but also interrogations of the form of theatre itself.
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Melbourne-based performer, choreographer and creative collaborator Helen Herbertson’s imaginative and highly theatrical work regularly presents in Australian and overseas festivals.
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HotHouse Theatre is the largest and most successful theatre company in regional Australia.
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Hoy Polloy is an independent Melbourne theatre company dedicated to producing contemporary theatre that will resonate, challenge and entertain audiences.
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Founded in Rome in 1978, IRAA Theatre has toured its productions in 18 countries on four continents. In the last five years Renato Cuocolo and Roberta Bosetti have been more interested in performance as an art as well as installation, where there is an element of life and theatre overlapping.
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Ilbijerri is the longest-running Indigenous theatre organisation in Australia.
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Impro Melbourne is Victoria's premier improvisational theatre company performing in theatre venues around Melbourne.
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Impro Melbourne Inc is an improvisation- based theatre company performing in venues across Melbourne since 1996. Shows include Theatresports™, comedy-based improvisation and genre based long form plays - all improvised.
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Formed by two theatre-maker/performers in 2004, interior theatre is most interested in exploring the smaller things in life that cannot be explained in words, and the audience's interaction with performers in intimate environments.
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Actor, writer,singer and independent theatre producer.
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Kage is one of Australia’s leading contemporary physical theatre companies. The award-winning company was formed in 1996 as a platform for the creative partnership of Kate Denborough and Gerard Van Dyck.
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Two redheads - a lesbian and a jew walk into a bar...
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La Mama was established in 1967 to nurture new Australian theatre practice and has since played a vital role in the development of the Australian dramatic voice.
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Little Ones Theatre is an ensemble of theatre-makers encompassing writers, directors, actors, and designers dedicated to bringing original, tender, and soulful Australian work to Melbourne stages. We want to make theatre with heart.
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Lucy Guerin Inc is based in Melbourne and is committed to developing and touring new dance works with a unique movement sensibility.
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Lunchtime Theatre creates short 30-40 minute theatre and cabaret pieces designed for the lunch break. Melbourne directors, designers, actors and writers working together.
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Presenting an eclectic mix of operas to dazzle, challenge and entertain.
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Magnormos seeks to fill a void in musical theatre development in Australia - giving voice to unsung (or rarely sung) musical theatre material, and providing a variety of platforms for its further evolution.
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Malthouse Theatre is dedicated to building on Playbox Theatre’s three decades of leadership in the nation’s cultural and imaginative life through recognising, and being alive to, the changing dynamics of theatre and theatre practice in contest with the contemporary imagination.
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Producing solo cabaret shows for Miss K in Melbourne and touring Australia wide along with Mayhem Cabarets every now and again.
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MFT promotes cross-fertilisation bridging Australian and French-speaking cultures through theatrical means.
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Melbourne Fringe was founded in 1982 and is an umbrella organisation supporting and advising a large number of independently-run arts companies, artists and events.
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Formed in 1981, Melbourne Playback Theatre's talented ensemble of professional actors and musicicians have engaged a wide range of audiences with this unique form of improvised theatre bringing the audience's personal stories to life.
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For the past 17 years, Melbourne Workers Theatre (MWT) has created provocative and inspiring new Australian work celebrating cultural diversity and class consciousness.
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In Mimic Mass performances sound and image come together and dissipate in a continual cycle of transitory and recalled moments.
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The Museum of Modern Oddities (MoMO) is an ephemeral museum created, collected and curated by Katy Bowman and Neil Thomas in collaboration with local artists.
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The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) is Australia’s centre of excellence and innovation in contemporary circus arts. NICA is dedicated to developing and nurturing talented young contemporary circus performers via a three year degree, the Bachelor of Circus Arts. NICA also offers short courses, social circus workshops, training programs and houses the Circa NICA agency to service all your circus entertainment needs.
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Natalie Cursio is an independent choreographer creating primarily live performance work but also exploring dance in the context of public space, film, photography and fashion.
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NICA is Australia's centre of excellence for professional training in contemporary circus arts.
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Not Yet It's Difficult has a unique presence in Australia’s contemporary performing arts culture as a research unit, a producer of industry development programs and contemporary events maker.
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What happens when a bunch of classics scholars decide to stage the most ancient plays in existence?
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Opposable Thumbs is the collaboration of three of Australia’s brightest young circus and sideshow artists - Lilikoi Kaos, Manx & Gordo Gamsby.
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Working across improvisation, documentary and research into cultural trends, Panther create immersive and intimate performance environments in response to social events and happenings
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Peepshow Inc combines visual and physical theatre with puppetry to create unique image-based theatre.
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An award-winning company committed to the theatrical re-interpretation of Australia's literary heritage. Critically acclaimed for their robust, energetic adaptations of CJ Dennis, Henry Lawson and Shakespeare among others.
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Pipe-Dream. (Noun) 1. A pipe dream is a fantastic hope that is generally regarded as being nearly impossible. Such ideas usually need events to flow in just the right direction to be realized, as a plumbing pipe might. 2. A fantastic notion or vain hope. [From the fantasies induced by smoking a pipe of opium.]
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Platform Youth Theatre strives to create innovative, original theatre of high calibre by people aged 16 to 26 from all backgrounds and abilities through an emotionally and physically empowering process.
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Polyglot is recognised nationally and internationally for making unique theatrical events which explode the predictable, invite the impossible and capsize our view of the world.
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post devise new work that is totally radical.
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Established in 1994, Ranters Theatre is committed to producing contemporary, text-based theatre that is pared-back, raw, and immediate. The approach focuses on stripping away the artifice of acting in order to release unconscious human behaviour.
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Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre is an independent theatre company established in 2001 by actor/producer Vincent Miller. In its first three years Red Stitch Actors' Theatre has given more than 500 performances of over 20 outstanding international plays not previously seen in Melbourne.
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Ros Warby is a Melbourne-based dancer and choreographer. Her solo work has been presented in Australia, Europe and the USA to critical acclaim
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Running Blind is a Melbourne based company, dedicated to creating politically charged, cross-platform performance installations.
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Sanctum Theatre is a collaboration of award-winning practitioners of puppetry, performance, visual and sound art.
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Shy Tiger presents thought-provoking, quality theatre for a wide general audience that is entertaining, relevant and accessible to contemporary audiences.
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Melbourne independent performance maker specialising in dance, movement and media-based projects.
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Circus acts for festivals and events – Asphyxia performs hula hoops, magic, sign language, ladders, clown characters and more…
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Snuff Puppets are a unique phenomenon: a company that directly challenges both puppetry and performance by producing works of extraordinary scope and epic proportions.
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Sassy, intelligent and very funny cabaret. The Soubrettes (Alice Carter and Tania Kyriakou) tantalise audiences with a dark and saucy night of intelligent satire and hilarious songs.
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Melbourne's home of young and emerging theatre makers.
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State of Flux is a Melbourne dance company that has been teaching, performing and researching for the past decade.
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The Store Room is committed to the development and presentation of Melbourne's finest independent theatre and theatre makers.
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Since 1994, Strange Fruit has specialised in large-scale, outdoor public performance that combines sculpture and installation with circus and dance, with a theatricality that is uniquely its own.
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Since its establishment in 2001, Stuck Pigs Squealing has explored themes of love, desire, power and memory through the playful re-examination of classic texts.
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In a world shrouded in the pitch darkness of war and political strife, the Suitcase Royale stands as a luminescent flashbulb of truth exploding before our eyes.
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Tashmadada is a contemporary performance company committed to bringing together arts practitioners, as well as providing a forum for discussion about the arts.
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"Yet again, Theatre@risk occupies the cutting edge of contemporary Melbourne theatre" - The Age. Theatre @ Risk is brave, inventive and exciting theatre.
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Theatre in decay has risen to become one of Melbourne’s best known independent theatre companies, producing original shows in venues such as the Store Room, La Mama, Theatreworks, and pubs, subways, hotel bedrooms, city rooftops, alleys and inside parked cars.
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Promoting Independant Contemporary Artists
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Three To A Room is an exciting new Melbourne-based theatre company, founded by actors for actors, with a view to creating artistic opportunities for ourselves and our peers, and to showcase the work of up-and-coming playwrights on a national and international stage.
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Two Blue Cherries is an independent Melbourne theatre company dedicated to the development of Australian theatre.
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Since its groundbreaking debut at the 1996 Melbourne Festival, The Urban Dream Capsule has been presented at major festivals in Gent, Galway, Wellington, Chicago, Montreal, London, Perth, Sao Paulo and Singapore to widespread critical acclaim.
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Venture Capital Theatre is dedicated to creating theatre that reaches across artistic borders and steals for the good of the art.
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Walking into Bars is a group passionate about creating new pieces of independent theatre. We only perform and develop contemporary Australasian works.
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Welcome Stranger was established in 2002 by a group of Performing Arts graduates from Monash University. It was established as a performance group to create challenging work not necessarily confined to the theatre in its influences or outcomes.
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Northcote-based theatre company specialising in groundbreaking new Australian work.
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WishingWell Productions is a new independent theatre company that aims to produce quality theatre that is fun, exciting and poignant, and that has relevance to, though not exclusively, the queer community.
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The Women's Circus is known for making adventurous, large-scale performances in unusual places.
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x:machine is a fluid ensemble of artists with a collaborative approach to performance, technology and the role of the audience.
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Born in Hyogo, Japan, Yumi is a Japanese butoh dancer and the creator of original butoh cabaret works.
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