Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School
8pm, Last Wednesday of every month
27 Feb, 26 Mar, 30 Apr, 28 May, 25 Jun, 30 Jul, 27 Aug, 24 Sep, 29 Oct, 26 Nov 2008
The Butterfly Club
Dr Sketchy's is what happens when cabaret meets art school. The perfect antidote for boring, typical art classes.
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IMPRO CAVE 08
22 June - 31 Aug 2008
7:30pm
Early shows in July @ 6pm
Don’t Tell Tom Bar & Café
Cap off your weekend with a night of hilarious spontaneous theatre!
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Late Henry Moss
10 – 27 Jul 2008
8pm; 6pm Sun
Chapel Off Chapel
Following on from highly successful productions at Chapel Off Chapel in 2007, Human Sacrifice Theatre brings you a new play by Sam Shepard -
The Late Henry Moss.
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Anhedonia
11 - 26 Jul 2008
8pm; 4pm Sun
Melbourne Trades Hall, Old Council Chambers
So deliciously ghastly - you'll eat the bath!
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.comUnity
18 Jul – 2 Aug 2008
8pm; 6.30pm Wed & Sun
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Devised and Performed by
KOMISSAR KABARET & KGB
Music and Songs by ELLA FILAR
Designed by Chris Molyneux
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Three Oaks
23 Jul- 10 Aug 2008
See below for times
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
What remains of a life once a person has died?
What can those who are left make of the bits and pieces?
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B ’n B – Bob & Bridgette
24 - 26 Jul 2008
9pm
The Butterfly Club
Recent winner of Australia’s highest music award (the $60,000 Don Banks Music Award 2008), jazz piano legend Bob Sedergreen teams up with another consummate performer, Bridgette Allen.
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By Chance
31 Jul - 3 Aug 2008
8pm
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 8290 7000
84 songs, one man, a piano and the dice are rolling...
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Macbeth
31 Jul - 9 Aug, 2008
The Open Stage
Bookings
03 9384 6900
Dreams vs. reality in Shakespeare’s notorious curs’ed play. Lives, love and sleep are lost, perceptions are skewered and judgment blinded.
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1984 Uplate
31 Jul - 9 Aug, 2008
See full listing for times
The Open Stage
Bookings
03 9384 6900
Special Ticket offer $13 if you mention Theatre AliveThis stage adaptation by James Adler (now in its second season) probes how institutionalised power and thought control operate today’s Corporate
Big Brother Up Late advertising and political spin-doctoring world.
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Hellen Sky and collaborators present Darker Edge of Night
1-3 Aug, 2008
8pm Fri-Sat; 3pm Sun
Arts House, Meat Market
A solo performer – Imogene – navigates her way through slippery time fields. Her past, our present and the future are fluid states where boundaries blur between the virtual world and the world of story, imagination and memory.
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Dance for La Mama
Friday 1 August, 7.30 pm
One Night Only
Dancehouse
A fund raising night of dance, theatre, music and Fun.
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Beyond Cuisine: a theatrical dining experience
2 & 9 Aug 2008
5.30pm
Wattle Cafe
Eat drink and hear great actors read great stories. Humphrey Bower, Jane Clifton, Francis Greenslade and Suzanne Shubart present dramatic readings from popular Australian and international literature in an evening of food, wine and culture.
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Tiger Lillies – A Suicide for Winter Tour
Mon 4 & Tue 5 Aug 2008
7.30pm
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Dedicated to those with a psychotic dislike of winter,
The Tiger Lillies’ A Suicide For Winter Tour is a collection of exquisite songs of despair from the notorious London trio.
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Massacre At Paris
6-17 Aug 2008
8pm; 5pm Sun
TheatreWorks
1 Crucifixion, 2 Poisoned Gloves, 3 Shootings, 14 Stabbings…and someone thrown out a window!
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Axeman Lullaby
7–17 Aug, 2008
8pm Thu; 7pm & 8.30pm Fri-Sat; 3pm Sun 17th
Chunky Move Studios
Bookings
03 9685 5111
Axeman Lullaby is a contemporary dance piece that explores and reflects on the physical and climatic characteristics of Australian wood chopping and early Victorian bush settlements.
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Be a Little Less Stupid
8 – 15 Aug 2008
8pm; 7:30pm Sun
Chapel Off Chapel
With songs by Tom Lehrer, Carole King, Victoria Wood, George Benson and more!
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Fondue Set presents No Success Like Failure
13 - 16 Aug, 2008
7.30pm
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Gorged with action,
No Success Like Failure is a high-volume dance theatre piece full of lying, dying, singing and trying. See The Fondue Set blown apart and reformed spectacularly with the help of UK director Wendy Houstoun.
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Celia's Garden
Wed 13 - Sat 16 Aug, 2008
7.30pm; Plus extra matinee show 4pm Sat 16 Aug
Dante's
Bookings
0413 627 156
A young woman's struggle for identity in a world of media influence and dubious role models.
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Pacitti Company - Civil
18-19 Aug, 2008
7.30pm
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
In 1996 Robert Pacitti travelled to New York to meet and spend time with author and raconteur, Quentin Crisp, to produce a new work that took Crisp’s infamous autobiography
The Naked Civil Servant as its starting point.
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Bat Boy: the Musical
20 – 24 Aug 2008
8pm
Chapel Off Chapel
A classic love story with a serious bite!
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3 Short Absurd Works
21-30 Aug
1pm; 8pm
TheatreWorks
Shocking, bizarre, disturbing, perplexing, hilarious.
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Green Room Music presents The Villainelles'
Thu 21 & Fri 22 Aug, 2008
7.30pm
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Inspired by the razor-sharp offerings of Australian poets Jordie Albiston, Alison Croggon and Kathleen Mary Fallon, seven-piece chamber-pop outfit
The Villainelles' make their Melbourne debut with two nights of cabaret-folk electronica layered with shades of opera in a performance of the same name.
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Lonesome West
11-21 Jul 2008
8pm; 6pm Sun
TheatreWorks
Two brothers battle it out in the arse-end of Ireland over a house, a dead father and a packet of crisps. Welcome to The Lonesome West.
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One Cloud
13-29 Nov 2008 (preview 12 Nov)
8pm, No show Sun
TheatreWorks
TheatreWorks 2008 Company Initiative Program along with Lady Muck present
One Cloud.
A world premiere, this new Australian work is inspired by a true island story.
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Esoterica
30 Sep - 2 Oct, 2008
8pm
Wesley Anne
Quirky, dark, brooding, light- witness the kaleidoscope of tones, shades and colour of our amazing collection of original short works for Waterdale Originals '08!
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Yara El-Sherbini - A Pub Quiz
Wed 8 Oct 2008
8pm
Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall
Based in London, Yorkshire-born Yara El-Sherbini is a visual artist, performer and installation artist making socially engaged work, inviting audiences to participate with her art in the public realm.
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Two Faced Bastard
8 – 12 Oct, 2008 (Preview 8pm Wed 8 Oct)
8pm Thu–Sat; plus 2pm Sat; 2pm & 6pm Sun
Arts House Meat Market
The company behind the groundbreaking 2007 Melbourne International Arts Festival work
Glow returns with a bold new dance-theatre work that gives a rare glimpse into the performers’ world and takes the audience backstage.
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Joy Before Thinking
Preview
14 Oct 2008
8pm
Season
15 - 18 Oct 2008
8pm
Theatreworks
Bookings
(03) 9534 3388
Buildings are in lock down. Children are disappearing. One minute they're there, the next they're gone.
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Gurrumul
Mon 20 - Tue 21 Oct, 2008
8pm
Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall
Blind from birth,
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is a quiet but deep well of musical creativity and expression.
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What Do You Think About Me?
11 - 30 Nov 2008
10-6 Tues - Fri; 12-5 Sat-Sun
Meat Market
A new video installation documenting meetings between Israelis and Palestinians who live in Melbourne.
This project is supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants program.
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Dancenorth - Underground
12 – 16 Nov, 2008
7.30pm Wed – Sat; 6pm Sun
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Dancenorth’s Underground leaps from the darkly moody and hilarious to the wildly athletic.
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