Impro Cave Summer Club
21 Feb - 21 Mar, 2010
7:30pm
The Dog Theatre
A totally new season from those cool kids at Impro Melbourne.
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Lorraine's Hair and Face
25 Mar - 18 Apr, 2010
7pm; 6pm Sun
The Imperial Hotel
A Comedy Musical Thriller!
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Hazel Curtis: Fear Doctor
2-14 Mar, 2010
8pm
Mark Street Hall
Strap on your Teena pads, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
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Demens
4 - 20 March, 2010
8pm; 5pm Sun
The Dog Theatre
A disturbing and often surreal psychodrama set behind the walls of a psychiatric hospital.
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MEN
4 - 21 Mar, 2010
8pm; 6pm Sun
fortyfivedownstairs
Being men in the modern world is no laughing matter…
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Attic Under the Sky
9 - 13 Mar, 2010
1.30pm; 7.30pm Thur - Sat
Courthouse Arts
An intimate and poetic performance in which animation and music meet to create laughter, sorrow and beauty.
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Habitat
10 - 20 Mar, 2010
8pm
The Function Room
Bookings
0410 304 226
Habitat is a place. It is a moment in time between two people. It is an abstraction of the spaces between us, of the words and actions that bring us together and keep us apart. It is a place where people connect, hide, fight and wonder. It is turning off the lights and waiting to fall asleep.
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Incompleteness
3 – 14 Mar, 2010
8pm; 6.30pm Wed, Sun
La Mama Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Logic is rational. Logic is rigorous. Logic is compete. So why did the greatest logician since Aristotle starve himself to death?
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Feast of Argentina Gina Catalina
5 - 28 Mar, 2010
7pm; 5pm Sun
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
The sangria is cool, the charcoal meats are sizzling, the seafood is plump, the strawberries tumble one upon the other in abandon.
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Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth
11 - 27 Mar, 2010
The Loft, Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 8290 7000
The comma that divides
Dogg's Hamlet and
Cahoot's Macbeth serves both to separate them and to show their relationship. One could not exist without the other and together they form a piece of theatre that makes a statement greater than the sum of its parts.
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As You Like It
11 Mar - 4 Apr, 2010
8pm; 6pm Sun
The Theatre Husk
Bookings
0432 822 520
Like a flock of seagulls, Winterfall Theatre flies back to the 80’s and coats Shakespeare’s classic
As You Like Itwith mascara, fluorescent lipstick and hot new romantic fashions.
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Fate of Franklin and His Gallant Crew
12 - 27 Mar, 2010
8:30pm
Secret location
After a critically acclaimed season in San Francisco, Four Larks returns home to Melbourne to premiere
The Fate of Franklin & His Gallant Crew.
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Salon De Dance...Deluge
5 - 28 Mar, 2010
Week 1: 9pm: 7pm Sun
Week 2-4: 10pm; 8.15pm Sun
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Premiering in 2009 to become a tearaway bijoux success, Finucane & Smith’s cult hit intimate seedy and magnificent dance cub Salon de Dance returns to
Deluge you.
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Candy Butcher's Tooth and Nail
12 - 28 Mar, 2010
9pm; 7pm Sun
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
See! award winning circus practitioners a hairbreadth away, perform feats and illusions right before your very eyes. A “teeth gritted” literally in your face circus show, in the intimate environs of La Mama.
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Melbourne Playback - March Performances
13 - 14 Mar, 2010
8pm; 6pm Sun
Gasworks Arts Park
Bookings
03 9699 3253
Are you sick of seeing the same old stories on The Box? Are you tired of Aussie entertainment that you can’t relate to? Cop shops, overflowing hospital wards and homes that are packed to the rafters… Are you bored with current theatre offerings too?
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Soul to Soul (I Have a Dream)
16 - 21 Mar, 2010
8pm; 7pm Sun
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 8290 7000
If you think of the combined singing ability of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Otis Redding and the dancing and entertainment ability of Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Jackson, then you get the amazing talents Movin' Melvin Brown from Austin Texas!
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At the Sans Hotel
16 - 27 Mar, 2010
8pm; 2pm Sat
Theatre Works
Bookings
03 9534 3388
In a deserted Hotel, strewn with familiar remnants, a woman marooned in a bathtub suggests something terrible has happened or is about to happen.
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Etiquette
16 Mar - 3 Apr, 2010
Multiple performances from 10am until 9pm
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9322 3713
Etiquette is a gripping, highly personal two person performance, where participants are
both actor and audience.
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Scattered Tacks
16 - 21 Mar, 2010
8.30pm; 6pm Sun
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
03 9322 3713
Far from the sensory overload of much contemporary performance,
Scattered Tacks leads audiences into an enthralling, minimalist and absurd vision of circus.
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House of Bernarda Alba
16 -21 Mar, 2010
7.30pm; 2pm Sat; 6.30pm Sun
Studio One, Northcote Town Hall
As a new translation by celebrated British playwright David Hare
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Ringside
Wednesday 17 - Sunday 21 March
Wed 17 - Fri 19, 7pm
Sat 20, 2pm and 7pm
Sun 21, 4pm
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9322 3713
Mem Morrison requests the pleasure of your company. Take a front row seat, join the family and meet the many potential brides at his long overdue wedding reception.
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Collecting Fireworks
17 - 19 Mar, 2010
6pm, 6.30pm, 7pm, 7.45pm, 8.15pm, 8.45pm, 9.30pm, 10pm
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9322 3713
Collecting Fireworks is a unique performance archive in the making.
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Ben Cousins - A Rock Opera
17 Mar – 4 Apr, 2010
8pm; 6.30pm Wed, Sun
La Mama Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
An up-to-date, near-the-knuckle and no-holds-barred pop-parody musical in two acts, devised, performed and directed by critically acclaimed football satirist Kieran Butler.
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Little Mercy
17 - 27 Mar, 2010
Collingwood Underground Arts Park
Roger and Virginia Summers have it all. He, a successful theatre director. She, a successful drunken housewife. But their perfect lives are empty: they long for a child. Careful what you wish for...
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Summerlogues 2010
18 - 19 Mar, 2010
7.30pm
Studio Theatre, Gasworks Arts Park
Summerlogues is a short showcase-style performance of monologues and scenes from various plays and films.
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Veritas
23 – 31 March, 2010
7.30pm; 2pm Sat; 1.30pm Thurs; 2pm Tues, Wed
NICA National Circus Centre
Veritas features NICA's 3rd year graduating students in a spectacular high-energy ensemble performance about the search for truth and self discovery.
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Alzheimer's the Musical - A night to remember!
23 Mar – 11 Apr, 2010
7pm; 3pm Sun
Chapel Off Chapel
See it again and again and again, for the first time!
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Please Don't Use My Flannel For That: A Memoir
24 Mar - 10 Apr, 2010
7.15pm
The Tuxedo Cat
The truth is that Lou peaked too soon. At the age of 18 she wrote and sold a feature length screenplay to Hollywood and this is that story.
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Master & Servant
25 Mar - 3 Apr, 2010
7.30pm; 8.30pm
Courthouse Arts
Master & Servant is Courthouse Arts major production for 2010. It is a 30 minute rotating performance that examines human relationships, the exercise of power and status, and how this can be altered.
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Linda Catalano is... Shopper
25 Mar – 18 Apr, 2010
9:30pm; 8.30pm Sun
Arthurs Bar at Rosati
Bookings
1300 660 013
Bargain hunters, shop-a-holics and retail thrillseekers beware.
Shopper lifts the lid on the seedy underbelly of the retail world.
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Four Minute Warning
25 Mar - 18 Apr, 2010
8.15pm;7.15pm Sun
Trades Hall, The Evatt Room
Is it possible to survive in a nuclear bunker for 20 years with someone you hate?...No
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Sunburnt Country
26 Mar – 13 Apr, 2010
9pm; 6pm Sun, 7pm Mon, Tues.
Chapel Off Chapel
It’s been a busy year for Rosa the Russian Beautician. After last year’s sell-out comedy festival season she was catapulted into waxing stardom – her appointment book is now chock the-block until May 2011.
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Late Night Impro
26 Mar - 17 Apr, 2010
11pm
The Bosco - City Square
Bookings
1300 660 013
Join Impro Melbourne for the debonair wit of
Late Night Impro, now in its 12th consecutive season at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Propaganda
27 Mar - 3 Apr, 2010
7.30pm; 4pm Sat, Sun
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
03 9322 3713
After years of touring their avant-garde circus company around the world these knuckle-dragging acrobats reckon they know right from wrong.
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Rodney. Missing.
27 Mar - 11 Apr, 2010
2pm
Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
1300 660 013
As part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Cave Mann Production Presents
Rodney. Missing. A family show to delight children and adults alike.
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Dress To Hide
31 Mar - 11 Apr, 2010
6.30pm; 2pm Sun
Theatre Works
Rob Lo Bosco Productions brings to the stage it's 5th play
Dress to Hide the story of a straight Aussie bloke. A story based on a real man.
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Exciting Adventures of Francis McCubbin
31 Mar - 10 Apr, 2010
9.30pm
Theatre Works
Francis McCubbin has ambition. He just hasn't found it yet. The world is at Francis' feet; he just needs to find some shoes.
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Hotel Pedro
31 Mar – 11 Apr, 2010
6.30pm; 8.30pm Thurs, Sat
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
For a drunken Irish man, life can be a breeze. For a drunken old man with a nagging wife, life can be exhausting. Throw them in a hotel and life couldn’t be simpler.
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Jewish Chronicles
1 - 11 Apr, 2010
8pm; 5pm Sun
Theatre Works
The Jewish Chronicles is a literal title: this is Daniel Cainer's personal journey in comic songs about his family and the Jewish world.
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Bang On!!!
1 - 15 Apr, 2010
10:30pm
The Order of Melbourne
Bang Bang Agency's brand-new all-female variety night puts the 'art' in 'artillery' and the 'arse' in 'arsenal'. Hotter than a pistol!
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Cat And Mouse
1 – 11 Apr, 2010
6.30pm; 8.30pm Thurs, Sat
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
As Roberto juggles two passionate affairs with what may be the same woman, he’s about to learn that the game has changed for good – a game that someone has to lose.
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Komedy For Kids: Trick Circus Variety Hour: Shaggles Magic Circus World
1 - 11 Apr, 2010
2pm
La Mama Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Looking for some school holiday fun? Come spend an action-packed hour with Trick Circus, 2009 winners of the Melbourne Fringe Circus Award, along with a host of hand-picked special guests.
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Puppy Fight Social Club
2 - 10 Apr, 2010
11pm
Trades Hall, The Meeting Room
Look out Melbourne! The stars of Sydney's improv underground are in town to smash your brains and soil your souls.
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While I'm Away
6 - 18 Apr, 2010
6:10pm: 5:10pm Sun
Backstage Room - Melbourne Town Hall
You’re invited to join a mighty expedition, set against a 1970s slideshow of the world’s greatest sights.
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Lawyers, Drugs & Money
7 - 25 Apr, 2010
8pm; 6.30pm Wed, Sun
La Mama Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A fast-talking, Australian satire about greedy lawyers & sleazy footballers
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I Heart Frankston the Musical
8 - 18 Apr, 2010
7pm; 6pm Sun
The Butterfly Club
Frankston is dead. An extremist local Mayor has been voted in, banning musical theatre.
Can two young musical men with a passion for football and jazz ballet convince the townsfolk to reconsider?
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Hounds Present Jabba's Comedy Hutt
16 - 17 Apr, 2010
11:00pm
Trades Hall, The Meeting Room
From the greatest film saga in history comes the most dangerous comedy room in the galaxy...
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Celebrity Theatresports™
17 Apr, 2010
7:30pm
National Theatre
The challenge is on. Impro Melbourne's gung-ho players have thrown down the gauntlet to drafted celebrity guests: Go funny, or go home.
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Footsteps of a Nobody
2 Apr, 2010
8pm
J Studios
A powerful one woman rock-musical written, directed and performed by Donna Williams, author of the international bestseller, Nobody Nowhere; Autobiography of an Autistic Girl
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Baloomba-wop
24 Apr, 2010
5pm
J Studios
Promoting diversity and challenging fear of difference,
Baloomba-wop is an interactive, off the wall, musical adventure for kids and kids at heart.
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Mr Freezy
28 Apr - 1 May, 2010
Week 1: 10am & 12.30pm
Week 2: 11am & 1.30pm
Fairfax Studio, The Arts Centre
Bookings
1300 182 183
An ice-cream van comes alive as everything in it transforms in a wild and epic story...
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Charlotte Bronte's The Professor
3 May, 2010
7pm
fortyfivedownstairs
Julia Britton's adaptation of
The Professor tells the story of the orphan William Crimsworth, who seeks his future in Brussels after attempting to make a living as a clerk for his older brother, a mill owner in the north of England.
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[title of show]
29 Apr - 15 May, 2010
8pm
Theatre Works
Bookings
03 9534 3388
[title of show] is a musical by two guys named Jeff and Hunter about a musical by two guys named Jeff and Hunter.
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Half a Person: My Life As Told By The Smiths
20 - 29 May, 2010
8pm; 2pm Sat; 6pm Sun
The Loft, Chapel Off Chapel
A gorgeous one man fan tale, catering well to fundamentalists, agnostics and atheists of The Smiths culture alike.
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Bromance
26 - 30 May, 2010
8.30pm; 5.30pm Sun
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
03 9322 3713
Bromance (n. informal) A close but nonsexual relationship between two men.
[c21: a blend of bro(ther) + romance]
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Folding Wife
26 - 29 May, 2010
7pm; 2pm Sat
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9322 3713
Alone, equipped only with anecdotes, Grace breathes life into the two women of her family who have lead her to the Australian landscape.
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Heracles High 5
23 - 26 Jun, 2010
7.30pm; 3pm Sat
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
03 9322 3713
Heracles, hero of antiquity, hero of heroes, the hero for our time. As our adoration reaches the stars, can the hero deliver what we ask of him?
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