Space Between
Thursday 8 - Sunday 17 September
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
The Space Between is a lyrical and intimate performance, set to a mixture of Jacques Brel, industrial noise and eclectic post-classical music.
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Fairies – Live on Stage
5 Jul 11.30am, 1.30pm, 3.30pm
Alexander Theatre, building 7
School holiday entertainment adapted from the popular children’s television series, comes the enchanting and magical stage production.
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Homebody/Kabul
24 Feb-11 Mar, previews 22 & 23 Feb, 7.30pm Tues–Sat 5pm Sun
New Ballroom, Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
“The most remarkable play in a decade. Without a doubt the most important of our time."
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Apocalypse Now II
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
9347 6142
A completely reworked version of the 1993 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards short-listee. Inspired by the alternative history stories of the American science fiction writer Howard Waldrop, Apocalypse Now II celebrates the Australia-USA relationship, and how nice it is to play Ophelia to America's Hamlet.
It also explains the true story behind the murderous animosity directed at Senator Elvis Presley by the ex-U.S.Army (and now on the run) Colonel Walter E. Kurtz.
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Ginger Mick at Gallipoli
1-13 May
Bookings
03 9662 9966
A brand new theatrical adaptation of the classic tale of Ginger Mick and the Anzacs on the Turkish Peninsula. Blending humour with pathos and written in Dennis’ unique slang it recounts the courage, mateship, and the horrors of War. Returning for a touring season April/May 2007.
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Peter Carey - Theft
Monday 3rd April at 6.30pm
Malthouse Theatre
Hear the author of
Jack Maggs and
True History of the Kelly Gang talk about his extraordinary new book,
Theft: A Love Story.
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Sugar Love Poems by Meg Canto
4th April 2006
6.30pm
Readings Books and Music
The launch of Meg Canto's Sugar
Love Poems will be celebrated at Reading's Port Melbourne store.
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DBC Pierre
Tuesday 4th April
6.30pm
Readings Books and Music
Booker Prize winner, 'Dirty But Clean' Pierre's talks about his new book 'Ludmilla's Broken English'.
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No Fixed Address
Wednesday 5th April
6.30pm
Readings Books and Music
Jackie Hartnell will read from her new book,
No Fixed Address.
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Sleepers Salon - James Bradley
Thursday 6th April
6.00pm
Dantes
Another wonderful gothic thriller to be dissected and wondered at - come and meet the creator!
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Maestro's Table
Sunday 9th April
3.00pm
The Artery
Shane Maloney will launch Judith Armstrong's exploration of food, wine and Italian hospitality, 'The Maestro's Table'.
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Belladonna
Monday 10th April
6.00pm
Readings Carlton
See Daniel Lanois live instore to celebrate his new instrumental album, 'Belladonna'.
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Monsoon Rains and Icicle Drops
Wednesday 26th April
6.30pm
Readings Carlton
Come and hear the author of Monsoon Rains & Icicle Drops.
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Chronicles of a Sleepless Moon
5–29 Apr Sun-Sat, previews 5-8 Apr 8pm (7pm Sun)
Trades Hall [Meeting Room]
The Butcher and the Doctor are up to something and the Newsman sniffs a story that will embroil them all in a devious and most sinister plot. Follow their escapades as they traverse the desert, ten thousand leagues beneath the surface of the earth in an organic subterranean vehicle!
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Festina Lente/Hasten Slowly
5 Apr-11 May, 8pm Wed-Fri
Terminus Hotel (Fred's Shed)
More than cabaret, more than musical, this honestly innovative one-woman show performed by Marnie Gibson combines the words of playwright Liza Dezfouli with the original songs of sadcore country crooner, t.k. bollinger.
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Hive
23 Aug-10 Sep
7.30pm Wed-Sat
5pm Sun
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
9639 0096
A contemporary opera exploring the creation and exploitation of the 'myth of the artist' through the life and afterlife of English poet, Rupert Brooke.
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Porous
6pm 22, 23 Sep
3pm 24 Sep
Dancehouse
An imaginative journey to explore our attempts to control the pollutants we encounter in everyday environments.
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I Want to Dance Better at Parties
8pm 22 Sep
Alexander Theatre, building 7
This part documentary, part impressionistic dance work examines the private lives of men and their experiences with dance.
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Kate Ceberano, Stephen Magnusson & Rob Burke
8pm 11 Oct
Robert Blackwood Hall, Building 2
Kate Ceberano, Stephen Magnusson & Rob Burke perform with students from the School of Music Conservatorium
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Fantastic Mr Fox
4 - 19 Jan, Mon-Fri 10.30am and 1pm
Kaliede RMIT Union Theatre
Bookings
03 9685 5111
The 'must see' children's theatre show this summer. RMIT Union Arts presents another classic tale from the master of the absurd - Roald Dahl.
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Comedy At Gasworks
5-21 April 8.30pm
Gasworks Arts Park
Split your sides laughing with one of the cabaret performances showing as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival at Gasworks.
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Coolest King
March 5, 7.45pm
Carlton Courthouse Theatre
Josie and her actors will look at various ways to play this off-beat and entertaining piece,and will be looking to you, the audience, to participate with comments and ideas.
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Flashpoint
6.30-8pm 8 May 2007
State Library of Victoria
Sample award-winning theatre at the State Library of Victoria and fortyfivedownstairs. This reading is from Reading
Killing Jeremy by Bridgette Jane Burton.
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Jolly Good Show
26 May, 7pm
Dancehouse
The surprising occurrence of some of Melbourne's best improvisors.
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Crave
25 May–3 June, Tues – Sat 8pm, Sat and Sun 5pm
fortyfive downstairs
Bookings
03 9662 9966
Set in an unidentifiable city from which voices and images spring, Crave is a dramatised deconstruction of the human mind under the pressures of love, loss and longing.
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Large Attendance in the Antechamber, A
20 Nov - 9 Dec 2007
7.30pm Wed-Sat, 7pm Tues, 5pm Sun
Tower Theatre, the CUB Malthouse
In a bizarre séance held in a tiny room filled with antiquated books, accumulated oddments and scientific paraphernalia, actor Brian Lipson channels Galton, a man as well known for his eccentricities as his genius.
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Diva of a Year, A
4 – 6 Jan 2008
9pm Fri - Sat, 8pm Sun
The Butterfly Club
A Diva of a Year will star Ruth Rogers-Wright with Mark Fitzgibbon on piano.
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Coop
6 - 17 Feb 2008 (Preview 6 Feb)
8pm Tues-Sat, 5pm Sun, plus 6pm Sat 16 Feb
fortyfivedownstairs
After two years in the incubator, Black Hole Theatre’s darkly humorous tale,
Coop, will have its world premiere season at fortyfivedownstairs.
Chock-full of Adam and Eve, eggs and angels, lust and power, incest and revenge...
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Silence
11 - 22 Nov, 2009
8.00pm; 6.30pm Wed, Sun
La Mama Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Silence is a play for three Vietnamese-Australian women. Haunted by the ghosts of the past, one family is forced to confront history to move on to the future.
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Kill the Wolf
26-30 March
8pm Wed-Fri, 2pm & 9pm Sat, 2pm & 5pm Sun
Arts Centre, BlackBox
Kill the Wolf tells the story of salesman Mikey Wolf, his disabled father Richard, and out of work singer Rose, the unwilling object of Mikey’s affection.
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Future Australian Race
5 -24 May 2008
6.30pm Mon-Tues; 7.30pm Wed-Sat; Matinees, 1pm Thurs & 2pm Sat
Queens Hall, State Library of Victoria
Bookings
03 9534 5984
Ned Kelly’s hanging judge and the bohemian writer of
For the Term of His Natural Life face off from opposite sides of a divide that still haunts Australia.
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Testing PG
12-16 Aug 2008
the Arts Centre
Burlesque Hour... She's Back!
7 Aug - 14 Sep, 2008
8pm Wed & Thurs; 7pm Fri-Sun; plus Late Show Sat 9.30pm!
fortyfivedownstairs
Hot on the heels of a world tour, the smash hit of festivals everywhere returns home! Revved up with a wild mix of new acts, all time favourites and fabulous guest stars, Finucane and Smith’s
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Exploding Breakfast
28 Aug – 14 Sep, 2008
8pm 28–31 Aug and 10–13 Sep
6.30pm 3–7 September
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
When Ingle Knight agreed to go to Johannesburg to write his next play, he had no idea what he was letting himself in for.
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Test 1111
a date
INcubator
Bookings
9948 4086
Lower Depths
27 - 30 Jul, 2009
8pm; 5.30pm Sun
Theatre Works
A collaboration between the St Kilda Drop in Centre community and four theatre makers to adapt Maxim Gorky's epic play
The Lower Depths.
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Profane Prima Donnas
17 Jan 2009
8pm
Australian Centre Of Performing Arts (ACOPA)
Bookings
03 9326 3006
Shane Warne the Musical
19 Feb 09
Athenaeum Theatre
Shane Warne’s ups and downs are brought to life by the multi-talented composer and comedian Eddie Perfect
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Bedrock
12 Mar, 2009
1pm, 5.30pm
St Paul's Court, Federation Square
A surreal contemporary dance duet
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Harmonious Oddity (Triple Bill)
10 - 13 Mar, 2009
8pm
Gasworks Arts Park
Pioneering and ingenious contemporary dance.
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Bower
24 Apr, 2009
8pm
Sanctum Theatre
Bower is a clandestine performance installation about homes and homelessness, nests and memories.
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Down The Rabbit Hole
15 - 24 Oct, 2009
8pm; 7.30pm Tues, Wed
Theatre Works
Bookings
03 9534 3388
Follow Alice
Down The Rabbit Hole and be engrossed in the mad world that will entice and indulge your sensibility to another world!
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Hounds
29 Sept - 10 Oct, 2009
8pm
The Store Room
Like watching a Looney Tunes cartoon come to life, The Hounds' new show is fast paced physical comedy.
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Puppy Fight Social Club
2 - 3 October, 2009
10:45pm
The Store Room
Join Puppy Fight Social Club for improv, music, comedy...and puppies.
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Operation
25 Sep - 2 Oct
6.30pm; 5.30pm Sun;
Festival Hub - Arts House, Meat Market
Open wide and say ‘Aaaah!’ Join the multi- Fringe Award winning Trick Circus on a raucous, absurd, and hilariously contagious hospital adventure.
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Jive Talk
22 Nov, 2009
2pm
The Dog Theatre
Jive Talk is a space for people to meet, listen, engage and dream about a better world through social conversation.
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Hayloft Project's B.C.
30 Nov - 19 Dec, 2009
7.30pm
the Arts Centre, BlackBox
Bookings
1300 182 183
An irreverent renovation of the Immaculate Conception
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Man with the September Face
9 - 19 Dec, 2009
7.30pm
the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio
Bookings
1300 182 183
Love, death, communism and Spandau Ballet... a bittersweet, suburban roller-drama with heart(ache).
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Light in the Shadow
Preview 16 March at 8pm
17-18 March at 8pm
19 March at 5pm
Dancehouse
A dance installation inspired by the greater and lesser signs of decay of the angel, as described in buddhist text.
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BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
Remaining Dates 24, 25 March and 7 April at 10.30pm
The Butterfly Club
The cult show that gives new meaning to Friday nights.
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We Built This City
Preview April 25 @ 8pm
April 26 -29 @ 8pm
May 3 - 6 @ 8pm
Scienceworks
Bookings
9639 0096
A roving rock performance featuring Mark Seymour, a cast of workers, the Trades Union Choir and some very heavy machinery.
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Rouge Room
Thursday 25 August to Sunday 11 September.
Preview 25 Aug at 7.30pm; 26 Aug to 11 Sept – Tues to Sat at 7.30pm, Sun at 6pm
Theatreworks
Bookings
03 9534 3388
The Rouge Room is a mixed bill season of new cross-disciplinary works as part of Theatreworks’ 2005 Companies Initiative program.
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UFO show
Tuesday 30 August till Sunday 18 September
Tuesday to Saturday @ 8pm; Sunday @ 6pm
The Store Room
Bookings
03 9486 5651
You’re going to allow yourself to remember at the count of three. One … Two… Three.
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Rosie Harris in Little Ray of Sunshine
Sat 3rd September at 9pm
Sun 4th September at 8:30pm
The Butterfly Club
Rosie Harris performs in a ‘cabaret jazz’ style to unlock the great standards of the last century and her own songs.
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V@theB
Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 September at 8:30pm
The Butterfly Club
The Victorian College of the Arts’ second-year Music Theatre students present their unique ‘take’ on cabaret.
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To B Lectures, A
Fri 9th, Sat 10th and Sun 11th of Sept at 8pm
Dantes
Carolyn Connors (Gotharama) and Gus Macmillan (Blue Grassy Knoll) combine forces with Neil Thomas (Urban Dream Capsule, Museum of Modern Oddities) to bring a night of historical revisionism that is long overdue, taking you on a tour that resurrects both the reputation and repertoire of these two wallflowers of the concert hall.
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Mammad Aidani - Ten Years at La Mama: A Celebration
Lectures / Reading: Mon Sept 12 at 7.30, Saturday Sept 17 and Sun Sept 18 at 3.00pm. Plays: Tues Sept 13, Wed Sept 14, Sun Sept 18 at 6.30pm, Thurs Sept 15, Fri Sept 16 and Sat Sept 17 at 8.00pm
La Mama Theatre
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A week of play selections, lectures and a playreading by Mammad Aidani.
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Clenched Buttocks
Wednesday 14 to Saturday 24 September
Wed to Sat at 8pm, Sun at 5pm, Sat 24 Sep – two shows, 5pm & 8pm
The Carlton Courthouse
The Berger is back on stage, stripped bare in a show about loss and longing, fear and belonging. Oh, and salami.
Rachel Berger is performing naked in her new comic monologue. Revealing and heartfelt, Clenched Buttocks is an artistic leap and a hilarious, angst-driven look at identity.
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Diva on Divas
Wed 14 to Sat 17 Sept at 8:30pm
The Butterfly Club
A night of songs, banter and gossip from San Francisco’s Dear Diva.
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Not Dead Yet
15, 16, 17, 22 & 24 Sept at 7pm
18 & 25 Sept at 2pm
21 Sept at 1pm
23 Sept at 6pm
Theatreworks
Bookings
03 9534 3388
Two of Melbourne’s most exciting performance companies bring you a highly physical, visual and provocative show about living with death and dying to live. A theatrical event that propels you through the hopes, dreads and hilarity of what awaits us all.
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Picassos Children
15 and 16 September @ 7pm
Irene Mitchell Studio
A specially devised performance art and theatre project by 9-12 year olds.
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Headhunter
4-14 Apr
The Cromwell Road Theatre
Come to Polyglot's first public season of 2007 - Headhunter
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Big Dipper
Wednesday 21 September to Sunday 9 October
Theatreworks
Bookings
03 9534 3388
A curated season of eight new works by emerging artists as part of Theatreworks 2005 Artists Initiative program. A diverse program of exciting new works featuring breakdance, extreme spoken word, drama, comedy, movement, installation performance and music.
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Minutiae of Inertia
September 21 - October 8
Tuesday - Saturday 7.15pm
Sunday 6.15pm
The Store Room
Anaemic Boy battles insomnia on the eve of tumultuous change. Separation, anxiety, terror and the Incredible Hulk fuel disturbing late night conversations between a strange little American boy and his sleep deprived father.
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Rape of Lucretia
Sept 23 - Oct 1
Fri Sept 23, Sat Sept 24, Wed Sept 28, Fri Sept 30, Sat Oct 1 8pm
The Assembly Hall
Passion, Honour, lust, JealousyLyric Opera of Melbourne presents Benjamin Britten’s highly charged, theatrical opera The Rape of Lucretia. It tells of the brutal sexual and psychological encounter of the willful Tarquinius and the virtuous Lucretia, and its devastating and fatal consequences.
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Hatched 05
Friday September 23 & Saturday September 24 @ 8pm, Sunday September 25 @ 6pm
St Martins Theatre Complex
3 nights, 27 performances, 34 actors, 15 creators, 12 impros, 5 installations, 7 readings, 1 cabaret and a playwright in a very small box
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Melissa Langton and Mark Jones in “Can you hear me up the back?”
Wed 28 Sept to Sun 2 October at 8:30pm
The Butterfly Club
Australia’s hottest cabaret duo Melissa Langton and Mark Jones in a sassy, contemporary and comic cabaret.
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People In Glass Houses
Wed 28 Sept - Sat 15 October
Wed to Sat @ 8pm
Sunday @ 5pm
Carlton Courthouse
Who said people that live in glass houses should never throw stones? Melbourne Writers' Theatre present a new season of short plays by Australian playwrights.
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Material Mouth
Thursdays and Saturdays at 6.00pm, Fridays at 8.00pm, Sundays at 4.00pm
La Mama Theatre
Bookings
9347 6142
As part of the 2005 Melbourne Fringe Festival, a theatrical concert for solo voice. Created and performed by Carolyn Connors with direction by Margaret Cameron.
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Dance Path
Saturday 1 October 2005
Open day 10am – 3.30pm
Performance 5pm
Dancehouse
Bookings
No bookings required
An event celebrating Dancehouse’s 13 year history.
Join in free classes and performances, covering a variety of dance styles. For timetable information check the Dancehouse website www.dancehouse.com.au.
Be captivated by a free, large-scale performance. Featuring a video collage of significant artists from Dancehouse’s history, the movement transfers onto live, dancing bodies, leading out of the building and into the street.
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Pieces for Small Spaces
Tuesday 4th October - Saturday 8th October
7pm & 9pm
Sunday 9th October 8pm
Lucy Guerin Inc. Studio
Lucy Guerin Inc. presents a program of short performances devised by 6 emerging Melbourne choreographers.
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Small metal objects
6.30pm 7-11 Mar, 2pm & 6.30pm Sat & Sun
Federation Square
Bookings
03 9639 0096
The sell out hit of the 2005 Melbourne International Arts Festival returns to Melbourne before taking on the world.
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Bird@3000
Friday 7 to Sunday 23 October
Tuesday – Sunday 7.30pm
ArtPlay (outdoors)
World Premiere
bird@3000 is a modern musical fable exploring our relationship with our backyard. Spend an hour in the last suburban Aussie backyard in Melbourne's CBD, postcode 3000.
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Private Eye
Fri 7 – Sun 9 Oct, Tue 11 – Sun 16 Oct, Tue 18 – Sat 22 Oct
Tue - Fri 6pm – 10.15pm
Sat - Sun 2pm – 6.15pm
Performances start every 15min
Total experience is 45min
Grand Hyatt Melbourne
The names Renato Cuocolo and Robera Bosetti are synonymous with intimate theatre. These two Festival favourites bring audiences the world premiere of Private Eye, a performance about identity presented in the rooms of the Grand Hyatt Hotel for one audience member at a time.
World Premiere
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20 Years of La Mama Poetica
Monday 10 Oct at 8pm
La Mama Theatre
Bookings
Ticketmaster7 1300 136 166, La Mama 03 9347 6142
Festival audiences are invited to a unique cross-generational interplay at Melbourne’s poetry theatre venue, La Mama. With the Festival itself in its 20th year, it’s timely to celebrate Melbourne’s longest-running poetry event with 20 years of La Mama Poetica.
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David Chesworth Ensemble
Wednesday October 12 at 7pm
The Famous Spiegeltent
Bookings
1300 136 166
a rare opportunity to see the David Chesworth Ensemble performing music from their new CD - "music to see through" at the Famous Spiegeltent
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Red Stitch Actors Theatre - The Night Season
Wed 12 – Sun 16 Oct & Tue 18 Oct
Wed – Fri 8pm
Sat 2pm & 8pm
Sun 3pm
Tue 8pm
the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio
Bookings
Ticketmaster7 1300 136 166
Following the highly successful and complete sell-out season at their St Kilda theatre, Melbourne’s own Red Stitch brings The Night Season by Rebecca Lenkiewicz to the Festival.
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Infracinema
Thurs 13 to Sat 15 Oct at 8.30pm
Thurs 20 to Sat 22 Oct at 8.30pm
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
An experimental sound and video performance, Infracinema fuses the immersion of cinema with the closeness of visual art.
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Nerve 9
Season Wed 2 - Sat 5 November, Tues 8 - Saturday 12th November. 7.30pm
Duration 60 minutes
The North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
The CUB Malthouse (03) 9685 5111
A solo dance performance inspired by Julia Kristeva’s writing. Tess de Quincey creates a raw and edgy performance that blends body and word.
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Collisions
Sat 15 Oct at 4pm
Horti Hall
Collisions is a series of explorations into intricate diagrams and soundworlds of overlapping stories. Points of connection and points of departure – it’s the little things that cause the greatest surprises.
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Play in a Room
Sun 16 Oct at 4pm and 6pm
the Arts Centre, State Theatre, Rehearsal Room
Bookings
Ticketmaster7 1300 136 166
Play in a Room is a dance performance choreographed and directed by Shelley Lasica and featuring 12 Melbourne dancers. Part of a continually evolving body of work developed by Lasica, Play in a Room is concerned with finding performance solutions and exploring the minutiae of theatrical activity.
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SHED
Daytime performances at 11.30am (1 hour, 55 minutes) at the NGV, 180 St Kilda Road
Evening performances at 8pm (1 hour 30 minutes) at Studio 45, Sturt Street, Southbank (between The Malthouse and the NGV)
From Tuesday 18 October at 8pm to Saturday 22 October
The National Gallery of Victoria/Shed 45
Bookings
8662 1555
SHED opens the doors to a mysterious collection of objects and stories saved from a clearing sale. Ahead of the collection being placed in storage at the National Gallery of Victoria, the truck driver reveals its secrets. He takes us on a journey to unexpected places where dreams are built and repaired, and investigates ‘what makes us tick’ on the way.
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Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Opening Wednesday October 19 until Saturday November 5
Wednesday October 19 at 7.30pm
then Wednesdays and Sundays at 6.30pm
Thursdays to Saturdays at 8.00pm
1.00pm matinees: Wednesdays October 26 and November 2
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
9347 6142
Adolf Eichmann was in charge of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question in Nazi Germany. He was captured and put on trial in 1961. He pleaded 'not guilty'. Kitia Altman and Arnold Erlanger's (both Auschwitz survivors, now living in Melbourne) stories have been adapted as if they gave evidence at the trial. Their evidence is juxtaposed against Adolf Eichmann's.
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Felix Listens to the World/Gilgamesh
Thu 20 and Fri 21 Oct at 8pm
Sat 22 Oct 2pm & 8pm
the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio
Bookings
Ticketmaster7 1300 136 166
Direct from Melbourne’s independent theatre scene, the Arts Centre and the Festival present a double bill of highly inventive performance pieces.
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Young Playwrights' Studio
22nd October at 2.00pm
La Mama Theatre
Bookings
9347 6142
Writers aged 25 and under were invited to submit scripts of any length and style to be read and considered for further development. Directors Peta Hanrahan (Staff, by Michael Griffith, La Mama 2004), David Myles (Trio, by Dina Ross, La Mama 2005) and Emma Valente (Lucky, by Toby Schmitz, La Mama 2005), have buried their heads deep into the vast spectrum and wonderful diversity of entries from writers all across Melbourne, Sydney (and even Edinburgh), and selected one script each to rehearse with a cast, to culminate in a public reading at La Mama.
A panel including Catherine Hill (Director: Toby, by Abe Pogos, Carlton Courthouse 2004), Robert Reid (Director: Tyranny, by Barry Dickins 2005) and chaired by Artistic Director Liz Jones, will provide feedback and lively discussion on all three pieces.
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Test Pattern
october 26 – november 5
oct 26 – 29 @8pm
sun oct 30 @6pm
nov 1 - 5 @6pm
Northcote Uniting Church Hall
Bookings
03 9230 4593
Y. is this the measure of a generation?
the future is unimaginable, we're holding onto now... enter a terrain where the lines of age, gender and time dissolve...
where real and imagined selves collide...
and a fragile grip on love, illusion and sanity emerges...
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Two Short Plays
Opening Thursday October 27 until Sunday November 6
Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 6.30pm
Fridays and Saturdays at 8.00pm
La Mama Theatre
Bookings
9347 6142
Our Miss Fitson, along with Ladies and Gentlemen, explores the insights of two very different women. Miss Fitson is a retired school mistress, who, in recording a radio interview, reminisces. She has few regrets about her career, at least her perception of it. A kaleidoscope of joyful, even triumphal, memories.
Livia Lamplighter, having been forced to retreat from her life as a stage celebrity, sets out to re-invent herself as a celebrity chef. We observe her attempts to prepare a speech for the launch of her first culinary publication, whilst travelling by train to Sydney. A moving and often witty account of this true to life character.
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KIM SMITH IS MADLY ADORED
October 28 - 31
All shows 8.30 pm
The Butterfly Club
KIM SMITH IS MADLY ADORED serves as a window to the bizarre and unforgiving nature of our young century’s greatest criminal mind, a mind mostly lost to unwavering obsessions with self, celebrity, beauty and death.
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Dean Lotherington in THE WEDNESDAY SHOW
Wednesday 2, 9, 16 and 23 November at 8.00pm
The Butterfly Club
Poor old Wednesday, never the beginning OR the end of the week. Now ‘hump day’ is going to live up to its name as ‘peak of the week’.
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VERSCHWINDEN (‘to disappear’)
Thursday 3, Friday 4 and Saturday 5 November at 9.00pm
The Butterfly Club
With wit and charm, authentic German cabaret artist Burkhard Augustin Hase will put you under a spell and let you enjoy the fact that there are things that can’t be explained.
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Fifth at Randwick and god, the devil and the true history of mankind
3 November to 20 November
Tuesday to Saturday @ 8pm and Sundays @ 6pm
Previews Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 November
The Store Room
Bookings
9486 5659
Direct from sell out seasons at Sydney's Old Fitzroy Theatre, So Much Art ... So Few Bullets presents a double bill from award-winning actor/playwright Travis Cotton. Existential comedies designed to boot traditional theatre up the arse, 'The Fifth at Randwick' and 'god, the devil and the true history of mankind' are sharply observed pieces previously described as 'satirical, hysterical and bizarre' by reviewers.
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Male of the Species
November 8-12, 15-19 Tues-Sat
Show begins 8 pm
Terminus Hotel
Are men animals?
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Melissa Langton and Mark Jones in CAN YOU HEAR ME UP THE BACK?
Friday 11 and Saturday 12 November at 9.00pm
The Butterfly Club
For two nights only, Australia’s hottest cabaret duo Melissa Langton and Mark Jones bring their sassy, contemporary, comic cabaret back to The Butterfly Club after receiving a commendation from the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
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Daddy
Preview 8pm Wed 16 Nov
Season 8pm Thurs 17 Nov - 3 December
Matinees 2pm Sat 26 Nov & 3 Dec
Kindred Rehearsal Studios
Bookings
9685 5111
50 women in drag, impersonating their fathers as only a daughter can. Daddy will show our dad's at their best, daggiest & funniest.
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Michael Jeffery - Modern With It Hip Kind Of Dude!
November 17 2005, 8pm. (We recommend arrival by 7.45pm)
The Grand Ballroom, Rippon Lea Estate
Are old things worthless? Should only the trendy be admired? Must all show blurbs begin with three questions? These posers and more may be answered in Michael Jeffery - Modern With It Hip Kind Of Dude!
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Mark Jones, Adam Murphy and Karlis Zaid in BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
Friday 18 and Saturday 19 November at 9.00 pm; Sunday 20 November at 8.30pm
The Butterfly Club
"Very intelligent cabaret ... sit up and take notice" – Joel Crotty, The Age
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BB05
Program 1: 22-24 November at 8pm
Program 2: 25-26 November at 8pm, 27 November at 5pm
Dancehouse
Six nights of heightened physical states and highly charged imagery - these performances transcend cultural boundaries
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This thousand years I shall not weep.
November 24 - December 11.
Tuesdays - Saturdays 8pm.
Sundays 6pm
The Storeroom
The temper of the universe. Of humans. And amazing things.
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Hard Lines
Date: 28 and 29 November 2005
Time: 6.30pm
Grant Street Theatre
MTC's Hard Lines program will present three plays over two evenings showcasing the brilliant new work of two MTC Affiliate Writers and one recently commissioned writer.
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Insight
Wednesday to Saturday Nov 30- Dec 3 @ 8pm
Matinee Saturday December 3 @ 2pm
Irene Mitchell Studio
Performed by the 2005 St Martins Foundation Ensemble
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Billy Maloney
Dec 5-10
Mon-Sat 8pm, Wed & Sat 2pm
Public forums follow the matinees
North Melbourne Town Hall
Our own Don Quixote is coming back to the North Melbourne Town Hall. Because Billy Maloney never gives up on a fight.
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As You Like It
7th - 18th December 2005, Wednesday - Sunday, 7pm nightly.
Como Historic House and Garden
Green Cyc is a progressive young theatre company presenting Shakespeare and Children's theatre.
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Jet Of Blood
Wednesday 7th to Sunday 11th Dec
Wednesday to Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 7.00pm
Theatreworks
Bookings
9534 3388
Take a ride into the surreal world of the subconscious.
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Ennio Morricone Experience
Wed Dec 7 @ 7pm
The Famous Spiegeltent
Riding high after their hugely successul international debut, The Ennios return to their spiritual home with a fistful of new tunes.
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When Sand Becomes Glass
5 - 8 Dec 2007
8pm, 2pm Sat 8 Dec
Randall Theatre
Bookings
03 9252 0760
On the night of 12 October, 2002, a man carrying a backpack entered Paddy's Bar - a popular tourist location in Bali - and detonated the first of two devices.
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Dance
8pm, December 8-10
Dancehouse
A project led by Rosalind Crisp with Australian and European dance artists occurring in Perth, Paris, Berlin, Sydney and Melbourne over a two year cycle. Featuring performance by Rosalind Crisp and Lizzie Thomson
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Past is Under Glass
Friday 16 December 1.30pm
Saturday 17 December 7pm
Theatreworks
Bookings
9534 3388
"Yes here here Here Y'ar tonight tonight Leave it on out out Leave it on Here Here Here Here On it's alright I turned it on on on out" Dorothy Gill
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Reuben Krum is OUT OF LINE
12 to 23 April (Wed – Sun) at 9pm
The Butterfly Club
Inside his head there are lots of voices. Loud voices.
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Going out Tonight
Wednesday 18 to Sunday 22 January, all shows at 6.30 pm
The Butterfly Club
GOING OUT TONIGHT portrays the events that unfold as a young woman arrives home from work one evening and begins to get ready for a night out on the town.
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TICKETS TO OURSELVES
Wednesday 18 to Sunday 22 January, all shows at 8.30 pm
The Butterfly Club
They always dreamt of careers in the theatre…
They should have been more specific.
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Blowing Whistles
Saturday 21 January at 2.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
An acclaimed drama about searing love, sex and gay pride.
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My Life As A Dyke
Opening Tuesday January 24 at 6.30pm, then Wednesdays and Sundays at 6.30pm
Thursdays to Saturdays at 8.00pm until Sat February 18
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03) 9347 6142
As part of the 2006 Midsumma Festival
3 hit shows... 2 hilarious performers... 1 huge season...
Coming Out. Making out. Moving in. Breaking up. Moving out. Moving on. Making up. Buying a dog and living happily ever after. All this is fodder for the laughter, loves, and liaisons that are My Life as a Dyke, entertaining audiences from Midsumma to Feast to the Gay Games, WA Pride, and back again since 2000.
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VIRGINS
Previews: 25th – 27th Jan 2006
Season: 25th Jan – 11th Feb 2006
Tue-Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm
Tower Theatre @ The CUB Malthouse
Teen Divas and Vows of Chastity.
Soft Porn and Journalism.
Asylum Seekers and Reality TV.
A Musical Threesome you’ll want to join.
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True Amazon Adventures of Roger Casement
Opening Wednesday January 25 until Sunday February 12, 2006
Wednesdays and Sundays at 6.30pm
Thursdays to Saturdays at 8.00pm
La Mama Theatre
Bookings
03) 9347 6142
Sir Roger Casement, human rights campaigner and war hero, was hanged in 1916 for his involvement in the Irish Nationalist revolt in Dublin.
Though his guilt was never in doubt, George V's Government could not risk making an Irish folk hero and martyr out of him, and so the "Black Diaries of Roger Casement", which expose him as a homosexual, were discovered and released. Within their pages are explicit details of Casement's life as a promiscious homosexual. Public figures who had sympathised with him distanced themselves and ceased their clemency calls that might have saved his life.
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Buster Daniels in 'Nancy Boy'
Thursday 26 January to Sunday 12 February (performances Thur to Sun), all shows at 8.30 pm
The Butterfly Club
Numb from the sanitisation of all things queer, Buster puts the sweat and grime back into manly love in a three-week season for the Midsumma Festival.
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Master's Boy
Saturday 28 January at 2.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
The simmering obsessive lust of Strindberg's Miss Julie for her serving man, Jean is translated by award-winning author Phil Willmott into a sultry gay master / servant encounter.
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Ecstacy + GRACE
Sat 4 Feb at 2.00pm
The Butterfly Club
Once upon a time, Davy had visions of a better world. Now he competes.
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Theatre @ Risk
6th – 12th February
fortyfivedownstairs
Theatre @ Risk presents a week-long festival of new works, ideas and discussions.
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ONE WAY STREET by David Greig
Tues 7th Feb 8pm
Fri 10th Feb 8pm (with post-show Q & A)
Sat 11th Feb, 8:30pm
Sun 12h Feb, 5pm
fortyfivedownstairs
Bookings
03 9639 0096
An original solo play taking a guided tour through the troubled history of the former East Berlin from the 1930s through to the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
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Can’t Leave Tomorrow Alone
Thurs 9th – Sat 25th February
Tuesday – Sat 8pm, Sunday 5pm
Bookings 03 9534 3388
Theatreworks
Part of Theatreworks 2006 Company Initiatives.
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Concave City
Fri 10th & Sat 11th February, 2006
Meat Market
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Presented by Dead Horse Productions Concave City is a program of six new and existing works by Australian composers.
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Paul L Martin in SUBURBAN GLITTER
Sat 11 Feb at 10.30pm
The Butterfly Club
British cabaret icon Paul L Martin brings his unique show SUBURBAN GLITTER to Australia for one night only.
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New Boy
Sat 11 Feb at 2.00pm
The Butterfly Club
Adapted from the best-selling novel by William Sutcliffe.
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Cheapest Hotel in Southern Victoria
Opening Wednesday February 15 until Sunday March 5, 2006
Wednesdays and Sundays at 6.30pm
Thursdays to Saturdays at 8.00pm
La Mama Theatre
Bookings
9347 6142
Set in the antiquated surrounds of the Fed-Up and Had-It Hotel Talangawash, three long-term friends and an even longer term resident spend the Christmas-New Year break in the same bed to keep holiday costs down! Their friendships are sorely tested by a terrifying publican, a lack of running water, electricity and finally an absence of beer. A hilarious, laconic yet absurdly formal work, The Cheapest Hotel in Southern Victoria broke the house record at Sydney's Old Fitzroy Theatre last year.
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Emma Powell is DUMPED!
Thursday 16 February to Sunday 19 February, all shows at 9.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
“Not only can she belt out a tune but she knows how to entertain and illuminate words. Her delivery encapsulated what Cabaret should be…” Bryce Hallett – Sydney Morning Herald
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Butterfly Seer
Opening Tuesday February 21 until Saturday February 25, 2006
Tuesday Feb 21 at 6.30pm
Wednesday to Saturday at 8.00pm
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
9347 6142
The Butterfly Seer is an Islamic Pilgrimage, a Philosophical Love Story, told through songs and poetic dialogue in a style based on the ancient epic narratives of Sumatra. An orphan mystic leads her village adherents into the sea beneath a swarm of heavenly butterflies in search of self-redemption. Do they drown or not? The ambiguous witness - an urchin street Clown and his Brahmin Bull, who follow for love not salvation. The evocative score by Adrian Sherriff is infused with influences from Sumatran Sufism to South Indian microtones to the robust, quirky jazz brass, giving expression to the tale's delicacy, vigour, humour and pathos.
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David Forster in DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO BALLARAT?
Thursday 23 February to Sunday 5 March (performances Thurs - Sun), all shows at 7.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
Join David Forster as he relives his first love affair with the help of old friends – including Dionne, Dannii, ABBA and Simon & Garfunkel – in this not-so-innocent cabaret.
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Sally Bourne is KIDDING AROUND
Thursday 23 February to Sunday 26 February, all shows at 9.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
Having worked with Madonna, Judi Dench and Julie Andrews, Sally Bourne feels ready to tackle the most demanding diva of them all – her inner child.
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Nuclear Family
Opening Thursday February 23 until Saturday February 25, 2006
THREE SHOWS ONLY:
Thursday to Saturday at 6.00pm
La Mama Theatre
Bookings
9347 6142
In a very normal house, a very normal family is living an extraordinary life. Caught up in consumption, they have
created their own virtual reality, but something has to change. Will it be them - or the planet? Luckily they have learnt that nuclear is the new green - but their guest this evening is not so sure. A school project, a mystery black out, and a surreal twist to match these crazy times.
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Cross Hatch
Thursday 23 & Friday 24 February
Two performances per evening:
6.30pm & 8pm
Hawthorn Town Hall
A site specific movement and video performance
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Corridor
16–25 Oct, 2008 (Preview Thu 16 Oct)
Arts House, Meat Market
One of Australia’s most innovative dance companies moves through the confines of physical and psychological space in a highly anticipated, intelligent new work.
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Dance Through Me
27 and 28 February @ 7:30pm
Theatreworks
Bookings
+61 3 9534 3388
A journey of human spirit through dance and vocals.
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Fiona Thorn in FAIS-MOI MAL, JOHNNY
Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 March, all shows at 9.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
A cabaret memoir of an Aussie girl at the Sorbonne
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Still A Hero
March 8 - March 26
Wednesdays and Sundays at 6.30pm
Thursdays to Saturdays at 8.00pm
La Mama
Bookings
9347 6142
An all Australian, cross-cultural kung fu love story.
Still a Hero explores notions of culture, of belonging, of size, of place and of desire. It deals with the intensity of a physical and emotional attraction conflicting with social conventions.
It's also a good love story.
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QUINTESSENTIAL
Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 March, all shows at 9.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
Singer, ginger and wit-slinger Geraldine Quinn returns with a brand new cabaret that’s as rock as Emma Thompson in leopard-print lycra with her finger in a Marshall stack.
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From a distance…
Preview Wed 15th March
OPEN Thur 16th - Sat 18th at 8pm
Sun 19th at 5pm
Wed 22nd - Sat 25th at 8pm
Sun 26th at 5pm
Arts House
Bookings
03 9639 0096
"From a distance, all we can assume is Sally misjudged when she reached 100 per cent of her ability". Steve Lawrence, WAIS.
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Once Upon A Barstool
March 15 - March 26
Wednesdays at 8.30pm
Thursdays and Saturdays at 6.00pm
Fridays at 10.00pm
Sundays at 4.30pm
La Mama Theatre
Bookings
9347 6142
"Don't touch Ireland with chocolate on your fingers!"
For St Patrick's Day, an epic tale of families, alcohol and Irish / Australian immigration. Spanning four generations and two continents this one-person poetic narrative looks at the lighter and darker sides of life and considers the importance of keeping stories alive.
"The hit of this year's festival. Entertaining, touching and more engaging than anything I have seen in a long time" - Irish Theatre Magazine.
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Love Happens
16-20 March 2006
Federation Square
A new generation circus production about love – meetings, pairings, family and friends – love makes the world go round.
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No room to swing a cat
Thursday 16 to Sunday 26 March (performances Thurs – Sun), all shows at 9.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
Are the Commonwealth Games getting you down? Are all those astounding feats of physical prowess and athleticism making you feel like an out of shape middle aged loser? Does the sight of a sexy, well-toned, athletic body turn your stomach? Well check out Australia’s favourite cabaret duo in their paunchy, out of shape, cholesterol-clogged cabaret – NO ROOM TO SWING A CAT!!!
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Playing Pokies
March 16 - March 18
THREE PERFORMANCES ONLY: Thursday to Saturday at 7.00pm
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
9347 6142
Playing Pokies is a play about playing pokies. It is also a play about the cost of playing pokies; the social, political and personal cost that is hidden by the bright lights and happy tunes.
Created by people whose lives have been affected by the pokies industry, the play brings together different stories, thoughts and attitudes towards 'playing pokies'. Whether it's personal addiction, stories of success, worry of invasion of our much loved pub culture, or simple social concern, this insight into 'playing pokies' is both sincere and humourous.
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Dirty Mile
23 Feb - 16 Mar 2008
7pm Thu - Sat, 2pm Sat - Sun
Along Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Bookings
03 9685 5111
Ilbijerri kicks off its 2008 season with one if its strongest works -
The Dirty Mile, the 2006 Deadly Award winning drama, performed in promenade style through the Aboriginal (and Torres Strait Islander) streets of Fitzroy. from Saturday 23 February to Sunday 16 March 2008.
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Faisceau d'Epingles de Verre (Ray of Glass Needles)
22-25 March at 8pm
26 March at 5pm
Dancehouse
Bookings
1300 727 432
As part of the Next Wave Festival, Canadian company P:Media Arts presents a new media arts theatre piece, inspired by the writing of Claude Gauvreau.
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East
March 22 - April 1 at 8.00pm
(Wednesdays to Sundays)
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
9347 6142
Penned 20 years before Trainspotting and Snatch, Berkoff's hard hitting urban drama is a sharp, affectionate and funny expose of life in London's East End.
Combining raw physical theatre and the intensity of language that veers from the sacred to the shatteringly profane, it bursts at the seams with both verbal and visual exuberance. Taking key scenes from the lives and recollections of his five characters, Berkoff builds a bleak portrait of stultifying ignorance, casual brutality and harsh sexual encounters.
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Y. By Ming Zhu Hii
March 22 Preview
March 23 - April 2 (no show March 27)
Time 8pm
Arthouse @ Meat Market
Bookings
1300 727 432
In an entirely original work of theatre by Melbourne performer and theatremaker, Ming-Zhu Hii, Y. explodes the myth of Yoko Ono as Beatle-crusher and public pest, and calls upon a fresh, young generation of voices to come out and play; to challenge and provoke; to dare to be brave, alone, and unpopular.
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Love And Madness in the LMP Unit
March 29 - April 16
Wednesdays and Sundays at 6.30pm
Thursdays to Saturdays at 8.00pm
La Mama
Bookings
9347 6142
Your best friend is bleeding you dry; your work-mate is a rev-head who hates dole bludgers; your anti-union boss is busting your nuts; and you're in love with the new girl. To complicate matters, you're battling schizophrenia and the Elohim from Sirius are coming to beam you up. And watch out for your psychiatrist - he's pretty handy with a chainsaw... A blackly hilarious parable of IR gone wrong, intercut with the torments of mental illness.
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Ruth Rogers-Wright in FABULOUS DIVA
16 - 19 Aug, 9pm
The Butterfly Club
A tribute to the music of Nina Simone
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NICHAUD FITZGIBBON
6 and 7 April at 9.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
A member of Melbourne’s Fitzgibbon entertainment dynasty, Nichaud is recognised as one of Australia’s premier jazz stylists.
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Dizney on Dry Ice
April 6-22, 2006
Week 1: Thursday to Saturday at 8.00pm, Sunday at 6.30pm
Week 2: Tuesday to Saturday at 8.00pm, Sunday at 6.30pm
Week 3: Tuesday to Saturday at 8.00pm
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
9347 6142
Marvin, the dumbest criminal in the USA, has one foolproof plan... to steal the cryogenically frozen head of Walt Dizney, stuff it in a carry cooler and phone in the ransom!
It's cops vs. robbers, Jesus vs. Vegas! Big, fast and dangerous. Marvin just don't realise how dangerous. Very, very funneeee!
Presented by La Mama as part of the 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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KERRI SIMPSON
8 and 9 April at 9pm
The Butterfly Club
Kerri Simpson is one of the country’s most respected and accomplished singers and has been called Australia’s queen of blues and gospel.
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Soubrettes and Friends - Variety à Go Go
Dates: 12,16,19, 23, 26, 30 April, 3, 7 May
(Wednesdays and Sundays)
8-10.15pm
Manchester Lane
Bookings
Manchester Lane 9663 0630 OR Ticketmaster 1300 660 013
A wicked night of biting satire, sassy burlesque, pseudo-intellectual impro and vaudevillian kitsch.
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Late night impro
11pm, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 and 29 April and 5 and 6 May
Cloak Room
Bookings
1300 660 013
A brand new late night show to make you laugh. Late Nite Impro is the popular late show performed each year at the Comedy Festival by Impro Melbourne. The show also features guest performers from other Comedy Festival shows.
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Site
18th April Preview at 7:30pm
19th - 21st April at 7.30pm
22nd April at 7.30pm and 9.15pm
Melbourne city Watch House
Bookings
as above
When 3,000 skeletons were discovered on a building site in the middle of Cape Town, a fierce debate erupted about how to move forward when faced with an unsettling past.
Inspired by these events, yet set against the backdrop of Melbourne, "site" is a one woman international performance exploring the lines of tension surrounding a city's colonial past.
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Find Me, Call Me, Meet Me
19-22 April
Show begins 8pm
Theatreworks
Every day we share space with strangers. Every day we go through the motions, work, rest and play. Every weekend four best friends go looking for love in all the wrong places…
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Dance Card
Preview: April 19 at 7.30pm
April 20-22 at 7.30pm
April 23 at 4.30pm
Dancehouse
A unique performance experience, connecting artists and audience in the creative act.
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Joker
Preview: April 19 at 9pm
April 20-22 at 9pm
April 23 at 6pm
Dancehouse
A sharp and humorous season of dance and physical performance, as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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An Unfortunate Woman
Wednesday April 19 at 6.30pm
Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 6.30pm
Thursdays and Saturdays at 8.30pm
until Sunday April 30
La Mama
Bookings
9347 6142
An absurd and gothic mystery/love story/quest.
Following a sell-out international tour and direct from Adelaide, Gunn's gallery of elegantly twisted characters irrevocably intertwine when Stanley Trundle misplaces a file at the Registry of Births and Deaths.
"The audience was blown away" -
Montreal Gazette
"Amazing... It should be on everyone's list!" -
Toronto Star
"Breathtaking!" -
NOW Magazine
Written and performed by Nicola Gunn.
Presented by La Mama as part of the 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Don Pasquale
19, 20, 21, 22
26, 27, 28, 29 April 8pm
The Assembly Hall
Bookings
1300 136 166
Lyric Opera's hit production of 2005 returns for a limited season during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Donizetti's hilarious comic opera about marriage, trickery and generational warfare has attracted three Green Room Award Nominations. Laugh your legs off - without a doubt the funniest opera you will ever see in this lifetime!
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Jaundice Table
April 20-30
Thursdays and Saturdays at 6.30pm
Fridays, Sundays and Wednesdays at 8.30pm
La Mama
Bookings
9347 6142
An outrageous and mind-boggling adventure into true absurdism. What is our future if these middle-class white men are in the driver's seat?
Presented by La Mama as part of the 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
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It’s a Mother!
Preview Tuesday 25th April
OPEN 26th – 29th April at 8pm, 30th April at 5pm.
2nd - 6th May at 8pm, 7th May at 5pm.
Arts House
Bookings
03 9639 0096
"When I meet a woman who can make a better galaktoboureko than my mother, I'll marry her."
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Anthony Menchetti in ANTZ PANTZ
26 April to 14 May (Wed – Sun) @ 9pm
The Butterfly Club
After sell out seasons at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe, Anthony returns with a string of musical numbers, his award winning wit and his much anticipated straight up, stand up.
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Making Contact
Preview: April 26 at 8pm
April 27-29 at 8pm
April 30 at 5pm
Dancehouse
Witness four of the world’s leading contact improvisors performing together in this unique international collaborative event.
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Carrying Shoes - into the unknown
26 April-13 May
6.30pm, Wednesdays and Sundays
8pm, Thursdays to Saturdays
1pm matinees - Thursdays 27 April, 4 and 11 May,
Fridays 28 April, 5 and 12 May
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
9347 6142
Carrying Shoes - into the unknown deals with the experiences of a Western family forced to flee Iran as the Ayatollah Khomeini rises to power. It is a thought provoking tale in the current climate. The cast create a production that is evocative and truly memorable.
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Wild Blue
8pm, Wed-Sat, 16-29 April
6pm, 2 May
1pm 3 May
8pm 3-6 May
Randall Theatre
After breaking box office records in 2005, St Martin’s Youth Arts Centre is delighted to present an encore season of Anthony Crowley’s The Wild Blue as the company’s first major work for 2006.
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Haul Away
30 Apr – 16 May, 2009
8pm, 6.30pm Wed & Sun; 3pm Sat
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
This stunning, award-winning show has returned to The Carlton Courthouse.
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Mrs Petrov's Shoe by Noëlle Janaczewska
Season: 5-21 May (Tues–Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm)
Preview: 4 May
Forum: 10 May with director and cast
Fortyfivedownstairs
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Hinting at the Petrov Affair and exploring Cold War fears of 'reds under every bed', this is a beautifully comic and thoroughly entertaining new play by AWGIE award-winning Sydney playwright.
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Inert
3 - 15 Mar, 2009
From 6pm; From 4pm Sat - Sun
Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
‘…an intimate, intricately made work’
- The Australian
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Singularity
Preview Thu 11th May,
OPEN Fri 12th – 28th May, Tue – Sat at 7.30pm & Sun 5pm.
Arts House
Bookings
03 9639 0096
A major new work by Gideon Obarzanek
"Ultra-contemporary dance, kitsch and techno, (both) poetic and furious. An incredible visual tornado". La Provence.
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Unforeseen Stories
8pm, Friday and Saturday, 12, 13, 20 May
7pm 14 May
Theatreworks
Unforeseen Stories opens the the door to a world of invention and imagination. In five nights you can see nine different improvisation shows, exploring styles from Tennessee Wiilliams to Bergman, murder to muscial.
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CØRRUPTION
9pm Wednesday-Saturday
6.30pm Sunday
Until 28 May
Chunky Move Studio
Bookings
Easytix 9639 0096
CØRRUPTION is a provocative exploration of sexuality and the incongruous thrill of danger.
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Bush Undertaker & The Drover's Wife
17 May-3 June.
6.30pm Wednesdays and Sundays, 8pm Thursdays to Saturdays.
1pm matinees: 18, 24, 25 and 31 May and 1 June.
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
9347 6142
The Bush Undertaker: Henry Lawson, writing at his desk, transforms into the old man of the title, journeying through "a land of living death" with his dog, Five Bob, as company. A uniquely Australian story of courage, joy and survival. As part of the 2006 VCE Drama Syllabus.
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Living in A Confused State
Opening: Thursday May 18 at 7.30pm
a merging artist? 7.30pm, 18-21 May
reflux? 7.30pm, 24-28 May
still protesting? 7.30pm 31 May-3 June
La Mama
Bookings
9347 6142
Devised and directed by Lloyd Jones,
Living in a Confused State sets out to expose the discrimination that prevails within government funding bodies. These policies of exclusion inevitably lead to corrupt outcomes. They also reflect the self-seeking attitudes of most “modern” politicians.
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BEAUTY SPOT
8pm, 22-24 May
Theatreworks
Bookings
9534 3388
Jane Fraser works behind the scenes at Channel 8 but she desperately wants to be on screen. Pretending to have a fake hand in order to get her job on a disability clause, Jane is no stranger to lying. But how far will she go to ‘move up’ and get her face on TV? Lie further? Seduce a co-worker? Blackmail her boss?
Enter the glamorous team from THE BEAUTY SPOT, who provide Jane with the very thing she needs to catapult herself towards success in television a make-over. Now armed with media’s strongest weapon, Jane will play dirty to get everything she desires ... regardless of who stands in her way.
THE BEAUTY SPOT is a fast, funny and bitchy black musical comedy about beauty ... and ugliness.
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Minor Glitch, A
23-28 May
Tue-Sun
8pm, 6.30pm Sundays
Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre - MIPAC
Max and Alice are supposed to fall in love. Unfortunately, a minor glitch in the cosmos occurs and that love is thwarted. So God sends down one of his angels to sort the problem and save the future of the planet. Regrettably, God chose the wrong angel.
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Set (Up)
May 24-27 at 8pm
Dancehouse
The Fondue Set are bound by an oath to make dance exciting, appealing and (almost) accessible.
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Darren Natale in Velvet Tales
9pm, 25-28 May
The Butterfly Club
Darren returns after sell out seasons of Audacious with a new show full of tales of the city: a city where the streets are lined with velvet and sailors wear their pride in their pants. Where lovers glow in the moonlight. Where the sound of a gun shot heralds the new day and beauty winds itself around the light posts and spills out onto the sidewalk.
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Twelfth Floor
OPEN Wed 31st May – Sat 3rd June at 8pm & Sat 4pm
Arts House
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Arts House and Mobile States in association with Adelaide Festival Centre Trust present Tanja Liedtke’s Twelfth Floor. "Soft-footed, funny, athletic, delicate, violent in places, and violating. Liedtke knows how to pull us every which way." (RealTime)
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Lally Katz and the Terrible Mysteries of the Volcano
2-18 June. Preview 1 June.
8pm, Tues-Sat, 5pm Sun
Theatreworks
Bookings
95343388
A metaphysical fairytale for adults.
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Beautiful Losers
9pm 16 & 17 Mar
The Butterfly Club
The freaks are back in a sneak preview of their upcoming Comedy Festival show – two shows only!
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Geraldine Quinn in Bad Ambassador
9pm, 4 June
The Butterfly Club
Singer, ginger and wit-slinger Geraldine Quinn returns with a cabaret that’s as rock as Emma Thompson in leopard-print lycra with her finger in a Marshall stack.
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Jacaranda Tree
7–25 June
6.30pm, Wednesdays and Sundays, 8pm, Thursdays to Saturdays
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Rachel and Dan live a perfect life in country NSW. But there is a secret hidden in the jacaranda tree which casts a long shadow over their lives.
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Open Space Hotel
OPEN Thu 8th June – Sat 10th June at 8pm, Sun 11th June 5pm
Arts House
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Five fugitives from Ultima Vez and Les Ballets C de la B, Chunky Move and Ballet Nuernberg head out to the Australian red desert to find out if the rumour is true…
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Sweeney Todd in Concert
8pm, 8-10 June
The Assembly Hall
Bookings
1300 136 166
Be entralled by this chamber production of Sondheim's classic tale of the demon barber of Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd. One of the most operatic pieces of musical theatre, this thrilling story is masterfully told by one of the most popular musical theatre composers of our time.
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David Rogers-Smith is Up Too Close and Personal
9pm, 8-11 June
The Butterfly Club
David doesn't much like writing publicity blurbs, and accompanist Mark Jones wouldn't return his calls, so he opened a good bottle of red with friends instead.
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Eldorado
10 June-2 July
The CUB Malthouse
Set in an unnamed, half-destroyed city where every ruin is speculated for its market value, Eldorado reveals a metropolis decayed to the core.
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Squizzy
10-24 June
6.30pm Wednesdays and Sundays, 8pm Thursdays to Saturdays
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
"Living opposite the no-longer-there old Carlton Boarding House on downtown Barkly Street where Squizzy Taylor and Snowy Cutmore sorted things out in 1927 - I felt compelled to compose a bullet-hole-ridden play that would make any audience in their right mind lose a few years' sleep...
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Inevitable Scenarios
Preview Tue 13th June at 7.30pm
OPEN Wed 14th June – Sat 17th June at 7.30pm, Sun 18th June 5pm.
Arts House
Bookings
03 9639 0096
A major new work by Sue Healey and her acclained Sydney-based company.
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Session
14-25 June
The CUB Malthouse
The Session reveals the often bizarre idiosyncrasies and sublime performance synergies of a session musician’s world.
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Pitch
5 - 16 Dec 2007
7.30pm Wed-Sat, 7pm Tues, 5pm Sun, Matinee 2pm Sat 16
Beckett Theatre, the CUB Malthouse
Written and Performed by Peter Houghton
Directed by Anne Browning
Walter Weinermann and his delusions of grandeur are back by popular demand and he’s brought his Hollywood A List cast with him.
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Wal Cherry Play of the Year
Sunday June 18 from 2pm
the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio
Kit Lazaroo, has won the Wal Cherry Play of the Year 2005 for her deeply personal play Asylum. Twelve years since she first began work on the play, the Arts Centre hosts a free rehearsed reading of Asylum on Sunday 18 June at 2.00pm in the Fairfax Studio.
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Impro Cave
21 Jun - 30 Aug 2009
7:30pm Sun
The Penny Black (formerly Don't Tell Tom)
“Don’t miss their next show. You’ll love it.”
Australian Stage Online
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With a Bullet : The Album Project
Preview Wed 21st June at 8pm
OPEN Thu 22nd - Sat 24th at 8pm, Sun 25th at 5pm
Tue 27th June - Sat 1st July at 8pm.
Arts House
Bookings
03 9639 0096
New dances to old songs, new angles to old methods...
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Frozen
8.15pm 22-24 June
Matinee 5pm 25 June
8.15pm 27 June-1 July
Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre
Bookings
03 93881942
Hoy Polloy is proud to announce its production of Bryony Lavery's
Frozen - directed by Paul King.
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Sammy J's 55 Minute National Tour
9pm, 22–25 June
The Butterfly Club
Pack your bags and join Sammy J (ABC TV, Comedy Channel, Triple J) as he tours Australia in a madcap adventure packed full of film, music and hilarious federal election results.
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Julie Lambourn in Anyone Out There?
7pm, 22-25 June
The Butterfly Club
Winner of Capers Showcase in 2004, Julie is finally building a reputation beyond her long-suffering family and friends.
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Sad Bird Boy and Other Dreams of the City
7.45pm & 9.30pm 26 June-2 July
Show duration is 60 minutes
ScreenPit ACMI, Federation Square
Following our success at the Arts Centre, theatre in decay is presenting
Sad Bird Boy and Other Dreams of the City, a new work extending the original piece into an entrancing full-length puppetry performance for the Inaugural International Puppet Carnival at Federation Square.
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Striptease -
7.30pm and 9.30pm 26 June-2 July
BMW Edge
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Out of the Peepshow and onto the stage, the lovely lady from 'Striptease', from the Puppet Peepshow series 'Underneath', will be starring in Puppet Burlesque at the International Puppet Carnival at Federation Square.
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Two Entertainments: Mr Perkins & Miss Carbadine Get Into A Box! and Jack and Jill Enchained...
28 June-9 July
Opening 6.30pm June 28
6.30pm Wednesdays and Sundays
8pm Thursdays-Saturdays
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A two-part entertainment that offers an unsettling glimpse into another world via enigmatic coversations and a modern-day fable.
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Mich en Scene
28 June-2 July
The CUB Malthouse
An evening of Jacques Brel songs performed by the incomparable Micheline Van Hautem (vocals) and Frederik Caelen (accordion and piano).
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La Douleur
29 June-23 July
The CUB Malthouse
La Douleur is a testament to a love that goes beyond passion to encompass the very soul of fraternite.
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Reuben Krum is Out of Line
10.45pm, 29 June
The Butterfly Club
Final opportunity to see this show at The Butterfly Club!
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Kerri Simpson in Voices and Hands
9pm, 29 June, 1 and 2 July
The Butterfly Club
While Kerri Simpson is better known in gospel and blues circles (she won the 2005 Australian Female Blues Performer of the Year Award), her style is distinctly cabaret.
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Rebel Tour
29 June-15 July
Previews 6.30pm 27 and 28 July
Opening 8pm, June 29
6.30pm Wednesdays and Sundays
8pm Thursdays-Saturdays
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
In 1984 we weren't supposed to play cricket in South Africa... Rebel Tour is a fictionalized account of the real-life 'rebel' cricket tour organised by South Africans desperate to make sure the game they loved didn't die in their country. They just didn't realise that Aussies can play the game as hard off the field as on. A play about politics, race and facial hair.
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Wrong Night
10.45pm, 30 June
The Butterfly Club
The Six present their late-night cabaret
The Wrong Night for one night only.
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I Can Help You Stop Smoking
9.30pm 30 Jun and 1 Jul
The CUB Malthouse
Eddie is rocking the Tower with fresh observations on touring, sex, whales and racism.
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Moira Finucane and Martin Martini & The Bone Palace Orchestra
9.30pm July 5-8
The CUB Malthouse
An unlikely and formidable ensemble of freaks, packed tuba cheek by milk jug jowl on a tiny stage playing a vicious variety twister for your egregious entertainment.
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Earth beneath our feet
8pm 6-8 July and 5pm 9 July
Dancehouse
Three highly physical dance works that will excite and delight.
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Arrogance is Bliss
7pm, 6-9 July
The Butterfly Club
Fresh from the streets of Paris and the gutters of Ballarat, rising star Karin Muiznieks unleashes her unique comic genius on the world in her debut cabaret:
Arrogance is Bliss.
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Tina Del Twiste
9pm 6 and 7 July
The Butterfly Club
She has arrived. Again. The velvet draped madame returns to the stage that graced her.
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Vaudeville X
17 Jan – 2 Feb 2008 (Preview 16 Jan)
8.30pm
the Arts Centre, Blackbox
Bookings
1300 136 166
Vaudeville X is a classy musical comedy which brings out the best silver to take swipes galore at the middle class!
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D-Cuppetry - Dance of the D Cups
10.45pm 7 July
The Butterfly Club
Dispelling the myth that time and gravity are the natural enemies of the breast, D-Cuppetry shows how to give them a new lease on life by demonstrating a myriad of uses.
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Callas Bitch
9pm 8 and 9 July
The Butterfly Club
Follow Sydney performer Marcus Rivera on a journey back to Manila, where as a kid and painfully shy, he spoke to no one and relished the world of make-believe.
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Bad Ambassador
10.45pm 8 July
The Butterfly Club
Last opportunity to see this show in Australia!
Singer, ginger and wit-slinger Geraldine Quinn presents a cabaret that’s as rock as Emma Thompson in leopard-print lycra with her finger in a Marshall stack.
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Vice and Virtue in Little Lon
2.30pm 9 and 23 Jul, 6 and 20 Aug, 3 and 17 Sep
Melbourne Museum
Bookings
1300 130 152
Join Rose (Maureen Hartley) and Violet (Clare Larman) at the Melbourne Museum. They will take you for a walk back in time to discover these two contradictory sides of Marvellous Melbourne.
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Unspoken
11-22 July
The CUB Malthouse
A semi-autobiographical story about families; raw and candid but shot through with warmth.
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An Evening With a Dusky Bottle-Blonde
9pm 13-16 July
The Butterfly Club
A black girl’s cabaret fantasy of long blonde hair – hair flicked and clipped like the Barbie dolls she once played with, that blows in the wind, and which is pure, sexy peroxide.
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HooDoo
Voodoo Dolls 7.30pm Wed-Sun 13-23 Jul
The Cauldron 21-23 Jul
La Mama Theatre
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A season of magic, dirty tricks and fire in two parts.
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Origami
8pm 13–15 Jul, 8pm 18–22 Jul, 2pm 23 Jul
Space 28 Drama Theatre VCA
Origami is a new dance work from BalletLab, which collides Japanese ancient paper art, industrial modernist architecture and the living body in space.
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Trial of Salome
19 Jul-5 Aug
6.30pm Wed, 8pm Thurs-Sun
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Oscar Wilde turns the biblical story of
Salome into a rich exploration of seduction, sexual games and the decadence of absolute power.
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Diamond in CUT
7pm 20-23 July
The Butterfly Club
Simon Morrison-Baldwin is Diamond; sparkling, glamorous and desired at any cost. And this time she's CUT.
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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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SKID 180
27 July-5 August
Arts House
An international collaboration between Melbourne's Arena Theatre Company and Manchester's Contact.
Skid 180 follows the story of a group of urban BMX riders in a performance that integrates live BMX, film, animation, poetry and sound.
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Mz Josephine's Amazing Holiday
9.15pm 11-14 Oct
Trades Hall - The Old Council Chambers
Bookings
03 8412 8777
Mz Josephine takes a road trip across the desert to visit family, shedding burdens, lingerie and the fear of nothing along the way. An absurdist cabaret, a performance of thinking, on the subject of something and nothing. A black comedy.
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Miss Understood
7pm 27-30 July
The Butterfly Club
From hearing problems, short term memory loss, misinterpretations, to visions of Olivia Newton John and having 'Hamlet' moments, Belinda Bortone is Miss Understood.
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Not Like Beckett
28 July-20 August
The CUB Malthouse
Get ready to meet the most famous comedian you’ve never heard of: Walter Walloon Beckett, all-singing, all-dancing humorist extraordinaire and the last of the famous Beckett clan. And he’s a rabbit.
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Debt
2-13 Aug
8.30pm Wed, 6pm Thurs-Sat, 4.30pm Sun
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
In debt? No problem. Things can always get worse.
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Zen and the Art of Baking
7pm 3–6 Aug
The Butterfly Club
It’s a cabaret AND it’s a cooking show! Starring Jacqui Hoy.
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Velvet Tales
9pm 3-6 Aug
The Butterfly Club
Darren Natale returns with his new show full of tales of the city.
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Dolly Stainer of Kew Cottages
9-26 Aug
6.30pm Wed, 8pm Thurs-Sat
1pm matinees 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 Aug
The Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
The story of Dolly Stainer, a neglected child who was labelled a lunatic, although she most certainly was not.
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Mysteries of the Convent
7pm 9-13 Aug
Convent Building, Abbotsford Convent
Peepshow Inc. takes you on a night tour of the historical Abbotsford Convent building. History, fancy and fiction are blended, and more than one unlikely character appears along the way.
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Eating the Apple
9pm 10-13 Aug
The Butterfly Club
Money, sex and power … some people have it all. What if you're not one of them?
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Sinksongs
7pm 10-13 Aug
The Butterfly Club
Joanna Weinberg is a Shirley Valentine for the Cyberage
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Darren's Cocktail Hour
10.30pm Fri, Aug and Sep
The Butterfly Club
Darren's Cocktail Hour is a fun filled, frivolous, fruity frappe laced with style, wit and sleazy innuendo.
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Construction of the Human Heart
16 August-3 September
The CUB Malthouse
An ambitious and entirely original meditation on loss and the redemptive qualities of communication through art.
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Missfit and the Dandy Nongs in Show Yourself!
9pm Thurs-Sun 17-27 Aug
Preview: 9pm 16 Aug
The Butterfly Club
The irrepressible, iridescent and totally irresistible Missfit returns to Melbourne in a dazzling account of how she has become the undeniable, almost famous icon she is today!
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Lunatic Park
16 Aug-3 Sep
6.30pm Wed and Sun, 8pm Thurs to Sat
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Down but not out in St Kilda, Jake and Bonny move in to a rooming house close enough to Luna Park to hear every scream.
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Yanagai! Yanagai!
8pm 22 and 26 Aug
2pm and 8pm 23, 24, 25 Aug
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
We are in a mythical landscape on the banks of a mighty river. The Yorta Yorta know him as 'Dhungula'. The white fellas call it 'The Murray'.
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Return
Preview 22 Aug ($10 tix)
23 Aug-2 Sep
2pm 2 Sep
5pm 27 Aug ($12 tix)
Tight Tuesday 29 Aug ($12)
no show Monday 28 August
Cromwell Road Theatre
Two volatile ex-cons catch a late-night train from Midland to Fremantle in Perth. In transit, they take charge of the carriage and during the journey unearth some confronting truths about the captive passengers, and themselves.
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Waiting Room
8pm 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31 Aug, 1,2 Sep
5pm 27 Aug
8.30pm 30 Aug
Chapel Off Chapel
How far would you go to ruin your sister's wedding? Is it wrong to attempt suicide in your best friend's favourite jeans? Do you have to kidnap the man of your dreams to get him to sleep with you?
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Buyback
30 Aug–17 Sep, 6.30pm Wed and Sun, 8pm Thurs to Sat
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A confronting and shocking portrait of post-Mabo Australia that grabs us by the scruff of the shirt.
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Kerri Simpson in Vodou: Songs of the Spirits
9pm 31 Aug-3 Sep
The Butterfly Club
Kerri Simpson takes audiences on a journey back across the centuries from the ancient heartbeat of Africa through the blues, field chants and spirituals of the American Deep South into the mysterious sacred Vodou music of Haiti.
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Last Five Years
8pm 31 August, 1, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, Sep
2pm and 8pm 2, 9, 13, 16 Sep
2pm and 6pm 3, 10, 17 Sep
Chapel Off Chapel
Anyone who has ever wondered about whether men really are from Mars, or if women do come from Venus, will love Melbourne Music Theatre's debut production -
The Last Five Years.
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Yellow Peril
6-17 Sep, Wed and Fri at 6.30pm, Thurs and Sats at 8.30pm, Sun at 4.30pm
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
In a society paralysed by fear of imminent terrorist attacks three Melbourne teenagers plan to destroy the credibility of an evangelistic preacher.
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Citizen Corps
6-17 Sep, 8.30pm Wed and Fri, 6.30pm Sat and Sun
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Citizen Corps is the safest neighbourhood on earth. This anarchic black comedy demonstrates the dysfunction caused by adhering unquestioningly to the mantra of fear and the absurdity of living life under the banner of ‘High Risk’.
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Rageboy
6-16 Sep
8pm Wed-Sat
Guild Theatre
Bookings
83447447
When Toby Milk turned nine he got polio. Now that he’s turning 18 the world is about to end. And things just keep getting worse.
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Picasso's Women: Love, Art and War
7pm 6-17 Sep (Wed to Sun)
The Butterfly Club
The man behind the legend, seen through the eyes of his women.
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Wages of Spin
30 Aug - 9 Sep
Wed - Fri 8pm
Sat 4pm and 8pm
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Don’t miss the national tour of version 1.0’s post mortem on the sexing up of the case for war on Iraq, and what it means for our democracy.
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Trigger Happy
8pm 7-9 Sep
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
The National Theatre 03 9534 0223
Two Plays: Joy and The Gun in History
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Jacqui Hoy in Zen and the Art of Baking
Friday 8 and Saturday 9 September at 9.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
It’s a cabaret AND a cooking show!
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Autobiography of Red
12-24 Sep
The CUB Malthouse
Bookings
03 9685 5111
Geryon was a monster everything about him was red.
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Honour Bound
13 Sep-1 Oct
The CUB Malthouse
Bookings
03 9685 5111
Behind the gates of Guantanamo. Into the world of David Hicks.
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I Start Again
13-23 Sep, 2008
7.30pm, 6pm Sun, plus 10pm Sat 16 Sep
No show Mon
The Basement, Abbotsford Convent
Bookings
03 9539 2142
A theatrical installation celebrating 100 years of Samuel Beckett and Dmitry Shostakovich.
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CIRCA Timepieces
7.30pm 14 - 23 Sept
5pm Sundays
Arts House
Bookings
03 9639 0096
In 2005 Circa performed The Space Between to sold-out houses. Now they return from a triumphant European tour with their latest work Timepieces.
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Lady Sings the Blues: The Music of Billie Holiday
9pm 14-17 Sep
The Butterfly Club
With Ruth Rogers-Wright and accompanied by Mark Fitzgibbon
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Words and Music
8pm 14 -16 Sep
6pm 17 Sep
Chapel Off Chapel
Renowned for his rich and highly emotive writing style, prepare to be carried away by Anthony in a showcase of his best material to date.
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Robert Hylton's Urban Classicism - Verse
7pm 14-15 Sep
6.15pm 16 Sep
3pm 17 Sep
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
03 9639 0096
A characteristically psychedelic take on the Hip Hop genre.
Verse is a visually arresting production which takes Hip Hop to its outer limits fusing contemporary dance with Robert Hylton's unique vision.
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Lament: Candles and Compost
15 Sep - 1 Oct, 2009
8pm; 5pm Sun
Rosina Auditorium, Abbotsford Convent
Bookings
15-26 Sep 03 9415 6960. 27 Sep-1 Oct 03 8412 8777
A journey between the sacred and grotesque in three cycles. Puppetry, bodies and shadow.
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Johnny Grimm
11am and 2pm 19-30 Sep
Cromwell Road Theatre
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Grimm's fairy tales are brought to extraordinary life in a delightful shadow play world for the whole family.
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SpringDance
Program 1: 8pm 21-23 Sep, 5pm 24 Sept
Program 2: 8pm 28-30 Sep, 5pm 1 Oct
Dancehouse
Two programs of Australian and international works, dealing with the body in conflict.
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Christine O’Donnell in WHERE THE BLOODY HELL’S SHE BEEN?
9pm 21-24 Sep
The Butterfly Club
As a Don Lane, Mike Walsh and Peter Couchman show favourite, Christine O’Donnell appeared regularly at the Sydney Opera House, the then Melbourne Concert Hall and most other major cabaret and concert venues across Australia. She then disappeared from view!
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Disclosure
21 Sep-8 Oct
Thur-Sat 8pm, Sun at 6.30pm
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Disclosure's four encounters interweave the stories of a group of women. Each has a previously well-hidden secret that they are coaxed, cajoled, tricked or threatened into revealing.
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Acrobat - smaller poorer cheaper
8pm 22 Sep - 1 Oct
Preview 21 Sep
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
03 9639 0096
acrobat are a ‘bunch of weirdos on their own path’ who continue to develop the idiosyncrasies of their performances.
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Feeling Good
7.30pm 22 Sep
Chapel Off Chapel
Feeling Good is designed to be fun and uplifting, an energy charged entree to a night out or a humorous and colourful night out on it's own.
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Pot-Pourri live in concert
4pm and 7.30pm 24 Sep
7.30pm 27, 28, 30 Sep
7.30pm and 9.30pm 29 Sep
4pm 1 Oct
Chapel Off Chapel
The fabulous Melbourne fivesome Pot Pourri continue to enchant audiences around the world with their inspiring and unique sound, much-loved repertoire of opera, music theatre and song and their inimitable warmth and wit.
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Call Me Komachi
7.30pm 25 Sep-1 Oct
1pm 30 Sep
Chapel Off Chapel
A one-woman show telling the stories of four very different Japanese girls.
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Profundo - David Gould
7.30pm 26 Sep
9.30pm 27 Sep
Chapel Off Chapel
With a voice described as "So luscious that you want to marry it" David's Profundo will feature songs of power and passion and is a rare opportunity to hear an extraordinary voice live in concert.
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Quarreling Pair, A
27 Sep-8 Oct
The CUB Malthouse Theatre
Bookings
03 9685 5111
A triptych of miniature plays.
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Reading Beckett
27 Sep-8 Oct
8.30pm Wed and Sun, 6pm Thu-Sat
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
To celebrate Samuel Beckett’s 100th birthday, Reading Beckett is being restaged for the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
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In the Beginning...uhmmm...
9.30pm 27 Sep-15 Oct every day except Mon
Dantes Fitzroy - The Back Room
Bookings
03 8412 8777
From the producers of the award winning
Caravan comes a black comedy exploring cosmic chaos and the beginning of humanity - as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival
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Apples and Ladders
5 – 22 Dec 2007
8pm Thu-Sat, 6.30pm Wed and Sun, Sat matinees 5pm
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
In a twisted suburban fable of loss and redemption, we find a miniature cabaret where lovers and drag queens sell their souls for the ultimate life of affection.
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Moulins de mon coeur
9.30pm 28 and 30 Sep
Chapel Off Chapel
A cabaret of songs and stories from extraordinary and passionate lives.
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Sammy J in Cyclone
9pm 28 Sep-15 Oct (Thurs to Sun)
The Butterfly Club
Winner – Best Newcomer, 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
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Passed Between Us
28 Sep-8 Oct
10pm Thur to Sat, 4.30pm Sun
La Mama
Bookings
9347 6142
Seances, physcosis, spirits, hysteria. There are voices on the stairs and sneaking through the cracks of the floor.
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Penny Machinations
8pm - 10pm Every Fri and Sat of the Fringe Festival
Festival Club - Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
A dazzling array of Melbourne’s hottest talent is waiting to perform especially for you. Step right up and try them all, try them twice – no show exactly the same.
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Journeyman
7.30pm 29 Sep-30 Sep
6.30pm 1 Oct
7.30pm 3 Oct-6 Oct
Festival Hub - Meeting Room, Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Storytelling, performance and live music at its purest
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CheckOut!
29 Sep-6 Oct
The Cromwell Road Theatre
Come and see the first public season of the new Polyglot show CheckOut!
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Process
8pm 2-4 Nov
5pm 5 Nov
Matinee 2pm 4 Nov
Tower Theatre, CUB Malthouse
“It’s a tired decade in a tired world full of people
working too hard to stay afloat on a tired planet. Get over it and get on with it.”
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Panther's Exercises in Happiness
8pm 4-7 Oct
Arts House, Meat Market, Studio A
Bookings
0417 418 511
Exercises in Happiness is a two part residency series constructed around Panther's ongoing research and preoccupation with western culture's obsessive pursuit of happiness.
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Controlled Crying
6-29 Oct 8pm Thurs-Sat, 5pm Sun, 2pm Sat
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 8290 7000
Controlled Crying written by acclaimed playwright, Ron Elisha, contains all the richest elements of drama - birth, death, braces, boyfriends. And family.
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Pretty White Lies and the Velveteen Undertow
6-14 Oct
8pm Wed-Sat
6pm 10 Oct
Matinee 2pm 14 Oct
St Martins Theatre
Come one come all and prepare for a tale of sea-monsters, sword fighting, potions, villainy, terror and woe, of
Pretty White Lies and the Velveteen Undertow.
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Butterfly Affair
10.30pm Sat 7 Oct - 11 Nov
The Butterfly Club
Fresh from Edinburgh, Geraldine Quinn returns to The Butterfly Club to spearhead an unmissable event.
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When I Grow Up
6pm 7-14 Oct
5pm Sun
Rehearsal Room - Festival Hub - Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 8412 8777
What will you be when you grow up? In response to a world of great expectations, this dynamic troupe talks back!
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MILK
Preview 9.15pm 8 Oct
10.15pm 10-14 Oct
Festival Hub - Lithuanian Club - The Ballroom
Bookings
03 8412 8777
A night of perplexing provincial panto featuring The Town Bikes and friends.
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Tales from the Watchman
7.30pm 10-12 Oct
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Exploring a first draft in a space using performance, scripting and impro - focusing on the archetypal watchman who sees all and knows all, who weaves his ancient and modern tales of war through narrative, image and music.
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Now That Communism is Dead My Life Feels Empty
11-28 Oct
The CUB Malthouse
Bookings
03 9685 5111
A Richard Foreman premiere as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival
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Untapped and Unplugged
7pm 12 -15 Oct
The Butterfly Club
Turn on your senses; hear and feel the rhythm!
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Stan's Cafe - Of All The People In All The World: Pacific Rim
Opening 5pm 12 Oct
5–8pm 12 Oct, 2–7pm 13 Oct, noon–5pm14 & 15 Oct, 2–7pm 17-19 Oct, 2–9.30pm 20 Oct, noon–5pm & 7.30–9.30pm 21 Oct, noon–8pm 22 Oct, 2-7pm 24–27 Oct, noon-5pm 28 Oct
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
N/A
Britain’s Stan’s Cafe gathers the population of the Pacific Rim under one roof for their latest performance installation.
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Songs from the Jukebox at the Ghost Town Bridge Hotel
7.30pm 13-15 Oct
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A personal cultural history, through interwoven songs and stories, of an Australian lifetime.
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Impression Comparison Perspective
6.30pm & 7.30pm 16-18 Oct
Rechabite Hall
Impression Comparison Perspective is an ongoing series of performances by artists working with improvisation as a performance form.
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Dying Love Lives Still
7.30pm 17-19 Oct
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A concert performance with narrative, presenting thirteen Shakespeare songs set to original music.
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Chasing Pegasus (a play in ten chords)
8pm 18-21 Oct, 4pm 22 Oct
Mt Martha House
Bookings
0410 798 514
A celebration of what makes us different, and through that discovery, a recognition of what makes us ultimately the same, "
Chasing Pegasus (a play in ten chords)" focuses on the continuing quest of humankind to become more than the sum of our parts. "Well-written … inspirational …" -
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William Yang
8pm 18 Oct
6pm and 8.30pm 19-20 Oct
4pm and 8pm 21 Oct
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096 or 1300 136 166
Extraordinary stories come to life in Yang's uniquely intimate monologue accompanied by slides of his award-winning photographs.
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End of Civilization
8pm 18 Oct-4 Nov
Matinee - 5pm 29 Oct
no performances 22-24 Oct and 30 Oct
Cromwell Road Theatre
Bookings
03 9429 8118
What do you do when you can’t put food on the table? How do you make mortgage payments without a job?
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Reunion
18 Oct-4 Nov
8pm Thur-Sat
6.30pm Wed and Sun
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A dead body, a policewoman and anybody could have done it...
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Barmaids
8pm 19 Oct
Chapel Off Chapel
Barmaids is a fabulous comedy looking at the challenges women face everyday: relationships, love, ageing and being valued for their work.
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Seer: A Rehearsed Reading
3pm 21-22 Oct
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
This short play will be performed in a state of stillness, with an edge of mystery and disquiet.
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Suspended in the World
7.30pm 23-25 Oct
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Songwriter Scott Phillips explores dimensions of human experience through performing and discussing his compositions.
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Chamisa 4ºC / Setting
25-28 Oct
The CUB Malthouse
Bookings
03 9685 5111
Melbourne International Arts Festival dance exchange between Japan’s Kota Yamazaki and Australia’s Lucy Guerin
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Mayhem #13: Good vs Evil
8pm 26-28 Oct
Preview 25 Oct
Gasworks Theatre
Bookings
03 9699 3253
A moral debate. A philosophical, sociological, and vaudevillian exploration of humanity’s insatiable need to find black and white in a world full of grey.
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Black Arm Band - murundak
27-28 Oct, 8pm
Hamer Hall, the Arts Centre
Bookings
1300 136 166
murundak (meaning 'alive' in woiwurrung language) is an extraordinary musical event that celebrates music as an instrument of identity, resistance, resilience and a call to freedom.
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Jackie O
7.30pm 27-29 Oct
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A play about sexual fantasy, seduction, power and the search for the truth.
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Ithaka
7.30 pm 30 Oct-1 Nov
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Ithaka threads music, movement and narration to explore the many moods of the sea.
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Dave Graney … Point blank
9pm, 2-5 Nov
The Butterfly Club
Songs from a lifer in rock ’n’ rolls’ sideshow alley.
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Plain Air
7.30pm 2-4 Nov
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Fantasy meets the realities of encountering Australia for the first time, being young, and speaking five languages other than English.
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Catch A Star...Falling
7.30pm 3-4 Nov
Chapel Off Chapel - Loft
A story about growing up on the fringe in country Victoria where ‘a good catch’ can make all the difference.
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Black Rock
8pm 4-11 Nov
2pm 11 Nov
5pm 5 and 12 Nov
Gasworks Main Theatre
Based on a true story,
Black Rock explores the fallout in a NSW coastal community following the gang rape and murder of a teenage girl at a beach party.
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Dusk Till Dawn
Launch
Sat 4 Nov 6pm
Dates
Mon 6 - Sat 11 Nov
1pm - 5pm
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
N/A
Renowned for their provocative, innovative and compelling works, Callum Morton and David Pledger capture the imaginative power and particularity of the drive-in experience.
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Killing Fever
22 Aug – 9 Sep 2007
8pm Thu – Sat, 6.30pm Wed & Sun
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
She feels hot.
She wasn't looking when she found him, and she didn't see him go.
If Kirsten can't save herself, then who can?
Lights up!
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Swallowing the River
8pm Wed-Sat, 8-11 Nov, 2pm Nov 11
Irene Mitchell Studio
When I lost touch with the world, I realised
I
Need
To
Find
Myself
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Awardski
7.30pm 8-10 Nov
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A play about constraints and criteria, the liberal attitude of criminals.
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Slings and Arrows
7.30pm 11-13 Nov
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A group of strangers sing tales of disempowerment and revenge.
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Kaye Sera: Santa's got a secret
Sat, 4 Nov-16 Dec
Opium Den
Santa's Got a Secret is a new cabaret act performed by Melbourne's premier drag cabaret performer. All will find out in the end what Santa has in stall for you this Christmas.
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Stupid Play
8pm 16 Nov, 4pm 18 & 19 Nov, 2 & 3 Dec
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Fresh from his smash comic hit
Hamlet (Short and Sweet Season 2005), VCA Graduate Matthew Lambert brings us for your delectation, his raucous full-length opus
The Stupid Play.
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In Cogito
7.30pm 14-16 Nov
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Exploring a collision of three human conditions: love, apathy and fear.
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Yellow Wallpaper
15-26 Nov
The CUB Malthouse
Bookings
03 9685 5111
A bent domestic psychodrama of ghosts and memories of menace.
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Time is Not Yet Ripe
8pm Wed-Sat 15-25 Nov (8.30pm 24 Nov)
Studio One Northcote Town Hall
Bookings
03 9481 9500
This crisp version of Esson's rarely produced 1912 classic sparkles with themes of surprising contemporary relevance. Practical politics, sedition laws, the vague ideology of the left and the stultification of the right all get a hammering by 'the father of Australian theatre'.
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Requiem for the 20th Century
17 Nov-3 Dec
8pm Tues–Sat, 5pm Sun
Previews 17-19 Nov
Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Look back and dream at the century past … and what might have been....
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Babes in the Wood
16 Nov-2 Dec
The CUB Malthouse
Bookings
03 9685 5111
Once upon a time, two children have wandered too far from home.
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Mzzz Erin Tasmania in Soundtracks of my Tears
9pm 16-18 Nov
The Butterfly Club
From the cabaret salons of Amsterdam, we present Mzzz Erin Tasmania.
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Key
Preview 16 Nov, season 17-28 Nov
8pm Tues-Sat, 1pm Sat
Fairfax Studio, the Arts Centre
He's on hold, unhinged and mad as hell. Physical theatre, acrobatics, aerial wizardry and a little bit of magic!
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Horr-r! The Horr-r! The Horr-r!: a piece of chiaroscura theatre
7.30pm 17-19 Nov
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A horror play full of laughs and thrills, with some shocks.
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Damask Drum
15-19, 21-26 Nov
70 Nicholson Street
Bookings
03 9539 3669
Liminal's adaptation of
The Damask Drum focuses on the poetic journey of a dead man in love as he confronts the endless cycle of his delusions and desires.
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OzMade Musicals 2006
3pm 19 Nov
Theatreworks
Bookings
www.magtix.com
OzMade Musicals is the premiere national celebration of Australian music theatre, providing audiences with the opportunity to experience excerpts from new Australian musicals, and relive existing ones.
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Peepshow Inc
Preview 8pm 23 Nov
Opening 8pm 24 Nov
20 Nov-3 Dec, 8pm Wed-Sat 5pm Sun
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
“…a space to empathise with and be entranced by the bizarre.” Lee Christofis
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Village Festival
6-11pm 23 Nov, 6-midnight 24 Nov, noon-midnight family day 25 Nov, noon-7pm 26 Nov
Edinburgh Gardens
A gorgeous festival of tents, inflatables, caravans, buses, puppet booths, food stalls, a cafe and bar. See little shows by the Town Bikes, Caravan Of Love, Penny Machinations, Croque Monsieur and more!
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Dance House's Graduate Showcase 2006
8pm 23-25 Nov
Dance House
New people, new ideas and new passions – bridging the gap between study and career. Graduate Showcase introduces audiences to the future practitioners of Australian dance and provides audiences with the opportunity to see what, and who, is happening - right now.
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Pastel Vespa in Christmas in December
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 November at 9.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
International recording artist and comedienne Pastel Vespa will perform hits past and present, along with some of her favourite Christmas tunes and stories from some of her favourite Christmas places.
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Sammy J's Weak (and randy)
10.30pm 24 Nov, 1, 8, 15 Dec
The Butterfly Club
Good week? Bad week? Long week? Short week?
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Abduction from the Seraglio
8pm 25 and 29 Nov, 1 and 2 Dec
The Assembly Hall
Bookings
1300 136 166
Lyric Opera of Melbourne celebrates the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Mozart with his rarely performed opera
The Abduction from the Seraglio.
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Not Yet it's Difficult
8pm 29 Nov-2 Dec
Preview 28 Nov
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
03 9639 0096
No video, no words, just lies - a new studio performance by Not Yet it's Difficult
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Translations
NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 10
The CUB Malthouse
Bookings
03 9685 5111
From Brian Friel, Ireland’s greatest living playwright, a captivating story set in the turbulent Ireland of the 1830s.
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Short & Sweet
8pm, Wed - Sat, 29 Nov – 17 Dec
the Arts Centre
Described as the ‘Tropfest of Theatre’, Short & Sweet is an open invitation competition based on 10-minute plays. It encourages the participation of aspiring and emerging playwrights, directors, performers and technicians to explore their creativity in a supportive professional environment.
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State of Flux and Bronwyn Ritchie
8pm 30 Nov, 1 and 2 Dec
Studio 1, The Northcote Town Hall
The last week of November sees renowned dance improvisation company State of Flux present a season at the hottest new venue in Melbourne, The Northcote Town Hall. As part of this season they have invited Flemington-based dancer Bronwyn Ritchie to perform a short solo.
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Killling Jeremy
8.15pm 1-16 Dec
Wed-Sat, Sun 10
Preview Nov 30
The Carlton Courthouse
This is the world premier of
Killing Jeremy, winner of the RE Ross Playwright Script Development Award 2005 and shortlisted for the Griffin Award 2006.
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Benn Bennett In a Baltic State
9pm 30 Nov-3 Dec
The Butterfly Club
You are the class, he is the lecturer. Do NOT take notes.
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Mile In Her Shadow, A
1-10 Dec at 8pm, 6pm Sun (no show Mon)
The Store Room
Bookings
03 9481 8496
Sometimes I’m a bastard, and sometimes you’re a bitch, sometimes he does something stupid, occasionally she takes things too far, they feel scared and angry and threatened.
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Tricky Part by Martin Moran
8pm 5-9th Dec, 2pm 9 & 10 Dec
Box Hill Town Hall Council Chambers
Bookings
03 9723 3801
A riveting, often funny and always surprising journey through the complexities of Catholicism, desire and human trespass.
“A translucent memoir of a play…shattering.” —
NY Times more ...
MAYA Project
8pm Dec 5-10 (no show 7 Dec). 4pm 9 and 10 Dec
The McCulloch Gallery
A tale filled with desert myhology - both ancient and modern - political satire and urban mysticism.
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Radicals and Misanthropes
8pm 6-9 Dec, 2pm 9 Dec
St Martins Theatre
“We don’t debate in this country anymore—we spin. We call passion anger and undermine it. We manipulate, we control.”
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Erin Cornell and Reuben Krum in FA LA LA
9pm 6,8 and 10 Dec
The Butterfly Club
This year’s enfant terrible of the cabaret circuit, Reuben Krum, has joined forces with the newest rising star of music theatre, Erin Cornell, in a festive celebration of all things Christmas – at least on Erin’s part!
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Vignettes and Reminiscences
6-17 Dec, 6.30pm Wed and Sun, 8pm Thu-Sat
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Vignettes and Reminiscences is a dramaturgic kaleidoscope knitted together by writer and director Daniel Kahans' emotional involvement with each vignette.
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TekniKunst
8-10 Dec
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall & Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
9639 0096
“I think that art is the principle way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense”- J.G. Ballard.
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Life as a Springer Show
8pm 13-16 Dec
Fairfax Studio, the Arts Centre
Throughout the story of Amy and Tom meeting over coffee in a groovy Melbourne cafe, the audience is asked to choose between three options that affect the next moment in the play.
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Little World
7.30pm 18–20 Dec
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
An auto-ethnographic bilingual performance in english and portuguese, inspired by Kafka’s
Josephine the Songstress and Clarice Lispector’s
The Hour of the Star.
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I’ve Written a Letter to Daddy
9 - 13 Jan 2008
8pm Wed - Fri, 6pm and 8pm Sat, 5pm and 7pm Sun
Upstairs at The Butterfly Club
“Deliciously dark, unsettling and enjoyable show” – Richard Watts, Man About Town blog
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Karin Muiznieks in Can't Afford a Summer Holiday?
7pm 11-14
The Butterfly Club
Karin Muiznieks, creator of
Arrogance Is Bliss (ranked number 2 in the
Herald Sun’s Top 5 Events of the 2006 Melbourne Cabaret Festival) returns to The Butterfly Club to give a round of applause to all the people stuck in Melbourne over the summer.
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Damian Rebgetz in Anthonasius Now!
29 Mar-1 Apr 9pm
The Butterfly Club
After a long, long rest at the Underworld Hotel Motel, Anthonasius returns to the wide night air, ‘a little dark star on the wind down there’.
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Golem of Rucker's Hill
8pm 17-20 Jan, 6pm 21 Jan
Northcote Town Hall
In a place that may be the fear is very real. The space between good and evil means choices must be made and this spectacular outdoor production will bring these choices into your world.
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Missfit and The Dandy Nongs in Show Yourself! – A Midsumma Festival Hub Event
9pm Thu-Sat 18 Jan-10 Feb
The Butterfly Club
The irrepressible, iridescent and totally irresistible Missfit returns with her singing and dancing Dandy Nongs in a dazzling account of how she has become the almost famous icon she is today!
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Midsumma EVENT- Kaye Sera 'Special K'
8:30pm 20, 27 Jan, 3 10 Feb
Opium Den
Bookings
03 9417 2696
Join Kaye for a bouquet of our most popular cabaret performers. Included on the bill are David Rogers-Smith, Mark Jones Andrea Rieniets, Andrew Threlfall, Deborah Conway. See you there.
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Tina del Twiste – A Midsumma Festival Hub Event
Fri and Sat 10.30pm 20 Jan-10 Feb
The Butterfly Club
Bob Downe...Live & Swingin'! – A Midsumma Festival Hub Event
7pm and 9pm Sun 21, 18 Jan, 4, 11 Feb
The Butterfly Club
What a Midsumma cabaret treat! BOB DOWNE is getting all jazzy for his debut Butterfly Club season.
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Two Frocks in
23 Jan-3 Feb, 6.30pm Tue & Sun, 8pm Wed-Sat
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Filamena and Florence live together in divine domesticity, drinking tea and looking for love. They manipulate crockery and each other, while seeking Mr/Ms Right.
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Object of Desire
24 Jan-11 Feb
6.30pm Wed and Sun, 8pm Thu-Sat
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
"No one in this world could help falling in love with him", wrote one of his famous lovers, soon to be discarded. "To forget him was impossible – he was a ravishing creature", wrote another.
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Andrew Doodson and Jason English-Rees in Anyone for Tennis?
7pm 25-27 Jan
The Butterfly Club
Starting 2006 with a win under their belts, taking home the coveted Golden Stomm for the most promising comics on the Melbourne scene,
Anyone for Tennis? has continued to attract fans with its own brand of musical comedy.
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Chocolate Monkey
31 Jan-18 Feb
Previews 31 Jan-1 Feb
8pm Tues–Sat, 2pm Sat 6pm Sun
The Arts Centre, BlackBox
Bookings
1300 136 166
If there is extreme sport,
Chocolate Monkey is extreme story-telling.
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Cuocolo/Bosetti The Nature of Things Season 1: Relics and Time
6-25 Feb, Tues-Sat,Dusk til Dawn – you choose
Secret - to be revealed when booking
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
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RAGEBOY - A Midsumma Festival Premier Event
8pm 7-9 Feb, 3pm and 8pm Sat 10 Feb
Beckett Theatre @ The C.U.B. Malthouse
Through live action, flashbacks on film and a jarring soundtrack Rageboy pieces together a strange and moving pastiche of Toby Milk’s world as it slowly rolls towards Armageddon.
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Detest (this thousand years I shall not weep).
9-17 Feb, 8pm Wed-Sat, 6.30pm Tue and Sat
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
"...has a dismal script..." Cameron Woodhead, The Age. Three name changes, four Green Room Award nominations, a Melbourne Fringe Festival award for Best Performance, seasons in Brighton England, Limerick Ireland and headlining the 100 degrees festival at Sophiensaele in Berlin and appearing in Melbourne for one week.
"Regrettably, nothing can save (this) show from being a sort of souped-up undergraduate muddle." Cameron Woodhead, The Age
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Sentimental Angel's DNA
7.45pm 12 Feb
Carlton Courthouse Theatre
Three one act plays about love lost and found, the Second Coming and the impossibility of justice.
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Autobahn
8pm 14–17 Feb and 21-24 Feb, 5pm 25 Feb, 8pm 27 Feb-3 Mar
Cromwell Road Theatre
Take a drive down the dark and winding side streets of human behaviour in Neil Labute’s riveting short play cycle.
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Europe
14 Feb–4 Mar, 6.30pm Wed & Sun, 8pm Thu-Sat
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Europe is the story of Douglas, a young Australian, who travels to Europe to re-kindle a brief affair with Barbara. When the two are reunited, Douglas quickly discovers his misjudgment.
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Reuben Krum in Behind Closed Doors
9pm 15-18 Feb
The Butterfly Club
Last year's enfant terrible of the cabaret circuit, Reuben Krum, returns to the stage in a darkly funny cavalcade of the disturbingly depraved.
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Spook
16 Feb-10 Mar
The CUB Malthouse
Martin Porter is a secret agent. Recruited by ASIO at a local footy match, he is thrust into a life of deception, bugged conversations, misplaced loyalty, romance, dark glasses, betrayal and ideas of grandeur.
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Tiger Lillies
7.30pm 16 & 17 Feb
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
".. highly sophisticated... hilariously filthy.." -
The Australian
Direct from sell-out seasons at the Sydney Opera House and the Perth International Festival, UK musical maestros, The Tiger Lillies return to Melbourne for two darkly comedic nights.
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Ali McGregor’s Midnight Lullabies
8pm 24 Jan-23 May
second-last Wed of every month
The Butterfly Club
Fresh from
La Clique and
The Opera Burlesque, acclaimed soprano Ali McGregor and her autoharp enter the sometimes eerie world of the
Midnight Lullaby.
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They Shoot Poets, Don't They?
21 Feb-4 Mar 8.30pm Wed & Sun, 6pm Thu & Sat, 10pm Fri
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
James Pratt presents a new show featuring his 2005 Melbourne Fringe "cult hit" character Sebastian Flange. Flange, a performance poet of utter stupidity and brilliance, plunges into his life, poetry and stuff.
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Green Wolf
21 Feb–10 Mar, 6.30pm Wed and Sun, 8pm Thu-Sat
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Love. Sedition. Environmentalism. A tale of searching for ways to make a difference.
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Sally Bourne in IDENTITY
o9pm 22-25 Feb
The Butterfly Club
Fresh from the West End (
Jerry Springer the Opera,
Jesus Christ Superstar,
Les Miserables) and the London comedy and cabaret circuit, Sally Bourne’s remarkable vocal talents and self deprecating humour return to The Butterfly Club with a no holds barred look at identity (hers, yours, nobody’s safe!).
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Stephen McDowell in Billy Joel & Me
7pm 22-25 Feb
The Butterfly Club
Stephen McDowell is your average twenty-something performer ...
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Dolly Diamond
24 Feb, 3 Mar
Opium Den
Bookings
03 9417 2696
After sell-out Melbourne Midsumma seasons (2004, 2005 and 2006) and a successful Sydney season at the Seymour Centre (2005), UK comic cabaret performer Dolly Diamond returns to her second home for more mirth and mayhem.
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Ruth Rogers-Wright in Fabulous Diva
1-4 Mar 9pm
The Butterfly Club
It's hot, it's live, it's got soul.
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Backbeat
2 Mar 8pm, 3,4 Mar 2pm and 8pm
The Village Green
Bookings
03 9018 7629
World Premiere Show!
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Sammy J – 58 kilograms of Pure Entertainment
10.30pm 2 & 3 Mar
The Butterfly Club
For two nights only, catch Sammy J performing his best-loved songs and a few surprises before jetting off to the Adelaide Fringe!
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THINGS ON SUNDAY - Families, They F**k You Up
4 Mar
The CUB Malthouse
Families, They F**k You Up
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Bald Soprano
8pm 7-10 & 14-17 Mar, 5pm 11 Mar
Northcote Town Hall
Imagine a world where “how do you do” can mean “I want to sleep with your wife” and “would you like a cup of coffee” could mean “I want to kill you.” Now place in it the perfect living room with the perfect couple. Watch as a perfect evening turns into perfect chaos.
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Boxed
7–11 Mar, Wed–Sun 8pm
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A man alone. Another on the edge. A businessman unravels; a woman in the shadows. Two men eat their last meal.
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Phil Scott in My Long Awaited Comeback
9pm 8-11 Mar
The Butterfly Club
Plucky Phil Scott, cabaret pianist, singer, comedian and star of the infamous Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf Revue, is risking life and limb to entertain you.
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Divino in A Crassical Tribute
9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, 30,31 Mar, 10.30pm
The Butterfly Club
After their sell out Christmas season Divino is back at The Butterfly Club with their brand new show.
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Staffroom
8-31 Mar 2007, 8pm Wed-Sat, 6pm Sun
Cromwell Road Theatre
By popular demand the return season of Steve Wheat's comic drama for anyone who's ever taught or been taught.
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Mojo
15 Mar-1 Apr, 8pm Thu-Sat, 6pm Sun
Chapel Off Chapel
Jez Butterworth's 1995 Olivier Award-winning Play.
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Highly Strung: A Soprano's Lament
7pm, Thurs-Sun, 15-18 March
The Butterfly Club
Finally! A cabaret for those who love opera - and those who love to hate opera.
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Asylum
20 Feb – 8 Mar, 2008
8pm Thu - Sat, 6.30pm Wed & Sun (plus 1pm Wed, and 11am Thurs)
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
It is 1993 and the four year protection visas bestowed upon Chinese students by the Australian Government are soon to expire.
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Sinners
16–31 Mar, Thu-Sat 8pm, Wed & Sun 6.30pm
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Abdou, a Middle Eastern farmer, is forced to flee his country taking his Aunt Fatma with him. They survive a sinking boat only to end up in a detention centre.
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BLACK
17 Mar-1 Apr
The CUB Malthouse
Attempting to climb the Hollywood dream pile, a young woman is shot to infamy when her body, severed at the waist, is placed on display for all the world to see...
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Elmo
6-10 Jun Wed at 8.30pm, Thurs and Sat at 6pm, Fri at 10pm, Sun at 4.30pm
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
elmo is the follow up to bunny in the Trilogy of Love Stories. Returning to La Mama to complete their interrupted March season.
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Tina del Twiste
9pm 22-24 Mar
The Butterfly Club
A return season from one of the most talked about shows of the Midsumma Festival.
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Playback Theatre
24 Mar 8pm, 25 Mar 6pm
Gasworks Theatre
Moving and humorous theatre is created as the actors re-tell the audience's stories through improvisation. The action is supported by live music created on violin, piano and percussion.
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Exit The King
24 Mar-21 Apr
The CUB Malthouse
Why are the heaters not working? A layer of filth has settled on the throne and the crack in the wall is getting wider. The inevitable has come… The King is down, he has one hour and a half to live. Long Live the King.
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Rising Sun Shines West - Japanese Art and Song Series
Concert 1. 26 March, 8pm
Concert 2. 20 May, 4m
Concert 3. 15 June, 8pm
Chapel Off Chapel
Three different concerts introduce the history, literature and beauty of Japanese Art Songs through hypnotic music - which is inspired by Japanese and Western traditions.
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Christine Dunstan Productions - The Shoe-Horn Sonata
8pm 27 Mar, 1pm & 8pm 28 Mar
Alexander Theatre, building 7
In 1942, 65 Australian Army nurses were trapped in Singapore when the Japanese invaded. They were the first Australian women to serve in battle and the first to die. The Shoe-Horn Sonata is a powerful and compelling play about those women.
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Dyuetto
28-31 Mar 8pm, 1 Apr 5pm
Dancehouse
A presentation of three compelling dance duets performed and choreographed by artists from Melbourne, Perth and Japan.
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Cara McDonald in Revealing Cleary
29 Mar-1 Apr, 7pm
The Butterfly Club
Revealing Miss Cara Cleary … or McDonald … whatever floats your boat!
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Steven Burrows in Would Uma Eat It?
5-15 Apr Thu-Sun 9pm
The Butterfly Club
Would Uma eat it? Isn’t that the question on everybody’s lips? Luckily Stevie B has put in a concerted effort to answer the question while others have toiled away at paid work.
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Sharon Sclarr in SHAMEFUL
5-15 Apr Thu-Sun throughout the Comedy Festival, 7pm
The Butterfly Club
Shame, shame, shame. Shame on you.
An eccentric look at the media and its woebegone ways.
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Benn Bennett In a Baltic State
6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28 Apr 10.30pm
The Butterfly Club
Join Benn Bennett as he reflects upon an abstract journey that blends songs with spoken word poetry and traditional Ukrainian dance.
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Mr Bleak and the Etryop
7-14 Apr, 11am
Gasworks Theatre
From the propelling pencil of award-winning children’s author Elizabeth Honey comes her first stage show for kids, premiering as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Leaping Loonies Crate Show
10am & noon 11-14 Apr
Alexander Theatre, building 7
The Alexander Theatre presents Marguerite Pepper Productions'
The Leaping Loonies Crate Show. School holiday entertainment.
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Approximately 2pm, August 31st, 1997
5-22 Apr 2007, 8.30pm Wed & Fri, 6.30pm Thu & Sat, 4.30pm Sun
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Do you remember where you were (almost 10 years ago!) at 2pm on August 31st, 1997?
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B-File
3-14 Apr 2007, 6.30pm Wed & Sun, 8pm Thu-Sat
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A claustrophobic room somewhere in an airport. A group of passengers are submerged into a rigorous, absurd and violent interrogation with the police.
The police begin to abuse their authority: questions and answers become more dangerous as the narrative unfolds. Recently performed in Portugal, Madrid and Berlin.
“The result is a magnificent, unique, six language theatre grotesque.” Morgan-Post Berlin.
A Stone/Castro Company production.
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First Step on a Tram is Hell!
4-22 Apr 2007 6.30pm Wed & Fri & Sun, 8.30pm Thu & Sat
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Enter the demented worlds of Bill Rawlings and Edith Wise. This no-holds-barred revelation of ageing and aged care, skillfully manipulated, devastatingly mishandled by the alter egos of the supremo of Australian Comedy, wild card: Sue Ingleton!
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Mozart, Schauspieldirektor and Salieri, Prima La Musica Poi Le Parole
14, 17, 19, 21 Apr 8pm
Chapel Off Chapel
The season opens with a historical double bill, Mozart and Salieri, followed by a Barber and Menotti programme, which combines operatic, vocal and instrumental works from the 20th century. As a stunning end to the season, Lyric Opera Of Melbourne will present Rossini’s rarely performed gem, “La Cenerentola”.
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THINGS ON SUNDAY - A Conversation Between Friends
2.30pm 15 Apr
The CUB Malthouse
A Conversation Between Friends, with Geoffrey Rush and Neil Armfield
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Ali McGregor’s Midnight Lullabies
18 Apr 8pm
The Butterfly Club
Fresh from
La Clique and
The Opera Burlesque, acclaimed soprano Ali McGregor and her autoharp enter the sometimes eerie world of the
Midnight Lullaby.
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Her Secret Face
18-28 Apr, opening night, Wed & Sun 6.30pm, 8pm Thu-Sat
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
She is a monster. Really. You can see the spikes underneath her blouse.
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Karin Muiznieks in Can't Afford a Real Show?
19-29 April Thu-Sun, 7pm
The Butterfly Club
Karin Muiznieks makes her Comedy Festival debut in an all-singing, some-dancing, no-spending round-the-world musical theatre extravaganza with a budget barely large enough to purchase one malnourished and confused lab rat.
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Beautiful Losers present Fresh Filth
19-29 Apr, Thu-Sun 9pm
The Butterfly Club
The freaks are back!
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Phobia
20 Apr 8pm, 21 Apr 1pm & 8pm
Alexander Theatre, Building 7
Phobia draws on aspects of film-noir, with particular reference to Hitchcock’s thriller
Vertigo, to create a hybrid performance that marries spoken music-theatre to physical-theatre.
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Tense Dave
24-29 Apr
The CUB Malthouse
Five private spaces. Five anonymous characters. Five fractured worlds exposed.
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History of Motion Pictures, A
25 Apr-6 May, opening night Wed & Sun 6.30pm, Thu-Sat 8pm
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Tales from the Movies, with a touch of shadowplay.
Washington DC, 1949.
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Leske's Method
26 Apr-6 May, 6pm opening night, 8.30pm Wed & Sun, 6pm Thu & Sat, 10pm Fri
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Leske’s Method is the heightened exchange between reluctant hitmen, Tom and George. They find themselves in a room, on a job, where one panics more than he should and the other doesn’t panic nearly enough.
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Macbeth
12 - 22 Aug, 2009
8pm; 1pm Thurs; 6pm Sun; 5pm Sat 15 Aug; 8.30pm Sat 22 Aug
Studio 2, Northcote Town Hall
How far will greed and ego get us in these difficult times?
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Have You Seen the New Girl in HR?
May 2-12 (Wed-Sat), 8pm
Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre
Another fabulous comedy from Blue Chair.
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I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change – return season
3-6 May, 8pm Thurs-Sat , 6pm Sun
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 8290 7000
“…this sophisticated gem of a musical is like a top-quality American sitcom with songs…”
“…splendidly sung and acted even better…”
“…a fast-paced, funny musical revue…”
The Age 16/02/07
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Ghosts
3-20 May, Tue and Sun 6.30pm, Wed-Sat 8pm, 9 May 1pm
Theatreworks
Bookings
03 9534 3388
In this Gothic tale Ibsen’s characters hunger for a life free from discipline and rules. They yearn for release from the claustrophobia of playing happy families.
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OT - Chronicles of the Old Testament
4-27 May
The CUB Malthouse
Uncle Semolina (& Friends) get out their miniature medical kit and wrench open a chasm of stories from the all-powerful Yahweh (God) and his tribe in a lo-fi voyage through the beginning of time.
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Hamlet
12 May 8.30pm, 8, 10, 16, 18 May 8pm, 13 & 19 May 5pm, 11, 12 17 20 May 1.30pm
Studio 1 Northcote Town Hall
Bookings
03 9853 5662
A classic, minimalist production that focuses on naivety and power, innocence and corruption. From the outset we know the guilty parties and how it will end. Yet we are compelled to watch Hamlet battle to be sure his actions are motivated by something greater than vengeance or emotional instability.
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Birds
9, 11, 15, 17 May 8pm, 19 May 8.30pm, 12 & 20 May 5pm, 10, 13, 18, 19 May 1.30pm
Studio 1 Northcote Town Hall
Bookings
03 9853 5652
This absurdist interpretation of the classic rushes by at a furious pace. Drawing on the genres vaudeville silent film, slapstick, and commedia, Reid’s trademark irreverence illustrates the continued relevance of The Birds.
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Love, War, Faith and a Singing Telegram
10-13 May, 7pm
The Butterfly Club
Bookings
9690 2000
Miss K, The Queen Mayhem Cabaret, performs her solo show at The Butterfly Club: the kick off to her month-long East Coast tour of Australia.
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Mark Twain You Don’t Know
May 10 - Jun 3, 8pm Thurs-Sat, 5pm Sun
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 82907000
The Mark Twain You Don’t Know is a unique presentation of virtually unknown works by this world famous author.
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Checklist for an Armed Robber
10-27 May, Tues-Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm,
16, 17, 23 24 11am
Trades Hall
Checklist for an Armed Robber is a startling and suspenseful new Australian play based on two real life events from opposite ends of the globe.
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Motor Mouth and Suck-face
Preview 15 May 8pm, 16-26 May Wed-Sat 8pm, 26 May 2pm
Randall Theatre - St Martins Youth Arts Centre
Its the party to end all parties on the eve of planetary annihilation.
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Raising The Dead
9–20 May 2007 Wed and Sun 6.30pm, Thu-Sat 8pm
La Mama
Bookings
9347 6142
Stavrogin’s Confession / The Grand Inquisitor
two stories by Dostoyevsky
‘Nothing is more terrifying than freedom’
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Fourplay
16-26 May 8pm, matinee 26 May 2pm
Cromwell Road Theatre
lust. infidelity. stalking. a melbourne love story.
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Mommie and the Minister
10–20 May 2007, Thu and Sat 6pm, Fri 10pm, Wed and Sun 8.30pm
Duration: 75 minutes approx.
La Mama
Bookings
9347 6142
Angelic twins Edmund and Harriet Lovely are your average six-year-olds…Except they live in a basement, play with rats, and are in their late twenties.
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Roulette
2-19 May, Wed-Sat 8pm (no performance Sunday)
Duration: 110 minutes approx.
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
9347 6142
It’s good old fashioned entertainment. These plays all capture the human condition with an uncanny subtlety.
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THINGS ON SUNDAY - The Word Made Flesh
2.30pm 20 May
The CUB Malthouse
The Word Made Flesh, an afternoon of biblical proprotions
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Bob Downe... Live & Swingin'!
20,27 May, 3,10 Jun, 7pm and 9pm
The Butterfly Club
One of Australia’s most loved and enduring comedy characters, Bob Downe, will be singin' ‘n’ swingin' his way through a silky swathe of jazz, show and pop standards in the lead up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Business present - THE CONCERT
Preview 22 May, 23-27 May 8pm, Sat and Sun 4pm and 8pm
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Experience the hilarity of multiple award winning all female physical comedy ensemble The Business in their hit show The Concert.
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In Cogito - Volume 2
22-27 May, Tue and Sun 6.30pm, Wed-Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm
Duration: 70 minutes approx.
La Mama
Bookings
9347 6142
In a drought-stricken landscape six thirsty characters co-exist in desolation. Their interactions travel through the mundane, the absurd and the treacherous.
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Love Equals
23-26 May 2007 8pm
Theatreworks
Can we use mathematics to predict life?
Love Equals is a musical that magically brings together four remarkable women from history's pages to solve the riddle of fortelling the future.
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Shrimp
23 May-9 Jun 2007, Weds & Sun 6.30pm, Thurs-Sat 8pm
Matinees: 30 May 11am, 6 Jun 1pm, 24, 31 May, 7 Jun 1pm
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
9347 6142
Shrimp is the true story of Dom, a disabled Vietnamese
war orphan who was airlifted out of Saigon at the end
of the Vietnam war in 1975 and raised on a sheep
station in Mt.Gambier.
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Reuben Krum in Behind Closed Doors
24 May-2 Jun Thu–Sat 9pm
The Butterfly Club
Reuben Krum embraces the dark side of life in a one-man show that presents characters whose secrets have been, until now, untold.
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First White Man
30 May-10 Jun 2007 Wed and Sun 6.30pm, Thu-Sat 8pm
Duration: 80 minutes approx.
La Mama
Bookings
9347 6142
The First White Man weaves together fragments of William Buckley’s ghosted 1852 biography, historical documents and images, music, and Wathaurong language into a powerful night of storytelling-theatre, written and performed by renowned storyteller/musician, Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky.
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Mysteries of the Convent 'O7
31 May-9 Jun Thurs-Sat 7.30pm
Preview 30 May 7.30pm
Convent Building, Abbotsford Convent
Following a sell-out season in 2006, Peepshow Inc. invites you on a night time walking tour of the historical Abbotsford Convent building. As you traverse the halls as the nuns once did, the Convent’s history unfolds through fancy, fiction and live music. And more than one unlikely character appears…
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'tick,tick...BOOM!'
30 May-3 Jun 8pm (6pm Sunday)
Theatreworks
Bookings
03 9534 3388
Fourteen songs, ten characters, three actors, and a band,
Tick, Tick...Boom! takes you on the playwright/composer's journey that led to the Broadway blockbuster,
Rent.
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Helen Patterson in Randomology
31 May-2 Jun, 7pm
The Butterfly Club
Explore the random with lots of interesting random facts, stories and songs from random artists such as Cliff Richard, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix and Joni Mitchell, chosen by you in random ways.
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Shining City
1-16 Jun 2007 8.15pm, 5pm Sundays, no Monday performances
Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre
Bookings
03 9388 1942
Hoy Polloy presents the Australian premiere of Shining City by Conor McPherson. Directed by Chris Baldock (The Laramie Project - winner of the Victorian Green Room Award for Best Fringe/Independent production 2005).
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Fractured Feeling, A
1 and 2 Jun, 8.30pm
Studio 2, The National Theatre
Bookings
982 0751 or 0425706759
Is Your reality seamless? Do you notice the gaps in your reality or fall into them?
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Barber and Menotti
2, 5, 7, 9 Jun 8pm
Chapel Off Chapel
Lyric Opera of Melbourne are proud to present as part of their 2007 season
Barber: Song Cycle, Wind Quintet and
Hermit Song and Menotti: The Medium.
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Tape
7-24 Jun 2007, Thu–Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 8290 7000
Human Sacrifice Theatre present Stephen Belber’s
Tape, performed at Chapel Off Chapel
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Adam Stafford in Straighten up and Fly Right
7–9 June, 7pm
The Butterfly Club
Written and performed by Adam Stafford with Vicky Jacobs on piano.
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Karin Muiznieks in CAN’T AFFORD A REAL SHOW?
7-9 Jun 9pm
The Butterfly Club
Karin Muiznieks extends her Comedy Festival debut in CAN’T AFFORD A REAL SHOW?
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Queenie van de Zandt in Cabaret – The 12 Step Program
9, 16, 23, 30 Jun and 7 Jul, 10.30pm
The Butterfly Club
Queenie van de Zandt’s addiction to cabaret has taken her from performing, at the age of 17, in her first cabaret
The Essential Lloyd Webber (at a venue in the country town of Queanbeyan, on a stage covered with bright green carpet), to teaching cabaret at the Victorian College of the Arts.
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Divine Miss Z sings the Divine Miss M
14–17 Jun, 7pm
The Butterfly Club
Starring Vicki Zainal
Accompanied by Laura Tipoki
Directed by Kim Edwards
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Caitlin and Pip Fowler in Power of 2
16 and 16 Jun, 9pm
The Butterfly Club
Pip & Caity. Caity & Pip. Really? … we look alike? No shit!
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Inheritance
16-30 Jun, 7.30pm Thur-Sat
The Union Theatre
In the Mallee country in rural Victoria, the Hamilton and Delaney families gather to celebrate twin sisters Dibs and Girlie's 80th birthday.
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Words & Music from Life’s A Circus
17 Jun 5pm and 8:30pm
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 8290 7000
Life’s a Circus is a new Australian musical that walks the tightrope of sexuality, love and betrayal. It follows the intricate relationship triangle between three rising stars as they tour the world in an Oriental Circus.
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IMPRO CAVE
Sundays: June 17 - August 26 @ 7.30pm
Extra shows July 1-29 @ 6pm
DON'T TELL TOM Bar & Cafe
Hilarious spontaneous theatre every Sunday! Featuring two dynamic shows for one low price, The Impro Cave will delight and astonish you with its unique improvised mischief.
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Vice & Virtue in Little Lon
Sundays 17 Jun - 29 July, 3pm ONE EXTRA PERFORMANCE on Sun 5 August.
Melbourne Museum
Bookings
1300 130 152
Walk back in time with Rose (Maureen Hartley) and Violet (Clare Larman) into 19th Century Marvellous Melbourne.
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Grotesque Beauty and Whose Memory?
Preview 19 Jun 6pm 20-30 Jun 8pm, 23 Jun 2pm, 26 June 6pm
St Martins Theatre
Bookings
03 9252 0760
Two dynamic works by two of our most exciting young theatre makers, presented as part of the 2007 St Martins Theatre of Youth Season
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9000 seconds... WHY? (because)
21 Jun-1 Jul 2007
Wed, Thu and Sun 6.30pm, Fri and Sat 8pm
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Is there “life after this”? Is there other “life” out there, with the potential to make contact with humans? (or perhaps dolphins?) Would proof of this invalidate humans’ insatiable desire to possess a god?
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Osama The Hero
21 Jun–7 Jul 2007
Tue, Wed and Sun 6.30pm, Thu-Sat 8pm
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
An explosive new play examining the ethics of violence, fear and terror.
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Antje Pfundtner - EigenSinn
preview 22 May, 23-24 May 7.30 pm; Sun 5 pm
Arts House North Melbourne Townhall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
The Grimm brothers' tale of The Wilful Child, in which a little girl pays bitterly for insisting on having her own way, provides the point of departure for Antje Pfundtner's solo.
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Debutante Diaries
15 Nov - 18 Nov
Thurs 9pm, Fri 7.30pm, Sat 1pm & 9pm, Sun 3pm
The Hume Building Society Butter Factory Theatre Wodonga
Barry Award nominee 2007 Melbourne Comedy Festival & Winner Best Comedy and Best Newcomer 2006 Melbourne Fringe.
Join Kate McLennan for her one-woman character comedy about THE event on any High School calendar – The Deb Ball.
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Times of My Life
28 and 29 Jun 8pm, 30 June 3pm & 8pm
Whitehorse Centre
Times of My Life, is the amazingly candid and inspirational autobiographical story of Toni Lamond’s stellar career in vaudeville, music theatre, television and cabaret over more than half a century.
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Cabaret does Emma Rule
28 Jun–1 Jul, 7pm
The Butterfly Club
Thrilling...compelling...moving
Three words which may not have ever been used in reference to this show, however all intriguing adjectives none-the-less.
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Fiona Scott-Norman in The Needle and the Damage Done
28 Jun-1 Jul, 9pm
The Butterfly Club
A joyous romp through some of the worst records released in the history of the world.
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Slight Ache, A
28 Jun–1 Jul 2007, Thu–Sat 8pm, Sun 6.30pm
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 8290 7000
In a suburban garden, on another everyday morning, chaos pops in for a visit.
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China Incident
24 May 2008
8pm
Kingston Arts Centre
Bookings
03 9556 4440
Peter Houghton three time Green Room Award winner, including awards for 'Best New Australian Play' and 'Best Actor' for
The Pitch.
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ReWorks: Altered Music Theatre
4-7 Jul 2007
Gasworks Arts Park
Bookings
03 9699 3253
Revel in the music, dance, sideshow and burlesque of Gasworks' own Cabaret Festival!
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Newtown Honey
4 Jul – 15 Jul; 8.30pm, 6.30pm Sun
La Mama
Bookings
9347 6142
They’ll be giants without a care. I’ve seen it all before. They’ll come through the window or they’ll come through the door.
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This Is Not A Shoe
6 Jul 2007, 9pm
Gasworks Arts Park
A freak show of irrational theatre, exotic characters, elaborate costumes, and tongue-in-cheek cheek.
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Sleeping Beauty
6-28 Jul 2007
The CUB Malthouse
Goth-punk meets classical elegance while gospel collides with glam as Alison Bell, Grant Smith, Ian Stenlake and soul diva, Renée Geyer deliver us into the power and the passion of the great song-writers of our time, including Nick Cave, Elvis Costello and David Bowie.
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Bingo Burlesque
7 Jul 2007, 8.30pm
Gasworks Arts Park
Shirley Billing and friends bring the art of burlesque, cabaret and sideshow back to life by adding exactly what it always needed… bingo!
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Alpha Show – Hercules
11 Jul 2pm
Alexander Theatre, building 7
School holiday entertainment
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An Air Balloon Across Antarctica
11 - 14 Jul; 8pm, 6.30pm Sun
Old Council Chambers, Victorian Trades Hall Council
One air balloon. Contents: one explorer, exceptional. One hamster, obese. One urn, full.
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Quivering
11 - 22 Jul;
8pm, Thu - Sat; 6.30pm, Tue, Wed & Sun; Matinees 4pm Sat
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
The Quivering is an irreverent meditation on death and beyond. Three co(s)mic waitresses - Shazza the dazzler, more-Maureen-more, and Singrid the poet - inhabit what appears to be an outback Australian roadhouse.
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Girl’s Night Out
13 Jul 8pm, 14 Jul 8pm, 15 Jul 2pm, 20 July 8pm, 21 Jul 8pm
George Jenkins Theatre, Building A, Peninsula campus
“Loads of laughs at this hilarious hen party”
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Flora the Red Menace
Preview 17 Jul 8pm, Season 18-21 Jul 8pm
Theatreworks
A stirring musical set in America during the Great Depression, Flora the Red Menace tells of a young woman determined to succeed in New York as a fashion illustrator, falling head over heels in love with an idealistic Communist along the way.
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We like short Shorts
18-22, 25-29 Jul, 8pm Wed-Sat, 5pm Sun
Dancehouse
A season of short dance works featuring exceptional independent artists from around Australia in dance, music, visual and media arts.
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Survival tactics
18, 19, 21 Jul 8pm, 21 Jul 4pm and 8pm
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
"Survival Tactics in a musical form, hear the DJ transform, transform the norm, life, be in it, Hip Hop is born, 45 or 33, keep the beat strong” Morganics
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Three Short Plays by Jack Hibberd
18 – 29 Jul 2007
6.30pm Wed/Sun, 8.30pm Thu/Fri/Sat
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
A battle for dominance and razor sharp examination of mateship... a man versus a woman... and an absurdist examination of the generation gap, all in one hour.
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Marking Life - By Drew Lane
July 19-22, 26-28, 8pm, 2pm 22 Jul
St Peter's Hall
Bookings
03 5975 6868
6 stories, 16 lives, all unconnected until the final moment - What is the value of 24 hours?
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Lucy Guerin Inc presents Love me
25-28 July, 7.30pm
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Three works exploring relationships in projected environments.
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Stretch
25 Jul – 4 Aug 2007
6.30pm Wed/Sun, 8pm Thu-Sat
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
From the director that brought you Squizzy and Dizney On Dry ice, this strenuous and enthralling production of A Stretch of the Imagination stars Peter Hosking as the muscular clowning zealot of the Australian vernacular, Monk O’Neil.
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Stretch of the Imagination, A
25 – 29 Jul 2007
8.30pm Wed/Sun, 6.30pm Thu/Fri/Sat
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
La Mama re-creates Hibberd!
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Dapper
July 26-28, 7:30pm
Northcote Town Hall
70 express minutes of seven fresh new plays.
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In other words
1 - 11 Aug (Previews 30 - 31 Jul)
All sessions begin at 7.30pm sharp
The Basement Space, The Abbotsford Convent
Surreal fragmented worlds collide with real factual places as Tim Stitz, Mark Tregonning and Keith Brockett navigate themselves through the complex worlds of memories and truth commisions. (The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Argentinian Nunca Mas)
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Chapel Perilous
1 – 19 Aug 2007
6.30pm Wed/Sun, 8pm Thu-Sat
Matinees: 11am 8 Aug; 1pm 2, 9, 15, 16 Aug
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
The Chapel Perilous is an epic journey through the life and loves of Sally Banner – poet and communist – described as "the first liberated woman on the Australian stage".
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LIVE CLIPS
29 Aug - 1 Sep
7.30pm, plus 4pm Sat.
The Guild Theatre
Bookings
03 8344 7447
Local composers, local choreographers : Natalie Cursio's LIVE CLIPS is all about the body and the music.
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Beginning and the End of the Snow
Thurs 2 Aug, 7.30pm; Sat 4 Aug, 7.30pm; Sun 5 Aug, 4pm
Collins Street Baptist Church
Bookings
03 9639 0096
World premiere season of Melbourne Composer David Chisholm's setting of revered French poet Yves Bonnefoy's 1991 poetry cycle dèbut et fin de la neige.
Virtuosic quintet supporting Australian Soprano Miriam Gordon-Stewart .
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CRIMINOLOGY
3-19 Aug 2007
The CUB Malthouse
1997: Princess Diana. Mother Theresa. Titanic. While disaster made headlines and the world hurtled towards the next millennium, a death almost went unnoticed in a quiet Canberra home.
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Tastes Funny
28 Sep - 13 Oct, 7:30pm, 6:30pm Sun
(no show Mon)
Arts House - The Rehearsal Room, North Melbourne Town Hall
See the highly skilled antics of variety circus stars Daniel Oldaker and Rani Huszar,
The Great Gondos as seen on the ABC series
Sideshow in a sidesplitting, physical comedy of romantic blunders where beautiful moments collide with absurd chaos.
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Rossini
4, 7, 9, 10 Aug 8pm
Chapel Off Chapel
Lyric Opera of Melbourne are proud to present as part of their 2007 season Rossini,
La Cenerentola (Cinderella).
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Still Holding
8–19 Aug 2007
6.30pm Tue/Wed/Sun, 8pm Thu-Sat
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Inspired by the characters and events depicted in the biography titled The Matriarch: The Kath Pettingill Story by Adrian Tame.
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Wrestling With Angels
9 – 19 Aug 2007
6pm Thu-Sat, 4.30pm Sun
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
“Every man hath a good and bad angel attending him in particular all his life long”. Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy.
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Chapters from the pandemic
9 - 19 Aug 2007 (Previews 9-10 August)
8pm Tues – Sat, 6pm Sun
fortyfivedownstairs
How would you feel if you woke up all alone knowing nothing of who you were?
When the birds start spreading diseases, the humans kill all of the birds. When the insects flourish when the birds are gone, the humans kill all of the insects. Nothing can withstand this onslaught, all perish and the world dies. There is only one survivor on planet earth.
This is his story.
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Darkness and Light with Nick Tiliacos and Goodnight Thomas
9 - 12 Aug, 9pm
The Butterfly Club
In an emotionally ambiguous world, the distinction between need and self-indulgence is often blurred. The mind might be forgiven for living in a state of turbulence.
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My Life In A Table Cloth Dress
1 - 4 Nov 2007
7pm Thu - Sat, 6pm Sun
The Butterfly Club
Could op shopping lead you to the next big thing? It already has!
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Kutcha Edwards in SONGLINES OF A MUTTI MUTTI MAN
9 - 11 Aug, 7.30pm
George Fairfax Studio, the Arts Centre
Spend an evening with Melbourne icon and Mutti Mutti man Kutcha Edwards and his special guests in his first ever theatre based show at the George Fairfax Studio from 9 – 11 August.
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Holiday
10 – 22 Aug
7.30pm Tues-Sat, 4pm Matinee Sat 18 Aug
Arts House - Town Hall
A contemporary baroque musical about relaxation
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Bacchae
15 – 19 August (Preview 15 Aug)
8pm Thurs – Sat, 5pm Sun, 2pm Fri matinee
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 8290 7000
The Bacchae is an amazing play about a group of women, from all walks of life, who cast off the pain of drudgery and conformity.
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Lizzie Matjacic in Hangups, Heartaches and Headcases: A Psychologist's Cabaret
16 - 18 Aug, 7pm
The Butterfly Club
Appointments are now available for an hour-long session of comic counselling with fully-qualified therapy thespian, Lizzie Matjacic.
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Urinetown The Musical
17-25 Aug, 8pm (2pm Sun)
Alexander Theatre, Building 7
Urinetown is a tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold.
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Casper Dies
7.30pm, Friday Matinee 1pm
Guild Theatre
In Casper’s world the sun is orange, tea is black and all Victors are villains. When he receives a note that reads "Casper Dies", he must choose between certain death in the play world and the complexity of real life.
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In God's Bedroom
21-23 Aug, 8pm
fortyfivedownstairs
In God's Bedroom is a one-woman, one-God
show, featuring God, King David and others in an expose of love, suffering, sacrifice, war, abandonment and joy.
God as you've never seen Her before....
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Tribute to Danny Kaye Show, A
22 Aug noon & 7pm
Monash University Club, Building 50
A Fletcherpants Production. Lunchor dinner and cabaret featuring featuring Russell Fletcher accompanied on piano by Greg Riddell.
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Divine Miss M
23 - 26 Aug, 7pm
The Butterfly Club
It doesn’t get Bette-er than this!
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Villanus
30 Sep - 5 Oct, 2008
8pm Tue-Sat; 6.30pm Sun
J-Studios Drama Theatre
Fresh from captivating audiences at this year’s Brisbane Festival, Welcome Stranger returns to Melbourne with a reworking of their acclaimed production of
Villanus.
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Christine O’Donnell in Here and Now
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 August, both shows at 9.00 pm
The Butterfly Club
With Denis Follington on piano, Christine’s back with pathos and laughs, taking no prisoners as she recounts a life spent on foreign seas and shores in the bosom of cabaret!
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Half Bent: In 3 Acts
25 - 26 Aug 2007
Open rehearsals: noon - 7pm 25 Aug
Festival Showcase: 4pm - 8pm 26 Aug (with intervals)
Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Bookings
03 9387 0632
Half Bent: In 3 Acts invites audiences to witness the creation and realisation of new works by three prominent Australian improviser / composers, unveiled and brought to life in a festival-style showcase.
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Easy Ryder
29 Aug - 1 Sep, 8pm
FOUR SHOWS ONLY!
Cromwell Road Theatre
Meet Easy in this macabre cabaret, as she traces her tragic love-life from woe to WHOA in the Land of Happy Ever After!
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Mercury Fur
29 Aug - 16 Sep
Theatreworks
From British playwright Philip Ridley, creator of The Pitchfork Disney, comes a compelling new play that dares to push the boundaries of what people will do to save the ones they love.
The world is at its worst… let the party begin.
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King Turd The Great
30 Aug - 8 Sep, 8pm (Not Mon or Tues)
Collingwood Underground Artspark
Bookings
03 8344 7447
Ma and Pa Ubu seek to overthrow the King of Pooland.
Battles ensue, food is thrown and ultimately only a child is left to rule.
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Sally Bourne Identity
30 Aug - 2 Sep
9pm Thurs – Sat; 8pm Sun
The Butterfly Club
Fresh from the West End (Jerry Springer the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Miserables) and the London comedy and cabaret circuit, Sally Bourne’s remarkable vocal talents and self deprecating humour return to The Butterfly Club with a no holds barred look at identity (hers, yours, nobody’s safe!).
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Dogs Barking
31 Aug – 16 Sept, 8pm Thurs–Sat, 6pm Sun
Preview 31 Aug
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 8290 7000
Dogs Barking is a modern love story – raw, sexy, funny and painfully real.
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Wal Cherry Play of the Year - The Glory
2 Sep, 2pm
the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio
Wal Chery Play of the Year is one of Victoria's most prestigious playwriting awards. This years winning play is The Glory written by Ross Mueller.
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Sunday Piano Bar @ OPIUM DEN
EVERY SUNDAY
Singing begins 7pm
Food available from 7pm
Opium Den
This is for all you Thespians and Musical Theatre freaks. It's an open mic night on SUNDAY so forget watching Australian Idol. Come down and become one!
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Shadow Passion
5 – 22 Sep (Previews 5-6 Sep)
8pm Wed – Sat, 2pm Wed and Sat Matinee, 6pm Tues and Sun
Chapel Off Chapel
Bookings
03 8290 7000
Catherine and Robert Harrow seem to be the perfect Canberra couple. Wealthy and privileged they are also caught in a destructive tryst of calculated and erotic self-mutilation. Then into their life steps Ali Hadji, an Iraqi refugee and in Catherine’s eyes the embodiment of irresistible suffering and fertility.
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Very Worst of THE BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
6 - 16 Sep (Thurs - Sun)
9pm Thurs – Sat / 8 pm Sundays
The Butterfly Club
After cementing their reputation as the princes of poor taste over two years … following multiple sell-out seasons and winning a swag of awards … there remains only one thing left to do …
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Heaven, by George F. Walker - Playreading
7 Sep, 7.30pm
Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Jimmy's marriage is falling apart, his best friend is a corrupt revenge-seeking cop, and the only grounded person in his world is a homeless heroin-addicted stilt-walker.
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Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset by Stephen Carleton - Playreading
8 Sep, 7:30pm
Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
1899 – only the resolve of Lady Constance Drinkwater has kept the Far North Queensland settlement of Somerset from crumbling. Beset by storms and ill-luck, the arrival of two strangers heralds Somerset’s final catastrophic days.
2005 Patrick White Award, 2006 Winner of the the New Dramatist's Award.
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Orphanage Project, by Angela Betzien - Playreading
8 Sep, 4 pm
Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
A series of richly drawn and vividly theatrical vignettes, seen through the eyes of two orphans, that paint a devastating portrait across the ages of a society that has neglected to take responsibility for its children.
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Once Upon A Story Festival
9 Sep, 10am - 3pm
Gasworks Arts Park
Surrounded by gardens and open space, Gasworks is the perfect place to explore literacy and numeracy in all its forms. Once Upon A Story Festival features activities for families with kids aged from baby to ten years old including author readings, craft sessions, theatre shows and storytelling throughout the day.
FREE Entry
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Ezekiel's Song, by Jonathan Ari Lander - Playreading
9 Sep 2007, 5pm
Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
An explosive new play set in Jerusalem in 1996. Shimon Peres is Prime Minister. It is the eve of elections and the height of the Oslo peace process. It is a time of hope and great expectations.
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Brightside
11-15 Sep, 7.30pm
The Guild Theatre
Bookings
03 8344 7447
Monday is Jim's day to spread his seed. He gathers the women of Brightside into the shed and locks the doors. But they want out. Cars won't start, babies won't come and the trees keep growing.
A new play by Stephen Nicolazzo and Dan Giovannoni.
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Stompin: Home
12 - 16 Sep
Wed - Sat 7.30pm, 8pm and 8.30pm
Sun 7pm, 7.30pm and 8pm
45minutes, no interval
Arts House, Meat Market
5 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne
Bookings
03 9639 0096
First premiered in Launceston 2006, Home is an unmissable performance experience – a guided tour through a living installation of dance and architecture. Home is about the place we live and the living we create.
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Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness, by David Eldridge - Playreading
12 Sep 2007, 7.30pm
Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Joey is an ordinary man for whom the world around him seems both extraordinary, yet somehow illusory. Is it him or is it the world that is out of joint?
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Evidence, by Ross Mueller - Playreading
13 Sep, 7.30pm
Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096 Easytix
Good people can make bad choices...
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Hamlyn, by Juan Mayorga, translated by David Johnston - Playreading
14 Sep, 7.30pm
Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096 Easytix
A judge begins a highly public and highly politicised investigation into a series of terrible wrongs being committed against the children of his town.
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Black Box 149, by Rosemary Johns - Playreading
15 Sep, 4pm
Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096 Easytix
The day that launched two gulf wars. A British pilot trapped at Kuwait airport. One plane. One black box. One suicide note.
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Three Dog Night, by Petra Kalive adapted from the novel by Peter Goldsworthy - Playreading
15 Sep, 7.30pm
Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096 Easytix
A doctor who has lost his faith, a jealous husband, and a woman's ultimate act of charity.
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Crossing Live
15 - 22 Sep 2007
8pm, 6.30pm Tues & Wed, 5pm & 8.30pm Sat 22 Sep
Malthouse Theatre
Bookings
03 9685 5111
Crossing Live is set in a television studio during a live current affairs program when the grab for ratings causes them to overlook the humanity of a family tragedy.
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Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, translated by Stephanie Laporte - Playreading
16 Sep, 5 pm
Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall
Bookings
03 9639 0096 Easytix
It is Paris in the 1960s. Momo, a suddenly orphaned twelve year old Jewish boy befriends an elderly Arab grocer living on Blue Street.
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Sam Strong, Dramaturge at Red Stitch Writers to speak at MWT
18 Sep 2007, 7pm
Carlton Courthouse
Sam Strong will speak at 7pm about what Red Stitch Theatre is doing with their Writers’-in-Residence programme, and what they are looking for in terms of Australian plays.
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Synarcade Emergence
18-23 Sep (Preview 18 Sep)
Tue - Sat 8pm
Sun 2pm performance & 4pm forum with guest speaker
90 minutes, no interval
Arts House, North Melbourne TownHall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Ever Wanted to Build your own human being?
Emergence is a mind-blowing new interactive work by Synarcade Audio-Visuals where the audience is invited to build their ideal human being together.
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PVI Collective Reform
19 - 29 Sep 2007 (Preview 18 Sep), 7pm
90 minutes, no interval
Arts House, North Melbourne TownHall
Bookings
03 9639 0096
For ten nights only, follow PVI's elite taskforce, 'the loyal citizens underground' as they attempt to become model citizens.
As unflinching moral crusaders they implement their own brand of patriotic conformity.
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Jerilderie Letter
19 Sep – 30 Sep 2007
8.30pm Wed/Sun, 6.30pm Fri-Sat
Duration: 75 mins approx
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Peter Finlay exhumes the ghost of Ned Kelly and presents on stage for the first time, ever, the letter in which Ned Kelly puts his side of his story.
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Hotel Obsino
12 Sep – 30 Sept 2007
6.30pm Wed/Sun, 8pm Thu-Fri, 8.30pm Sat
La Mama
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Clinging like lichen on the banks of a river, an old gothic Hotel houses outsiders who seek refuge from a digitized technopolis, the delusions they inhabit making life inside the rotting walls real.
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Remembering The Cherry Tree
13 Sep – 22 Sep 2007
8pm Thu-Sat
6 performances only
Thu Sept 13 and Fri Sept 14 fully booked
Duration: 90 mins approx.
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 9347 6142
Remembering the Cherry Tree is about memory. A middle-aged couple remember the bygone years of their lives– the only point of reference a cherry tree, which stood in the middle of an old house. Their memories are fragmented and detached, in contrast to their son, whose stories are poetic and lucid, providing enlightened insights into his past and associating them with his life in the present.
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Sammy J & Randy in After School Snack
19 and 26 Oct
The Butterfly Club
After six months on the road, including sell-out seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and appearances on
Spicks and Specks, Sammy J returns home to The Butterfly Club!
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Cabaret Does Emma Rule
21 - 23 September
9pm Fri-Sat, 8pm Sun
The Butterfly Club
Emma Rule returns to The Butterfly Club in a show she describes as "possibly the most horrific experience of my life so far", in other words a great nights entertainment!
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Boston Marriage
21 Sep - 6 Oct 2007
8.15pm Tues - Sat, 5pm Sun
Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre
Bookings
9016 3873
Set at the turn of the 20th Century, David Mamet’s 1999 play focuses on a “Boston marriage” - a relationship between two females, Anna and Claire, that involves both physical and emotional intimacy.
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Theatresports™
28 Sep - 30 Nov, 2008
Sundays, 7.30pm
Theatreworks
Bookings
03 9534 3388
The Olympics have come and gone. But fear not! The spirit of the ancient Greeks lives on in
Theatresports™. Join us in the arena as our mighty thespians spring onto the stage to face each other in epic battles of improvised wit and prowess.
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September Kids Holiday Program
24 Sep - 7 Oct 2007
Gasworks Arts Park
Bookings
03 9699 3253
Fat Beatz 4 Fit Kidz with the Casio Brothers headlines the holiday program at Gasworks… featuring monster making, swordfighting and reptile handling!
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Cookie's Table
25-30 Sep, most shows 8.15pm
Hume Building Society Butter Factory Theatre
Bookings
02 6023 2201
The year is 1846. A girl is born under a tree. Every Aboriginal child has their birth tree but when, as a young woman, she witnesses her tree cut down, she follows it and watches it made into a table.
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Sara Juli's Money Conversation
25-30 Sep 2007 (Preview: Mon 24 Sep)
Mon - Sat 8pm, Sun 7 pm
60 minutes, no interval
Arts House, Meat Market
Bookings
03 9639 0096
Sara Juli's
The Money Conversation fuses text, movement and humor to confront the performer's troubled relationship with money - by giving it all away.
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CAKE
26 Sep - 6 Oct,
Wed-Sat 7.30pm, Tues 7pm, Sun 7 Oct, 5.30pm
Matinees: 29 Sep, 2.30pm, 4 Oct, 1pm
Tower Theatre, the CUB Malthouse
Direct from the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Astrid Pill brings her delicious theatrical delicacy to the Tower Theatre.
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MelBorn
26 Sep - 13 Oct
Wed-Sat 8pm, Sat (matinee) 3pm, Sun 5pm
Carlton Courthouse
Bookings
03 8412 8777
10-10-10: Simply the best production of 10 Aussie-born, 10-minute plays, presented by 10 of Melbourne's hottest directors. You'll be surprised at what's being born and bred in Melbourne.
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Fringe Shows at Northcote Town Hall
Shows every day from 10am till midnight, 26 Sep - 14 Oct
Northcote Town Hall
Bookings
03 8412 8777
A selection of jaw-dropping, bedazzling and heart-warming shows at affordable prices as part of the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
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Kin
27 Sep – 6 Oct
Session times vary.
Merlyn Theatre, the CUB Malthouse
It's where you're from. It's where you belong. Pass it on.
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Caitlin Fowler in Songs of Instability
27 – 30 Sept, 7pm Thurs–Sat / 6pm Sun
The Butterfly Club
Recent VCA Music Theatre graduate Caity Fowler returns to The Butterfly Club stage with her all new original show Songs of Instability.
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Dave Graney … Point Blank
27 Sep - 7 Oct (Thurs to Sun)
9pm Thurs – Sat / 8pm Sundays
The Butterfly Club
Dave Graney, 1996 ARIA award winning best male artist and long running enigmatic performer in the rock scenes of the world, presents a cycle of songs around the theme of a musical life.
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Circuside
Three Shows Only!
27 - 29 Sep 2007
9.45pm
Northcote Town Hall
Bookings
03 9412 8777
Opposable Thumbs breathe intoxicated life into circus and sideshow through an exploration of insanity and secret desires.
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In the Shade of the Pear Tree
28 Sep - 5 Oct 2007
9.15pm, 8.15pm Sun 30 Sep
The Raglan
Conscripted at 16. Refugee at 17. Bride at 20. How can Amelia relate to her gran
