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Artist-Curated Events

Ali McMcGregor's Late-Nite-Variety-Nite

Beginning Saturday June 27 for several weeks Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse stagbe will transform into the Playhouse Lounge, a salon-style performance venue where audiences sit on the stage to enjoy the very best of local music, comedy, cabaret,m burleswue and contemporary performance while enjoying a bespoke menu of food and beverages designed to suit the event. The seaon will aupport more than 70 independent local artists as they entrtain the sudiences.
Launching the season on June 27 will be Ali McGregor's Late-Nite-Variety-Nite Night every Saturday night at 6.30pm and 9pm, featuring laugth=out=loud comedy acts, saucy burlesque, and heart-stopping cabaret gorm Melbpourne's finest acts handpicked by McGregor.

Visitors to Arts Centre Melbourne will be required to provide contact details to assist with contact tracing with privacy regulations adhered to. All vivitors are encouraged to download the Australian Government's COVID-19 Safe app to assist with rapid tracing.
Patrons are requested not to attend t6he venuies if unwell. All cancellations due to ill health eill receive a refund. Arts Centre Melbourne is maintaining srict ohysical distanve measures ( 1 person per 4 square metres and 1.5 metres apart). Patrons are advised to be patient and give others space, make use of hand sanitisers and wash their hands frequently while on site.

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Griffin Theatre

With great sadness, Declan, Karen and the Board of Griffin Theatre Company are today announcing the temporary closure of the ABW Atabe's Theatre.

Two small rays of light.
Debra Oswald's Is There Something Wrong Eith That Lady? will be rescheduled later in the year. Griffin will contact ticket buyers in due course.
Though Bach Festival is cancelled, Griffin wll be working with some of the artists to adapt their showes to online formats.Griffin will continue operating with a skeleton staff at their home of 13 Vraigend St, with the rest of the team working from home. Office and Box Office hoursa are now 11am - 4pm Monday to Frioday.
REFUND & TICKET EXCHANGES:|
This is a difficult time for Griffin, but it cannot compare to the experience of many freelance artists and caseal emplyees working in the arts inductry - who are waking up every morning to dee their year;s income evaporate.
For this reason, Griffin will provide financial support to contracted individuals whereever possible - this will include actors, directors, stage managers and designers employed on cancelled shws.
Griffin's casual Box Office, Bar, and front of house staff will continue to be paid through this period, with some creative adjustments to their responsibilities.
Griifin knows this the right thing to do, but as a tiny company t will put us under serius financial strain. Griffin ask that if you already have a ticket to Cusp, Kindness or a Bach Festival Show, please consider converting your ticket price to a tax deductible donation, with receipt provided. If you can afford to do this, your ticket will go towards supporting someone's livlihood in an uncertain time.

Every play we've produced over the past 40 years, every story that's captured the imagination, every writer who's had their first break at Griffin, all had one thing in common.
Griffin is not just the home of new Australian writng -it's also the home of people who believe in the importanvce pof plays and playwrights. And one can't exist without the other.
In a tumultuous year, Griffin has bone from strength to strength, coniually evolving our artistic program while remaining loyal to our mission of producing the best new Australian plays in the country. And with your help, we can hit evengreater heights.

Make a Donation:
A large part of what we do is made possible through the generous support of our patrons-please consider donating to Griffin.
Any questions please contact the Cevelopment manager - Will Harvey - on (02) 9332 1052.

Special Extras

Griffin Theatre is thrilled to announce playwright, director and dramaturge Declan Greene as the next Artistic director of the company.
The first playwright to be appointed to the position in nearly 20 years, Declan'd creative practice is closely aligned with the company's ethos of creative risk taking and courageous playwriting. Griffin is Australia's leading new writing theatre. dedicated tonurturing Australian playwrights and bringing ambitious, bold and urgent Australian plays from page to stage

2020 Season

Super Heroes

by Mark Rogers

In Thirroul, Emily sitss on the beach with her sort-of-ex-sort-of-not boyfriend, trying how to deal with her unwanted pregnancy.
In Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovna, Jana goes out to get groceriesand slams into the day-to-day reality of the European refugee crisis.
Superheroes is a play about two women on opposite sides of the world living small lives in a time of big politics. It'sa play that parallels two very different lives to ask questions about what it means to take responsibility for your actions, and what it meanst to shange your mind.
Season:September 4 - October 10. 2020

Wicked Sisters

by Alma De Groen

Alec Hobbes, famed genius, socialist Darwinist, and artificial intelligence researcher is dead. But his computer algorithm lives on, still working away in his study, and his widow Meridee tiptoes around the machine much like she did around her husband for most of their marriage. Her friends Judith and Lydia turn uo to shake their friend out of her isolation and self-neglect. What promises to be a weekend of laaughter and wine turns comically savage when Hester arrives and truths boput the past start to tear at the fabric of friendship.
Season: November 6 - December 12. 2020

Free Events

50 Years of the Stables

2020 marks the 50th birthday of Griffin's home the Stables Theatre. Griffin will be celebrating all year long with a range of special programs and events that Griffin hopes you'll love.
Paly Readings:
Revisit seminal works from the Stables' 50 year canon. this series of staged play readings across 2020 will celebrate important Australian works, many of which made their debut on the Stables stage. The readings will be brought to life by some of Austrtalia's finest directors, with several cast members reprising their iconic roles.
Podcasts:
Cive into the history of the Stables in this special monthly podcasts series, You'll expore the history of the iconic building, delve into the many exciting and formative qrks performed on the Stables stage, and hear from some of the country's most celebrated artists including tommy Murphy, Anna Volska and Ros Horin.
The Stables at Sydney Festival"
Griffen will commorate the 50 years of the Stables celebration with a special panel about the journey of play to screen at Sydney Film Festival, June 3- 14. 2020
Stables Archive:
Austage and Griffin are teaming up to build a complete online archival record of every show ever performed at the Stables. this will be your encyclopaedic one-stop-shop for information on playwrights, productions, peformers and creatives.

Special Extras

No Standing. No Dancing.

by Phil Spencer

The latest show drom award-winning writer Phil Spencer is a notebook's woth of stories about the gentle art od cowardice, tine acts of fuck-you-mate, and why Patti Smith id the absolute boss of it all.
It' s an autobiography-meets-love-letter to indie music, an examination of parenthood ( and public pool hygiene) and a primal scram to reawaken the punk inside all of us.
Season: August 27 - 29. 2020

Enemis of Grooviness - Eat Shit

by Emma Maye Gibson and Betty Grumble

A ritual theatre work entrenched in pleasure activism, conducted by your local hysterical heretic and person of interest, Betty Grumble. This is the show she performs instead of an assassination attempt. where laughter is sharpened to a blade and the body a feeling tonic. Grumble continues her quest for world-saving and love-making via our ancestors of rock n" roll, protest and poetry. Hope Energy meets Rage Energy in this all-singing, all0hopwling cabaret du Sex Clown.
Season: October 26 - 31. 2020

Soul Trading

by Kate Walder

The year is 2079. Artificial Intelligence and humans lcoexist harmoniously. That isd, until the appearance of an exceptionally clever AI named Neutron Finch. On the first dayu of kindergarten, Neutron reads the entire literary works from the history of humanity. This grabs the attention of other AIs at the school, and they start withdrawing from their human buddies.
One night, a group of sixth graders is summonded to the oval. The AIs now know about and want souls. It's then up to the 'secret six' to solve the greatest question of all time within a week. Will their soul-searching provide the answers they need to stop the AIs becoming humanity's worse nightmare.
Season: Ocotober 14 - 24. 2020

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To support wfforts to minimise the spread of the coronavirua, Queensland Theatre has made the decision to transition all employees to working from home arrangements from Monday March 30. 2020. Team members cn be reached via enail and where possible direct landline numbers will be divertede to mobile The email address for general inquiries - mail@queenslandtheatre.cm.au
The Box Office will continue to operate between 9am and 5.30pm on weekdays with staff working through cancellation and postponement arrangements with ticketholders for Triple X, Othello, QPDA play readings and the Fifty! anniversay events. The Cmpany recommends ticketholders direct ypur inquiries to sales@queenslandtheatre.com.au for prompt assistance.
This period of uncertainty is having an immense impact upon the theatre and live perfgormance industry and will continue to do so for some time. Thnak you for your support. Queensland Theatre is deeply moved by the number of patrons who have offered their ticket value as a tax- deductable donation.
The arts will continue to be essential in keeping us together as a community and the Company are excited about creating new opportunities to connect you qitht he company and the artists while we cannot cometopgether at the theatre.
The latest acvise is that Othello, Fifty Celebrations, The Children Phaedra are cancelled, TheHolidays postponed.Boy Swallows UIniverse & Prima Facie are pending.

Young Playwright's Awward

Queenslan theatre's Young Playwrights' Award is one of Australia's longest ruinnin g annual playwriting competetions for young writers. Each year, high school aged writers (Years 9 - 12) are encouraged to submit an original play which is read by a panel f professionals.
Applicants may submit an original play, written for the stage. The submitted script v=can be of any length and genre.
Applivants must also provide a rational of up to 150 words describing thrmselves as a writer and also the inspiration for the work.
The 2020 prize wiiner will receive dramaturgy sessions with Queensland Theatre andf a publicly rehearsed reading of their work.z
Entries close Mondayu July 20. 2020.
Winnr announced Monsday August 3. 2020.
For more information contact Alan Dunn, Project Officer for Education, Youth and Regional Engagement on 07 3030 7653 or adunn@queenslandtheatre.com.au
Please note, prizes are not teansferable.
To enter, please submit your play below.

Name First Last

Parent or Guardian name forst last

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Email:

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Mobile phone number

Home phone number

School

Year level in 2019

Dae of Birth

Upload Script File in Word or PDF format.

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Applicans may submit a play of
any genre or theme and must also
Provide a rationale of up to 150
words describing themselves as a
writer and also the inspiration for
the work. We want to know who
you are and why you feel this
story was the one you wanted to tell

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CIRQUE du SOLEIL

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Riverside Theatre PCEC
Bookings: 132 849

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