The Lighthouse

Esteemed Children's Theatre company PATCH THEATRE is set to illuminate Arts Centre Melbourne's State Theatre stage with their award-winning light and sound eonderful The Lighthouse.
Part installation, part scientific quest, part rave; The Lighthouse is an immersive performance beckoning young people and adults to explore the endless wonders of that fundamental force of nature, light.
Through its innovative use of light, sound, perspective and reflection, the promenade performance encourages the audience to engage and experiment at every turn. As they are guided throiugh a deries of interactive and interconnected rooms, audiences embark on a journey to discoverLight's awe-inspiring properties. While some spaces are filled with intimate vignettes, other rooms are bursting with grand lighting marvels.
Season: July 6 -10. 2021. July 16 & 17, 2021 Tine: 9.30am - 6pm. New session every 20 minutes. Season duration 60 minutes
For more onformation visit artscentremelbourne.com.au

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HAYES THEATRE CO.
Bookings: hayestheatre.com.au

Sydney Independent Theatre Company

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First Casuality

Afghanistan 2011, Our Australian Soldiers, A War No-one Wins.

Welcome to the remote Combat Outpost Mirage, home to eight Aussie Diggers mired in our longest war. From this tiny fortification overlooking a bgeautiful valley on the forbidding mountains of Afghaniatn's Uruzgan province, Captain Trent Kelly and his men have a lot to deal with. When thwy aren't mentoring a platoon from the Afghan National Army, they're patrolling for Taliban insurgents, negotiating with a powerful local warlord, or simply making it through another day a long way from home.
Written by a serving soldier and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, First Casuality is a debut play like no other. It's an authentic account of the real lves of Australian troops at war - the triumphs and the tragtedies, the strains and the sacrifices, the pressure and the release. There's tension, occasional explosions of violence, and humorl but at its heart First Casuality is about the friendship of sopldiers who have given up so much for their country.
This is not an anti-war story. This is not a pro-war story. this is a story of soldiers - the sons, the husbands, the fathers, the people we love.
Seaon: March 12 - Apoil 9. 2022

Don't Ask Me What the Bird Looked Like

A gently funny, almost gothic tale abourt land, family and reconnection:

Joan needs her father. She hasn't seen him sinde he left her and her Mum when she was just a litle girl. She wants history, she wantsd to know more about who she is. Dhe travels a long way into country as remote as it is stange to this city firl. Che finda Mick, a man who doesn't speak much, and who bears little resemblence to ther man who taught her to play Scrabble all those years ago.
But amid the flies, the heat, the dust and the stillness of this small river town, lurk many ghosts and mysteries. Over cups of tea and Scrabble in Mick's weatherbeaten old house, Joan is about to discover some family secrets that have been hidden below the surface for decades.

With a light touch of humour and a philosophical undercurrent, don't ask me what the bird looked like is an intimate work from an exciting new First Nations voice - a heart-warming meditation on the search for identiy aned belongiong.
Season: April 30 - May 14. 2022.

Bernhardt/Hamlet

To Be, Or Not To Be... Theatre Star Sarah Bernhardt Absoultely Will Be:

It's Paris in 1899, and star of the stage Sarah Bernhardt has set herlights on playing Hamlet. Too old to play the ingenue and to bored to play the star roles written for women, the diva needs a genuine crows-pleaser to save her debt-ridden theatre. What better work than Shakespeare's finest play? An who better to take on the greatest part ever witten than the geatest actress of the cntury?
Tradionlists are horrified - a woman playing the sacred role of the Prince of Denmark> It's at best a gimmick and at worst an unnatural upending of the status quo. As Sarah and her players delve into what makes Hamlet tock, the whole sity os watching and waiting to see whether this bld plan will be her legacy or her folly.

A vivid real-life backstage story by American playwright Thomas Rebeck, Bernhardt/Hamlet is a fast-moving, audacious comedy about a 19th century woman issuing a chalenge to the system that still resonates today/
Season> May 28 - June 18. 2022.

The Almighty Sometimes

How do you tell the difference between care and control?

Anna has ben on medication for so long she can;t remember who she is wothout it. All she knows is that once, as a little girl, she was a prodigious writing talent, in possession of a thrilling imagination. Has this been lost to yerars of pills and prescriptions?
Now 18 Anna is cetermined to find out, and the possibilies are endless. Could she go to university? Could she have a boyfriend, maybe? Could she even write a work of undeniable genius?
Her mother Renee has always tried to keep Anna safe, taking care, editing he shoices, enjoying the relative calm, Renee can'rt bear to watch her daighter gp through the anguish again.
Season: August 13 - September 3. 2022.

Othello

Shakespeare's classic tale of jealousy, betrayal and revenge lands in the Torres Strait.

The Imperial Japanese Navy bears south toward Far North Queensland and the bold Captain Othello and his battalion are all that stand in their way. Off the battlefields,m Othello's life is just as turbelant. He has sevretly married the daughter of a welathy cane farmer. Her spurned suitor Roderigo joind forces with the envious Iago in a sinister plot to bring down the remouned military hero.

This tri-lingulal (Kala Lagaw, Yumple Tok and English) production, thringly re-imagined by Jimi Bani and Jason Klarein, illumintesthe vital role of the Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion duriong World War II. More than 800 Torres Strait Islanders signed up to protect the northern tip of Australia, including Jimi Bani's great grnadfather, the late Ephraim Bani Snr and his grandfather, the late solomon Gela.

Infusing the narrative of Othello with the history of the battalion brings together twoi powerful artistic cultures - Shakespeare and Wagadagam - creating an utterly distinctib=ve theatre experiencer.
Season: September 10 - October 1. 2022.

Vietgone

A wild Road-trip romance through the heartland of America:

Saigon has fallen. Helicopter filot Quang and strong-willed Tong have both narrowly escaped the end of the Vietnam War and find themsleves in a new and seeply strange country.

Thrown together in the arrival camp in Arkansas, they must navigatge a mystifying dustland of rednecks, bikers and cowboys. tong wants to make a fresh start in the land of opportunity, while Quang just wants to get home. but what if the spark growing to ignitr?

With in-your-face ninja action and oulse-pounding hip-hop music, Qui Ngyun's Vietgone is an inventive and genre-bending live-action theatrical cartoon - an irrevernt, pulp fiction-style take on the love story that may (or may not) have led toi his own birth.
Season: October 28 - November 19/ 2022

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Nick and his wife Honey are new in town and accept an invitation to an intimate afterparty at the home f George and Martha. As the spirits flow and the conversation grows ominous, the four find themselves locked in a cruel sparring match with a hidden agenda. In the small hours of the night, this boozy gathering becomes a frenzy of savage insultsk spiteful mind games and wicked humiliatons.
By the time the sun rises, all secrets will be laid bare, and none of them will be the same again.
Season: February 12 - 26. 2022.

The Sunshine Club

Swing into the Sunshine Club where everyone os welcome and romances bloom.

It's the summer of 194 and the war is over. Aboriginal soldier Frank doyle haqs spent years fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with troops from all over Australia but when he steps onto the Berisbane wharf he finds some things haven't changed. But Frank knows how to fight for his cuntry.
It's been a long war and Frank just wants a better life - the simple pleasure of music and laughter, a place where he can dance with Rose, the beautiful next door. Filled with hope and defiance, Frank sets up his own ballroom, The Sundhine Club, where enverone os invited to meet, mingle and swing the night away.
Queensland Theatre audiences first dell in love with The Sunshine Club in 1999. The First Nation artists behind it are now household names. Just when the world needs a beacon of hope, this glorious musical classic is here to leave you grinning and tapping your toes.
|Season: July 9 - 30. 2022.

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The Ten Tenors

Australia's premier vocal group The TEN Tenors are bursting back onto stages across Australia this July with a special 25th Anniversary tour-their biggest ever.
Following a sold-out tour of Brazil in March 2020, the highly revered grou[ are eagerly waiting to connect wiith fans old and new, with a show thzt revisits the full history if the group's catalogue of 15 albus and over 4000 live oerformances.
Season: Saturday July 10, 2021

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The Black Sorrows

IN the wake of Joe Camilleri's 49th album, Citizen John, The Black Sorrows are one of Australia's most prolific and enduringly popular bands renowned for their high-energy shows, musicianship and infectuous rootsy rhythms.
Season: Thursday Mardh 4 and Friday March 5. 2021

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The Ship That Never Was

Tasmanina's longest running play The Ship That Never Was based on a real event in 1834 when the last ship built at the convict settlement at Macquarie Harbour was about to sail for the new prison at Poet Arthur but was hijacked by 10 convict shipwrights.
So begins the story of an amazing escape, an extraordinary voyage and an intriguing twist in the tale of The Ship That Never Was.
The play tells the dramatic and hilarious true story of the Great Edcape from Sarah Island! delightful family entertainment not to be missed.
Advance bookings are necessary for all grouops. The play is approxiamately one hour and is performed every day at 5.30pm and from December 27th to January 26th at 5. 30 pm and 8.30pm.

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