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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Return to the Dirt

This play is remarkable for the ope that it inspires. In a time that has seen chaos and anxiety and despair, this is the story of a young person learning how to build a better version of himslef. At the heart of the play is friendship. And a deep gentleness. This s surprising in an artform that so often relis on spectacle and the rhythms of conflict.
Alsl surprisingly, this is a story about a young man that is not about violence.
Seaon opened Thursday October 21.

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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4- 19 March 2022

Welcome to a festival that refuses to curl and shrink, to aim low and take it easy.Experience the releaseo of primal dance, of exhilerating performance, of how the spark of collegiate music mkaking can jump centuries. It's all there for the taking: a celebration of body and soul and how great it is to keep them together.
^00 Artists, 71 Events, 17 Days

The Rite of Spring

Pina Bausdh's pioneering choreography to Stravinsky's thrilling score of The Rite of Spring is danced by a newly assembled company of dancers from 14 African mnations alongside the stunningnew work common grond(s) Season March 4 - 6. 2022 at Her Majesty's Theatre

Hayden's Solar Poetics

Spread across a single day, the Australian Haydn Ensemble, directed from the keyboard by Erin Helyard, presents three concerts centered around Haydn's delightful Morning, Noon & Night Symphonies. Paired with rarely heard jewels by Mozart and CPE Bach. See one or enjoy all three with a concert package.
Season: Marech 5. 2022 Venue: Adelaide town Hall

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Sysney theatre Company's highly acclaimed reimagining if Oscar Wilde's classic tale of self-obsession by director Kip Weilliams. Audacious use of live and pre-recorded video allows Eryn Jean Norvill to play all 26 charcaters simultaneously in the performance of a lifetime.
Season: March 13 - 19. 2022 Venue: Her Majesty's Theatre.

Chineke! Chamber Ensemble

"Pure musical" is how Musical America described conceerts by this world class group of musiciand celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers. From their Australian debut you can expect excellence, unaldulterated joy and the discovery of great new and old music, from Schubert's The Trout to specially commissioned world premieres from William Barton and Deborah Cheetham.
Season: March 16 - 17 2022. Venue: Adelaide Town Hall.

Bangarra Dance Theatre - Wudjang: Not the Past

As he approaches Elder status, Stephen Page continues to expand Bangarra's horizans and push into even richer and more complex territory. These perofrmances will fuse poetry, live music, text and choreography to create an unforgettable story rooted in Yugambeh country.
Season: March 15 - 18. 2022 Veneu: Festival Theatre.

Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan

This powerful new oratorio from some of Australia's most acclaimed creative talents commemorates 50 years since the infamous drowning of Dr George Duncan that changed our nation.
Season: March 2 - 8. 2022 Venue: Dustan Playhouse.

Prayer for the Living

A moving, spiritual tonic of choral music from the last century, featuring uplifting works by Nadia boulenger, Peteris VFasks and Poulenc. 100 voices (Carl Crossin, Choral Director) will share the stage with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Northey.
Season: March 20. 2022 Venue: Festioval Theatre.

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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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