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The Comedy of Errors

Two sets of identical twins are separated at birth when they're rescued from a shipwreck. And when they end up in the same shifty, transitory port-town of Ephesus fully grown, we join them on their...

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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, the seminal dystopian novel celebrated the 50th year of its first publication in 2012. With themes as relevant today as in 1962, UK theatre company Action To The...

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THE DREAM

Peter Evans will reawaken Shakespeare’s classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a breathless 90-minute production that amplifies the magic, mirth and mayhem. Love is in the air in Athens – and it’s...

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Intimate Letters

MOZART Divertimento in F, K.138 SMETANA String Quartet No.1 'From My Life' JANÁCEK String Quartet No.2 'Intimate Letters' Bell Shakespeare is delighted to reunite with the Australian Chamber Orchestra...

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde’s brilliant and much-loved comedy of love, manners and mistaken identity – The Importance of Being Earnest – has been delighting audiences for more than 100 years. Set within the stifling...

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Circa’s 'S'

“S” is sinuous, seductive, theatre sophisticated, sensual and savage. Following the huge success of Wunderkammer in 2013, “S” explores the possibilities of human strength and flexibility through a...

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Patyegarang

A young woman of intense and enduring courage, Patyegarang is a proud spirit, an educator and visionary – today inspiring respect and knowledge of Aboriginal language and culture. Through his...

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Kila Kokonut Krew’s The Factory

Described as New Zealand’s firstever Pacific musical,The Factory is an entertaining exploration of the Samoan migrant experience. Arriving in Aukilani with her father, a young Samoan woman with big...

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Henry V

Somewhere in the world right now, a group of children are sheltering underground, to get through the night, the terrified kids put on an act of bravado – literally – and conjure up the heroics of King...

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Belvoir and Malthouse Theatre’s The Philadelphia Story

Tracy Samantha Lord Haven is rich, smart and famous, and she is getting married to George Kittredge. C.K. Dexter Haven is her ex-husband and he has invited himself to the wedding. Macaulay Conner is...

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Admission: One Shilling

Award-winning actress Patricia Routledge – best known as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping up Appearances – stars alongside renowned classical pianist Piers Lane to tell the inspiring story of Dame Myra Hess...

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The Long Way Home

Sydney Theatre Company has embarked upon an historic endeavour with the Australian Defence Force to present this major new work, taking the words and experiences of servicemen and women to create a...

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A Murder Is Announced

Following the huge success of The Mousetrap, Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced, was the first of Christie’s works featuring the sensibly-heeled sleuth, Miss Marple to be dramatised. As she works...

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Much Ado About Nothing

Claudio and Hero are deeply in love. Beatrice and Benedick would rather swap sassy insults than sweet nothings. Much Ado About Nothing is a saucy and razor-sharp battle of wits between the bickering...

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Andy's Amazing Adventures

The BAFTA-nominated presenter Andy Day, the star of ABC Kids and CBeebies Andy’s Wild Adventures, Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures and Andy’s Prehistoric Adventures is on his way down under this September...

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Metamorphosis Adapted By Steven BerkofF

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself." Gregor Samsa is a young man with a bright future. He has served as a...

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Dr Seuss's The Cat in the Hat – Live on Stage

Two bored kids. One rainy day. And one crazy cat wearing a red-striped hat. In 1957, Theodor Seuss Geisel used this formula and only 200 words to write his second children's book as Dr. Seuss. More...

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Play School Live – Humpty's Showtime

Kids Promotions in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is excited to announce everyone’s favourite Children's Television show is heading on a national concert tour, Play School...

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The Twits

Mr and Mrs Twit, the most horrible people ever to live on the stage of the earth! How unpleasant is Mr Twit, a hairy –faced, grubby and messy old man! How mean-spirited Mrs Twit, whose once pretty...

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First Seen: Zebracorn by Hanna Cormick

Zebracorn is a physical- theatre video-art fantasia, taking us on kaleidoscopic journeys into the underbelly of chronic illness and rare disease; what it’s like living a life that can often feel closer...

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