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Seven Plays written by John TilbrookTonyMarianne's life is about to change and her friend Scotty is finding it difficult to cope. |
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Chance EncountersA chance meeting in a hotel lounge? Well no, not exactly. Time CapsuleLife passes. time passes. And sometimes things come the full circle. JonnoPerry's friend Jonno may be less than substantial, but it still isn't wise to offend. Handy AndyAndy always gets Cameron into strife, but what can he do? He's just so attached to the fellow... GraceAmanda has been called in by Grace to advise on the remodelling of her home office. But it seems that that's not actually what Grace has in mind. GatecrashersEver got the feeling you've wound up in the wrong place? Oh, well it'll probably turn out alright in the end. Season: February 9 - 11, 16 - 18, at 8pm. |
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4 Play-2:The Chapel Midsumma Readings.Public Propertywritten by Sam Peter Jackson When popular news anchor Geoffrey Hammond is caught by photographers in a rather comprompising position he is forced to come crawling back to his recently-fired publicistLarry to spin him out of what seems like an impossible situation. As the media wait, hungry for the statement onthe gay sex scandal of the century, an unexpected power play unlocks between the two men as they struggle wint conscience + imagination whilst the unavoidable question looms - is all publicity good publicity? Sunday Scriptease at The Chapel.The White Gardenwritten by Adrienne Perry In 1921, Vita Sackville-West + Violet Trefuses had a lesbian affair that shocked Edwardian society. To dispel further scandal, Violet left for Paris + Vita threw herself into a life as a novelist, gardener + diplomat's wife. She also wrote a nasty little book, which implied Violet had betrayed her. The Barestage ShowsDeep Rimming in Poplarwritten by Tim Fountain Reg has lived with Terry for 20 years in the same housing association flat in Notting Hill. Terry's a butcher with a passion for genealogy. Bad Blood BluesThe acclaimed production o Bad Blood Blues returns to Chapel off Chapel for a limited two weeks run. Described as the 'perfect play' this powerfully intense and totally engrossing new play deals with the AIDS drug trials in Africa... and the ever increasing complex relationship between researcher and student. An Afternoon With ... hosted by Robert Chuteris a great way to enjoy a Tuesday afternoon. Meet an outstanding selection of guest as they discuss their lives and careers with host Robert Chuter
Iphigenie en Tauride - GluckSet in the aftermath of the Trojan War, this is the story of an isolated woman, who throughout her life has been imprisoned and betrayed by men. Despite her situation, she displays incedible strength and resolve, defying her own blood line (that of mythology's most dysfunctional family; the Family of Agamemnon), to find a new peace. This bold new production looks at the nature of sacrifice nd how love can be n ultimate redeeming and forgiving force. |
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A Chorus LineAn all-new Australian production of one of the most successful American Broadway musicals of all time, A Chorus Line is coming to the Festival Theatre, Adelaide in December 2011 and Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne for 35 performances only in February 2012. GHOST the MUSICALThe Minister for Tourism and Major Events Louise Asher joined Co-composer and Co-lyricist Dave Stewart to announce that Ghost the Musical will open at Her Majesty’s Theatre Melbourne in August 2013. Season opens August 2013. Venue: Her Majesty’s Theatre |
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How to Train Your Dragon Spectacular on TelevisionAirs nationally on the Seven Network at 6.30pm on Saturday February 4. This exclusive television special delves behind the scenes during the creation of the spellbinding show How to Train Your Dragon Arena Spectular How to Train Your Dragon Arena SpecialGlobal Creatures, the masterminds behind the phenomenon Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular and Dreamworks Theatricals are bringing high-wire, fire-breathing drtagons top life in an unprecedented live entertainment event for a worldwide audience.
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Landscape Dreaming
written by Charles Mercovich Marco needs a date for a wedding. He can't think of anyone who is up to swcratch, so he hires John, a straight male model, to pretend to be his boyfriend. Metamorphis
An exploration of the precocial body through the the three steps of A zoological study of the inevitable journey from life to death,and the mess created in between. The Tragic Suicide of Professor Walter Benjamin The Well Known Academic Psychologistwritten, devised & Performed by David Adamson David- actor, singer and struggling human being - is blown down the path of autobiography whilst looking back into the future of history. The literary critic and culteral philosopher Walter Benjamin jostles with journalists, poet, and communist Bartlett Adamson as David delves into a cluttered life. Schismwritten by Melanie Bainbridge when science and technology wage war against ethics, in a world where the future is gambled against greed, the lines between sanity and morality seem ever more obscure. what then for the ethical scientist when the contract is deemed to costly? Cogitowritten by Huzir Sulaiman Katherine Lee is a wealthy socialite, married to Tony Szebo, a highly prized Singaporean biomedicval scientist. When Katherine reads in a local newspaper that her husband has been assassinated, she discovers she is not the only one married o him. This is a story of life after death. The Fallen Tree
written by Christine Croyden Long after the fire, she'd sit with her heart hammering under the old red gum... just waiting for it to fall. Inside Out
written by Donna Bradshaw Some people glide through life as though they have a guardian angel watching over them . Hot
written by Sophie Walsh-Harrington English comedy-cabaret sensation Damsel Scobie is back with a fiery new tale of self-love gone mad. Stripped
created by Caroline Lee & Laurence Strangio. Sophie works in a strip cluib. Perfidia
Devised and performed by Elmaz Sheshgelani with Brian Lowe. Using engaging puppets, King Lear's misplace attitude toward his three daughters becomes the catalyst for a zany yet profound inquiry. Awake
written and directed by Fleur Kilpatrick A man lost without memory and a woman dying for sleep. Ad Nauseam
text and music by Tom Pittx 'Cause tonight there'll be a fire, or there'll be a flood, or a riot or something, and I know that it's gonig to bury me nd it won't just be up to my knees!' Rat
written by Chris Summers A fierce, bleak, comic exploraion of power, privilege and a festering swarm of rats. |
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Shen Yun
Based in New York Shen Yun Performing Arts was established ion 2006 with the mission of revfiving 5,000 years of devinely inspired Chinese Culture.
AnnieBased on the popular Harold Gray comic srip Little Orphan Annie which debuted in1924 and ran for over 80 years, Annie is set in Depression Era New York at a time when the economy looked bleak, government seemed ineffective and the average citizen was desperate and frustrated. Sound fa,iliar? With its hopeful message and unwavering belief in a better future. |
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Duran Duran - All You Need is NowThe stunning new album All You Need is Now has already been proclaimed a triumph by fans and critics alike, and hit the #1 spot on download charts in the top 15 markets around the world when it was released earlier this year.
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War Horse
The National Theatre of Great Britain and Global Creatures, in association with the Arts Centre, are proud to announce that Melbourne has secured the rights to stage the multiple Tony and Oliver Award winning War Horse, for a season commencing in late 2012.
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Midsumma FestivalNegative Energy Inc.If you're not angry you're either heavily medicated or not paying attention. This is your wake-up call. Come... join the groeing number of unhappy people here at Negative Energy Inc. UnansweredBeginning as an award winning short work, Best Choreography & Best Female Dancer at Short Sweet Dance Melbopurne 2011. The Year of Magical WankingNeil Watkins has wanked more than is healthy, allegely. One of Ireland's most exciting artists and incedary performers. Neil is a force of nature, a maverick, a 33-year old homosexual with a Jesus complex. On orders from heaven, this is Neil's journey through the wildness of queerness from Catholic Ireland to the cruising bars of the world, from suburban 'Head Shops' to native American ceremonies. |
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How to Train Your Dragon Arena SpecialGlobal Creatures, the masterminds behind the phenomenon Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular and Dreamworks Theatricals are bringing high-wire, fire-breathing drtagons top life in an unprecedented live entertainment event for a worldwide audience.
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Midsummer (A play with songs)by David Greig & Gordon McIntyre A joyous rom-com with a topuch of tartan by playwright David Greig and Gordon McIntyre of indie folk-rock group Ballboy. Under Milkwoodwritten by Dylan Thomas The audience is beckoned into the small Welsh town of Llareggub (read it backwards) through streets, houses, bedrooms ad on into people's dreams. This literary classic is a warming celebration of humanity that also casts a cool eye on failed relationships, thwarted lives and the oppresive clutter of small town existance. Australia Daywritten by Jonathan Biggins A wickedly funny new play inspired by Jonathan Biggin's experiences as an Australia Day ambassador. In the fictional small country town of Coriole, members of the Australia Day committee, comprising an ambitious Liberal Mayor, a Greens Councillor, a bigoted builder, an Australian-born Vietnamese school teacher and a member of the CWA, learn that orchestrating celebrations of national pride was never going to be easy. Signs of Lifewritten by Tim Winton Breaved widow Georgie, living on an isolated farm parched by a drought of apocalyptic severity, is visited by two mysterious Indegous siblings, Mona and Bender. All three have contending claims on the place and on their memories.
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.Pygmalionwritten by George Bernard Shaw Whenaa young flower seller glimpses an opportunity to elevate herself in society she boldly snatches at it, naïve to the potential costs. |
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Never Did Me Any HarmDrawing inspiration from Christos Tsiolkas' best-selling novel The Ship, Director and Choreographer Kate Champion has conducted interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds to garner their views on the subject of parenting. In a familiar, yet disconcertingly Lynchian, Aussie backyard, seven actors and dancers including Kristina Chan, Vincent Crowley, Marta dusseldorp, Heather Mitchell and Sarah Jayne Howard, create familiar characters by fusing movement with verbatim text. Les Liaisons DangereusesThe deliciously deviant Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont plot an elaborate salon amusement of seduction and humiliation that soon escalates into t a brutal battle of guile, deceit and treachery. The Histrionicwritten by Thomas Bernhard. translated by Tom Wright Bille Brown lets rip as the highly strung Bruscon, a once-feted star of the stage who has taken a spectacular fall from grace and is now reduced to playing in a backwater Austrian town. The charasmatic showman remains determined however that he will present his greatest work. But first he must rant, cajole and exhaust himself while bullying his own children, belittling his wife, snidely haranguing his hosts and wallowing in self-pity - all the while railing against provincialism, national failure, the vapidity of the young, the venality of the old, the tyranny of the past, the banality of the present and on and on... The Splinterwritten by Hilary Bell A husband and wife struggle to re-connect with their child when she inexplicably returns after a nine-month disappearance. Inspired by the Henry Jones novel The Turn of the Screw, the Hans Christian Anderson tale The Snow Queen and real life stories of abused children Bell's play is an emotional thriller about all consuming obsession, grief and identity. Sex with Strangerswritten by Laura Eason A tender, sharply observed love story which premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre early in 2011.
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A History if EverythingText by Alexander Devriendt, Joeri Smet in collaboration with the cast. Belgian theatre makers Ontroerend Goed and STC's own Residents collaborate in an attempt to reach the vastness of the ungraspable, astronomical history of the world and universe, in about an hour and a half. |
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Duran Duran - All You Need is NowThe stunning new album All You Need is Now has already been proclaimed a triumph by fans and critics alike, and hit the #1 spot on download charts in the top 15 markets around the world when it was released earlier this year. How to Train Your Dragon Arena SpecialGlobal Creatures, the masterminds behind the phenomenon Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular and Dreamworks Theatricals are bringing high-wire, fire-breathing drtagons top life in an unprecedented live entertainment event for a worldwide audience.
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Summer of the Seventeeth Doll
by Ray Lawler Every summer, cane cutters Barney and Roo come back from Queensland to the Carlton house they share with Nancy and Olive for an annual season of fun and frivolity.
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Duran Duran - All You Need is NowThe stunning new album All You Need is Now has already been proclaimed a triumph by fans and critics alike, and hit the #1 spot on download charts in the top 15 markets around the world when it was released earlier this year.
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A Chorus LineAn all-new Australian production of one of the most successful American Broadway musicals of all time, A Chorus Line is coming to the Festival Theatre, Adelaide in December 2011 and Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne for 35 performances only in February 2012.
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The Ship That Never WasTasmanina'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.
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