
It was always going to be an emotional evening of theatre when presenting a production so closely connected with an Australian icon.

The heavily skewed tale of the down on his luck vagrant, hunted by law along with his rag tag group of brothers and friends is a lighthearted look at the life of the Aussie icon.

Anyone heading along to see the MTC/QTC co-production of Noises Off and expecting anything else other than just a fun, lighter night out at the theatre might be at a loss with this one.

Playwright Theresa Rebeck mines Mamet territory with testosterone fuelled fraudsters, simmering sibling civil war and a peppering of salty language.

In a world premiere at the Fart Centre Melbourne this week, the phenomenally successful kidult comedy duo, The Listies, adapted their giggle-inducing, extremely awesome, disgustingly clever, word-smashing dictionary, Ickypedia, to the stage.

Disney on Ice has upped the whizz-bangery for this production – rather than snippets taken from the beloved empire, we have a full recreation of the most successful animated movie ever made.

What would you do if your mother started talking to plants? And what if they started talking back…?