
OpticNerve Performance Group has created an unashamedly beautiful production – an adaptation of George Eliot’s 1860 novel, The Mill on the Floss.

This stupendous show is an absolute whoop, a jolly, big-hearted, comical, incident-packed and acrobat-heavy circus romp that has to stand as one of the most inexorable and enjoyable productions to hit the Thebarton Theatre in years.

The show is set in Bowngabbie a tiny town in rural Tasmania. A one man show, it is a frame for the extraordinary talents of Bryce Youngman.

After surviving a catastrophe at sea, three men, Baird, Simon and Rob, vow to make every meal count, to cultivate organic cuisine, and to adopt the Nose to Tail ethos of entire and sustainable consumption.

This touring Australian show certainly delivers two-hours of razzle-dazzle bursting with burlesque, sequins, comedy, illusion and strategically held feathers that reveal just enough of the female form.

Beirut Adrenaline is set in 1986, four years before the official end of the 15 year war in Lebanon. The war that took the lives of an estimated 250,000 people and continues to have an impact today.

There's a piece of theatre history quietly being performed in suburban Melbourne and, if you're quick, you'll be able to rediscover this century-old Australian blockbuster.