

For its 21st season performing under the stars at the Botanical gardens, The Australian Shakespeare Company invites us to enter a world of magical mayhem.

There is a refined synergy in Michael Kantor’s production of Optimism, a modern reworking of Voltaire’s classic adventure.



Leading the Sydney Festival’s theatre program for 2010, is possibly one of the most studied, most referenced, most quoted and theatrically emblematic plays of the English canon, Hamlet. Only this time - it’s in German.