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Details: 30 May 2009

August: Osage County | Melbourne Theatre Company

Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County has it all: adultery, cancer, suicide, incest, drugs, plate throwing and mystery.

Details: 30 May 2009

Featuring a cracking, rapid-fire script by Brendan Cowell, the action revolves around one Ruben Guthrie, ad man extraordinaire, who we meet at the pinnacle of his success, and excess

Details: 29 May 2009

Bodytorque 2.2 should be the sophisticated 'new movement in ballet' it's being cannily marketed as. Especially given the imprimatur of the organisation producing & presenting it. It is. But only, I think, to a limited extent.

Details: 29 May 2009

Michael Kantor, Artistic Director of Malthouse Theatre, has collaborated with writer and Associate Director of Sydney Theatre Company Tom Wright to come up with a new stage adaptation of Voltaire’s Candide: Or Optimism.

Details: 29 May 2009

The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer | Weeping Spoon

With a seamless pastiche of multimedia, music and light, Tim Watts’ The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer hits the nail right on the head.

Details: 28 May 2009

There’s nothing quite like music from home to stimulate the nostalgia and nationalist fervour of expats.

Details: 27 May 2009

Shhhh! A Love Affair of Quietly Catastrophic Proportions is a highly entertaining and provocative satire on conformity.

Details: 25 May 2009

Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue | Version One Point Zero

It's just possible Version One Point Zero have pioneered a new form of theatre. It's nothing if not didactic (and therein, perhaps, lies both a strength and a problem).

August: Osage County | Melbourne Theatre Company

Ruben Guthrie | Company B

Bodytorque 2.2 | The Australian Ballet

Optimism | Malthouse Theatre

The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer | Weeping Spoon

The Treorchy Male Choir

Shhhh! A Love Affair of Quietly Catastrophic Proportions

Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue | Version One Point Zero