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Details: 20 February 2009

I Bought A Blue Car Today | Alan Cumming

There’s a fine line that most cabaret stars have to balance – between being one of us, the audience, but also making it very clear why they’re the one up there on the stage, and not down in the seats

Details: 20 February 2009

This stage adaption of Patricia Wrightson’s Australian classic is a visually spectacular production showcasing remarkable puppetry and animation.

Details: 20 February 2009

Wretch, in its themes and its dialogue, is crude and confronting to the end.

Details: 19 February 2009

It’s all completely terrible, and that’s the point. Except, the problem is… it really IS pretty dire stuff.

Details: 18 February 2009

Part surreal, part self-reflexive, word-lyrical and just a little bit depressing, The New Electric Ballroom is writer/ director Enda Walsh’s story of three sisters trapped by their memories and perceptions of the pain of love.

Details: 17 February 2009

The Removalists | Sydney Theatre Company

As a young country, Australia is often subjected to questions of identity. Who we are, at times, seems inextricably linked with who we were - a convict colony founded on criminality, the dumping ground for Mother England’s lost souls.

Details: 17 February 2009

Venus & Adonis | Bell Shakespeare & Malthouse Theatre

This romantic epic poem, based on a story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses about the Roman Goddess of Love, Venus and her mortal lover, Adonis, is a cautionary reminder that with great love comes terrible pain.

Details: 16 February 2009

Beckett’s work is always unflinching and these are characters who will ask the painful questions

I Bought A Blue Car Today | Alan Cumming

The Nargun and the Stars | ERTH

Wretch | La Mama

Gutenberg! The Musical!

The New Electric Ballroom

The Removalists | Sydney Theatre Company

Venus & Adonis | Bell Shakespeare & Malthouse Theatre

Fragments | Theatre des Bouffes du Nord