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Details: 07 December 2006

Language and its role in culture and identity is central to this work and it is explored in all its complexity. Do we need to hang on to the language of the past in order to be ourselves?

Details: 06 December 2006

The acting is most talented, but the real star here is Lawson’s writing. It is imaginative, hilariously self-referential, enjoyable and satisfying.

Details: 04 December 2006

A relatively recent addition to Melbourne’s theatre scene, The Eleventh Hour has quickly established itself as an independent company of note since winning a couple of Green Room awards last year.

Details: 30 November 2006

A theatrical tour through the 20th century – you'd surely have to be mad to attempt such a work!

Details: 29 November 2006

Photo - Tracey Schramm

Despite teasing us with it’s near hits and misses The Bourgeois Gentleman never quite got off the ground.

Details: 27 November 2006

Photo - Ponch Hawkes

Based loosely on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Kiss Me Kate was Cole Porter’s most successful musical, sweeping the Tony Awards in 1949 and once again in 2000 following a Broadway revival.

Details: 23 November 2006

Photo - Sandra Rucins

Presented in an appealing format of nine vignettes, Almost, Maine sets the simultaneous interlocking love stories on a chilly Friday night in a mythical North American town.

Details: 23 November 2006

Red Stitch’s Hellbent is an adaptation of the seventeenth century play The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. It’s a revenge tragedy, a hysterical melodrama of Shakespearean proportions served up with an extra dollop of nastiness and it’s wonderful.

Translations | The Malthouse Theatre

Plays: By Himself | Tamarama Rock Surfers

For Samuel Beckett | The Eleventh Hour

Requiem For The 20th Century | Theatre @ Risk

The Bourgeois Gentleman | Sydney Theatre Company

Kiss Me, Kate | Ballarat Arts Academy

Almost, Maine | Rubber Dog Productions

Hellbent | Red Stitch