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LOOK ALIVE AUSTRALIA. Desmond Chudmore - father, sportsman and an absolute top-bloke of a Prime Minister is looking for a historic third term.
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Drugs, sex, and… Vengaboys? Troy’s House is an ode to salacious suburban Canberra and the teenagers who came of age there in 1997.
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RABBIT:
What gives seemingly innocent children and teenagers the capacity to commit acts of violence and cruelty? Can they be forgiven?
After killing a rabbit, two teenage boys flee their school, fearing the repercussions. The play finds them hiding in an abandoned tunnel as they navigate their resultant guilt and paranoia.
An original work by Felix Tonkin, Rabbit explores themes of masculinity, coming of age, and betrayal. Stylistically dark, claustrophobic and minimal, yet often nonsensical, Rabbit’s eerie and off-the-wall tone makes it humorous and menacing at the same time.
SHOWER THOUGHTS:
She wants to get out. He wants to be left alone. Evelyn, a young girl acclimatised to her interconnected world, finds herself trapped in a decontamination room with Adam, a nihilistic and out-of-touch man. With no escape for either of them, both are forced to confront and question each other.
An original and offbeat work by Aidan Hale, Shower Thoughts is a play that explores the nature of thought, the contemporary role of absurdism, and human connection in a paradoxically inhuman world. Most importantly, it is a play about the fruitfulness of questions. After all, what’s the point of questioning if all you have to show for it is a stupid rubber duck?
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“An improbable farce in three acts”
SUDS presents Blithe Spirit, a farcical supernatural play by Noel Coward.
When Charles Condomine gets hit with a stroke of writers’ block, he invites the eccentric medium Madame Arcarti to perform a séance for inspiration for his new book … and … spoiler alert: everything goes to sh*t! Come enjoy a night filled with comedy and ghosts, as Elvira, Charles’s ex-wife, re-emerges from the dead to wreak havoc on the Condomines’ ‘happy’ marriage.
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"How do you remember to forget?"
Eurydice and Orpheus are a little too young and a little too in love. Following Eurydice's tragic death, Orpheus searches heaven and earth looking for her. Or so the story has always gone. Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice takes us on this journey from Eurydice's perspective, and her search for identity in the Underworld. While surreal and dreamlike, Eurydice is an emotionally honest play about grief, love, family, memory and what it is like to love an artist.
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When Andie leaves her small rural town to go to university in the big city, she promises her mother she’ll join a club to make friends, and responds to a Facebook post looking for members for a recreational netball team. However, when members of her team start to drop like flies, Andie wonders if behind the competitive games and changing-room drama lies something more sinister…
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A good critic is a dead critic. The two critics Moon and Birdboot aren’t dead and so share their thoughts with the audience as an increasingly absurd murder mystery unfolds in the sitting room of Muldoon Manor. Will they be able to figure out who indeed is the Real Inspector Hound? Will you? Following this short play, we move to The Bald Soprano, another short play, where baldness isn’t particularly relevant. The Smiths are English, perhaps too English. They are visited by the Martins who are also English, and they together drink English water and tell English stories. The Frenchman who wrote this play mocks them, and if you’re lucky, he’ll mock you too. At this point you might ask “What do these plays have to do with a popular cowboy ice-cream with bubblegum for a nose?” Nothing.
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The insecure alpha male. The hysterical office slut. The unhinged incel. The cool girl.
Nowhere Fast puts all these archetypes in a soulless workplace — what could go wrong?
Rose Cooke’s Nowhere Fast is an original work shaped by power plays and gender performance. Fed up employee Joan is in the wrong place, wrong time. She picks up the phone right in the middle of accountant Ed’s “moment” — he’s been reading those incel forums a little too closely. Since when could the bleakest office in the building be this thrilling?
But then their boss, Adam, and ditzy coworker, Sharon, become tangled up in Ed’s plans, and the stakes get higher… somehow. Ed’s gone off the rails. Adam and Sharon’s masks of gender performance begin to slip. Joan has to make a decision — confront her flaws, or continue to play holier-than-thou and risk much more than just her Cool Girl reputation. Will they all move past their differences, or go out with a bang like a gender reveal gone horribly wrong?
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Sex, academics, and dwarf dahlias collide in a swirl of past and present, order and disorder — all in the microcosm of a Derbyshire country estate. In 1809, Thomasina Coverly is the gifted teenaged daughter of the house, theorising about mathematics, nature, and physics ahead of her time. Her tutor Septimus Hodge is a critic with a gift for ridicule and a taste for seduction. In 1992, writer Hannah Jarvis and literature professor Bernard Nightingale converge on the house: she is investigating a hermit who lived on the grounds; he is researching a mysterious chapter in the life of Lord Byron. They are helped by Valentine Coverly, a post-graduate in mathematics studying grouse, and together they uncover the lost knowledge of the past. Come for comedy, chaos, and carnal embrace.
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This rendition of The Glass Menagerie follows the multiple mass moves in immigration to Australia during the twentieth century – exploring the ‘ethnic other’ in the Anglosphere, and the aftermath of having settled down in a host country for several years. Amanda, an overbearing, histrionic mother, attempts to control the lives of her children and fulfil her dreams through them. Her eldest, Tom, has other plans, wanting to separate from his family and realise his identity on his own terms. Laura, Tom’s sister, is subjugated to pressures from both sides as they battle out the future of their small, displaced family. The entrance of a ‘gentleman caller’, Jim O’Connor, acts as a trigger point for the family’s downfall. Ultimately, Williams tells a story of intergenerational trauma, untouched desires, and the versions of self-existing.
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Wormholes in printing presses. An editorial face-off. A love that tests the bounds of time.
This is StuJo! The Musical.
StuJo!— short for student journalism — the Musical follows the lives of Honi editors from 1968 who are accidentally flung into the future by a synchromystic event. Trapped in 2024, they must navigate the vagaries of student journalism in the modern age: journalistic infighting, reporting on student activism, meeting deadlines, love and more. Can they handle it? Or is the temporal-culture shock too much for them to take? And how does a 2024 Sydney Uni campus respond to these antiques?
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Two sisters operating a gas station in the middle of the desiccated Californian desert have very different intentions: Olga wants to escape her past, Myra wants to create her future. When two con artists stop in on their way to cross the border, things go South.
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The year is 1965. Y/n is just your average y/a protagonist. Caught up in Beatlemania, nearing the end of a summer full of nothing, and on the precipice of an amazing transformation. You see, y/n’s father has just brought home a wondrous new gem from the bookshop — David Herbert’s masterpiece Dune. Arracket follows y/n as they go on the journey of a lifetime, transported into the world of the book through salacious fan fiction.
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Off-OffStage is a groundbreaking presentation of monumental drama, music, dance, and art works which have been 'overlooked' by the NSW Education Standards Authority and the NSW Department of Education in their exhibition selections of outstanding HSC works.
Off-OffStage is not just a show. It is a state of mind. It is a must-see. It is a shift in the culture of theatre making and institutional performance in NSW that you absolutely will not want to miss.
HSCyathere!
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A young girl masturbates for the first time. A couple fight. A girl retreats into her room after a comment from her grandmother. A father and son debate toxic masculinity. A young woman is diagnosed with endometriosis. A lonely bachelor calls a phone sex service. A woman comprehends sisterhood.
What is everything you didn't say?
