Standing Bird Two

12 - 29 Nov 2013 // 7pm

Standing Bird 2 is a personal odyssey that spirals the audience into an experience of fear, submersion, and transformation.

Using spaces in and around The Blue Room Theatre, this production creates and ever shifting point of view to this immersive sensual experience…

Presented as part of a powerful microseason of contemporary dance with Verge

Verge

13 - 30 Nov 2013 // 7pm

The calm before the storm, the deep breath before the plunge or more simply – before the shit hits the fan. Verge is an exploration into the tension, unease and the quiet discomfort before someone loses control.

Presented as part of a powerful contemporary dance microseason with Standing Bird Two.

Bruce

19 Nov - 7 Dec 2013 // 8:30pm

From the twisted minds of Tim Watts (creator of Alvin Sputnik and Pollyanna), and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd (Cleo Bachelor of the Year – short-listed), Bruce is a two-man, one-puppet show that’s a non-stop rollercoaster of action, adventure and low-fi nostalgia.

Mad Fred

10 - 14 Dec 2013 // 7pm

A black comic tale set at the trial of Frederick Bailey Deeming – conman, bigamist and murderer.

Hedda

13 – 31 Aug 2013 // 8:30PM

Heroine? Victim? A woman oppressed? Forget what you know. This is Hedda reloaded.

In a brand new no-holds-barred translation of Ibsen’s original text, see Hedda Gabler in a whole new light…

The Little Mermaid

20 Aug - 7 Sept 2013 // 7PM

Far out in the ocean, it is very, very deep…

Hans Christian Andersen’s original fairytale of longing and unrequited love is reborn, featuring Georgia King, Jacinta Larcombe and Ben Gill.

The Boat Goes Over The Mountain

10 - 28 Sept 2013 // 8:30pm

If you could take a medicine that would cure you, but ripped your insides out and made you look at all the dark spaces…would you drink it?

From the same jungles of Peru where Werner Herzog battled to haul a 320-ton boat up a 40 degree slope for his film Fitzcarraldo, a man recounts a series of nine gruelling ayahuasca ceremonies; two men in different times, each struggling with his own ‘heart of darkness.’

Broken Colour

17 Sept - 5 Oct 2013 // 7pm

When the lives of a psychiatrist, his wife and his new patient are thrown together, the line between creativity and madness will be blurred forever.

Winner of the 2010 Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award.

Trampoline

8 - 26 Oct 2013 // 8:30pm

What happens when a dreamer meets the girl of his dreams?

Matt is in another world, where fiction and reality are all mixed up. He finds it hard to fit in, and everyone tells him so.

As part of his treatment, his therapist suggests he keep a dream journal, which works well… until he meets Kelly.

The Tribe

15 Oct - 2 Nov 2013 // 7pm

Renegade Productions

We are Us. They are Them.

Love us. Kill Them.

So the history of our species has been writ.

Taking over the venue and told in three parts, The Tribe holds a mirror up to the great sin, encoded into our genes, that makes sinners of us all.

Absolutelyableness – The Story

1 + 2 Nov 2013 - Two nights only!

DEFINITION: Having the skill and proficiency to live in a perfect-like state, free from setbacks and mistakes.

TWO nights only – a new work in preparation for Fringe World 2014.