UnEarthly

Curtin’s Theatre Arts are to present its 2026 STAGE ONE production UnEarthly by award-winning WA playwright Gita Bezard.

UnEarthly is a darkly compelling story of truth, belief, and the supernatural in a small town where everyone knows your business. In this tight-knit village strange things have begun to happen. Young people wander out on moonlit walks and return transformed—haunted, breathless, and claiming they’ve seen something not-of-this-world. No-one believes them until the town’s golden boy, Jacob Jones, returns with the same wild look in his eyes. As the community falls under his spell and throws itself into a mysterious new project, paranoia deepens, loyalties fracture and love blossoms in secret moments amongst the chaos.

The play is directed by renowned WA director Adam Mitchell.

STAGE ONE is an initiative that offers a Western Australian playwright the opportunity to write and premiere a new play and provides our undergraduate acting and technical students with the experience of working with a playwright, director and designer on the development and production of a new work in The Blue Room Theatre.