Chamber Made/Pia Johnson
In this new Australian work, sound, image and physical body are decoupled, and gradually splintered like the many facets of our online presence.
Jodie Hutchinson
Finucane & Smith inject burlesque and vaudeville with witty and often confrontational political provocations.
Sydney Theatre Company/Prudence Upton
Anne Brontë’s novel was a skewering of her sister’s romantic heroes. Now a new adaptation finds something completely modern in her words.
Rising 2022
Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece explores female intimacy through the relationship between screen and stage.
Rising/Sarah Walker
In this new work at Melbourne’s Rising Festival, Anything & Everything lets kids tell us how they see themselves and the world around them.
David Hooley
Son of Byblos, from Brave New World Theatre Company, looks at the forbidden territory of queer sexuality in Lebanese-Australian families.
Matt Byrne/State Theatre Company South Australia
Caleb Lewis’ play, named for a popular but treacherous diving cave, is a sumptuous look at the beauty – and danger – of diving.
Phoebe Powell/Darlinghurst Theatre Company
Aran Thangaratnam’s dark comedy sees two estranged Tamil brothers trying to mend tensions. It doesn’t always go to plan.
Roy Vandervegt/Adelaide Festival
Billed as an opportunity for frank conversations, this beautiful production was a deeply impactful sharing of what matters in life.
Brett Boardman/Bell Shakespeare
After two years of COVID-delay, Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet reflects both personal and global tragedies.
Adelaide Festival/Roy Vandervegt
This beautifully crafted production at the Adelaide Festival is an intricate look at families and memory.
Perth Festival/Ben Yew
While spending two years in Dartmoor prison, Kim Crotty wrote and illustrated 47 stories for his sons, desperately seeking to maintain his connection with his family.
Dana Weeks/Perth Festival
David Milroy’s Panawathi Girl is a rocking, vaudevillian, politically sharp and engaging piece of Australian First Nations’ music theatre.
Island Vibrations by Marie-Muriel Hillion Toulcanon.
Photo © Nic Casta
With borders closed indefinitely, this year’s Fringe World is a decidedly local affair.
Ten Alphas
This new Australian play, adapted from Heather Rose’s award winning book, celebrates the power of performance to help us connect.
Prudence Upton
In an unexpected pleasure, Paige Rattray places the stage directions of Arthur Miller’s play front and centre.
Global Creatures/ Michelle Grace Hunder
The ten-time Tony winning production has finally hit Australian stages. It remains faithful to its flamboyant parent movie but features a revamped score and a fiercely talented local lineup.
Belvoir/Brett Boardman
Belvoir’s outrageously fun new pantomime is a celebration of modern Australia.
Julius Caesar STC credit Daniel Boud.
262 Geraldine Hakewill and Ewen Leslie in Sydney Theatre Company’s Julius Caesar, 2021. Photo: Daniel Boud
Kip Williams’ modern telling of Julius Caesar asks us to consider just how political stories are told, re-told, and told again.
David Kelly
At its best, the play Return to the Dirt reminds us of our mortality and the extraordinary people behind the scenes involved in our passing.