Fractured Fairytales

You all know the story of the "Three Little Pigs", right? And who hasn't heard the tale of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"? And we all grew up with "Goldilocks & the Three Bears". But what would happen if they were fractured?

All 3 of the traditional fairytales are acted out on stage using audience participation, puppetry, song, dance & pantomime. Then all three of the stories are "fractured". What if the wolf was the victim of the three little pigs stealing his land to build on? What if the troll's bridge toll was ignored by the three Billy Goats Gruff? Could there be the story of the Three Goldilocks whose house was taken over by a bear?

Anything can happen in a fractured fairytale and the students get to choose. Game show wheels will spin on stage, the audience calls the shots, & just about anything goes in this hilarious reworking of traditional fairytales.

There will be door prizes for best Friday 13th costume too!

Motherhood The Musical

A baby is just the beginning. Motherhood is for life.

Motherhood The Musical is a funny, yet loving look at being a mum at any age. It’s climbing the emotional mountain only to find that there’s laundry at the top. It’s discovering how powerful your love can be and how quickly they grow up. It’s helping them find their way and not losing yours. It’s about laughing and crying, craziness and calm, smiles and tears . . . and all before breakfast.

Get a group of friends together for this great show, enjoy a free glass of bubbles on arrival and have a fun night out at Burrinja, complete with lucky door prizes!

Identity

An inspiring evening showcasing the work of two very different artists (Frances Rings and Anton) who reveal perceptions of their unique Australian cultural identity.

Identity is performed by TasDance - one of Australia’s Premier touring dance companies.

Stop. Rewind.

How well do you know the person at the next desk?

Red Stitch Actors Theatre, arguably Melbourne’s most innovative and exciting theatre company, presents the world premiere of Stop. Rewind from Australian playwright and filmmaker Melissa Bubnic. Directed by Anne Browning (The Pitch, The Colours), Stop. Rewind is a deft and recognisable comedy with heart that begs the question, is it too late to live the life you’ve always wanted?

The Housekeeper

Ellis Productions and the Whitehorse Centre’s production of 'The Housekeeper' will have you in stitches with its lively wit and biting humour.

Two of Australia’s best comic actors, Evelyn Krape and Peter Moon, combine in this offbeat, delightfully zany comedy about a middle-aged, rather stuffy bachelor and the eccentric bag lady he hires as a housekeeper.

Foundering a bit after the death of his domineering mother, Manley (Peter Moon), a self-styled literary artist, engages a housekeeper, Annie (Evelyn Krape), to look after his large Victorian house (and himself). Annie is one of the world’s great oddballs. She insults her employer, denigrates his writing, admits she forged her references, accuses Manley of lusting after her and in general makes his life hell.

Come dressed in your favourite hat or cravat to win lucky door prizes!

Sesame Street Presents Elmo's World Tour

Come along with Elmo and the Sesame Street gang as they circle the globe in this all-singing, all-dancing stage show touring Australia in 2012.

Abby Cadabby, Big Bird, Grover, Zoe, Cookie Monster and Elmo use the letters of the alphabet to navigate a voyage through imagination that sees the gang visit China, Zambia, France, India and Australia!

Elmo and his friends have fun learning how people sing and dance and say hello in different places, but things don't go to plan when Cookie Monster eats a letter of the alphabet. Can Abby Cadabby find the right spell to help?

Along the way, audiences will also delight in hearing a sensational tale from The Count and will help some back-packing rubber-duckies find a place to stay with Bert and Ernie.  Featuring a bunch of classic Sesame Street songs alongside catchy new tunes, Sesame Street Present Elmo's World Tour will delight Sesame Street fans of ALL ages.

Bindjareb Pinjarra

A brilliant improvised comedy about WA’s Pinjarra Massacre.

Created and performed by Nyoongar and Wadjella (whitefella) actors, Bindjareb Pinjarra demonstrates extraordinary risk-taking through its fusion of history, outrageous comedy and physical theatre. It’s deadly!

The catalyst for this theatrical history lesson is the mass killing of Nyoongar people at Pinjarra on October 28, 1834 - an event recorded as the Battle of Pinjarra but mourned by local Nyoongar as a massacre. An account of this story is played out in front of a dramatic backdrop painted by Nyoongar artist Tjyllyungoo (Lance Chadd).

James and the Giant Peach

When James Henry Trotter accidentally drops a bag full of magic by the old peach tree, something strange begins to happen...

Join James and his motley assortment of over-sized friends in this innovative musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s classic, James and the Giant Peach.

Revel in the fantasy of this fully-staged production and let your imagination take a journey around the world ... on a peach as big as a house! Children and adults alike will delight in following James on his adventure away from the misery of life with the horrible Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker and into the Giant Peach with companions Old Green Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybird, Miss Spider and, of course, funny old Earthworm.

Moth

Sometimes there’s no scarier place to be than inside your own mind…

Sebastian is a terminally unpopular fifteen-year-old suburban kid, with an overactive imagination and an obsession with anime and death. His only friend, Claryssa, is an emo Wiccan art-freak barely one rung higher than Sebastian on the social ladder.

What starts as just another night drinking down at the cricket nets soon gives way to an ecstatic vision that leaves Sebastian unconscious, their friendship left in ruin. The next morning, he wakes up with a mysterious moth in a jar by his bed, and a calling to save the souls of all humankind. And so begins the Passion of Sebastian…

A funny and moving exploration of teenage mental illness, loss and friendship, produced by Arena Theatre Company.

Treasure Island

By Robert Louis Stevenson. 

Treasure Island is a legendary adventure story told through the eyes of young Jim Hawkins. In this interpretation of the story, young Jim is assisted in the story telling by his Father. This adventure story sees its characters battling with the sea, the land, one another and their own inner emotions as they search for the famous buried treasure. Their heroic and brave approach together with their constant ploys and strategies to outwit one another, offer a hostile yet comical journey towards their goal of finding Treasure Island and its glorious prize.

Treasure Island, although originally written for a younger audience, allows all ages to be actively caught up in the wondrous fantasy world Jim and his Father create. On the surface the fictional tale that unfolds is seemingly one that aims to entertain its audience. But underneath its fictional content lies many realistic theme’s that are still everpresent within contemporary society.