Flight - by Michael Healy

The third in the Green Wolf Trilogy. Tilman Hessel, a professional environmental lobbyist with Greenfriends, has a well established public profile. Increasingly he finds this public profile encroaching on his privacy, freedom and anonymity. How he copes with these pressures takes his world by surprise.

Director Skye Staude

La Mama Courthouse Theatre
Nov 30, Dec 4, 7, 11, 14 & 18 @ 6.30pm
Dec 1-3, 8-10, 15-17 @ 8pm

Buy tickets online | La Mama 9347 6142

www.lamama.com.au

Charles Dickens Performs A Christmas Carol

Reconnect with family and friends and fall in love with the original Christmas story as you've never experienced it before. This production directed James Adler and starring Phil Zachariah is a stunning recreation of the reading with which Dickens himself toured the world. After playing to standing ovations and critical acclaim since 2003 and selling out the Spiegeltent in recent years Mr Dickens now makes his home at the Athenaeum Theatre.

Director James Adler

The Athenaeum, Collins St Melbourne
December 8 - 11

Buy tickets online | Ticketek 1300 795 012 | Athenaeum 9650 1500

www.charlesdickensperforms.com

M - by Will Shakespeare

"Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow..."

Director Colin Craig won't say the word. It's cursed. Naming is identity and this is the name we give the tyrant. He who must not be named. He must not live. My voice is in my sword

Broken Mirror Studios, Brunswick
Aug 11-13, 18-20, 25-27 @8pm
Aug 14 & 21 @2pm

$27/17

Season 2 Import Works

An Actor Prepares

After the success of her performances New York composer and performer Nela Trifkovic was inspired to create a new adaptation of the script. Her intent was to up the musical anti - taking a series of poems about love and grief by Garcia Lorca for which she had previously composed music and weaving them into the text which she now performs with fellow composer David Howell.

Nela Trifkovic's trilogy was hugely impressive in its deft and original writing for voice
Harriet Cunningham, MODART 05 Review - Sydney Morning Herald

Smart, powerful theatre that commands attention long after the lights have dimmed
David Lee - New York 2009

Broken Mirror Studios, Brunswick
Aug 13 @5pm, Aug 21 @8pm, Aug 27 @2pm, Aug 28 @5pm

$20/12
Early Bird $15/10

Down Dangerous Passes Road
From award winning playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.

Everything is set up to protect ourselves, from each other, from ourselves, from words and from silence, from life and from death.

Down Dangerous Passes Road explores the relationship of three estranged brothers brought together by tragedy. Carl is selfish and traditional. Ambrose is gay and condescending. Victor's an uneducated good old boy. How do they connect in a world where everything is a mere impression on the evening news and lives are into talk-shows of comfortable smiles and ejection seats? A bloody, violent and poetic production from this award winning Quebecois playwright.

Director Seán Scanlon
with Joshua Lynzaat, Sean Mulcahy & Nathaniel Shaw

Broken Mirror Studios, Brunswick
Aug 14 @5pm, Aug 20 @2pm, Aug 22-24 @8pm, Aug 27 @5pm, Aug 28 @8pm

$15
Early Bird $10

The Second Coming of Madrigal Chai Tea - by Rik Stowman

Madrigal, a former rock star who had a one hit wonder in the 70?s, tries to come to grips with being a single father in a modern world he is no longer in tune with. Against all things capitalist, when his son Khalil seeks to enter the throes of society and the ideals that Madrigal is so against, he is horrified. As Khalil becomes more of a man and seeks to fall in love, he is confronted with the many skeletons in his father?s closet. Secrets Madrigal wanted to keep in the past.

Director David O'Connor
with Rik Stowman, Maria Matteo, Adam Dunn, Skye Staude, Rebecca Ratcliff and Steve Williams

Broken Mirror Studios, Brunswick
13 Aug @2pm, 14-17 Aug @8pm, 20 Aug @5pm, 21 Aug @5pm

$20/15
(group discounts available)

Cosi - by Louis Nowra

Samuel Beckett once said: "When you're up to your neck in shit, the only thing left to do is sing."

Director Alan Chambers takes a fresh stab at the heart of Louis Nowra's Cosi. Behind the laughs is a simple story about an opera performed by people. That those people consist of the mentally ill, amongst them a sociopathic pyromaniac with a bent for barbequing cats, is beside the point. They're people.

We're all mad, and if we're all capable cooking kitties then the only question is: How do you like your pussy?

Directed by Alan Chambers

Studio 2, Northcote Town Hall
May 12-14, 19-21, 26-28 at 7.30pm
May 15 & 22 at 2pm
Running time 120mins

$27/17
Groups 8+ $22/15

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ADRIFT: Two one act plays
by Amadeo Astorino & Amel B. Kenza

Little Green Men by Amadeo Astorino
The universal myths of the past have been replaced by technological myths. Are these likely to create new monsters?

The Chemical Snow by Amel B. Kenza
You will lose your identity if you do not keep up with your repayments. Can we afford our addiction to ID?

Directed by Bruce Langdon
With Nicholas Barker-Pendree, Sarah Bollenberg, Joshua Butler & Leon Dürr

Studio 2, Northcote Town Hall
May 14-15, 21-22, 28-29 at 5.30pm
May 16-18, 23-25 at 8pm
Running time 90mins

$25/15 (Mondays $15/10)
Groups 5+ $20/10