Friends in Danger

A collection of six interconnected short plays about moustaches, eugenics,
the circus and much more.

Four shows only: Wed Dec 16th Sat - Dec 19th 8pm.
All tickets $15.

Written by Brooke Robinson, Lia Savvides and Maisie Dubosarsky.

Directed by Maisie Dubosarsky

With Danie King, Fleur Beaupert and Steven Hopley.

Dramaturgy: Mary Rachel Brown

Devil May Care in association with Newtown Theatre presents

Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron

In the idyllic suburb of Flaming Tree Grove, a little girl sets off to visit her grandmother at the end of the street. But Ruby never arrives. In the aftermath of shock and suspicion, a package is left on her parents’ doorstep that contains more questions than answers...

With an army of enigmatic characters, Ruby Moon digs beneath the thin veneer of comfortable suburbia, uncovering the truth about the strangers who surround us – and the obsessions that dwell within us.

Directed by Jessica Tuckwell
With Brynn Loosemore & Sarah Aubrey
Producers Claire Nesbitt-Hawes & Sasha Misrachi
Set & Costume Design Tessa Richardson
Sound Design Eva Mueller
Graphic Design Erin Costigan
Original Music by Andrew McNaughton

ACA's 2nd Year Company presents

REALITY BYTES @ Newtown Theatre (7 shows)
Running time: two 55min halves & 20 min interval.
Tues 17th Nov - Sat  21st Nov 7.30pm
Sun 22nd Nov 3pm & 7.30pm
Adult: $25 Conc: $18

ACA's 1st Year Company presents

A DEVISED PERFORMANCE @ ACA Theatre (4 shows)
Running time: approx. 60 mins, no interval.
Thurs 26th Nov - Sat 28th Nov 7.30pm
Sub 29th Nov 6pm
Adult: $20 Conc: $15

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Stuart is one of Sydney's hottest young artists. He makes films.
Now  he's shooting his friends. It's the only humane thing to do.
But when Stuart points the camera all hell breaks loose.
How do you film a life?
How do you live a life worth filming?

Before the Embrace is a fiercely funny satire.
A play about a film,
a film about a life,
a life about to fall apart.

The Witness in the Wall delves into the murky waters of surveillance culture and voyeurism in our fast paced, ever evolving society. Exposing moments of intimacy, vanity, attraction and corruption this performance immerses the audience in a lush cinematic landscape. It combines contemporary theatre, digital video and sound to create a poetic live language.

Exploring the consequences of a world under digital supervision, moments in the lives of five figures unfold before you. Feeding a deep human desire to truly connect with each other, they persevere unwittingly illuminating their perversion, vulnerability, kindness and brutality.

The DeConverters are a Sydney based group of artists, they work across performance, visual art and new media. The creative team working on this project includes Jane Grimley, director, Sasha Cohen, digital video, Daniel Brown, sound design, Isidore Tillers, still images and Sam Duncan, Sacha Harrison, Grant Moxom, Jaya Sound and Amy Wanless devising and performing.

Full:$20

Concession:$15

Group Discounts (10 +) = $15 per head

Tuesday = all tickets $10

ONE NIGHT ONLY

PREVIEW PERFORMANCE

Tommy Bradson is proud to present his one-man show 'When the Sex is Gone' to an
unsuspecting audience, before he sets sail on a tour of Australia's Fringe Festivals.

When The Sex Is Gone is an obscure portrait of romance infused eroticism, as told by a
split-person paragon of the underground; introducing us to Charlie Martini, a hermaphrodite
ex-stripper turned failed jazz singer, and Alastair Estaire, an ex-lightweight champion
boxer turned failed pimp.

A very unique story with original songs, When the Sex is Gone is at once a lyrical
comedy and a musical tragedy.

A Better Bradley Production

Written and Performed by Tommy Bradson

Composed and Accompanied by Jacqueline Morton

With Special Guest Jenny-Young Lee

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Adults -$25

Concession -$20

Cheap Tuesdays! -$20

+ Booking Fees
Cast: Louise Bartok, Adam Cleland, Alex Harris, Deborah Jones and Alison Meredith.
Directed by Andrew Doyle
Set Design by Tom Bannerman
Lighting Design by Larry Kelly
Produced by Adam Cleland and Alison Meredith

The Return
Devil May Care in association with Newtown Theatre presents

The Return
by Reg Cribb

You'll catch your death...

When ex-cons Steve and Trev decide to exploit the lack of security on a late-night train ride, Lisa, a vulnerable law student, becomes the target of their shared disenchantment. Tensions escalate, and when two more passengers board the train, the balance of power unexpectedly shifts. The results will leave you questioning your own relationships and social preconceptions.

Winner of the 2001 Patrick White Playwright's award, this insightful drama will be directed with a fresh perspective by Jessica Tuckwell (The Removalists, STC 2009). Featuring Alan Morris (Diary of a Madman, Tamarama Rock Surfers), Jamie Timony (H20: Just Add Water) and Clarissa House (Home & Away), The Return embarks on a theatrical voyage unlike any other.

Directed by Jessica Tuckwell

With Emily Blatchford, Clarissa House, Andrew Johnston, Alan Morris & Jamie Timony
Producers Claire Nesbitt-Hawes & Sasha Misrachi
Set & Costume Design Tessa Richardson
Graphic Design Erin Costigan
Stage Manager Tess Robinson

Performance rights for The Return exclusively licensed by HLA Management Pty Ltd

PO Box 1536, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012 (hla@hlamgt.com.au)

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Concession -$18
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The Merchant Of Venice

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8 Femmes
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French Rendezvous
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PROGRAM A - The Blanket Theory BOOK NOW Adults -$25 Concession -$20 + Booking Fees

PROGRAM B - Forbidden, Forgotten, Hidden BOOK NOW Adults -$25 Concession -$20+ Booking Fees

A Very CunSut Christmas

Show Dates: 15th - 21st Dec.
All shows at 8pm EXCEPT Sun 21st which is at 6pm

Set in a Victorian Mansion of unclear geography and time-period, Mr Cunningham and
Mr Sutton are hosting a Christmas party, gatecrashed by you, the audience.

Also present are their housekeeper, Mrs Henrietta (Zoe Norton Lodge), and their children of
uncertain origin (perhaps their biological children?), Percy (Ben Jenkins) and Little
Tractor (Jon Williams). Throughout the evening, guests and friends drop by,
including adventurous Uncle Gordon (Mike Mackertich), loved from afar by
Mrs Henrietta and a surrogate (less awful) father to the children; the local vicar
(who regularly visits to educate the children) and sundry other strange and
wonderful inhabitants of the CunSut universe.

Mr Cunningham and Mr Sutton will unwrap a semi-traditional Christmas pantomime,
which infuses sublime and sinister wit into a dark, but warm and hilarious original
theatre comedy. A Very CunSut Christmas contains sketch, stand-up, storytelling and
games. In an emergency situation, you may be asked to participate.

Funnier than your Great Aunt's Christmas pantyhose, even more aesthetically
pleasing than your reflection in the Christmas tree baubles, easily as exciting as 6am on
Christmas morning and almost as packed as your stomach after Christmas
dinner itself, don't miss Mr Cunningham and Mr Sutton as they wish you A Very CunSut Christmas.

A key aim of the show is to try and unite various styles of comedy. There will be stand-up
monologues which segue or descend into sketch comedy, story telling with the parts
performed as mime by the children to parental narration, and above all, a uniting thread throughout.
Though some sketches and stories may be entirely interstitial to the plot, they are all
ostensibly performed by the characters themselves, and contribute in their
own way to the mounting hilarity of this twisted evening.

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From 9th-13th December bite-sized morsels of delicious theatre
will be served up by Actors Anonymous in a veritable feast of  
CHRISTMAS SUSHI
Written, performed and directed by Actors Anonymous alumni.
These short plays and performance are five minutes to thirty minutes in length and
involve eight writers, nine directors, five designers & technicians, thirty actors
and a magician!

Show Time: 8pm nightly Tuesday 9th to Saturday 13th December 2008.

Ticket Price: $30 full and $25 concession.

MCA - 1300 306 776

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Playback Theatre is improvisation like you have never imagined.

Through a unique collaboration between audience, performers and musician, this theatre form will transform your real life expe-riences into theatre on the spot, instantaneously. Our dynamic impro skills and ensemble work will bring laughter and tears, enchantment and shock. Each performance is never to be repeated. Come and watch or maybe tell of your own experience as we journeyinto the brilliant depths of our collected history.

Bookings on 0417 065 664
or by email to playback@playbacktheatre.com.au
Website: www.playbacktheatre.com.au

So What? Presents
A Special 10 Year Anniversary Production of

The Laramie Project
By Moisés Kaufman
and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project
By Arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd, On Behalf of Dramatists
Play Service, Inc New York

In October 1998, Matthew Shepard was bashed and left tied-up as a scarecrow
to die in Laramie, Wyoming, by two local boys. Their trial has become one of
the more celebrated uses of the 'gay panic' defence in America, and focused
worldwide attention on hate crimes. The writers of The Laramie Project
travelled to Laramie one month after Matthew's death and returned there
numerous times over the next two years, interviewing over two hundred
locals, students and outsiders to weave together a performance.

The Laramie Project is a story which ultimately transcends the circumstances
of its crime and the sexuality of the victim, to become a potent meditation
on effects of casual prejudice, and the way in which young people are
conditioned to think in the twenty-first century.

This November production of The Laramie Project will be the only Australian
production which coincides with the tenth anniversary of Matthew Shepard's
death and the Tectonic Theater Project's first journey to Laramie.


Dates: 1st November - 22nd November

Ticket Prices:
Preview........................$10 (1st Nov/4th Nov/5th Nov)
Adult.............................$18
Concession..................$15
Child.............................$15
Group 10+....................$12
USU Access Card Holders....$12
(please contact MCA Ticketing on 1300 306 776 to purchase tickets.)
* ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE

Venue:
Newtown Theatre
Cnr King & Bray Streets
Newtown
(near St Peters station)

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For more information: info@laramieproject.com.au

http://www.laramieproject.com.au

1st - 25th October

BONDI DREAMING
"A brand new thought provoking play providing a touching and emotional
insight into male bonding and mateship, situated in an Indonesian jail.

From Sam Atwell, the Director of 'Home and Away', and performed with
a live soundtrack by Josh Green."

Bookings : MCA Ticketing
Phone : 1300 306 776
Online : www.mca-tix.com

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16th - 27th September -
Nicola Furst produces a comedy double bill of
WAITING FOR GOTTERSON
by Sam Atwell, fresh from its Short+Sweet One Act triumph

NOTHING LIKE OLD TIMES by Malcolm Frawley.

8th - 13th September -
Joanne Brookfield's one woman now-touring-Australia show
PRINCESS PISSY PANTS,
THE GREEDY CHEESE-EATING BITCH &
OTHER NAUGHTY DOG TALES

2008 National Tour

Adelaide : Sept 4-5
Canberra : Sept 6
Sydney : Sept 8 -13
Brisbane : Sept 17,19,20
Albury : Sept 24
Melbourne : Oct 3,4
2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival Oct : 5, 7-11

by Cale Bain
August 19-30

Created by Cale Bain, The Director's Mind is a two-act improvised play that pushes the boundaries of improvised theatre. Each night, using the suggestions from the audience, a director will create play length stories that will intertwine and come to an always unexpected and never-to-be-seen again conclusion, to be performed by Sydney's most talented improvising actors.

The cast of experience stage and television actors try to move past their familiar ground of Theatresports® and create complete stories with full characters. No doubt a comedy, the plays will also see elements of tragedy as a greater focus on drama, on reality is put into the improvising. With a chance to really explore genres and styles, The Director's Mind is guaranteed to leave the audience in awe of just what can be done without a script.

The rotating cast is sure to include all the favourite improvising actors including Rebecca De Unamuno (Comedy Inc: The Late Shift), Daniel Cordeaux (Thank God You're Here), Murray Fahey, Toby Truslove, Steen Raskopoulos, Michael Gregory, Amanda Buckley, Susie Youssef and all your favourites from the Cranston and other popular Impro Australia shows.

22 July to 16 August Tues-Sat 8pm 
Bookings MCA Ticketing on: 1300 306 776
or online: www.mca-tix.com

The biggest little play festival in the world – and a proudly home-grown Aussie hit it is – just got bit bigger!

WEEK 2 – 29/7 to 2/8
Reverse by Sonal Moore (NSW); directed by Zoe Carides and starring Julian Ramundi, Paris Mason, Mike Smith, Lucy Bath & Adam Demos
True Story ‘Bout A Dead Bitch by Craig DeLancey (USA); directed by Linden Wilkinson and starring Stef Dawson & Luke FInch
Room At The Inn by Barbara Lindsay (USA); directed by Lauren Hamilton Neill and starring Adam Libke, Sarah Matthews-Libke &Mitchell McCarthy
The Suitcase by Dina Ross (Vic); directed by Alexandra Byron and starring Belinda Gosbee & Manny Katz

WEEK 3 – 5/8 to 9/8
Man Of Snow by Cerise de Gelder (performed by arrangement with Maverick Musicals and Plays); directed by Christine Greenough & Allan Walpole and starring Heath Wilder, Sarah Loxley, Simon Dooley, Jane E. Seymour & Nick Logan
Dreaming In Castellano by Stephanie Alison Walker (USA); directed by Angela Kennedy and starring Wren Bowie & Leon Richardson
Jack And Jill by Donald Molnar (Canada); directed by Beck Carrig and starring Joshua Griffin, Niki Simpson & Catie Pottinger
The Mummy Monologues by Kate Toon (NSW); directed by Malcolm Frawley and starring Helen Atkinson, Elizabeth Lane, Deborah Peebles & Cristina Ventresca

WEEK 4 – 12/8 to 16/8
Muh Is For Murder by Grant Woolley (NSW); directed by Wayne Tunks and starring Bruce Glen, Scott Grimley, Andrew Boland, Adam Salter, Jacinta Moses, Emily Beale & Jessica Fallico
Juice by Bridgette Burton (Vic); directed by Glen Hamilton and starring Jess McAllister, Stuart Duffield & Jadah Quinn
Little Green Men by Amedeo Astorino (Vic); directed by Chris Bonnily and starring Jonathan Kingston-Lane & Brionny Fagan
Cocktails With Jimmy by Ron Fromstein (Canada); directed by Nicholas Papademetriou and starring Mike Smith & Beccy Iland

When their owner goes on holidays, three mischievous toys are left to their own devices. What are they to do?

This fun new holiday show follows the toys’ madcap attempts to tell themselves their very own fairytale then act it out, with the help of the audience.

With talking frogs and tickling dinosaurs, swarms of bees and yellow polka-dotted forest elves, there are challenges aplenty for these crazy, colourful characters.

All they know is that it should start with "Once upon a time..." and that no one wants to be the wicked witch!

A completely interactive play, the audience will help to create a magical world of fairytales, fun and adventure.  Children will act, dance, shout and laugh along with the actors as they discover the elements of a narrative and how to tell their very own stories.

Fairytale Toy Room is aimed at children aged three to eight, but with its humour and action we promise older brothers and sisters won’t be bored and Mum and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa and all the other grown ups will have a wonderful time.

"THE RULES OF APRIL"
By Wayne Tunks
June 11 - July 5, 2008

Acclaimed writer Wayne Tunks broke office records with his romantic comedy, "The Subtle Art of Flirting", and after a series of successful dramas, Tunks returns with a hilarious new romantic comedy, "The Rules of April".

April and her two sisters have sworn off relationships after years of watching their parent's relationship fall apart. As teens, the girls had written a list of dating rules, the most important being number ten, never fall in love. But all these years later as their parents finally divorce, the girls must decide whether they should keep to rule ten or finally let go and commit.

The play is directed by Fiona Hallenan-Barker (Hamlet) and stars Salvatore Coco (Heartbreak High), Bree Desborough (Home & Away), Errol Henderson, Adam McGurk, Simone Oliver, Gina Pollock, Luke Rogers, Jane E Seymour and Wayne Tunks.

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"In the Blink of an Eye” See your life flashing before your eyes! And share it Sydney’s most unique impro theatre show clocks up the final performance of its record-breaking 25th straight year. The November performance of Playback at Newtown Theatre is themed around how life can change from one moment to the next.

SNIPER A FERKNERKLE PRODUCTIONS Written & Directed by Malcolm Frawley

Gone Bush A Ferknerkle Productions By Brett Danalake & Iain Triffitt Directed by Malcolm Frawley

SHORT SWEET + DANCE Bite-Sized Dance with ATTITUDE! The season will present twenty works over two consecutive weeks (ten works per week) at the newly refurbished NEWTOWN THEATRE. Over forty works were short-listed and, via a panel of industry professionals including Mark Cleary (Short & Sweet Founder/Producer), Cathy Murdoch (Ausdance NSW) and Kay Armstrong (Artistic Director/Pulse8), the top twenty works were selected.