La Mama Theatre
Facilitating fearlessly independent theatre making.
Our Mission is to discover, uncover, and provide a platform for new voices and ideas through theatre and art.
GARAGE GIRLS
Meet Alice Anderson. Mechanic. Trailblazer. Entrepreneur. A rollicking ride through 1920s Melbourne!
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STRAIGHT WHITE MALE
Norm and Ahmed and Radha and Ryan.
1968. An empty street, late at night. A white man stops an Asian student. 2024. It happens again.
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THE STORYTELLER INDIGENOUS LEARNING WORKSHOPS
With Glenn Shea
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LUNG
Anna needs a lifesaving transplant. Her Lungs are unconvinced. How do they resolve their differences?
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THE ROOF IS CAVING IN
Please no more 'pleases, sorries or thank yous'. THANKS... sorry!
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LIVESTREAM: LUNG
Friday 17 May 2024 7:30 PM
Anna needs a lifesaving transplant. Her Lungs are unconvinced. How do they resolve their differences?
UNCLE VANYA FILM SCREENING
Sunday 19 May 2024 2:00 PM
The Uncle Vanya Project is a documentary film that allows us into the rehearsal process of
Bagryana Popov’s site specific, immersive theatre production of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
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MEURANTS LANE
Three brothers battle themselves, each other, and their grief.
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THE AUDITION
THE STAGE IS A COUNTRY IN ITSELF. WITH ITS OWN RULES AND REGULATIONS. OR LACK OF THEM.
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PASTABATE
Are you into pasta play?
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THE SWALLOWS
Clues beckon. Constant yearning. And lately my shoulder blades have been hurting. Almost like they want to sprout wings...
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LIVESTREAM: PASTABATE
Friday 7 June 2024
Are you into pasta play?
GIRL AT THE BOTTOM OF A WELL
A one-man transmasculine fairy tale exploring grief, isolation, and euphoria.
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A/LONE
A/Lone is a performance about being alone and solitude.
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BLOOD IN THE WATER
A suburban family’s world is irrevocably changed following the news of a violent crime.
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UNESTABLISHED
Blending comedy, spoken-word poetry, and queer joy, this production follows a young woman faced with a question: between your integrity and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, which would you choose?
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LIVE STREAM: UNESTABLISHED
Friday 28 June 2024 7:30 PM
Blending comedy, spoken-word poetry, and queer joy, this production follows a young woman faced with a question: between your integrity and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, which would you choose?
LIVESTREAM: MUSICA JULY 2024: QUIET AIR
Monday 1 July 2024 7:30 PM
An evening of music inspired by the questioning of our assumptions about the nature of life itself.
MUSICA JULY 2024: QUIET AIR
Monday 1 July 2024 7:30 PM
An evening of music inspired by the questioning of our assumptions about the nature of life itself.
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LIVESTREAM: POETICA JULY 2024
Tuesday 2 July 2024 8:00 PM
Poetry as a Passageway
POETICA JULY 2024
Tuesday 2 July 2024 8:00 PM
Poetry as a Passageway
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LA MAMA KIDS: AN IMPROVISED STORYTELLING ADVENTURE
An improvised storytelling adventure for the whole family!
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SCRATCH JULY 2024
Thursday 4 April 2024 7:00 PM
Scratch is a new night for performance makers to test ideas and share works in progress with a live audience of their peers.
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CABARETICA JULY 2024
Friday 5 July 2024 8:00 PM
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EXPLORATIONS: THE DREAM ROOM
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BY JANE'S HAND
A whimsical window into the magnificent mind of Jane Austen
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THREE MAGPIES PERCHED IN A TREE
A beautiful, heartbreaking play of the Indigenous Gothic genre that provides spiritual reprieve through Creation Stories from the difficult realities of the real-world story.
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ALL I'M SAYING
Bees. Toothpaste. The end of life as we know it.
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THAT'S ONE DAMN SEXY APE
Bubo is a proud, strong and stoic gorilla. He is the pride of the Zoo. Its main attraction. Visitors come in waves to gaze upon his majesty and mystic.
But when a series of chilling events tarnish his unblemished reputation, drastic measures must be used to win back the public’s favour.
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THE TERMINATOR
Take away reproductive rights? Over my dead body.
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CORPUS DELICTI!
Vera Brady faces a locked-room murder, werewolves and her stupid ex-husband. A new comedy whodunnit.
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FRITZ
With no magic and no tricks what will this circus bunny pull out of their hat that can somehow save the day....and the show!
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CABARETICA APRIL '24: MISCELLANEA
Friday 5 April 2024 8:00 PM
A magnificent miscellanea of artists from the vibrant Melbourne cabaret scene in one stunning line up.
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SCRATCH APRIL 2024: MISCELLANEA
Thursday 4 April 2024 7:00 PM
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LIVE STREAM: POETICA APRIL 2024: EXPLORING THE SELF
Tuesday 2 April 2024 8:00 PM
Live streamed performance of Poetica April 2024: Exploring the Self
POETICA APRIL '24: EXPLORING THE SELF
Tuesday 2 April 2024 8:00 PM
Exploring the Self
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LIVE STREAM: MUSICA APR 2024: AMOS ROACH
Monday 1 April 2024
Live streamed performance of Musica April 2024: Amos Roach
MUSICA APRIL '24: AMOS ROACH
Monday 1 April 2024
Amos Roach is a Djab Wurrung / Gunditj Mara and Ngarrindjeri man whose voice travels between the Desert, the Riverland, and the Saltwater to the city like smoke from a fire.
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FAREWELL LADY AUTUMN
China 1903 - Qiu Jin, a woman ahead of her time dreams of a gender revolution to liberate women.
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TEETH AND TONIC
A dark comedy about friendship, empowerment and smashing the patriarchy.
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LIVE STREAM: TEETH & TONIC
Tuesday 26 March 2024 7:30 PM
A dark comedy about friendship, empowerment and smashing the patriarchy.
HI VIZ LIZ (CANCELLED)
Hi Viz Liz, your shovel-ready Diva, and her tradie mates arrive and unload!
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NU DISCO
A one-woman odyssey into the beating heart of the club.
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EAT YOUR HEART OUT
Fine dining requires sharp knives.
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LIVE STREAM: EAT YOUR HEART OUT
Friday 15 March 2024 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of Eat Your Heart Out
SHINE MY LIGHT
Empowering comedy celebrating womanhood.
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GREEK TRILOGY: METANASTES – THE IMMIGRANTS (CANCELLED)
I’m a whole world away, 9283 miles away from home. Home is where the heart is, but where does my heart belong? Life has Two Doors: What to do? This is what I lived; this is what I saw. This is what I wrote.
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OSHUN
A goddess or just a hot mess?
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LIVE STREAM: OSHUN
Friday 1 March 2024 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of OSHUN.
LIVE STREAM: TAXITHI - THE LONG JOURNEY HOME
Sunday 25 February 2024 4:00 PM
Live streamed performance of TAXITHI - THE LONG JOURNEY HOME
TAXITHI - THE LONG JOURNEY HOME
I threw a stone behind me and I didn't look back.
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YOU'RE NO GOOD
When the one you loved most, is the one who fucked you up the most, where do your memories take you?
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LIVE STREAM: EFTIHIA - LIFE HAS TWO DOORS
Sunday 25 February 2024 2:00 PM
Live streamed performance of Eftihia – Life Has Two Doors
EFTIHIA - LIFE HAS TWO DOORS
I’m a whole world away, 9283 miles away from home. Home is where the heart is, but where does my heart belong? Life has Two Doors: What to do? This is what I lived; this is what I saw. This is what I wrote.
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A SUFFOCATING CHOKING FEELING
A subversive interrogation of truth in the age of social media - inspired by Australian wellness influencer and cancer-con Belle Gibson (BBC’s ‘Bad Influencer’).
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HOMOPHONIC! 2024
New Music by Queer Composers
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LA NONNA'S SAUCY SAUCE DAY
Let's get saucy!
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LIVE STREAM: MIDSUMMICA FEB 2024
Monday 5 February 2024 8:00 PM
Live streamed performance of Midsummica February 2024
MIDSUMMICA FEB 2024
Monday 5 February 2024 8:00 PM
A celebration of LGBTQIA+ identities, disability, and neurodiversity through performance, presented by alumni from the five years of the Midsumma Pathways Program.
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TRANSWOMAN KILLS INFLUENCER
Did the Transwoman Kill the Influencer? Are trans people who we think they are? What makes a good person?
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A BODY AT WORK
The debut solo show from queer artist and sex worker Frankie van Kan exploring what it means to be A Body at Work in the adult industry.
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LIVE STREAM: A BODY AT WORK (CANCELLED)
Friday 2 February 2024 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of A BODY AT WORK
DUMMY: HQ
Between Monday 1 January 2024 and Tuesday 2 January 2024
DUMMY HQ
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DUMMY: CH
Between Monday 1 January 2024 and Tuesday 2 January 2024
DUMMY: Courthouse Theatre Full Season
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DUMMY: LIVE STREAM
Monday 1 January 2024
Live streamed performance of
DUMMY: EXPLORATIONS CH
Monday 1 January 2024
DUMMY Explorations CH
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DUMMY: EXPLORATIONS HQ
Monday 1 January 2024
DUMMY Explorations HQ
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DUMMY: BNH
Monday 1 January 2024
DUMMY for shows at the Brunswick Neighbourhood House
Brunswick Neighbourhood House
DUMMY: LA MAMICA
Monday 1 January 2024
DUMMY La Mamica
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DUMMY: SCHOOL SHOW
Monday 1 January 2024
DUMMY School Show
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DUMMY: PLAYREADING
Monday 1 January 2024
DUMMY: PLAYREADING
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DUMMY: KIDS SHOW
Monday 1 January 2024
DUMMY Kids Show
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SURAT-SURATNYA
Letters which bear witness to political violence long unacknowledged.
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I SHALL GO OUT ACROSS THE SNOW-COVERED FIELD
Lina Prokofiev’s beautiful, sad, devoted and enduring life
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CABARETICA DEC 2023
Friday 15 December 2023 10:00 PM
Celebrate the end of 2023 in style with Melbourne's hottest cabaret acts.
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PLAY READING: MRS. BIN (CANCELLED)
Sunday 10 December 2023 11:00 AM
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PLAY READING: HOPPY YOUNG
Saturday 9 December 2023 2:00 PM
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PLAY READING: THE BUTCHER, THE BAKER......
Saturday 9 December 2023 2:00 PM
A tale with a twist
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THE TALK (CANCELLED)
Mum attempts a convo about 'the birds & bees' with her tween. The Talk that ensues is illuminating.
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PERCUSSION, CONVERSATION, DEGUSTATION
Percussion, Conversation, Degustation is a curated program of 4 nights of improvisational music and cross-artform performance that integrates elements of food, participatory discussion and live music.
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LIVE STREAM: THE TALK (CANCELLED)
Saturday 2 December 2023
Mum attempts a convo about 'the birds & bees' with her tween. The Talk that ensues is illuminating.
PRISONER AT THE WORLD'S END
Set truth free
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MI:WI 3027
Essentially MI:WI 3027 play is an exploration of a friendship built around the notion of a liberated homeland, where freedom is paramount.
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PLAY READING: VARIOUS CHARACTERS
Saturday 25 November 2023 2:00 PM
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LIVE STREAM: PRISONER AT THE WORLD'S END
Friday 24 November 2023 7:30 PM
Set truth free
PLAY READING: KOOKABURRA PLAYERS
Saturday 18 November 2023 2:00 PM
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LIVE STREAM: MI:WI 3027
Friday 17 November 2023
MI:WI 3027 is an exploration of a friendship built around the notion of a liberated homeland, where freedom is paramount.
DEFOE'S PLAGUE
London. 1722. Writer's festival. Man in full wig sits at a desk. This is Mr Daniel Defoe.
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SLIGHTLY CRACKED
Mental Health Facilities. Funding Cuts. Family Dinners. Anyone has the potential to crack.
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PLAYREADING: I SHALL GO OUT ACROSS THE SNOW-COVERED FIELD
Saturday 11 November 2023 2:00 PM
A Work in Progress play reading: November 11 2023 Carlton Courthouse, 2pm
Full development season: December 6-17 2023
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SCHOOL ACCESS: CACTUS
Watch until Monday 6 November 2023
School video access
SCHOOL ACCESS: FRANKENSTEIN
Watch until Monday 6 November 2023
School video access
SCHOOL ACCESS: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DINOSAURS
Watch until Monday 6 November 2023
School video access
LIVESTREAM: MUSICA: MAPS FOR LOSING ONESELF
Monday 6 November 2023 7:30 PM
During the pandemic, Nick recorded an album in his lounge room. Experience La Mama Courthouse transformed into the acoustic environment of the famous Hagia Sofia mosque in Istanbul.
MUSICA: MAPS FOR LOSING ONESELF
Monday 6 November 2023 7:30 PM
Experience La Mama Courthouse transformed into the acoustic environment of the famous Hagia Sofia mosque in Istanbul.
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PLAY READING: THE KEN WRIGHT SHOW (CANCELLED)
Saturday 4 November 2023 12:00 PM
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MOOSH THE HOBO CAT
Using the story structure of the hero’s journey, Moosh the Hobo Cat is about the callousness of humanity in contemporary capitalism. It explores homelessness and social inequality through Moosh’s journey with a fusion of confronting Australian street prose and Persian Dramatic Storytelling. An array of eccentric characters narrate the tale. Moosh the Hobo Cat travels from civility to criminalisation - hard time, both on the street and in a locked cage - then the pathway back from utter despair to hope.
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MURMUR (CANCELLED)
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PLAY READING: LUNG (CANCELLED)
Saturday 28 October 2023 2:00 PM
LUNG is a radio play about a woman awaiting a lung transplant.
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LA MAMA CONNECT
Between Saturday 21 October 2023 and Tuesday 24 October 2023
La Mama Connect is a new initiative designed to create opportunities for artists to connect, meet other artists, network and feel part of the La Mama community.
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MYTH, PROPAGANDA AND THE HEIRS OF AMERICA
A sequel to the classic Australian post 9/11 political thriller by Robert Reid.
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MYTH, PROPAGANDA AND DISASTER...
Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America.
The twentieth anniversary of Stephen Sewell's classic political thriller set post 9/11.
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LIVE STREAM: POETICA OCT 23 (CANCELLED)
Tuesday 17 October 2023
Four Women Writing
POETICA OCT 2023
Tuesday 17 October 2023 8:00 PM
Four Women Writing
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STARFISH THE [REDACTED]
A black comedy about the power of art, and its undiminishing light it shines on humankind.
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MYTH, PROPAGANDA, DISASTER AND THE AUSTRALIAN THEATRE (CANCELLED)
Saturday 14 October 2023
A lecture by Dr. Rob
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MYTH, PROPAGANDA, DISASTER AND THE AUSTRALIAN THEATRE
Saturday 14 October 2023
A lecture by Dr. Rob
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EXPLORATIONS: WAVES (WAVE)
Experience the convergence of art music and performance art in WAVES (WAVE), a dynamic hybrid performance inspired by wave phenomena.
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PLAY READING: THIN THREADS
Saturday 7 October 2023 2:00 PM
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EXPLORATIONS: GARY IS JESUS
A new provocative, hilarious and violent, electronic musical depicting love and desire in the modern age.
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EXPLORATION: VARIATION FOR THREE VOICES (CANCELLED)
An experiment with biological dramaturgy, Variation explores the boundaries between life and death..
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EXPLORATIONS: LEGENDS OR (THE GOD KILLERS) (CANCELLED)
There's more than one way to kill a god.
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CELEBRITY
Bigger than Jesus. Greater than God.
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RIP - REST IN PARADISE
Shipwrecked on a desert island and mystery is afoot… on hand… elbow… macaroni… eggs, cheese, lemonade
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EXPLORATIONS: NOISE
what you hear in the silence
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EXPLORATIONS: FANTASTIC IN PLASTIC
You Can Be Anything - Except Perfect!
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EXPLORATIONS: IN TOUCH (CANCELLED)
How far would you go to deliver one last hug?
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PLAYREADING: THE PASSING
Saturday 23 September 2023 2:00 PM
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EXPLORATIONS: GO / NO GO
GO/NO GO: a circus-theatre reimagining of the First Lady Astronaut Trainees and their fight for space.
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EXPLORATIONS: CHERRY BOMB
Sticky. Candy. Dizzy. POP!
The ripest fruits come with the deadliest pits.
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DEVELOPERS MAKE SHIT NEIGHBOURS (CANCELLED)
Suburban battlers meet the dream neighbour, lollypop woman, 100 concrete trucks and a taxi driver.
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PLAYREADING: VIVALDI'S PARK
Saturday 16 September 2023
Bench was once a beautiful straight tree, made into a wooden bench. Tree is crooked and so was not altered by humans. The play is about a local community’s use of a park with threads of different stories that connect, or not – a homeless man, an immigrant family, a man and his dog, teenagers and more. The scenes and stories come from the participants personal experiences.
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EXPLORATIONS: GRASS (CANCELLED)
A lost young woman is offered a mysterious pill at a party.
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EXPLORATIONS: CRY BABY
Caution: This show was made while crying.
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EXPLORATIONS: WORLDS WHERE LIFE MIGHT EXIST
A mother's hope, a woman's grief - in a world of wondrous stars.
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EXPLORATIONS: ELEPHANT (CANCELLED)
Elephant will make you laugh and gasp as one family finally talks about the Elephant in the room.
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EXPLORATIONS: SEDUCTION
‘Tis a sad story, really, one of woe, passion, desire... and seduction...
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EXPLORATIONS: DEAR SUN, LOVE JOY
An intimate portrayal of artist Joy Hester, told through shadows, hand written letters and movement.
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PIANO (IN SEVEN PARTS)
August 31st: Piano (in seven parts):
Six people meet unexpectedly, across time and space, at the Pacific Hotel in Lorne. D.H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain are among them.
September 1st + 2nd: Piano (in four parts):
An improvised sound meditation on the reading of Piano (in seven parts).
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EXPLORATIONS: EVERYONE WANTS TO BE EMMA
Everyone wants to be Emma, nobody wants to be me.
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MY FIRST BIKE
The event which is Maude Davey, made strange by the unaccustomed gaze
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CACTUS
An award-winning, delightfully charismatic coming of age story for our times, and for all ages.
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EXPLORATIONS: BALLADS FROM THE BRINK
Musical musings from the darkest of nights, to take you out of the abyss and pull you back from the brink.
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EXPLORATIONS: SKY SYMPHONY
Between Wednesday 9 August 2023 and Saturday 19 August 2023
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Outside La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: CORPSE (CANCELLED)
I see dead people.
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LIVE STREAM: CACTUS
Thursday 17 August 2023
An award-winning, delightfully charismatic coming of age story for our times, and for all ages.
EXPLORATIONS: STRANGE LOCUTIONS
Scenes of discord, connection and subversion that weave a gaudy tapestry of the mind’s ability to create, distort and upend itself.
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I SAID THIS TO THE BIRD
In I Said This To the Bird, four strangers accidentally meet and explore their dual senses of alienation as refugees in the midst of a city-wide pandemic lockdown.
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EXPLORATIONS: THE CLOUD
A cautionary tale of intelligence in something else’s hands.
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EXPLORATIONS: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BABY
There is no such thing...until you listen.
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EXPLORATIONS: TRUE MYTHS
And the oracle at Delphi said: What are birds? We just don’t know.
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PLAYREADING: WHY WE TOOK THE CAR (TSCHICK)
Saturday 5 August 2023 2:00 PM
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EXPLORATIONS: LEGENDS OR (THE GOD KILLERS) (CANCELLED)
There's more than one way to kill a god.
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EXPLORATIONS: AFTER REBECCA
Gothic novel 'Rebecca' meets 'Farmer Wants A Wife' in a new one-woman show tackling coercive control.
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GARAGE GIRLS
Meet Alice Anderson. Mechanic. Trailblazer. Entrepreneur. A rollicking ride through 1920's Melbourne!
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Open House Melbourne
Guided access tours of La Mama Theatre.
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LIVE STREAM: GARAGE GIRLS
Friday 28 July 2023 7:30 PM
Meet Alice Anderson. Mechanic. Trailblazer. Entrepreneur. A rollicking ride through 1920's Melbourne!
EXPLORATIONS: HEY, YOU
Two misfits embark on a plan of sabotage and revenge following a scandalous wedding announcement
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EXPLORATIONS: LAUNDRY SHOOT!
Danny’s in a chute. Maisie and Friel deliver mail. It’s the Invasion—what’s real and what’s a dream?
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EXPLORATIONS: THE DEVIL DOTH PREACH
Three figures weave together to disentangle their truth from the truth of their creators.
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EXPLORATIONS: COMFORT MUSIC
A stories and songs show about being caught between two worlds, the Muppets, and finding solace in music
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ADA
The Advanced Domestic Assistant, for all your home and lifestyle needs.
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EXPLORATIONS: THE TALK
Mum attempts a convo about 'the birds & bees' with her tween. The Talk that ensues is illuminating.
La Mama HQ
CABARETICA JULY 2023
Friday 14 July 2023 10:00 PM
Come get cozy with some of Melbournes hottest cabaret acts..
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EXPLORATIONS: BOOBS IN SPACE
Theatrically graphic and generally voyeuristic.
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LIVESTREAM: POETICA: THE POETRY OF MY GENERATION
Tuesday 11 July 2023 8:00 PM
The Poetry of My Generation
POETICA JULY 2023
Tuesday 11 July 2023 8:00 PM
The Poetry of My Generation
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LIVE STREAM: MUSICA: How Do We Listen?
Monday 10 July 2023 7:30 PM
How do we listen?
MUSICA: HOW DO WE LISTEN?
Monday 10 July 2023 7:30 PM
We’re drenched in sensation, but each person’s experience is unique.
What do we assume about sound, and the ways we listen?
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LIVE STREAM: MIDSUMMICA JULY 2023
Sunday 9 July 2023 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of MIDSUMMICA July 2023
MIDSUMMICA
Sunday 9 July 2023 7:30 PM
Midsummica is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ identities, disability, and neurodiversity through performance, presented by alumni from the five years of the Midsumma Pathways Program for LGBTQIA+ artists living with disability and neurodiversity.
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EXPLORATIONS: HOW TO EAT RABBIT
Temperatures, sea levels, and Nazi’s are rising. Two friends train to ensure their mutual survival.
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EXPLORATIONS: NIUSIA
How can you honour the legacy of a woman you hardly knew?
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SHOWKO: ONE NIGHT SUSHI STAND
Surreal characters drop into this Sushi Counter for mindfulness tips and ridiculous Sushi therapy
The Motley Bauhaus Upstairs
JULES CHAPPLE (ROVING)
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La Mama Courthouse + The Motley Bauhaus (Roving Outside)
MURRAY AND THE MURRAYONETTES: THEY CAME FROM URANUS
Set to a fabulously retro soundtrack with sounds from the sizzling 60's till now it's an eye-popping puppet feast for grownups. Prepare to be ''Love Bombed'' by the wickedest cast of salacious extraterrestrials you'll ever meet!
The Motley Bauhaus Downstairs
CURIOUS LEGENDS (ROVING)
Join Bin Chick, the giant baby ibis on a hilariously chaotic mission to find the best bin in VIC.
La Mama HQ + The Motley Bauhaus (Roving Outside)
ORANGE SOCK: THINGS THAT WRIGGLE AND SQUIRM
A raucously funny late-night puppet slam by the new generation of puppetry artists.
La Mama HQ
SYDNEY PUPPET WORKSHOP: MARIONETTE
Sunday 2 July 2023 2:30 PM
Join Sydney Puppet Theatre for a rare opportunity to learn how to manipulate marionettes. Using their stock of beautifully hand crafted marionettes, Sydney Puppet Theatre will guide participants through all aspects of becoming a marionettist.
Kathleen Syme Centre – Multipurpose Room 2
BLACK HOLE: KUTHUMI
A Wergaia tale that lets you know what happens if you mess with fire - watch out!
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EM CHANDLER: MOONSPELL
Playful moon folktales from around the world!
La Mama Rehearsal Hub
THINGS OF FOAM AND WOOD WORKSHOP: MOULD MAKING
Sunday 2 July 2023 10:00 AM
Tamara Rewse and Hamish Fletcher of Things of Foam & Wood are two of Australia’s finest puppet makers working across film, television and theatre. Join Tamara and Hamish for a in depth mould making masterclass.
Kathleen Syme Centre – Maker Space
LITTLE WING: A LITTLE BIT OF BLUE
A Detective Story, told with Puppetry, where you help solve the case.
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EMILIE BLOOM: FRITZ
With no magic and no tricks, this circus bunny is in a fix! Can Fritz save the day by saving the show?
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SYDNEY PUPPET THEATRE: IN SEARCH OF THE GIDDY GIRD BIRD
IN SEARCH OF THE GIDDY GIRD BIRD is like watching a toy box come to life.
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SHAKE SHAKE: THE STORY OF MR B.
A surprising, heartfelt tale, where nature brings friendship and hope to a grumbling Mr Bumblegrum.
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JACOB WILLIAMS WORKSHOP: MANIPULATION
Saturday 1 July 2023 2:30 PM
Jacob Williams is the co Artistic Director of Lemony S Puppet Theatre as well as current puppetry director on ‘Bluey’s Big Stage Play’ (Andrew Kay Productions) and Windmill Picture’s TV show ‘Beep and Mort’. His 20+ year career has taken him to Broadway and back again, working across Australia and the globe. Join Jacob for a four hour masterclass in manipulation and performance techniques for puppetry.
Kathleen Syme Centre – Multipurpose Room 2
PHILIP MILLAR WORKSHOP: DIGITAL TOOLS FOR ANALOG MAKERS
Saturday 1 July 2023 10:00 AM
Incorporate digital 3d techniques and processes into your puppet making workflow.
Kathleen Syme Centre – Maker Space
THINGS OF FOAM AND WOOD (ROVING) (CANCELLED)
Saturday 1 July 2023
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La Mama HQ (Roving Outside)
PERRI CAMPBELL (ROVING)
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The Motley Bauhaus (Roving Outside)
PARIS BALLA WORKSHOP: JUNK PUPPETS
Friday 30 June 2023 12:00 PM
In puppetry we say “anything can be a puppet’. Join artist Paris Bella to see how ordinary household junk can be repurposed to create a marvellous puppet.
Kathleen Syme Centre – Multipurpose Room 2
GEORGIE ROSE (ROVING)
Friday 30 June 2023 11:00 AM
Puppet roving and workshop to create your very own rod puppet!
La Mama HQ (Roving Outside)
DREAM PUPPETS: DREAMER AND THE RAINBOW TIGER
After heavy rains a magical rainbow tiger comes from a rainbow to visit Dreamer. They share adventures
La Mama Courthouse
ASEEL TAYAH: ARDNA (CANCELLED)
A story of land. A story of home.
La Mama Rehearsal Hub
MARK PENZAK: LABYRINTH IN THE LIBRARY
An action story in the world's most dangerous and exciting
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GEORGIE ROSE: ROD PUPPETS WORKSHOP
Thursday 29 June 2023 12:00 PM
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Kathleen Syme Centre – Multipurpose Room 2
BONKEL: ROLLING! (CANCELLED)
A puppet-human-bike musical that unravels the extraordinary travails of one unbelievable bike heist!
La Mama HQ Outside
PUPPEROOS: HAENYEO: WOMEN OF THE SEA
A story about handing down traditions, inspired by the Haenyeo women divers of Jeju Island, Korea.
La Mama HQ
Artist Talk with Sonny Tilders
Wednesday 28 June 2023
Sonny will talk about his career in creature making over some 30 years by showcasing some of the more interesting and unusual project challenges he has come across from the miniature and complex to the enormous and spectacular. Whether on the movie screens or in front of a live audience these projects may differ wildly in so many ways however the age old art form of puppetry sits at the heart of them all. Sonny will take you on a behind the scenes tour of a subject matter he is incredibly passionate about.
CO.AS.IT.
ALEX JOY SOCK PUPPETS WORKSHOP (CANCELLED)
Wednesday 28 June 2023 12:00 PM
Did you know Kermit the Frog is actually a fancy sock puppet?! Alex Joy will guide you through making your own fabulous sock creation and teach you the puppetry techniques to be as marvellous as Kermit.
Kathleen Syme Centre – Multipurpose Room 2
PARIS BALLA WORKSHOP: SOCK PUPPETS
Wednesday 28 June 2023 12:00 PM
Did you know Kermit the Frog is actually a fancy sock puppet?! Paris Balla will guide you through making your own fabulous sock creation and teach you the puppetry techniques to be as marvellous as Kermit.
Kathleen Syme Centre – Multipurpose Room 2
UB SHADOW PUPPETS WORKSHOP
Tuesday 27 June 2023 12:00 PM
Family friendly shadow puppet making workshop.
Kathleen Syme Centre – Multipurpose Room 2
FRANKENSTEIN
She's coming for you, ready or not.
La Mama Courthouse
TREES WHO REALLY CARES (lest we forget - it's vital)
Madness, Laughter, stillness, silences, disagreements, dictators, and other feelings that might surface - in the moment.
La Mama HQ
LITTLE BROTHER, BIG SISTER
Drawn from the writer’s lived experience of schizophrenia, this powerful play explores the relationship between siblings who grapple to manage this condition, interrupting their urge to transform the world through art.
La Mama Courthouse
WOMAN WITH A TOMAHAWK
Can we be witnesses to ourselves? How do we emerge through trauma? Is it a choice, or chosen for us?
La Mama HQ
PLAYREADING: GEHANNA
Saturday 10 June 2023
A sci-fi tale of a father in search of his daughter amidst the corporate hellscape of the planet Gehenna.
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: LITTLE BROTHER, BIG SISTER
Friday 9 June 2023
Drawn from the writer’s lived experience of schizophrenia, this powerful play explores the relationship between siblings who grapple to manage this condition, interrupting their urge to transform the world through art.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DINOSAURS
The ocean is rising, a meteor might hit...but more importantly, your macchiato is too hot.
La Mama Courthouse
ADRIFT
Scenes of suburban disconnection.
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: ADRIFT
Friday 2 June 2023 7:30 PM
Scenes of suburban disconnection.
LAST ILLUMINATIONS
In Last Illuminations ‘visions’ enable an official to live through imagination and memory.
La Mama HQ
KILLING TIME
Between Tuesday 9 May 2023 and Sunday 21 May 2023
A new play by Jack Hibberd.
La Mama Courthouse
CABARETICA: CARICATURES AND COMEDY
Friday 19 May 2023 10:00 PM
Caricatures, comedy and cabaret oh my!
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: POETICA MAY 2023
Tuesday 16 May 2023
The Poetry of Rethinking
POETICA: MAY 2023
Tuesday 16th May 2023 8:00 PM
The Poetry of Rethinking
La Mama Courthouse
AUTUMN MUSICA: THE WATERMILL
Monday 15th May 2023 7:30 PM
The music of the word. The language of the sound.
La Mama Courthouse
LIVESTREAM: AUTUMN MUSICA: THE WATERMILL
Monday 15 May 2023
The music of the word. The language of the sound.
PLAYREADING: EVA 4 EVER
Saturday 13 May 2023 2:00 PM
A one-woman exploration of coercive female friendship.
La Mama HQ
MUSICAL JAM
Every Monday from 8th May – 19th June
Musical classes for babies and preschoolers.
The Rehearsal Hub
FLOWERS FOR LORNE (CANCELLED)
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La Mama HQ
BY JANE'S HAND
A whimsical window into the magnificent mind of Jane Austen.
La Mama Courthouse
*POSTPONED* PIANO (IN SEVEN PARTS) (CANCELLED)
May 4: Piano (in seven parts):
Six people meet unexpectedly, across time and space, at the Pacific Hotel in Lorne.
D.H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain are among them.
May 5 and 6: Piano (in four parts):
A sound meditation on the reading of Piano (in seven parts).
La Mama HQ
SAME BUT DIFFERENT: A TRILOGY
An emotional journey of love, loss and identity.
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: SAME BUT DIFFERENT: A TRILOGY
Friday 28 April 2023 7:30 PM
An emotional journey of love, loss and identity.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MURDER
Needing to cover up one killing and on the verge of committing another, Mick and Shane work their way towards freedom, experiencing many complications and coming to learn much about themselves – and each other.
La Mama Courthouse
PLAYREADING: HANS LOVES TOM BUT THERE IS A PROBLEM
22 April 2023 2:00 PM
Sex romps for oldies...with a twist.
La Mama HQ Rehearsal Hub
THE JOB INTERVIEW
A black comedy about interviewing for a job that you know you’ll hate, from a manager that will gaslight you, in a workplace that will slowly drive you insane. A tense, Pinteresque play about corporations and the absurdity of the modern workforce.
La Mama HQ
THE COMEDY GAMES WITH COACH MON
Will you help Coach Mon keep her dream alive?
La Mama Courthouse
WHERE THERE'S A WILL
A dark comedy that explores the boiling emotions that erupt when siblings don’t feel they’ve been dealt a fair hand and parents are gone. A play that exposes the comedy in the family tragedy, or could it be the other way around?
La Mama HQ
AN INAPPROPRIATELY SERIOUS HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN COMEDY
...with Dr Rob (and Elliot). You can tell a lot about a country by its comedy...
La Mama Courthouse
PLAYREADING: CHESSED OFF
Saturday 8 April 2023 2:00 PM
Lockdown. Melbourne. 2020. A deadly virus. Confinement. Isolation. Punishment. How do you cope?
La Mama HQ Rehearsal Hub
WAY
Between Wednesday 22 March 2023 and Sunday 2 April 2023
One little thing can go wrong…
La Mama Courthouse
CABARETICA: SING OUT THE SUMMER
Friday 31 March 2023 10:00 PM
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La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: POETICA MARCH 2023
Tuesday 28 March 2023 8:00 PM
Live streamed performance of La Mama POETICA MARCH 2023
POETICA: MARCH 2023
Tuesday 28 March 2023 7:30 PM
Poetry of the Times
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: MUSICA MARCH 2023: The story of here
Monday 27 March 2023 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of Musica March 2023: The story of here
MUSICA: The story of here
Monday 27 March 2023 7:30 PM
Earth, from its beginnings in a cloud of stardust, 4.6 billion years ago.
La Mama Courthouse
LA MAMA KIDS: THE STORY KEEPERS NEXT CHAPTER
Between Saturday 25 March 2023 and Sunday 26 March 2023
Enchanting queer fairy tales are brought to life through imagination, music, and a chicken!
La Mama Courthouse
FLESH DISEASE
Five women gather together. They knit. And as they knit and talk, the more insular they become.
La Mama HQ
GRIEF TRILOGY: let bleeding girls lie
Between Wednesday 15 March 2023 and Sunday 19 March 2023
Sometimes we need the kindness of strangers.
La Mama Courthouse
PLAY READING: ALL THE THINGS SHE GAVE ME (CANCELLED)
Saturday 18 March 2023
Mid-January 2019. Melbourne airport. A delayed flight. Two strangers meet. Eighteen hours neither will forget follows.
La Mama HQ
RADIOACTIVE COCKROACH
In this travesty of a Circus - who is the ultimate ringmaster?
La Mama HQ
GRIEF TRILOGY: my sister feather
Between Wednesday 8 March 2023 and Sunday 12 March 2023
Two estranged sisters sit in a prison visiting room. What will it take to reconnect?
La Mama Courthouse
GRIEF TRILOGY: I sat and waited but you were gone too long
Between Wednesday 1 March 2023 and Sunday 5 March 2023
Perhaps a changing room can give us room to change each other.
La Mama Courthouse
PLAY READING: TUESDAY LUNCH
Saturday 4 March 2023 2:00 PM
In this time of uncertainty just navigate the menu…
La Mama HQ
NOT ALL DICTATORS
If Shakespeare and Hendrix did the wild thing, this would be their love child.
La Mama Courthouse
VIRGINIA
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. Tis the waking that kills us.
La Mama HQ
MONOLOGUE: MY FATHER'S STORY
Saturday 25 February 2023
A Celebration and Testament to the life of Neville Foley through a Dramatic Monologue
La Mama Courthouse
PLAY READING: WHO SAVED JFK
Saturday 18 February 2023
Who Saved JFK will put history right about indigenous service men and women from all over the world in World War II
La Mama HQ
THE SIX GUYS AN IMMIGRANT TRANS PERSON OF COLOUR WILL DATE..
D goes on a series of romantic (mis)adventures as they traverse Melbourne’s queer dating scene.
La Mama HQ
KOVID RAT KABARETT GOES SPIRAL
What Doesn't Kill You Mutates And Tries Again.
La Mama Courthouse
THE ANGEL WITH BLUE EYES
Between Friday 27 January 2023 and Saturday 4 February 2023
Kit and Billie’s relationship is a story written from the heavens themselves . . . right?
La Mama HQ
LA NONNA'S SAUCY SAUCE DAY (CANCELLED)
Saturday 4 February 2023 12:00 PM
Let’s Get Saucy!
La Mama HQ Rehearsal Hub / Forecourt
HOMOPHONIC!
Between Friday 27 January 2023 and Saturday 28 January 2023
New music by queer composers!
La Mama Courthouse
SHADOWFALL
If you look over you can see feathers falling gently and a shadow against the sky. Who is up there? Look closely.
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: PLAY
The imagined loneliness of the jealous dead
La Mama Courthouse
EXPLORATIONS: WAITING...
Confusion lies low... gentleness is lurking.
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: La Mama Cabaretica: Holiday Special (CANCELLED)
Friday 16 December 2022 10:00 PM
Live streamed performance of La Mama Cabaretica: Holiday Special.
LA MAMA CABARETICA: HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Friday 16 December 2022 10:00 PM
It's already the end of 2022?! Ring out the year with a glass of something yummy and cabaret acts that are even yummier.
La Mama Courthouse
EXPLORATIONS: PUPPET LAB
Lemony S Lab students explore the possibilities of puppetry.
La Mama Courthouse
EXPLORATIONS: FIVE YEAR OLD GIRL
Between Tuesday 13 December 2022 and Thursday 15 December 2022
Grotesque satire, physical theatre and the child archetype meet in a rehearsal room.
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: I'M STILL HERE
"I'd like to think I'm a pretty good person." - A Bad Person.
La Mama Courthouse
EXPLORATIONS: FLUSH
Drown your sorrows. Rinse off thoroughly. Maybe it’s just a dream.
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: QUALIA/FYRE
Qualia/Fyre is a search for fire in one of the coldest places on earth.
La Mama Courthouse
EXPLORATIONS: HE
Playing with the ocean is not a game
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: TROPHY BOYS
Boys being boys.
La Mama Courthouse
EXPLORATIONS: ENTER LILIUM
An absurd drag odyssey about the non-linear, non-binary experience of healing and levelling up.
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: DESTINY IS A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD
A poetic gag reflex. A queer reinterpretation of the incredibly weird yet problematic yet also powerful manifesto of Jack Parson's "Freedom is a two edged sword" by local punk band and deviants, NQW.
La Mama Courthouse
EXPLORATIONS: OSHUN
Goddess or a hot mess?
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: WAKE
A dark but beautiful puppetry epic which probes at the frightening and paralyzing truth of all things
La Mama Courthouse
EXPLORATIONS: THE SEVENTH DAY
This surreal stage play would merge multi-media visual and live performances, serving as an intimate and inviting dialogue between audiences and performers in the form of monologue and visual display.
La Mama HQ
MUSICAL JAM
Musical Jam is an inclusive, interactive, relaxed, and social group music class that you can enjoy with your babies, preschoolers, and young kids under 6.
The Rehearsal Hub
EXPLORATIONS: ABU SALIM...
Bardic Barber : Lebbo Poet : Ladies Man 😉
La Mama HQ
AN INDIGENOUS TRILOGY: ACT 1 – 3 (Durational performance)
Experimental, independent First National theatre
12:30pm - 2pm: ACT 1 - Three Magpies Perched in a Tree
2:00pm - 3pm: Indigenous Foods (Tasting plates)
3:30pm - 5pm: ACT 2 - Masterpiece
5:00pm - 6pm: Live Music
6:30pm - 8pm: ACT 3 - Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret
La Mama Courthouse
AN INDIGENOUS TRILOGY: ACT 3 SECRETS
Experimental, independent First National theatre
La Mama Courthouse
AN INDIGENOUS TRILOGY: ACT 2 MASTERPIECE
Experimental, independent First National theatre
La Mama Courthouse
AN INDIGENOUS TRILOGY: ACT 1 THREE MAGPIES PERCHED IN A TREE
Experimental, independent First National theatre
La Mama Courthouse
EXPLORATIONS: YOU'RE NO GOOD
When the person you love the most is the one who fucked you up the most, where does your trip down memory lane take you?
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: An Indigenous Trilogy Act III Secrets
Thursday 24 November 2022 3:30 PM
Live streamed performance of An Indigenous Trilogy - Act III: Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret on Thursday, Nov 24, 3:30pm (Followed by Q&A)
EXPLORATIONS:BESOK ATAU TIDAK SAMA SEKALI(TOMORROW OR NEVER)
It is 1945, and Soekarno prepares to declare Indonesian Independence to the world, ending colonialism in Indonesia.
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: AN INDIGENOUS TRILOGY: ACT 2 MASTERPIECE
Friday 18 November 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of AN INDIGENOUS TRILOGY: ACT 2 MASTERPIECE
EXPLORATIONS: THE HYPODERMIC NEEDLE THEORY
A tender, relatable and euphoric deep dive into our relationship with perfection; the obsession, the release, and everything in between.
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: THE OLD MAN AND THE MOUSE
A one-man play with NO dialogue performed by legendary actor Tony Nikolakopoulos.
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: RISING DAMP
A Sporepunk unearthing of a queer utopia
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: ACT 1 THREE MAGPIES PERCHED IN A TREE
Friday 11 November 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of AN INDIGENOUS TRILOGY - ACT 1 THREE MAGPIES PERCHED IN A TREE
EXPLORATIONS: PALAGI
The mixed race experience in a post racial world
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: NIGHT SWEAT
night sweat is an abstraction of the line we walk when we sleep. a non-sensical, visceral journey.
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: IN THE DARK
An interrogation of power structures and social identity during times of crisis.
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: LONG LIVE THE KING
Drag King Shakespearean cabaret
La Mama HQ
THE EXQUISITE CORPSE... SHALL DRINK THE NEW WINE
Strange goings-on at the Horse Head Salon. Three wild, impenetrable, extravagant, fervent women prepare their new exhibit.
La Mama Courthouse
PLAY READING: BROKEN MEN
Saturday 29 October 2022 2:00 PM
How do we deal with separation, divorce and having to start over? Broken Men examines what it takes for people to pick up the pieces and begin to live again.
La Mama Courthouse
EXPLORATIONS: BODY HORROR
What would you do to her body?
La Mama HQ
EXPLORATIONS: PHÉNOMÈNE
An intimate relationship between one woman and her furniture. Not sexual. May contain spies.
La Mama HQ
HEDDA GABLERGABLERGABLER
Ibsen’s ‘Hedda Gabler’, transformed into a three-way live art endurance sport.
La Mama Courthouse
LA MAMA KIDS: MEET MY GRANDIES
Between Saturday 22 October 2022 and Sunday 23 October 2022
A cast of young performers take on their greatest challenge yet – playing their grandparents!
La Mama Courthouse
EXPLORATIONS: LIMBO
LIMBO is a fever dream, plunging us into a world that confronts bodily autonomy, consent, and de-sensitisation.
La Mama HQ
NOT ALL DICTATORS
The three witches of McPutin are mad as hell and on the warpath for revenge. Shakespeare meets Gurlesque in this biting drama about men in power and women at war.
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: HEDDA GABLERGABLERGABLER
Thursday 20 October 2022
Live streamed performance of HEDDA GABLERGABLERGABLER
EXPLORATIONS: MS BEIGE BROWN GOES BEYOND
Beige must prove her cultural relevance to an Australia unaware of her existence - to fund her art.
La Mama HQ
AFTERPLAY
A chance encounter, tender and humorous, between characters from two of Chekhov’s best loved plays
La Mama HQ
ALL THAT FALL
All That Fall depicts a world in which laughter is a triumph over absurdity.
La Mama HQ
LA MAMA POETICA: THE POETRY OF GRIEF
Tuesday 11 October 2022
These poems, crafted from interviews with bereaved older adults, will take you on a journey through the ups and downs of grief and challenge the notion that grief has an expiry date.
La Mama Courthouse
LA MAMA KIDS: ARDNA (CANCELLED)
Saturday 15 October 2022 2:00 PM
Stories of our land survival
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: NOT ALL DICTATORS
Friday 14 October 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of NOT ALL DICTATORS
LIVE STREAM: POETICA: THE POETRY OF GRIEF
Tuesday 11 October 2022 8:00 PM
Live streamed performance of La Mama Poetica: The Poetry of Grief
LIVE STREAM: MUSICA: EPHEMERAL SIMULTANEOUS DOUBT
Monday 10 October 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of La Mama Musica: ephemeral simultaneous doubt
LA MAMA MUSICA: EPHEMERAL SIMULTANEOUS DOUBT
Monday 10 October 2022 7:30 PM
a spatially immersive foray into listening and seeing
La Mama Courthouse
PLAY READING: THE WRONG HORSE
The Wrong Horse explores the world of small time crime in Melbourne. A Comedy / Drama that will make you laugh and cringe at the same time.
La Mama Courthouse
LA MAMA KIDS: ALL DAY FRITZ
Saturday 8 October 2022 12:00 PM
Free outdoor concert! Music for humans of all ages.
La Mama HQ
KEN'S QUEST
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La Mama HQ
THE MEASURE OF A MOMENT
A soulful reimagining of 1890s Melbourne
La Mama Courthouse
ALL THE HOURS
TBD
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: MEASURE OF A MOMENT
Friday 30 September 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of Measure of a Moment.
BNH: KEN'S QUEST
Friday 30 September 2022 6:30pm
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Brunswick Neighbourhood House
VARIATIONS OR EXIT MUSIC
An ordinary life. An extraordinary heart.
La Mama Courthouse
TRAPS
What makes us who we are?
La Mama HQ
PLAY READING: EVERYMAN AND HIS DOG
Saturday 17 September 2022 2:00 PM
In confronting our greatest fear we sometimes discover our deepest love.
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: VARIATIONS OR EXIT MUSIC
Friday 16 September 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of Variations or Exit Music. An ordinary life. An extraordinary heart.
CURVEBALL
A pre-post apocalyptic tragic comedy about the possible end of the Earth
La Mama Courthouse
LA MAMA CABARETICA: DANCIN' IN SEPTEMBER
Friday 9 September 2022 10:00 PM
This September Cabaretica is bringing together a dynamic line up of cabaret artists that will have you dancing in your seats.
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: CABARETICA: DANCIN’ IN SEPTEMBER
Friday 9 September 2022 10:00 PM
Live streamed performance of La Mama Cabaretica: Dancin’ in September
LA MAMA MUSICA: DIVERSE SOUNDS OF IRAN
Monday 5 September 2022
Experience the rich sounds of Persia
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: MUSICA: DIVERSE SOUNDS OF IRAN
Monday 5 September 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of La Mama Musica: Diverse Sounds of Iran
Presented in partnership with The Boite
AMLETH
This is a story of betrayal, revenge and an ever-questioned matter of “justice”.
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: AMLETH
Friday 2 September 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of Amleth – No-lander mark
LITTLE BROTHER, BIG SISTER
Drawn from the writer’s lived experience of schizophrenia, this powerful play explores the relationship between siblings who grapple to manage this condition, interrupting their urge to transform the world through art.
La Mama Courthouse
BIRTHDAY BOOK OF STORMS
Set in a magic, surrealist temporality, a girl investigates the lives of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill, to discover a child's secret history
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: LITTLE BROTHER, BIG SISTER (CANCELLED)
Friday 26 August 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of Little Brother, Big Sister.
BNH: THE FALL OF THE ROMAN UMPIRE
Friday 26 August 2022 7:00 PM
An Irish immigrant’s journey - an autobiographical one-man show that will make you laugh until you cry.
Brunswick Neighbourhood House
DIRT CLOUD - POSTPONED 2023
Mari Lourey
La Mama HQ
AJOONA GUEST HOUSE
Direct from a sold-out Adelaide season, award-winning, writer and actor Stephen House opens the door on a dangerously beautiful, hidden New Delhi world.
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM:PLAYREADING: Birthday Book of Storms in Romanian
Saturday 20 August 2022 2:00 PM
Live streamed performance of Playreading: CARTEA FURTUNILOR – The Book of Storms
PLAY READING: CARTEA FURTUNILOR – The Book of Storms
Saturday 20 August 2022 2:00 PM
A Romanian translation of a text set in a magic , surrealist temporality as a girl investigates the tumultuous lives of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Assia Wevill.
La Mama Courthouse
LIVESTREAM: BIRTHDAY BOOK OF STORMS (CANCELLED)
Friday 19 August 2022 7:30 PM
Set in a magic, surrealist temporality, a girl investigates the lives of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill, to discover a child's secret history
LOUISA'S DAWN
Before The Women's Weekly in 1933 there was The Dawn in 1888.
La Mama Courthouse
PLAY READING: THE GIRL WHO FELL TO EARTH
Saturday 13 August 2022 2:00 PM
A romantic comedy about apples, Time, and being enough as you are.
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: POETICA: THE UNHEARD VOICE
Tuesday 9 August 2022 8:00 PM
Live streamed performance of La Mama Poetica: The Unheard Voice
LA MAMA POETICA: AUGUST
Tuesday 9 August 2022 7:30 PM
The Unheard Voice
La Mama Courthouse
MAYA DRIVE
Awake in Time
La Mama HQ
WE TOO US TOO ME TOO TOO TOO
A dark, satirical and extremely physical comedy about rape and murder.
La Mama Courthouse
A DAY AT A TIME IN RHYME
Spend a year with me tonight, 4 seasons in one hour, a poem for each day.
La Mama HQ
JANE EYRE
Original text by Charlotte Bronte, adapted and directed by Christine Davey
La Mama Courthouse
REBUILD LA MAMA
Saturday 30 July 2022 4:00 PM
Join us for a special Q&A forum with:
- Meg White, Design Architect
- Jim Gard'ner, Heritage Architect, Director GJM Heritage
- Felicity Coleman, Heritage Interpretation Specialist, GJM Heritage
La Mama Theatre
PARIS OR DIE
The story of a young actress drawn to the city of light after her mother’s death, where the city’s artistic, amorous and cultural hazards lead her to a bizarre near-fatal conclusion.
La Mama HQ
CHEER UP CARL
TBD
La Mama Courthouse
LIVESTREAM: CHEER UP CARL
Friday 22 July 2022 7:30 PM
Carl is a man grieving the death of his dog Grover and the deportation of his Taiwanese, drug trafficking girlfriend.
TEST SCHOOL EVENT
Set in a magic, surrealist temporality, a girl investigates the lives of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill, to discover a child's secret history
La Mama Courthouse
PLAY READING: LIVE WITH IT
Saturday 16 July 2022 2:00 PM
What's left unsaid and goes unheard will consume you... Literally.
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: PARIS OR DIE
Friday 15 July 2022 8:30 PM
Live streamed performance of PARIS OR DIE. The story of a theatre student drawn to Paris after her mother’s death, where the city’s artistic, amorous and cultural hazards lead her to a bizarre near-fatal conclusion.
LIVE STREAM: A DAY AT A TIME IN RHYME
Friday 15 July 2022 6:30 PM
Live streamed performance of A DAY AT A TIME IN RHYME.
Spend a year with me tonight, 4 seasons in one hour, a poem for each day.
BUTTERFLY NEBULA
A winged elegy stretching from the deep blue to deep space.
La Mama HQ
SHE WROTE THE LETTER
Some friendships seem impossible but last a lifetime
La Mama HQ
TALKING TO THE FUTURE
A fascinating in-depth look at Alfred Deakin and the people who helped create Federation and Australian democracy
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: SHE WROTE THE LETTER
Friday 1 July 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of She Wrote the Letter
PLAY READING: LAST ILLUMINATIONS
Saturday 25 June 2022 2:00 PM
Last Illuminations explores the extent to which we can live within our imagination and memory through focussing on a public servant who is experiencing something like visions.
La Mama HQ
LA MAMA CABARETICA: WINTER SOLSTICE
Friday 24 June 2022 10:00 PM
Brush off the winter chill at Cabaretica as we celebrate the Winter Solstice.
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: CABARETICA - WINTER SOLSTICE
Friday 24 June 2022
Live streamed performance of CABARETICA - WINTER SOLSTICE
LIVE STREAM: TALKING TO THE FUTURE
Friday 24 June 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of TALKING TO THE FUTURE
MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN
By Bertolt Brecht. Translation by Tony Kushner
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: POETICA - POETICAL WORLDS
Tuesday 14 June 2022
Live streamed performance of La Mama Poetica: Poetical Worlds
LA MAMA POETICA: POETICAL WORLDS
Tuesday 14 June 2022 7:30 PM
Poetica presents four unique poetical worlds in one event. Melinda Bufton traverses the office landscape of our collective psyche in ‘Moxie’ (Vagabond Press, 2020). Lebanese-Palestinian poet Hasib Hourani disrupts expectations of place, archive and the relationship between the two. Previous winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry and co-editor of the gay and lesbian poetry anthology ‘Out of the Box’, Michael Farrell, shares new poems. And Canberra-based poet and Australian Poetry Slam fi
La Mama Courthouse
GREAT ACTS FROM SMALL HUMANS
Stories born in the school around the corner.
La Mama HQ
GRAINGER AT HOME
Ella Grainger recalls her journey through music at the side of her husband, internationally renowned composer and pianist, Percy Grainger
La Mama Courthouse
POINT8SIX
Truth is not subjective
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: POINT8SIX
Between Friday 27 May 2022 and Saturday 4 June 2022
Live streamed performance of POINT8SIX
HEARTH
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La Mama Courthouse
PEN MYANMAR FUNDRAISER: THEY SHOOT POETS DON'T THEY
Saturday 28 May 2022 2:00 PM
PEN Melbourne fundraiser for the poets and writers of PEN Myanmar
La Mama Courthouse
BNH: FIRE IN THE HEAD
Friday 27 May 2022 7:00 PM
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Brunswick Neighbourhood House
UTTER MESS
Non-binary, Asexual, Biracial AND Neurodivergent? Utter Mess! A show about labels and
the difference between the words that confine us and the words that set us free.
La Mama HQ
SOPHIE'S KIDS CAVE
A musical adventure of dancing, singing & play!
La Mama HQ
PLAY READING: OUR HALF OF THE SKY
Saturday 21 May 2022 2:00 PM
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La Mama Courthouse
HAVE A GOOD NIGHT WALTER
A gritty, comic piece about bad thoughts, guilt, and shame
La Mama Courthouse
WAITING... but for? (CANCELLED)
Don't expect a well crafted play.
La Mama HQ
BOOP
Life's a mess. Clean up on isle 6.
La Mama Courthouse
PLAY READING: WAY
Saturday 14 May 2022 2:00 PM
Here now, how…?
La Mama HQ
#NOEXEMPTIONS
In a future defined by environmental collapse, a family reunites for the last time, confronting each other and their shared complicity in the unfolding crisis.
La Mama Courthouse
THE RIGHT WORDS ON THE DAY
What is memory?
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: #NOEXEMPTIONS
Friday 6 May 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of #NOEXEMPTIONS
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Wednesday 4 May 2022
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La Mama Rehearsal Hub
LIVE STREAM: MUSICA: KHYAAL VOCAL ENSEMBLE
Monday 2 May 2022
Live streamed performance of La Mama Musica: Khyaal Vocal Ensemble May 2, 7:30pm
LA MAMA MUSICA: KHYAAL VOCAL ENSEMBLE
Monday 2 May 2022 7:30 PM
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La Mama Courthouse
PLAY READING: THE DEVIL MADE HER DO IT
Saturday 30 April 2022 2:00 PM
A love story with a devilish twist.
La Mama HQ
LIVE STREAM: THE RIGHT WORDS ON THE DAY
Friday 29 April 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of The Right Words on the Day
SUBHUMANS
A delightful comedy about monsters, horror and death.
La Mama Courthouse
MARK AND DECLAN SOLVE NOTHING AT LA MAMA (CANCELLED)
Two men in winter coats stand against a black wall looking ambivalently at the viewer.
La Mama HQ
TRASH WITH A PORPOISE
A New, Hilarious Trash Puppets Adventure UNDER THE SEA!!
La Mama Courthouse
WORKSHOP: TRASH PUPPETS
A New, Hilarious Trash Puppets Adventure UNDER THE SEA!!
La Mama Courthouse
EMPATHY TRAINING
A group of high-profile people must undertake empathy training in order to resurrect their careers and restore their public image, but not everything goes to plan.
La Mama Courthouse
DEAR IDA
A performance about dance, touch and healing
La Mama Courthouse
IN BLOOD
On his birthday, a young man is been found covered in blood and is suspected of committing a violent crime; but he won’t say what he did.
La Mama HQ
KELLY
Am I brave now? Am I a Kelly now...
La Mama HQ
UNRAVEL_RECKONING
In this duet between vocalist/physicalist and percussionist, Medea meets Bjork, Tom Waits, Nina Simone and Menotti, playing at the outer limits, compelled to upheave it all.
La Mama Courthouse
PLAY READING: LA SOCIETA ITALIANA
La Societa Italiana is the true story of Rina Codognotto and her Italian family’s Melbourne city restaurant at the outbreak of WWII and how the very culture that saved them from crushing poverty and oppression only decades before, now segregate, arrest and intern them; a visceral, epic family saga that bursts through the confines of 20th Century Melbourne history and relinquishes it’s secrets to a new generation.
La Mama Courthouse
FIRE IN THE HEAD
A story as big as Ned’s, the untold story of his sister, Kate Kelly, tragic and heroic, yet her story has become invisible to history.
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: FIRE IN THE HEAD
Friday 25 March 2022 7:30 PM
Live streamed performance of Fire in The Head
LIVE STREAM: LA MAMA POETICA
Tuesday 22 March 2022 8:00 PM
Live stream performance La Mama Poetica
POETICA MARCH 2022
Tuesday 22 March 2022 7:30 PM
La Mama Poetica
La Mama Courthouse
BLAK STAGE MARCH 2022 (CANCELLED)
Monday 21 March 2022 7:30 PM
Blak Stage, curated by Troy Benjamin, is taking over the main stage at La Mama with an exciting line up of First Nations performers. Come along to La Mama Courthouse for an intimate night of storytelling and music.
La Mama Courthouse
CINEMATICA MARCH 2022
Sunday 20 March 2022 7:30 PM
Curated by Tessa Spooner, Cinematica’s edition #5 is a lineup of female filmmakers that gently explore notions of ‘place’ and ‘displacement’.
La Mama Courthouse
YELLINGBO
How far would you go to help someone else?
La Mama HQ
THE IMAGINATION MACHINE (CANCELLED)
If imagination was a machine
La Mama Courthouse
CABARETICA MARCH 2022 (CANCELLED)
Friday 18 March 2022
A dynamic line up of artists that celebrates Melbourne’s vibrant cabaret scene.
7pm - Brunswick Neighbourhood House, 10pm The Courthouse
LIVESTREAM: Yellingbo
Friday 18 March 2022
Livestreamed show: Mar 11 Fri, 7:30pm
BNH: CABARETICA MARCH 2022 (CANCELLED)
Friday 18 March 2022 7:00 PM
A dynamic line up of artists that celebrates Melbourne’s vibrant cabaret scene.
The bar will be open from 6.30pm so come on down and grab a drink before the show!
Brunswick Neighbourhood House
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN UMPIRE
An Irish immigrant’s journey - an autobiographical one-man show that will make you laugh until you cry.
La Mama Courthouse
STEVIE
What happened to Stevie could happen to all of us.
La Mama Courthouse
PLAY READING: WHERE THERE'S A WILL
Saturday 12 March 2022 2:00 PM
In an bleakly comic battle of wills three sisters fight it out after the death of their mother. But who is Medusa?
La Mama HQ
LIVESTREAM - MUSICA: RETHINKING THE MUSIC CITY
Monday 7 March 2022
An International Women’s Day event celebrating community, collaboration and creativity.
Livestream: Mar 7, Mon, 7:30pm
MUSICA: Rethinking the Music City
Monday 7 March 2022 7:30 PM
La Mama Musica's International Women's Day celebration
La Mama Courthouse
SOLAS
Between Wednesday 23 February 2022 and Sunday 6 March 2022
Inspired by the life of Lucia Joyce, the only daughter of James Joyce, Solas attempts to give voice to a young woman silenced by history.
La Mama HQ
AN UNFORGIVABLY BRIEF HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN THEATRE w DR ROB
The most dramatic thing about Australian Theatre is it's history
La Mama HQ
FILM SCRIPT READING: ALMOST HUMAN
A multi-cast reading of Almost Human, The Movie, tells the story of maverick émigré photographer, feminist pioneer and colourful personality, Maggie Diaz, who arrived in Melbourne on a one-way ticket in 1961.
La Mama Courthouse
LIVE STREAM: AN UNFORGIVABLY BRIEF HISTORY OF AUS THEATRE
Friday 18 February 2022 7:30 PM
Live stream of the performance at La Mama HQ
HOMOPHONIC
Homophonic! is bringing the disco ball to the concert hall! Celebrating 11 years of mind bending queer classical music. Experience Melbourne’s only cult classical chamber music concert, filled with homosexual harmonies, sapphic symphonists, and musical double-ententres.
La Mama Courthouse
FROM ALL WHO CAME BEFORE
A story of loss, love and redemption.
La Mama HQ
THE STORY KEEPERS
Magical, fun, queer fairy tales!
La Mama HQ
PLAY READING: THE MARVELLOUS LIFE OF CARLO GATTI
Saturday 12 February 2022 2:00 PM
The entire world has a plan; you can't see it, you can't feel it, you'll never know it, and it does not care about you.
La Mama HQ
LET BLEEDING GIRLS LIE
let bleeding girls lie examines the unexpected intimacy between Grace, Juice, and Lou, three strangers donating plasma at a Melbourne city blood bank during the Manchester Arena attack.
La Mama Courthouse
CINEMATICA #4 DECEMBER at TEMPO RUBATO
During lockdown the Dogmilk film collective found a way to continue engaging with collaborators in Indonesia and allow emerging film practitioners and video artists to exhibit work without the capacity to assemble and screen live. VODmilk was the solution; an online platform for thought-provoking films, video art and everything in between, offering a new program, from a different programmer, every fortnight. Each work would be translated into both Indonesian and English to be accessible to both
Tempo Rubato
POETICA DECEMBER 2021: The Inheritors
Tuesday 14 December 2021 7:30 PM
Amanda Anastasi, current Poet in Residence at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub and convener of La Mama Poetica, launches her book The Inheritors (Black Pepper Publishing, 2021). This event will feature readings from special guest poets (to be announced) and readings from the new collection.
La Mama Courthouse
MUSICA DECEMBER 2021
Monday 13 December 2021 7:30 PM
Deafinitely Flat creates transformative listening experiences.
La Mama Courthouse
LLOYD JONES ENSEMBLE: INSTALLATION
Sunday 12 December 2021
We will hopefully excite you and confuse you - we will enjoy it.
La Mama HQ
PLAY READING: MY SISTER JILL
Jack survives Changi. Jack survives a shipwreck on the way to Japan. But can his children survive Jack? A family saga examines the legacy of war.
La Mama
LA MAMICA TAKE OVER: MUSICA - Life Expectancy: Breathe
Saturday 11 December 2021 10:45 PM
Life expectancy is a one man, inspirational musical that talks about Raphael’s experience overcoming Cystic Fibrosis, childhood trauma and learning disabilities
La Mama HQ
LA MAMICA TAKEOVER: CABARETICA
Saturday 11 December 2021
Join us for a night of celebration and provocation that will regenerate and revitalise your creative spirit.
In the theatre: Na Djinang Circus, Artemis Munoz and Mary Helen.
La Mama HQ
LA MAMICA TAKEOVER: POETICA
Saturday 11 December 2021
We have two specially chosen poets performing in the newly built theatre. Alice Allan, known for combining poetry and improvised performance and author of ‘The Empty Show’, will share her relatable and moving new poems.
La Mama HQ
SWEET RIVER
Saturday 11 December 2021 6:00 PM
War-Rak/Banksia Festival
La Mama HQ
THE PRISONERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD - SET TRUTH FREE
Saturday 11 December 2021 1:30 PM
Three women volunteers at the notorious HM Prison Belmarsh discover truths about each other whilst arguing over the imprisoned Australian in the High Security Unit.
La Mama HQ
POST
Saturday 11 December 2021 12:00 PM
The world has changed, but life goes on.
La Mama HQ
COOEE
Saturday 11 December 2021
War-Rak/Banksia Festival
La Mama HQ
DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINE
Saturday 11 December 2021 8:30 AM
A performed reading of a diary written by a Victorian First World War nurse over 103 years ago has potent contemporary references as we navigate the COVID pandemic.
La Mama HQ
LIFE CHANGING SHOW
Friday 10 December 2021 8:00 PM
A resurrection of the best theatre we have ever seen.
La Mama HQ
MELBOURNE PLAYBACK THEATRE CO: EMERGENCE
Friday 10 December 2021 6:00 PM
Melbourne Playback Theatre Company invite you to celebrate La Mama with stories of rebirth and emergence.
La Mama HQ
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN
Friday 10 December 2021 3:30 PM
Circus veterans Debra Batton & Sue Broadway will charm you with their wit, fearless presence and acts of age rejoicing brilliance! Four plays will be written and performed by an extraordinary array of talents drawn from the history of this remarkable place to celebrate its restoration and its future.
La Mama HQ
STAGE SHOW
Friday 10 December 2021 1:00 PM
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La Mama HQ
IN CONVERSATION AT LA MAMA
Friday 10 December 2021 10:00 AM
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La Mama HQ
RITE OF REBIRTH
Friday 10 December 2021 8:30 AM
A participatory performance in public space to celebrate a ritual of rebirth.
La Mama HQ
WAR-RAK/BANKSIA FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT
Thursday 9 December 2021 5:00 PM
Opening night of the festival.
La Mama Theatre
My Brilliant Career
Between Wednesday 4 August 2021 and Sunday 5 December 2021
by Christine Davey
Adapted from the novel by Stella Miles Franklin
La Mama Courthouse
BLAK STAGE AT LA MAMA
Sunday 28 November 2021 7:30 PM
Blak Stage, curated by Troy Benjamin, is taking over the main stage at La Mama with an exciting line up of First Nations performers. Come along to La Mama Courthouse for an intimate night of storytelling and music.
La Mama Courthouse
VOYAGERS: A NEW MUSICAL
Red dirt. Isola@on. A @ght-knit family journeying with you as you hurtle around the sun a 107991 km/h... Is it Mars? Or just Wagga Wagga?
La Mama Courthouse
A HOUSE ON AN ISLAND IN THE AEGEAN
Life dreams come true, if we let them - What’s your dream?
La Mama Courthouse
BOOK LAUNCH: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A DREAM CITY
Saturday 20 November 2021 2:00 PM
Join fiction writer and poet Marion May Campbell, photographer Jane Brown and Monica Raszewski to celebrate the publication of Monica Raszewski’s short novel The Archaeology of a Dream City.
La Mama Courthouse
CABARETICA NOVEMBER 2021
Friday 12 November 2021
Cabaretica joins the chorus of community voices demanding powerful, evidence-based action to address the escalating climate and biodiversity crisis that threatens everything. If not us then who? If not now, then when? This devastation of life is happening on our watch, and we are determined to act - and sing!
La Mama Courthouse
MAKE ME A HOURI 2019 - LA MAMA ON DEMAND
Sunday 19 September 2021 7:30 PM
What’s your paradise going to be?
Make Me A Houri is a narrative about two women who have passed on. After experiencing grave punishment, Asmara desires to transform into a Houri, a virgin of paradise granted to virtuous men in the afterlife. Safia, who had never married, assists her with this endeavour. It is a story of two women seeking to defy the external forces governing their bodies.
La Mama Courthouse
La Mama for Kids Workshop: Concoct with your Imagination
What do you get when you mix invisible ingredients and a big dash of YOUR imagination?
A cooking contest with a twist!
Come! Bring some drama and make reality tv (zoom) history.
Led by teaching artist Loukia Vassiliades, a qualified actor and experienced teacher online and offline. Lou is passionate about sparking a unique creative contribution and joy through exploring, nurturing and connecting.
Image by Aurora Vassiliades Morrison
Max: 10 participants in each group
This workshop series
La Mama Courthouse
PRIVATE: POETICA ONLINE TUES SEPTEMBER 21st at 7.30pm 2021
Tuesday 21 September 2021 7:30 PM
Please join us online for a fabulous night of Poetry online. Fearturing Jennifer Mackenzie, Micheal J Leach,
Maxime Banks and K.F. Pearson. Curated and presented by the wonderful Amanda Anastaasi
La Mama Courthouse
La Mama for Kids: Mer-Play
For young people run by young people.
Half an hour of movement, games, activities, and general joy on Zoom.
Facilitated by the cast of The Mermaid. Join us every Tuesday for half an hour as we move our bodies, run sessions on topics such as:
How to move like a prince/dudebro
Make your own Mermaid tail & learn to twirl it
Learn the Mermaid sister dance
Daggy dancing
Sea Monster Games
Mermaid treasure hunt
La Mama Courthouse
MUSICA SEP 20TH Sounds Like Us, Like Love.
Monday 20 September 2021
Sounds Like Us, Like Love mines Anna Liebzeit’s 20-year strong archive to premiere a performance-lecture suite of audio vignettes which sing to Susan Dion’s concept of Aboriginal people as ‘the perfect stranger’.
La Mama Courthouse
CINEMATICA #5 SUN SEPTEMBER 19th 7.30pm 2021
Sunday 19 September 2021 7:30 PM
Curated by Tessa Spooner, Cinematica’s edition #5 is a lineup of female filmmakers that gently explore notions of ‘place’ and ‘displacement’.
La Mama Courthouse
LA MAMA MUSICA - LET'S DANCE!! SEPTEMBER 2021
What's on offer? Amazing artist Gracieuse Amah is going to run some online dance classes to get your booty movin'!
4 x 30min sessions
Wednesdays, 6.30pm: 1, 8 Sept - Mid-week dance fitness (with an option to join Grace's AfroHeat class afterwards)
Fridays, 6.00pm: 3, 10 Sept - End of the week dance party!
Pay what you can, we'd love to see you there.
La Mama Courthouse
(CANCELLED) BIRTHDAY BOOK OF STORMS (CANCELLED)
Set in a mysterious library where poems and writers come to life, as a day librarian and night librarian reveal secrets to a girl about the hidden history of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill.
La Mama Courthouse
PLAYREADING: HERETICS
Saturday 28 August 2021
This is difficult work and dangerous, we’re in a kind of combat zone here.
La Mama Courthouse
THE MERMAID - ONLINE RECORDING
THE MERMAID - ONLINE
A filmed version of The Mermaid at La Mama Courthouse 2021
ONLINE
PLAYREADING: UHT EXPLORATIONS
Saturday 7 August 2021 2:00 PM
Hear snippets of work, see new ideas and meet the playwrights from UHT’s Writer in Residence program.
La Mama Courthouse
The Mermaid VCE 2021 Season
by Cassandra Fumi,
from Hans Christian Andersen's' The Little Mermaid.
La Mama Courthouse
MUSICA JULY 2021: Book of Wanderings
A new art orchestra crossing barbed wire borders beyond the frontiers of world music.
La Mama Courthouse
I ONCE WAS A TREE
Norah is transported to the glory days of memory and knowing with her son and his music by her side.
La Mama Courthouse - veranda
SPIKE THE ECHIDNA
Follow a baby echidna, through the world of shadow puppetry, on a journey to find out where he belongs.
La Mama Courthouse
CANCELLED CURIOUS LEGENDS (CANCELLED)
Curious Legends is a theatre company that believes in the inherent wonder of the world around us, and the importance of sharing this with audiences young and old. Based in Newcastle, Australia, their work encompasses touring theatre productions, community theatre projects, site-specific theatre, roving performances, and workshops. They will be sharing a selection of roving street theatre performances for the Melbourne Puppet Festival in 2021.
Roving - Museo Theatrette and Courthouse Theatre
PUPPETS AND MASKS OF ITALY
Puppeteer Dennis Murphy has taken Commedia dell’Arte Puppetry, the West’s oldest living theatre tradition and adapted it for modern Australian audiences.
Museo Italiano
PEARLY WHITES
Explore Doctor Hal E. Tosis’ giant toothy cavern and learn everything there is to know about dental hygiene.
An interactive, entertaining installation and performance for kids of all ages
Museo Italiano
SHADOWS
Sunday 11 July 2021 11:30 AM
Create your own characters into a simple yet effective shadow puppet with Kyoko Imazu
Museo Italiano
PICASSO AND HIS DOG
Picasso and His Dog - for anyone who’s ever patted a dog or been moved by an artwork.
La Mama Courthouse
ONCE UPON A TIME CAFE
Once Upon A Time Café presents “The Frog Prince” a classic story with a modern twist.
Museo Italiano
PUPPET POTLUCK
Saturday 10 July 2021 8:00 PM
Puppet Potluck with be cooking up a storm of acts, new and established – nothing is off the table!
Seaworks
ADULT WORKSHOP: MECHANISMS
Saturday 10 July 2021 2:00 PM
An introduction to puppet head mechanisms.
Seaworks Williamstown
TRASH PUPPETS
Saturday 10 July 2021 11:30 AM
TRASH PUPPETS
Museo Italiano
ADULT WORKSHOP: PUPPETRY AND PERFORMANCE
Saturday 10 July 2021 10:00 AM
ADULT WORKSHOP: PUPPETRY AND PERFORMANCE
Seaworks Williamstown
THE FISH THAT WANTED TO FLY
Did you ever dream of doing something that seemed impossible?
La Mama Courthouse
WHAT'S A PUPPET?
Friday 9 July 2021 11:30 AM
n this 2 hour workshop, the principal aim is to stimulate the child’s imagination and enrich their play wherever they are: at home, in the playground, indoors and outdoors.
Museo Italiano
BONKLE
BONKLE
Roving - Museo Theatrette and Courthouse Theatre
HAMMER AND THUMB
Hammer and Thumb have a job to do. Whatever could get in the way?
MUSEO ITALIANO
THE LAND WHERE ONE NEVER DIES
An Italian folktale in which a young boy determines to achieve victory over death.
Museo Italiano
SOCK PUPPETS
Thursday 8 July 2021 11:30 AM
Did you know Elmo and his muppet friends are actually fancy sock puppets? Want to know the secrets to their endearing characters? Yes? Then join Lemony S Puppet Theatre to make your own character as well as learn to perform with Elmo-type puppets.
Museo Italiano
THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
An uplifting humourous story told through puppets and music about resilience and the power of friendship.
Museo Italiano
CACTUS
Between Wednesday 23 June 2021 and Sunday 4 July 2021
Everyone knows that friendships made in bathrooms are the ones that last for life.
La Mama Courthouse
POETICA ( NEW TIME) Tues June 29th 7.30pm
Join Michael Farrell, Emilie Collyer, Thabani Tshuma and Angela Costi for a night of stunning live poetry at La Mama. Hosted and curated by the wonderful Amanda Anastaasi.
La Mama Courthouse
MUSICA: (dis) locations JUNE 28th 7.30pm
Monday 28 June 2021
(dis)locations is an immersive musical journey that explores place and displacement, in/stability and ways of seeing, as represented by the powerful metaphor of maps.
La Mama Courthouse
CINEMATICA: EDITION #3 , Sunday June 27th 7.30pm
Sunday 27 June 2021
Cinematica's #3 edition aims to explore emerging and established artists working in short film, obscure and experimental film, the moving image and avant garde cinema.
La Mama Courthouse
IN THE MIRROR
Between Tuesday 15 June 2021 and Sunday 20 June 2021
“In the Mirror explores otherness through the stressful episode of a job interview.
Mammad Aidani employs mirrors in his play as a symbolic representation of his theme.’’
…….“This play represents a voice from newcomers to our society who write from its margins with powerful representations of both the other and ourselves.”
The Age- August 5, 2002, Helen Thomson
La Mama Courthouse
Three Sisters VCE June 2021
Between Wednesday 2 June 2021 and Sunday 13 June 2021
by Anton Chekhov,
In a version by Laurence Strangio (from a literal translation by Laurence Strangio & Adam Pierzchalski)
La Mama Courthouse
Cabaretica: June 18th Friday 10pm
Between Friday 18 June 2021 and Saturday 19 June 2021
Join writer, satirist, DJ, cabaret director and performer,MC Fiona Scott-Norman and comedian, magician, mime and host of Shrub Comedy, Patrick Collins, for a night of shouting-out against the closure of Theatre departments and cuts to student theatre organisations by numerous Australian Universities-NO!
Co -curated by Susan Bamford-Caleo and Isabel Knight, La Mama Cabaretica provides a vivid celebration of the Cabaret scene in Melbourne.
La Mama Courthouse
LITTLE BROTHER, BIG SISTER
Between Tuesday 25 May 2021 and Sunday 30 May 2021
On the brink of artistic discovery, Michel’s plans for the future are interrupted by a diagnosis of schizophrenia – he must rely on his sister – yet Karen has dreams of her own, how long can she push them aside to care for him?
La Mama Courthouse
GAZPACHO
Between Tuesday 18 May 2021 and Sunday 23 May 2021
This is a song for Garcia Lorca
Who; like many who looked
For a future but were
Murdered by the past
La Mama Courthouse
TODD IN VENICE - BOOK LAUNCH
Sunday 16 May 2021
The Launch of Sofia Chapman’s first book in print, Todd in Venice, with scenes played by Alex Beyer as the young and beautiful gay boy Todd and Sofia as the transitioning character Agnes, and live accordion music, which premiered on stage at La Mama in 2017.
A sparklingly playful script, full of linguistic acrobatics and sexual intrigue, where gender is as fluid as the reality of the city in which it is set. Inspired by Thomas Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice) … Howard Firkin
La Mama Courthouse
BLAK STAGE AT LA MAMA
Saturday 15 May 2021
Blak Stage, curated by Troy Benjamin, is taking over the main stage at La Mama with an exciting line up of First Nations performers. Come along to the Courthouse theatre for an intimate night of storytelling and music.
La Mama Courthouse
NGARNGK Giver Of Life
Between Sunday 9 May 2021 and Friday 14 May 2021
Against all odds, The Tannin women take the risk of a lifetime in a fight for their connection to country, culture and kin.
La Mama Courthouse
THIS GENUINE MOMENT
Between Wednesday 28 April 2021 and Sunday 2 May 2021
A new queer play, This Genuine Moment asks how much easier is it to be honest with someone we don’t know, than ourselves?
La Mama Courthouse
GUERILLA SABBATH
Between Tuesday 27 April 2021 and Sunday 2 May 2021
A coven of transcendant, tea-drinking , time-travelling witches wage war to restore forgotten queer histories.
La Mama Courthouse
HOMOPHONIC! 2021
Between Saturday 24 April 2021 and Sunday 25 April 2021
Homophonic! celebrates 10 years of mind bending queer classical music. Featuring Homosexual Harmonies, Sapphic Symphonists, a double belled bass trombone, and a harpsichord. Come and experience the soundworld of LGBTIQ+ composers as we bring the disco ball to the concert hall!
La Mama Courthouse
THE WILL TO BE
Between Monday 19 April 2021 and Friday 23 April 2021
A University Office, 1962: homosexuality is illegal. A lecturer is dismissed. His secret is out. Will he choose legacy or the law?
An award-winning solo show, exploring sexuality, society and shame, laced with the words of Shakespeare.
La Mama Courthouse
SAM I AM
Between Tuesday 20 April 2021 and Thursday 22 April 2021
Sam is your typical deaf gay millennial.
La Mama Courthouse
MRS ROBINSON: A SOAP CABARET
Between Tuesday 13 April 2021 and Sunday 18 April 2021
After a stint with the KGB, Mrs.Robinson swaps her Kalashnikov for a Camera Obscura. Feeling the heat she lifts her skirt, zooms her fisheye lens onto her own dysfunctional family and…... Warning: contains absurdity, audacity and climax change.
ELLA FILAR’s KROWS BAR KABARET in Vintage Underwear will have you dying for love and gasping for lust while the all-star cacophonous collection of vulgar, grotesque, sexy and sublime singers and musicians rock your jocks off!
La Mama Courthouse
THE BUSINESS OF GOD 2021
Between Tuesday 6 April 2021 and Sunday 11 April 2021
Michelle, a passionate atheist, arrives in Heaven, quite disappointed. She meets St Peta, who is unhappy about being misrepresented in the Bible, Jesus, a depressed stoner, and Satan, who wants everyone to know he’s actually a nice guy. Together, they decide to challenge the business of God.
La Mama Courthouse
LA MAMA MOBILE: INCOGNITO AT BRUNSWICK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
Friday 9 April 2021
A dazzling new comedy murder mystery farce from the makers of Denouement! and Mystery Radio Theatre.
Brunswick Neighborhood House
INCOGNITO!
Between Tuesday 30 March 2021 and Sunday 4 April 2021
Six strangers attend a health spa, high in the Swiss Alps. Soon they become involved in murder, betrayal, hypnotism and disguise. Vera Brady is dying for a martini, but other people are dying for real. How will she find the killer when no one is who they appear to be?
A dazzling new comedy murder mystery farce from the makers of Denouement!,
Mystery Radio Theatre, Man Bites God and Theatre of the World.
La Mama Courthouse
MISTERO FO(NIC)
Between Tuesday 23 March 2021 and Sunday 28 March 2021
The Pandemic, the performers’ hardship and the need for good storytelling bring forth this adaptation from Dario Fo’s Comic Mysteries. Mistero Fo(nic) is a live Melbournian radio program in the middle of Pandemical times. It recaptures Jesus Christ’s Mysteries (told from Fo’s genius perspective) and transforms them into an experience driven by voices and soundscapes as used in the glorious times of Radio Theatre.
La Mama Courthouse
Breeders
Between Tuesday 16 March 2021 and Sunday 21 March 2021
A surreal, darkly funny play about a working-class autistic family and their technicolour brain explosions as they struggle to communicate and connect with one another.
La Mama Courthouse
PLAYREADING: ADA, Saturday March 20th at 2pm
Saturday 20 March 2021
The Advanced Domestic Assistant, for all your home and lifestyle needs.
La Mama Courthouse
La Mama Online presents-THE PLAY'S THE THING 10th-14th March
Wednesday 10 March 2021
Originally written for a La Mama production. Then came C.....D! Rehearsals are thrilling, terrifying and exhausting...then add in Zoom!
But this is an affectionate tribute to all the wonderful people of theatre. Any similarity to any writer/actor/director may be intentional,
La Mama Courthouse
Toby
Between Tuesday 9 March 2021 and Sunday 14 March 2021
Toby is a social outcast living in a dark and disturbing land. Robbed by his best friend, hounded by the authorities and branded a gypsy, Toby traverses a difficult path, unearthing more about virtue and honesty than he anticipated.
This classic tale, by award-winning writer Abe Pogos, refocuses and sharpens our thoughts about what it is to be the other in a heartless world.
La Mama Courthouse
Katyń
Between Tuesday 2 March 2021 and Sunday 7 March 2021
Welcome to Katyń! A little son et lumière? Join Stalina and her friends Hyby and Exy where the meaninglessnessless becomes meaningful. Jim Daly, Green Room-awarded actor and Helpmann nominee, brings together a superb team of theatre-makers to visit the most infamously-ignored crime of the Twentieth Century.Call yourself Aussie? Didn’t know the Japanese bombed Darwin 64 times? Ma-a…te!
La Mama Courthouse
PLAYREADING: The Right Words on the Day: Sat 6th March @ 2pm
Between Saturday 13 February 2021 and Saturday 6 March 2021
A woman prepares the funeral oration for her mother. But what to choose to say? And what not to say? Is truth worth the pain? What is the truth? Is it memory?
La Mama Courthouse
Cabaretica: MARCH 5th Friday 10pm
Friday 5 March 2021
Join Maude Davey and Mama Alto and Willow Sizer for a wonderful night to remember!
Co -curated by Susan Bamford-Caleo and Isabel Knight, La Mama Cabaretica provides a vivid celebration of the Cabaret scene in Melbourne.
La Mama Courthouse
Marvellous
Between Tuesday 23 February 2021 and Sunday 28 February 2021
Marvellous is a play about the everyday lives and extravagant, sometimes fantastical inner lives of two nonagenarian women and their 60+ plus daughters.
La Mama Courthouse
The Gang of Five
Between Wednesday 10 February 2021 and Sunday 28 February 2021
A series of events converge where all members of the house-‘The gang of Five’-are forced to reveal their secrets, which by chance or circumstances are mysteriously interwoven. A bitter sweet comedy dispersed with lied, the play describes the plots to resolve all their problems.
La Mama Mobile @ CREATIVE SPACES
DEBATE ON DEMOCRACY: IS WESTERN DEMOCRACY SAFE? 27th Feb 2pm (CANCELLED)
Saturday 27 February 2021
A Symposium discussing the current state of democratic politics, hosted by the W B Yeats Society of Victoria Inc.
La Mama Courthouse
CINEMATICA: LOVE , (new time) 9.30pm 26th FEB
Between Sunday 14 February 2021 and Friday 26 February 2021
Cinematica: Love will present experimental film, avant-garde cinema and the moving image that explore the notion of love in all it’s glorious forms.
La Mama Courthouse
POETICA ( new time) Tuesday 23rd of Feb at 8.30pm
Between Tuesday 16 February 2021 and Tuesday 23 February 2021
Join Alice Allan, Brian Walters and Ouyang Yu for a night of stunning live poetry at La Mama. Hosted and curated by the wonderful Amanda Anastaasi.
La Mama Courthouse
JOFUS AND THE WHALE
Between Tuesday 9 February 2021 and Sunday 21 February 2021
Moby Dick. It’s a love story right? Between a person and whale. Battling the elements and each other. Grappling skin to blubbery skin. Wet, hot and sweaty.Clown extraordinaire Jofus recounts Melville’s epic tale of obsession as you’ve never seen it before. Jofus and the Whale is a new physical comedy by award winning theatre maker Lily Fish (Winner ‘Best Solo’ New Zealand Fringe, winner ‘Best Physical Theatre’ Fringe at the Edge).
La Mama Courthouse
GRAND GESTURE
Between Tuesday 9 February 2021 and Sunday 21 February 2021
Grand Gesture is a literal mashup of transcripts from The Notebook, Sex and the City, Titanic, When Harry Met Sally, 50 Shades of Grey (the novel), and more (14 to be exact). Staged with wild, comedic, and who-gives-a-fuck attitude, it’s a quick and dirty evening that will make you re-think every romcom you’ve ever seen.
La Mama Courthouse
PLAYREADING: Ken's Quest, Saturday Febuary 20th at 2pm
Saturday 20 February 2021
An adaptation of Cher Chidzey's novel about Ken,
a middle-aged Chinese engineer who arrives in Australia with a fake identity on a holiday working visa.
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POETICA DECEMBER 15th 7.30pm
Tuesday 15 December 2020
La Mama presented poetry for the first time in 1967. La Mama Poetica remains a night of some of the best spoken word poetry that Melbourne has to offer, with a diverse selection of both emerging and established poets. In December 2020 we will present La Mama Poetica live at La Mama Courthouse with featured artists: Ali Alizadeh, Anne M Carson, Peter Bakowski and Thuy On.
La Mama Courthouse
Poetica // Digital Oct 20th 7.30pm
Tuesday 20 October 2020
An online live event hosted by Webinar Jam.
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CABARETICA MAY 2020
Friday 15 May 2020
CABARETICA MAY 2020
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MUSICA MAY 2020
Monday 11 May 2020
MUSICA MAY 2020
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POETICA MARCH 2020
Tuesday 17 March 2020
POETICA MARCH 2020
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MUSICA MARCH 2020
Monday 16 March 2020
MUSICA MARCH 2020
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CABARETICA FEB 2020
Friday 7 February 2020
CABARETICA FEB 2020
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