Archives for June 2025

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OBSERVER: Super at Red Stitch

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre opens Wednesday, June 18, with Super, a new work by playwright, essayist and poet, Emilie Collyer (Dream Home, Promise).Under the direction of acclaimed theatre maker Emma Valente (Co-Artistic Director of The Rabble), this wonderfully original play is a witty and genre-defying ride into the world of two women with superpowers.Featuring Red…

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OBSERVER: Local Theatre Report

ShowsWindmill Theatre: Mama Mia! Until June 21 at Bunjil Place, 2, Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren. Bookings: windmilltheatre.com.auThe 1812 Theatre: The Housekeeper (by James Prideaux) Until June 14 at The 1812 Theatre, Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Keith Hutton. Bookings:  9758 3964 or 1812theatre.com.auBabirra Music Theatre: My Fair Lady. Until June 15 at The…

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OBSERVER: Batshit

In a marvellous display of the power of the well-written and well-performed monologue, Batshit was a moving and at times hilarious personal statement of the struggle for independence and respect sought by women.Frustrated by the traditional role models of wife and mother prevalent in the 1960s, a woman, Gwen, seeks some semblance of freedom.However, the…

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OBSERVER: Morning Melodies

Celebrating its 40th year of operation, the Morning Melodies daytime concert series had the well-known culinary icon Maggie Beer curate an hour or so of music performed at Hamer Hall by Orchestra Victoria.The program chosen by Beer consisted of seven short pieces from composers Mendelssohn, Suther-land, Mascagni, Brahms, Delibes, Gershwin and Marquez and included well-known…

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OBSERVER: NICA – Proteus

The National Institute of Circus Arts presents the third-year student ensemble show, titled Proteus, co-directed by international artists Sage Bachtler Cushman (2010 NICA alumna) and Hugo Oliveira,from June 18-28 at the NICA National Circus Centre in Prahran.Directed by Sage Bachtler Cushman and Hugo Oliveira, with a postmodern deconstructionist point of departure, a peculiar world sets…

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OBSERVER: Love and Information

Acclaimed British playwright Caryl Churchill has a season of her play Love and Information currently being performed at Theatre Works in St Kilda.It is a challenging work due to its unique structure, and while at times arresting and entertaining, it equally confuses and overreaches in its ambition.The action of the play is difficult to describe…