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08.03.22 Jess Melchert and Claire Gilmour in Fledgling, 2022. Photo: Clare Hawley © When you enter Fledgling’s world, you are greeted by haze and some quiet bird song. There is a definite sense of something beginning, and the ropes hanging at the edge of the playing space makes the audience…

04.03.22 Gabriel Alvarado, Adriane Daff, and Andreas Lohmeyerin in Destroy, She Said 2022. Photo: Phil Erbacher © Well 25A is back, an independent theatre space (downstairs at the infamous Belvoir St Theatre) that allows independent artists to create, design, produce and market a show all by themselves, with a budget…

25.02.22 Sasha Dyer and Clementine Anderson in Hush, 2022. Photo: Clare Hawley © It is said that good things come to those who wait and boy is that true! After three COVID postponements and a successful staged Zoom reading last year, Ciella Williams’ Hush has finally hit the stage and you…

24.02.22 Philip Lynch in Hand To God, 2022. Photo: Robert Catto © After coming out of this fantastically uproarious, shocking and dirty show, the only thing I could think was, “I just watched two puppets have sex” Robert Askins’s Hand To God, was originally performed on Broadway in 2015, and…

21.02.22 Anjelica Murdaca and Isaac Harley in 3:33am Content Warning: suicidal ideation, substance use, and sexual references. Situated in a cramped Redfern studio apartment are Bella and Aaron. A young couple who “love each other despite failing to love themselves” as playwright and actress Anjelica Murdaca puts it. It is…

12.02.2022 Image by Joshua Morris. Illustration by Lily Hayman. After the last two years, experiencing a collective loss, this year’s ArtsLab cohort will explore individual responses to big issues – connection to gender, connection to culture and identity, experiences of the day-to-day, questions for our nation’s leaders and questions of…