THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION
If you think the world is a farce and the clowns have taken over the circus, run away to join Australia’s favourite political satirists, The Wharf Revue, for a fabulous night under canvas of variety, song and gratuitous nudity* in Debt Defying Acts!
You’ll thrill to Julia: flame haired temptress and queen of the high wire balancing act. How the outer- west was won: as ‘Wild’ Barry O’Farrell gets his gun. The tragedy of King Rupert: hacked down in his prime. The amazing greens: Australia’s least amusing clowns!
Rudd never dies or the incredible re-appearing man. Tony Abbott: the evil Doctor No with his invisible mandate. Assange and Robertson: novelty whistle blowers. The exotic flowers of the Arabian spring… they’ll cause an uprising in your dishdasha! And re-introducing the faded rose of yesteryear Miss Kittie Keneally. Three nights only – no extensions possible.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
ANDREW MCKINNON, IN ASSOCIATION WITH RICHARD JORDAN PRODUCTIONS LTD, PETER WILSON PRODUCTIONS, AND THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS
Following sellout performances in 2007, BAFTA-award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes returns to Australia for an encore national tour of her one-woman tour-de-force, Dickens’ Women.
Bringing to life 23 of Charles Dickens’ most affecting and colourful female (and male!) characters, Margolyes presents her powerful, comprehensive, and at times hilarious expose of Dickens, his writing, and the real-life women who found themselves immortalised in his books.
This strictly limited season is part of the worldwide celebration of 200 years of Charles Dickens in 2012. Don’t miss your chance to see this acclaimed actor in the roles she was born to play.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
Ruben Guthrie is on fire. He’s 29, he’s the Creative Director of a cutting-edge advertising agency and he’s engaged to a Czech supermodel. He pours himself a drink to celebrate, a drink to work, a drink to sleep and one spectacular night he drinks so much he thinks he can fly...
Ruben Guthrie is the fabulously sophisticated comedy from Australian actor and playwright Brendan Cowell. He lines up the shots for us in a heady cocktail of fizzy humour and touching revelation. It’s a sparkling play about spiralling high, crashing hard and going to AA with your mum.
Blue Cow, Hobart’s own independent actors’ company, presents this award-winning play in a production directed by Robert Jarman, with Scott Farrow as Ruben.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
The smoldering gypsy seductress, Carmen, leaves men panting for more. Foresworn to ‘freedom’, she can be embraced, but never possessed. Her fate lies inextricably in the cards. See how a casual, flirtatious dalliance when mixed with jealousy and obsession becomes a seriously deadly game of chance.
An unforgettable tragedy of shocking and risque morality, set to a fiery, colourful score infused with the pulsing sensuality of gypsy and Spanish influenced melodies.
Over 90 performers have been assembled by Melbourne Opera to bring Bizet’s dramatic story to life, creating an opera bursting with energy and packed full of great tunes including the Toreador Song, Habanera, Seguidilla and Flower Song.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A BIG HART PRODUCTION CREATED WITH THE NAMATJIRA FAMILY
Namatjira is another groundbreaking new Australian work by Scott Rankin (Box the Pony, Certified Male, Stickybricks) starring Trevor Jamieson and Derik Lynch.
At turns hilarious, compelling and mesmerising, Namatjira is the story of Australia’s most iconic Indigenous artist.
Elea was born in the desert in Aranda country, Central Australia, in 1902. Baptised Albert he signed his work with his father’s surname – Namatjira – for the first time 31 years later at his first solo exhibition of watercolour landscapes.
Following their national sell-out sensation Ngapartji Ngapartji, Big hART now brings us the deeply moving story of Albert Namatjira, a journey that is at turns deeply compelling and hilarious. The rich watercolours of Namatjira’s story are transformed into a momentous theatrical event, and have already brought audiences to their feet night after night at the Belvoir Street Theatre.
Namatjira is more than a night at the theatre, this is an experience of art, live on stage.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
Make sure you don’t miss this night of outstanding performances by some of Australia’s best known Stars as we celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the first performance at the Theatre Royal.
This wonderful evening includes the ‘Stars on Stage’ Concert, which will be hosted by Garry McDonald, one of Australia’s best known entertainers, much loved for his role as Arthur in the television series ‘Mother and Son.’ The concert will feature a stunning performance by dancers from the Australian Ballet and include a range of other brilliant pieces that celebrate stars past and future at the Theatre Royal. Actors, dancers and singers will recreate hallmark performances and relive the lively atmosphere of the Theatre Royal over the past 175 years. A Vivien Leigh, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Noel Coward and many more will be here to entertain you! The concert concludes with a mass choir performance focussing on the future of the Theatre Royal.
And following the Concert this special evening continues with an intimate experience on stage that will include performances by surprise guest artists, a gourmet supper featuring the finest Tasmanian produce prepared by a celebrity Chef and the opportunity to meet the ‘Stars’. Tickets for this fabulous evening of entertainment and fun are $175 per person.
If you’re unable to join us for the full event, you can purchase tickets for the ‘Stars on Stage’ Concert only for $35 per person.
By attending this evening, not only will you experience a fantastic night out, you will contribute to the Theatre Royal’s Applause Private Giving Program, which is focused on:
Providing access for children to attend performances at the Theatre Royal
Assisting artists of the future
Supporting the restoration, conservation and development of this beautiful theatre.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow 2012
26/04/2012 To 27/04/2012
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow is coming to the Theatre Royal!
Stuffing one of the world’s largest comedy festivals into the one show is no easy feat, but the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has done just that with Roadshow 2012.
Offering a selection of Australian, international and special guest comedians, the Roadshow is literally all the best bits of the Comedy Festival condensed into the one ‘all killer, no filler’ travelling event.
Come and share the kind of humour that’s had Melbourne weeping with laughter. More than 300 shows contained in one – you can’t get better value than that.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
RETFAR ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS LES BALLET’S ELOELLES
Direct from New York, Les Ballets Eloelle’s Artistic Director Victor Trevino brings his new hilarious smash hit show Men In Pink Tights to the Theatre Royal.
From the thrilling pirouettes of the male dancers, in drag, with brilliant and innovative choreography, lavish costumes to the side splitting humour, Men In Pink Tights is a show designed for male, female, young and old – creating great family entertainment.
The Village Voice, New York said of these handsome and beautiful soloists “this professional, all-male troupe serves up a one-of-a-kind pirouette on classical dance. From Romeo to Juliet, Don Quixote to Pocahontas, gallant fauns to dying swans, these divine ‘ballerinas’ approach some of history’s greatest roles with flamboyant aplomb that’s guaranteed to goad an audience into hilarity!”
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
The Old Nick Company is delighted to present the most subversive theatrical experience of the year, the 2012 Uni Revue, MOONAH FOMA.
Powerhouse director Graeme Paine OAM has done a ‘John Farnham’ and has come out of retirement to direct his sixteenth Revue, and is joined by co director Paul “Chopper” Colegrave, who has worked on nine past revues. With this experienced duo it’s sure to be a night of side-splitting laughter, and maybe the odd poo machine gag!
Political satire, satirical songs, parody and private parts are just some of the ingredients that keep it a hot ticket item every year. Nothing and no one is safe!
If you’ve never seen a Uni Revue before, you need to get out more! If you have, we know you’ll want to be part of the 2012 stampede.
Book 20 or more tickets and save $6 off the Adult price, plus book a Group of 20 between the 11th and 17th of May and receive two extra tickets free!
To purchase the Show with your Season Package Discount please select a minimum of 3 Season 2012 shows before adding Uni Revue to your basket.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A CRITICAL STAGES AND THE FOLLIES COMPANY PRODUCTION
Syncopation is a smash-hit fusion of comedy, drama, romance and ballroom dancing set in the exciting, electric rush of New York City in 1912.
Henry Ribolow is a Jewish meatpacker crazy with a dream of becoming a ballroom dancer, and desperate for a dance partner. Anna Bianchi, an Italian Catholic seamstress, is unsatisfied with her life until she spots a curious ad in the paper: “Give your life a lift. Wanted: A Dance Partner to dance for royalty.”
From the moment Anna summons up the courage to answer the ad, sparks fly. As Anna and Henry take their first steps together they embark on a journey that will transform their lives.
Urged on by the jazzy rhythms and haunting melodies of Gershwin, Joplin and Berlin, the beautiful story of Henry and Anna takes flight, soaring in amazing ballroom routines.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
TERRAPIN PUPPET THEATRE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE THEATRE ROYAL, PRESENTS
Sally Saber wanted to be a tiger; sharp and unafraid. But there was never anything to fear. Her parents made sure Sally was always safe. Until one night Sally found she was the only one awake in her house. Everything familiar suddenly turned strange.
This would be no ordinary night.
Populated with unforgettable characters and challenges of courage and ingenuity, tonight, Sally explores her reimagined neighbourhood – brave and free!
But when she strays too far, Sally wonders: perhaps it is nice to be looked after a little; to be home.
Poetic, magical and wild, Sleeping Horses Lie is for anyone who’s ever dreamed of charging off on horseback for the adventure of their lives, returning home, the same, but different.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY PRODUCTION
Beautifully wrought from the world of signs and symbols in our everyday lives, Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela’s celebrated production had its Australian premiere in 2011 and in 2012 comes to the Theatre Royal.
Every exquisite movement picks out the irresistible intensity of Ezio Bosso’s score, with the Company’s magnificent dancers performing on a set of fluoro tubes and rich, constantly changing colours.
Designed by a crack British team this is a production which promises all the physical precision and enthralling dance that have dazzled the Company’s audiences from Shanghai to Venice. Don’t miss it!
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A PATCH THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION
Children love to play with shadows. Shadows are mysterious and magical and can do amazing things… but making friends with your shadow can be a tricky business. There are things to sort out… problems to solve… adventures to be had… laughter to be shared.
Don’t miss this enchanting tale of shadows, magic, lights, music and wonder at the Theatre Royal.
Winner of the 2011 Helpmann Award for Best Presentation For Children.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
The Banff Mountain Film Festival is the largest, and one of the most prestigious, mountain festivals in the world. Hot on the heels of the festival held every November in Banff, Canada the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road with stops planned in over 300 communities in 32 countries.
This year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour features a collection of the most inspiring and thought-provoking active, travel, and adventure mountain films.
Travelling from remote landscapes and cultures, to up close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2012 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.
Join us at the Theatre Royal when the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings the spirit of outdoor adventure back to Hobart. But be quick this was a sell-out last year.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
CLAREMONT COLLEGE, BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ORIGINTM THEATRICAL, ON BEHALF OF THEATRICAL RIGHTS WORLDWIDE, NEW YORK, PRESENTS
Come and see some 1950’s, hip-swivelling, lip-curling musical fun, that will have you jumping out of your blue suede shoes with classics like Heartbreak Hotel and Jailhouse Rock.
This is the fifth in a series of popular Year 11 and 12 musical productions presented by Claremont College at the Theatre Royal.
Director: Jeff Michel
Inspired by and featuring the songs of Elvis Presley. Book by Joe DiPietro.
…will have you jumping out of your blue suede shoes…
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
CIRCA is a thoroughly new kind of circus: daring, breathtaking, and cheeky. This extraordinary troupe has left the high top and drum roll behind and stripped circus bare – and its bold new vision is taking the world by storm. Rapturously acclaimed around the globe, from London to Berlin, Mandurah to Moranbah, this is movement at its most adventurous, but with a cabaret twist and a larrikin’s flair.
Combining high energy sound and innovative projections, seven of the world’s best perform jawdropping acrobatic feats. It’s dangerous and skillful, immediate and powerful, but above all, it’s intimate and real.
Direct from France, Germany, USA and Canada and in high demand, Australia’s Circa are back for a limited time only between international tours.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience what the rest of the world is raving about.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
A PRODUCTION BY THE ESCAPISTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH CRITICAL STAGES
This is not a love story. This is a story about love.
This is the story of Thom and Alethea. Two neighbours in an apartment block, trying desperately to keep their lives from falling apart. But the wall that stands between them has decided they belong together.
Following sell-out seasons across Australia, this hilarious smash-hit production by The Escapists is a stunning celebration of theatricality, imagination and the joy of play.
Using chalk, sock puppets, an overhead projector and over two-dozen characters, Lucas Stibbard’s captivating tour-de-force performance will inspire and delight with live music by Neridah Waters in a tall tale of whimsy and architectural enlightenment.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
TASDANCE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE THEATRE ROYAL, PRESENTS
Electric…energetic….electronic!
Two works – two extraordinary choreographers, Larissa McGowan and Anna Smith
Transducer, a machine for converting energy, has inspired Larissa McGowan to examine energy in all its forms and impacts. The subsequent interplay between sound and exertion stretches boundaries, encouraging and revealing new dance and movement pathways.
Adventurous Sydney composer Charlie Chan has collaborated with Larissa to create the score which exaggerates this interaction.
As an innovative and celebrated artist Anna Smith takes on an exploration of Raymond Kurzweil’s concept of singularity. He defines it as ‘the moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, (that) it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history’, predicting this will happen in 2045, and the moment when technology and computers will surpass our human brainpower.
If the prediction is correct, how will this impact on mankind? This idea reflects Anna’s ongoing investigation into the ways we tip the balance, not only technologically but environmentally. Anna collaborates with cutting edge design company Bluebottle in creating set and lighting.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A CRITICAL STAGES AND FINUCANE & SMITH PRODUCTION
From internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning creators Finucane & Smith comes the haunting and electrifying work The Flood.
The sheep farm is dilapidated. The farmhouse, dark and squalid, sits by the river, sheltering a mad old lady, and her isolated hard-drinking daughter. Memories are seeping through the floorboards. As the sun sets, the floodwaters rise. The screen door bangs open in the rain and wind; Catherine has returned after 20 years.
The past is here.
Through the mesmerising friction between estranged sisters, fuelled by alcohol and uncertain memories of a long-dead father, three women are trapped with a past no one wants to remember.
Bristling with dark humour and edge-of-the-seat performances by three of our finest actresses, The Flood is startlingly authentic writing, plunging audiences into the lives of characters so real you feel you know them; a web of family intrigue against the haunting Australian outback.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
BOLD JACK, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE THEATRE ROYAL, PRESENTS
Tales From the Life of Eva Cassidy
Starring CLARE BOWDITCH
Eva Cassidy was known as The Songbird and her music topped the charts on three continents but only after her premature death from melanoma at age 33.
Eva left a legacy of extraordinary arrangements of ballads, sung with her hauntingly beautiful voice, described in the Washington Post as “…so pure, so strong and so passionate.” When the BBC played Somewhere Over The Rainbow four years after her death, Eva Cassidy’s records shot to the top of the charts and they are still selling to this day.
One of Australia’s great talents, Clare Bowditch, tells the story of Eva’s short, and sometimes tragic, life and loves.
Featuring Ashley Naylor and The Blues Alley Band, the song list includes Fields Of Gold, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Hallelujah I Love Him So and the Gospel hit, Wade In The Water.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS MONKEY BAA'S PRODUCTION
Based on the book by Tim Winton
Skeeta Anderson’s got a problem. He’s woken up without his bum. He soon realises that he’s not the only one without a behind! All 496 citizens of the town of Bugalugs are BUMLESS!
Along with his best mates Mick Misery and Billy Marbles, Skeeta sets out on a side-splitting adventure to track down the culprit of the crime.
On the way we meet the colourful characters of Tim Winton’s much loved story including Skeeta’s mum and dad, Mick’s Mum the miserable Mrs Misery, Billy’s sister Mavis Marbles, the sleepy Constable Coma and the school teacher Mr Wally.
Monkey Baa’s hilarious adaptation of The Bugalugs Bum Thief has toured across five states and territories, on four separate occasions, playing to over 100,000 young people.
A decade later, this hysterical adventure returns to the stage for a new generation of young people and their families to enjoy. Join Skeeta and his friends in this ripper adventure that will have you singing along and laughing your own bum off!
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A BELL SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTION
Falling in love is never easy. Take our hero Arnolphe for instance. Now here’s a guy who wants desperately to get married but is afraid that a smart woman will cheat on him. His ingenious solution? Enlist the help of a local convent to raise a girl so stupidly innocent that she won’t know the first thing about cheating – let alone the last. In his mind she will be ever-faithful.
The perfect wife. Or is she?
Following on from her success with Twelfth Night, Lee Lewis directs this fresh new translation from Justin Fleming of Moliere’s comedic train-wreck of a love story that tangles innocence with arrogance – and the other way around.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
Chasing the Lollyman is a one-man show devised and performed by one of Queensland’s most dynamic and funny Indigenous performers, Mark Sheppard. It is a joyous sharing of stories, a celebration of urban Indigenous identity and takes a satirical look at the media and popular culture.
Playing a variety of characters, weaving stand up with storytelling and clown, Mark pokes fun at everything from Neighbours (what would it be like if a Murri family moved into Ramsey Street?) to politics.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
The globally acclaimed salon of seductive, subversive, and electrifying acts is here at the Theatre Royal for the first time!
From multi-award winning Finucane & Smith, creators of global smash hit The Burlesque Hour, comes a travelling emporium that fuses Parisian nightclub with jaw-dropping cabaret and seductive spectacle, tipping a velvet wink to Australia’s wild past of touring vaudeville and variety.
Step into this sumptuous salon and be swept away by intoxicating Ethiopian dance and razor sharp wit, sultry songs and underdressed sirens, whip-cracking dames, Bollywood lovegods, sizzling jazz moves, backroom ballet and gothic divas.
Packed to the rafters with international stars, with critics raving and 70,000 audience members worldwide in raptures, Finucane & Smith’s road-train of the risque will sashay into town bringing a night to rival the Nullarbor: hot hot hot and full of stars!
So grab your friends, dress to the nines, and swing on board The Caravan. We guarantee you won’t want it to leave.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
PROMAC PRODUCTIONS, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE THEATRE ROYAL, PRESENTS
Fasten your rickshaws, Gilbert and Sullivan’s final fling in Japan is coming to the Theatre Royal!
This new version of an old classic contains musical delights with songs like, Three Little Maids From School, The Sun Whose Rays, Here’s a Howdy Do, Tit Willow and many more. The comedy scenes will have you in gales of laughter.
Highly acclaimed actor Brian Hannan plays the comic leading role of KoKo. Alison Rae Jones, an exciting soprano from Opera Australia, plays the role of Yum Yum. Opera Australia’s Caroline Vercoe is commanding as Katisha. Suitable for the whole family, this Gilbert & Sullivan hit musical production is a world-first.
Performed with a cast of only six it is fast paced, beautifully sung and hysterical. A great night in the theatre guaranteed, so book now.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS AN ENSEMBLE THEATRE PRODUCTION
Can a country cowboy and a sophisticated virtuoso change their tune for love? What do a classical musician and retired country and western singer have in common? Not a lot according to Monica who really just wants Gary, aka Rhinestone Rex, to do the job he’s being paid for and renovate her kitchen. She hates his taste in music, his attitudes to women and the columns he wants to put on her kitchen cabinets.
Gary can’t find much about Monica to recommend to anyone but still finds her attractive in a cold, rigid and inflexible kind of way. Can they find a way past all their conflicts towards a harmonious and fulfilling relationship? Or will their differences keep them from making beautiful music together?
Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica is master playwright David Williamson’s 43rd play, and director Sandra Bates’ twelfth Williamson production.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
BAWDY PANTO’S PRESENTS THEIR 10TH ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION
For the past nine years the Bawdy Panto team has presented a pre-Christmas giggle that discerning theatre-goers now have firmly established in their diaries. Crapunzel is the 10th anniversary offering from this outrageous crew.
Loosely based on the German fairy tale with a similar name, Crapunzel promises to be laugh-a-minute dialogue delivered by Tasmania's who's who in the media and theatre complemented by beautiful dancers and silly songs. Similarities to the original story are not sufficient enough for the creators to change their names to The Brothers Grin but if previous Bawdy Panto's audience reactions are anything to go on, a great, fun-filled night out is guaranteed. Let your hair down and come along!
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for season package discounts.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A LA MAMA THEATRE/FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS PRODUCTION
What story lies behind the image? The truth, or the next front page?
In the digital era of the 24-hour news cycle, how do photo-journalists square their commitment to the truth with the media’s voracious need for a graphic image? When the threat of death is a daily reality, why do they do it?
Landing in Sarajevo and joining a pack of seasoned war journalists, rookie photographer Dannie Hills sets out to capture the perfect image. Each photograph she shoots becomes a kaleidoscope of dreams, memories and emotions – exciting, painful, and forever haunting.
Widely heralded as a remarkable piece of physical theatre, this award-winning play integrates fluid movement, live sound design and animated projections with striking originality. With its frenetic and restless energy set against a backdrop of 20 years of conflict, Bare Witness is a visceral experience that will change the way you look at the news.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
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