Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock

On a sweltering hot Valentines Day 1900, in the Macedon region of Australia, 4 Australian schoolgirls and a teacher, on a picnic expedition to the remote Hanging Rock, abscond from… 

Suddenly Last Summer

Suddenly Last Summer

Set in mid-1930s New Orleans, Suddenly Last Summer has all the power and richness of Williams’ more famous works, but with a tighter, more deadly focus. 

Suddenly Last Summer

Suddenly Last Summer

Set in mid-1930s New Orleans, Suddenly Last Summer has all the power and richness of Williams’ more famous works, but with a tighter, more deadly focus. 

Not Talking by Mike Bartlett

Not Talking by Mike Bartlett

Lucy and James have avoided the battle to talk about what has happened to them. 

Consent by Nina Raine

Consent by Nina Raine

Consent is an intricately constructed, philosophical, drama with a very dark comical tone - using the template of a classic Greek tragedy within a modern context. 

Consent by Nina Raine

Consent by Nina Raine

Consent is an intricately constructed, philosophical, drama with a very dark comical tone - using the template of a classic Greek tragedy within a modern context. 

Cock by Mike Bartlett

Cock by Mike Bartlett

Cock by Mike Bartlett directed by Richard Lindfield Boy meets girl but boy is already living with boy. 

Cock by Mike Bartlett

Cock by Mike Bartlett

Cock by Mike Bartlett directed by Richard Lindfield Boy meets girl but boy is already living with boy. 

Welcome Back Gala Party

Welcome Back Gala Party

New Venture Theatre will host a party to celebrate the reopening of the theatre to live performances and the launch of it’s 74th season. 

Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons by Sam Steiner

Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons by Sam Steiner

The average person will speak about 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. 

Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons by Sam Steiner

Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons by Sam Steiner

The average person will speak about 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. 

Talk

Talk

Set in 1854 in the criminal wing of Bethlem Hospital for the Insane and being about the birth of psychotherapy, you would be forgiven for assuming this play will be heavy going. 

Hysteria by Terry Johnson

Hysteria by Terry Johnson

Sigmund Freud meets Salvador Dali, and the result is comedy chaos. 

Fast Forward Flashback - 1960s

Fast Forward Flashback - 1960s

Swing into the 60s as FF Flashback returns! Get interactive with our deluxe photo-booth and walkabout performers. 

Pickwick and Weller

Pickwick and Weller

Samuel Pickwick is a warm hearted and well meaning man of advancing years, despit his age, still something of an innocent. 

The Father

The Father

Florian Zeller’s The Father is a play that tells a common enough family story: an elderly father, Andre (Michael Bulman), needs increasing levels of care and his daughter Anne (L… 

The Father

The Father

The Father is about Andre, a man with dementia, wrestling to control or even understand his daily life. 

The Language Archive

The Language Archive

We have all been through frustrating moments of not being able to find the right words at the right time. 

Be My Baby

Be My Baby

1964, Mary Adams, unmarried and seven months pregnant, is forcibly sent to a Mother and Baby Home by a mother, intent on keeping up appearances. 

Be My Baby

Be My Baby

Set in a Mother and Baby Home in December 1964, Be My Baby follows Mary Adams who is unmarried and seven months pregnant. 

Orphans

Orphans

While threat and menace pervade the neighbourhood, Danny and Helen keep their heads down and their mouths shut. 

Happy Now?

Happy Now?

A blisteringly truthful and darkly comic take on contemporary life and how to survive it. 

1984

1984

In George Orwell’s 1984, people live under ignorant oppression in Oceania, a place where the Party scrutinises human actions with the ever-watchful eye of Big Brother. 

Lulu

Lulu

Scott Roberts’ adaptation of Wedekind’s Pandora’s Box and Earth Spirit has resulted in Lulu. 

Broken Glass by Arthur Miller

Broken Glass by Arthur Miller

Written when he was nearly 70 years old, Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass, had been in his mind’s development ever since his marriage to Marilyn Monroe ended shortly before her deat… 

Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth

Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth

Demolition expert Ned and his wife of eleven years live in a nice new house on a nice new estate. 

Not About Heroes by Stephen MacDonald

Not About Heroes by Stephen MacDonald

Wilfred Owen was sent to Craiglockhart Hospital for ‘Nervous Disorders’ in June 1917. 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch has a cult following. 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

If rock musicals fronted by nearly-transgender, furiously lamenting drama queens are your thing, then this is definitely the show for you and if they aren’t, I highly recommend s…