Theatre First

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 232Sunday in the Park with George (Watch This, Melbourne, Australia)In Paris, 1884, George Seurat strives to transform the way we see. While he sketches in a park, preoccupied with composition, balance, light and harmony, his subjects are busy wrestling with life in a changing world - in particular, his m...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 231Australian Realness (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)The summery embrace of an Aussie family Christmas. Familiar characters pop the cork on mid-range bubbly for a raucous celebration of festive traditions. But, all is not well. As adult kids regress to the parental homestead, Mum and Dad’s appa...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 230Let Men Tremble (Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia)Contemporary and experimental theatre company The Danger Ensemble return to Theatre Works following their hugely divisive 2018 production The Hamlet Apocalypse. Inspired by The Scarlet Letter, a 17th-century puritan romance, Let Men Tremble throws co...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 229Ghost Quartet (Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia)Music, Lyrics, and Text by DAVE MALLOY (creator of the hit Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812)A musical to die for…Drawing inspiration from murder ballads and The Twilight Zone, GHOST QUARTET elegantly blurs the line bet...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 228Sensory Decadence (Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia)The experiencing self lives each moment. The remembering self constructs the story afterwards. Human beings are naturally inclined to value remembering over experiencing. But what would happen if the Experiencing Self were triumphant? In a vib...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 227Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)After premiering in Sydney, Roald Dahl’s delicious tale, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is now playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne and is on sale in Brisbane. It’s a delectable treat featuring songs from the or...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 226Golden Shield (MTC, Melbourne, Australia)A riveting new play filled with disarming humour, Golden Shield sees trailblazing writer Anchuli Felicia King smash the personal against the political in a globetrotting thriller. Tenacious young lawyer Julie Chen (Fiona Choi) brings her sister Eva (Jing-Xuan Ch...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 225Solomon’s Secrets (Saltpillar Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)Solomons’ Secrets focuses on a run-of-the-mill Melbourne family the Solomons, including parents Helen and Clive and their children Josh, Roz, Anna and Jen as they navigate life’s big issues: relationships, fertility, parenthood, aging, sex, lo...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 224A Midnight Visit (Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia)After sensational takeovers in Sydney and Perth, A Midnight Visit has been unleashed on Melbourne with new tricks and treats! An epic 34 rooms awaits you in an abandoned warehouse in Melbourne’s inner north. Explore a dark dreamworld of shadows,...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 223Night, Mother (Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia)The turbulent tale of a mother-daughter relationship rejuvenated by the daughter’s admission she will kill herself that evening. On an ordinary Saturday night Jessie tells her mother, ‘I’m going to kill myself’. Unfolding in real time over the next...

My Dearworthy Darling (The Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)In modern-day Australia, a marriage is pulled apart by mistrust, paranoia, and violence. A woman breaks apart in the turmoil. In medieval England, a woman has mystic visions. The patriarchs write them off as female madness, but she knows her truth. These visions allow her to be heard—maybe even to connect across centuries. In My De...

The Ghetto Cabaret (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia)Any night could be their last performance. Danger, disease, and betrayal surround the Jewish musicians, singers, dancers, acrobats, opera and theatre performers thrown together and trapped in the Ghettos of WWII. But their fear is transformed into art as they try to create meaning out of the terror and chaos around them. Full of Yiddish...

Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company, Melbourne, Australia)It’s the height of the jazz age, the roaring 20’s, and small-town girl Millie Dillmount has just arrived in New York City, ready to make her dreams come true. Millie’s plan is simple: find a job as a secretary for an eligible bachelor, and then marry him. It doesn’t take long for Millie’s “thoroughly modern” plan to go awry. He...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 219Price Check The Musical (The Alex Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)Price Check! is a new Australian musical comedy in 2 acts, exploring the lives of 5 diverse characters in a suburban Melbourne supermarket. Mr Butler is a well-paid profit hungry store manager with a bitter divorce and a bad dance routine....

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 218Blackrock (EbbFlow Theatre Co., Melbourne, Australia)Blackrock is an Australian beachside working-class suburb where the youth surf by day and rave by night. Desperate to impress, Toby hosts a party at the local surf for his 18th birthday. It is unsupervised with alcohol flowing freely. The following m...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 217Fifty Words (Lab Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)Adam and Jan are alone together for the first time in almost 10 years. Without the buffer of their nine-year-old son (who is away at his first-ever sleepover) Adam’s attempt to seduce his wife before he leaves on business the next day begins a suspenseful...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 216This Wide Night (Green Light Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)On her release from prison, Lorraine heads straight to Marie's. On the inside they used to share everything, but the friendship that once protected them now threatens to smother the fragile freedom they have found. Please be aware that this pla...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 215A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia)Following a sold-out premiere season in 2016, Sentient Theatre’s stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic essay returns. Breathing new life into the history of women and literature, this production features four perfor...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 214Come From Away (Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)COME FROM AWAY tells the remarkable true story of thousands of stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland, Canada that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 213Shakespeare In Love (Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne, Australia)The Oscar-winning film comes to the stage in a boisterous romantic comedy directed by the illustrious Simon Phillips (Muriel’s Wedding the Musical).For more information visit  https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/season-2019/shake...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 212Pomona (Red Stitch Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)There’s a secret place right inside the concrete heart of the city. Pomona. Nobody knows what’s in there, it’s like a place time forgot. But every day a delivery van arrives and departs. What’s going on in there? Do you really want to know? Or do you sim...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 211Bring It On, The Musical (Melbourne, Australia)Uniting some of the freshest and funniest creative minds on Broadway, BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL features an original story by Tony Award winner, Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q), music and lyrics by Tony Award-winning composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights, Hami...

Autocannibal (Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia)Why do we do things that we know are bad for us? Addiction, obesity, corruption, over-consumption. On all fronts homo sapiens seem to be intent on wiping themselves out through perplexingly myopic decision making. In the aftermath of an apocalyptic social collapse, one person survives – but he’s still hungry…Drawing together elements of circus, per...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 209Krapp’s Last Tape (fortyfivedownstairs theatre)Australian satirist and theatre icon Max Gillies teams with award-winning director and long-time Beckett aficionado Laurence Strangio to present Krapp’s Last Tape – Samuel Beckett’s remarkable duet for solo performer and tape recorder. The comic meets the...

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly).Theatre First Episode 208Solaris (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia)MYSTERIOUS PLANET. INCOMPREHENSIBLE INTELLIGENCE. GHOSTS OF REGRET.‘Until you experience it,’ said Snow, ‘there’s no point talking about it.’ A cagey comment, but Kris took it in stride. Then, she experienced it. Within hours of arriving in orbit around...