2017 LINEUP

  • I HATE YOU MY MOTHER

    24 JAN - 11 FEB

    ‘Lure them in, feed them sin,
    And break them as it suits your whim.’

    When a Sixteenth Century Breton Bishop lays his hands on his illegitimate daughter he unleashes a tide of revenge and retribution that can never be sated, a relentless domino effect, which rushes forward through history, infecting all who come after, tainting every heart and cutting innocence off at its knees.

  • THE JUDAS KISS

    15 FEB - 11 MARCH

    In the spring of 1895, Oscar Wilde was larger than life. His Masterpiece, The Importance of Being Ernest, was a hit in the West End; he was the toast of London. Yet by summer he was serving two years in prison for gross indecency.

  • CRIMES OF THE HEART

    15 MARCH - 8 APRIL

    Hazlehurst, Mississippi 1974 (5 years after Hurricane Camille).

    Babe has shot her husband. And whether they're prepared for it or not, her sisters Lenny and Meg find themselves standing right beside her in the eye of the storm.

  • BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO

    12 APRIL - 6 MAY

    The lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are forever changed by an encounter with a quick-witted tiger who haunts the streets of war-torn Baghdad attempting to find meaning, forgiveness and redemption amidst the city’s ruins.

  • DOUBT: A PARABLE

    10 MAY - 3 JUNE

    Amidst the turbulence of the 1960s, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal and stern Catholic nun, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students. An accusation sets the stage for a powerful clash of authority, tradition, responsibility and faith.

  • New List Item

    7 JUNE - 8 JULY

    Becky’s pregnant and frustrated. Her husband is more interested in the baby manual than her new underwear so she turns to the porn stash under the bed. As the summer heats up, a brief encounter sends her speeding downhill towards reckless abandon.

  • THIS MUCH IS TRUE

    12 JULY - 12 AUG

    THIS MUCH IS TRUE continues the story of Lewis from Summer of the Aliens and Cosi. Now he’s older, a writer and lives in an inner city suburb filled with public housing, the underclass and characters who could only exist in such a place.

  • 4:48 PSYCHOSIS

    16 AUG - 9 SEPT

    Containing no characters, stage directions or specified setting 4:48 is as unique as it is harrowing. Poetic, angry, full of love and frustration and darkly humorous this extraordinary work explores parts of the mind very few of us ever experience but from which some can never escape.

  • THE NIGHT ALIVE

    13 SEPT - 14 OCT

    ‘You only get a few goes. At life. You don’t get endless goes. Two, three goes maybe. When you hit the right groove you’ll click right in there…this is it.’

    Tommy’s not a bad man, he’s getting by. Renting a run-down room in his Uncle Maurice’s house, just about keeping his ex-wife and kids at arms length and rolling from one get-rich-quick scheme to another with his pal Doc.

  • A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

    18 OCT - 25 NOV

    Italian-American immigrant life colours this searing drama of love and revenge set in 1950's Brooklyn. Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife Beatrice and his niece Catherine.

NEW FITZ SEASON 2017

  • AMONGST RUINS (SNAKE EGGS HATCH)

    25 APRIL - 6 MAY

    What was once a great city has fallen into decay.

    Cyclical revolutions are commonplace and bloody.
    A plague of monsters chokes the streets. Poverty and famine reign.

    The Merchant decides to get out once and for all, the only way she knows how; selling weapons to both sides of the war.

  • BINARY STARS & BEST LIVES

    28 MARCH - 6 APRIL

  • THE WIND IN THE UNDERGROUND

    23 MAY - 3 JUNE

    After a year abroad, Simon returns home to discuss the sale of his childhood house with his older siblings. While away on his self prescribed pilgrimage, he discovered a new sense of independence and responsibility that he is keen to display to his family. But do siblings ever let us grow in the ways we would like? And did his leaving in the first place, damage one of his closest relationships?

  • ARE WE AWAKE

    28 FEB - 11 MARCH

    In a tiny one bedroom apartment, at five in the morning, a young couple sits on the cusp of a day that will change their lives.

  • TONGUE TIED

    27 JUNE - 8 JULY

    Mia loves two things: feminism, and journalism. She’s landed the scoop of a lifetime, and she’s not going to let anything stand in her way.

    Parker loves one thing: his job at Sunday Juice. They’ve landed in a PR nightmare, and he has every intention to pull them out of it. But they didn't plan on falling into each others laps.

  • PAPER DOLL

    7 - 18 NOV

    A powerful two-hander about betrayal.

    He has nowhere else to go.
    She has a kind heart.
    He has filled his days with memories of their past. She has tried to move on.
    They have not seen each other in a long time. Tonight he has returned. Suddenly the past doesn’t feel all that long ago.