UNLEASHED: 2019 LINEUP

  • BROWN SKIN GIRL

    JAN 29 - FEB 9

    “This one goes out to the coloured sisters Down Under…’

    BROWN SKIN GIRL melds visual art, spoken word, music and movement, drawing audiences into the lives of three Black and Brown women as they navigate the complexities of life as twenty-somethings in Sydney.

  • ANGELS IN AMERICA

    FEB 15 - MARCH 16

    "The Great Question before us is: Are we doomed? The Great Question before us is: Will the Past release us? The Great Question before us is: Can we Change? In Time? And we all desire that Change will come." (Angels in America, II, 1, i)

  • FIERCE

    MARCH 20 - APRIL 13

    Suzie Flack has made it to the big league. The first female Australian Rules footballer to play professionally with the men - which is why you haven’t heard of her; she doesn’t exist.

  • ALICE IN SLASHERLAND

    APRIL 17 - MAY 11

    Lewis Diaz is in love with his best friend, which would be fine if he didn't accidentally resurrect the soul of a brutally slain girl named Alice and unwittingly open a literal gateway to hell. Now, with every imaginable kind of demon, monster, and killer ravaging his small town, it's up to Lewis and his newly undead companion to protect his classmates from becoming freshly slaughtered carcasses.

  • CYPRUS AVENUE

    15 MAY - 8 JUNE

    “Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a new-born baby and successfully infiltrated my family home.”

    Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. Proudly, steadfastly British. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is Irish republican Gerry Adams. His family keep telling him to stop living in the past and fighting old battles that nobody cares about anymore, but his cultural heritage is under siege. He must act.

  • ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE

    JUNE 26 - JULY 6

    “I have Stayed. I have Stayed - I have Stayed for as long as I possibly can.”

    A startling theatrical triptych about three generations of mothers and daughters. For each woman, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful legacy. A powerful, unflinching look at a family afflicted with severe depression and mental illness.

  • THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN

    JULY 11 - AUG 3

    Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, this is a strange comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling. As word arrives on Inishmaan that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island of Inishmore to film Man of Aran, the one person who wants to be in the film more than anybody is young Billy Claven, if only to break away from the bitter cruelty and tedium of his daily life.

  • CHORUS

    AUG 28 - SEP 21

    There's power in that name. A unique name. A lonely name. But it's powerful nonetheless.

2019 SPECIAL EXTRAS

  • KRAPP'S LAST TAPE

    NOV 26 - DEC 14

    It is Krapp’s 69th birthday and he is preparing to record his last annual recount of a life brimming with fading hopes and stark disappointments. An unflinching portrait of a man nearing the end, Beckett collides the tragic and the comic in a powerful exploration of time, fate, memory and and the ones that got away.

  • ONE ON ONE

    23 SEP - 7 OCT

    A SPECIAL ONE-OFF EVENT. A LINEUP OF LEGENDS.