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THE HAM FUNERAL

23 APRIL - 25 MAY 2013

BY PATRICK WHITE

"I must go in soon and take part in the play, which, as usual, is a piece about eels."

In a dingy inner-city boarding house, a naïve young poet is inexorably drawn into the strange world of the basement-dwelling landlord and his wife, the splendidly grotesque Mr and Mrs Lusty. When Mr Lusty dies, his widow his widow prepares a splendid funeral and wake in his honour and the relatives gather. Gradually the young man finds himself drawn into a desperate and dangerous sexual game, with comically tragic consequences.

ENRON

4 JUNE - 29 JUNE 2013

BY LUCY PREBBLE

Australian Premiere

"The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did."

One of the most infamous scandals in financial history is transformed into a theatrical epic, charting the notorious rise and fall of the American energy giant Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.

HUMBLE BOY

8 OCTOBER - 2 NOVEMBER 2013

BY CHARLOTTE JONES

A warm and touching comic tragedy infused with beekeeping, black holes, horticulture and Hamlet.

NEW THEATRE AUDITIONS

JERUSALEM

BY JEZ BUTTERWORTH

Directed by Helen Tonkin

Australian Premiere of the Olivier and Tony Award Winning Hit

TOP GIRLS

9 JULY - 3 AUGUST 2013

BY CARYL CHURCHILL

"Anyone can do anything if they've got what it takes."

Marlene has scored the big promotion at work, beating a man to the position of Managing Director. It's just reward for years of hard grind at the Top Girls Employment Agency. She's escaped her working-class past. She's made it!

DYING FOR IT

19 NOVEMBER - 21 DECEMBER 2013

BY MOIRA BUFFINI
Freely adapted from Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide

Australian Premiere

Semoyan is poor, he lives in a hallway because his mother-in-law has the bedroom, he's unemployed and supported by his wife, and he's fed up.

When his last hope for self-respect disappears, Semoyan decides to take his own life. But word gets out and he finds himself inundated with sympathetic visitors begging him to die on their behalf!

JERUSALEM

13 AUGUST - 14 SEPTEMBER 2013

BY JEZ BUTTERWORTH

Australian Premier of this The Olivier and Tony Award Winning Hit

"This is Rooster Byron's dog, Shep, informing Kennett and Avon Council to go fuck itself. Woof, woof!"

On the morning of St George's Day, Johnny ‘Rooster' Byron is a wanted man. The council wants to serve him an eviction notice, his kid wants to be taken to the country fair, his arch-enemy wants to give him a serious kicking, and a motley crew of mates wants his ample supply of drugs and alcohol.

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