When writer Sergio arrives in Ljubljana to give a lecture on Narcissus, the first thing he does is get on an app and look for someone to have sex with.

A few hours later, Sergio spots a dark brown stain on the floor. It's a blood stain. And then, he discovers another.

And another. And another.

Season: Melbourne

Bubo is a proud, strong and stoic gorilla. The pride of the Zoo. Its main attraction. Visitors come in waves to gaze upon his majesty and mystic.

But when a series of chilling events tarnish his unblemished reputation, drastic measures must be used to win back the public’s favour.

Season: Melbourne

Alan is on the hunt to find the last greater mouse-eared bat living in Britain, but a tender romance with Josh, the charming young runaway he meets in an abandoned railway tunnel, begins to divert him from his mission. As their relationship develops, these two damaged men might fix one another. If only a little.

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

Frankie is desperate to be understood, accepted, loved. But the LGBTQ alphabet soup has got Michael’s head spinning. Why's it gotta be so complicated? Why can't they understand? Why can't things go back to the way they always were?

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

Mark is new and too scared to make friends. Darren is out-of-control and too scary to make friends. The two need each other but neither of them would ever admit it.

Worlds apart, but more similar than they realise, the pair form a complex and manipulative relationship that leads them blindly into a dangerous experiment that alters the course of both their lives.

“This play is a love story gone dark. And it’s done so powerfully compellingly that it will leave you contemplating its complexities.” Australian Arts Review

*Judges Pick - Melbourne Fringe Festival 2023*

Season: Melbourne

Image Cameron Grant

Alice and Michael met six years ago. Three years later their daughter Lily was born. Now, in a Yorkshire meadow, just past midnight, they're having an argument. Because Alice is cold, she's tired, and Michael won't stop telling her that she died twelve hours ago.

“The structure of the plot demanded skilful and astute direction and dramaturgy. Gavin Roach’s expertise shone through in the performance. “ ArtsHub

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

On the Death Strip of the Berlin Wall in 1962, from gunshot to final breath, an adolescent Peter Fechter hears the lives of family, friends, and strangers unfolding in the city around him – dozens of voices converging in the moment of his death and illuminating his decision to risk it all for love.

“It serves as a reminder that political absolutism is always a brittle lie and, more painfully, that progress has always come at a heavy human cost. Amidst the parties and pageantry of Pride season, this central truth must always be given a sacral space. This piece does exactly that.” - Australian Arts Review

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

A lonely university student from rural Ireland, James deflects the events of a dark night, with stories of his astrology obsessed friend, his performatively woke flatmate, and a new overpriced mindfulness app he’s just discovered.

“Marcus Bateson’s Outlier is a tender and hopeful piece exploring a young man’s efforts to find himself and intimacy against the backdrop of a transactional gay sexual milieu and those who take unfair advantage of it.” - Australian Arts Review

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

Pig and Runt are two 17-year-olds who share everything: birthday, language, worldview - and that moment when pop songs and life-changing orgasms flash by and last forever.

season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

If you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, does it make any more sense to judge a book by its author?

A reclusive children’s writer becomes wildly successful. Her books are treasured across the country. Her public are desperate to know just who is behind the stories. But as a troubling narrative begins to unfold and her constantly irrational excuses, readers begin to ask, what is she so afraid of?

Season: Melbourne

Image: Cameron Grant

17 year old Callum is proud to be shy and he thinks you should be too, because what this noisy, crazy world needs right now is a bit more self-restraint. The Shy Manifesto is a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy drama about a shy boy who is fed up of constantly being told to come out of his shell. Tonight he is to address an audience of radical shy comrades and incite the meek to finally rise up and inherit the earth.

Season: Melbourne and Sydney.

Image: Ali Choudhry

Encompassing a world that is sometimes real, sometimes imagined - Stephen Laughton's Run explores what it means to love, to lose, to rebel and how to grieve. A deeply personal story about first love and infatuation that expands to interrogate the difficult intersection of religion and queerness.

“Ben Stuart’s performance as Yonni was simply outstanding. His endurance was limitless, and the diversity of emotion he expertly portrayed was astonishing as he took us on a journey of love, laughter frustration, and grief. “ - Theatre Travels

*Adelaide Fringe 2023 Weekly Award Winner*

Season: Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide.

Image: Cameron Grant

With a plastic compass and Dad’s ashes at her side, Rory sets off in the footsteps of all the dead beardy explorers before her, to get Dad to the North Pole. Before Mum finds out they’ve gone.

A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy is about being an explorer in a melting world. It’s a coming of age story. With polar bears.

“Eddie Pattison performs Rory like it was written for them.” - Australian Pride Network

Season: Melbourne and Sydney

Locked in his bathroom during a tragic third date, Willy asks: are you a Top or a Bottom?

Join Willy for a queer coming-of-age remix, as he questions if ‘bottom’ in the bedroom means ‘bottom’ in life – and whether Beyoncé can help put his love on top.

This is for anyone who hates making the first move. Anyone who thinks they are unlovable. Anyone that’s ever tried to be someone they’re not.

Season: Melbourne and Sydney.

Image: Ali Choudhry

One-night stands are awkward. One-night stands with animals are more awkward. And when you're as desperate to please as Bobby, things get awkward as f*ck. He's just a guy with too much love to give, and a burning desire to give it to consensual adult mammals.

Season: Perth and Melbourne.

Image: Ali Choudhry

Kane is one of the world’s biggest movie stars. And his body double is every bit as important, sharing more than just looks with his famous counterpart. But just how intertwined are their lives?

Season: Melbourne.

Image: Ali Choudhry

It’s his birthday. It’s George’s birthday. Well was. Yesterday, it was his birthday. 42. He’s 42 years old. And god does he feel it. His wife keeps him young though, Peggy, and the girls. His girls. He’s got two little girls. Little ratbags more like. But he loves them. Can’t imagine a life without them.

But tonight, on his birthday, he will come face to face with the brutal hand of fate and confront the unknown that we all fear…death.

Season: Melbourne.

Image: Helen Rofe

There is a world between worlds. A place where reality and dreams exist. A space that time forgot. An escape from this world into the next. Somewhere where we can revisit our treasured memories and keep a hold of what we have lost. A universe of longing and loss, of happiness and sorrow.

Season: Melbourne

Felix can’t sleep, nursing a bottle of cheap wine and staring at the roof wondering where his choices are leading him, and whether after all, he might find out “where do babies come from when you don’t have a womb?”

“This is an interesting work that addresses real concerns of queer communities as societies the world over progress and become more inclusive.” - Suzy Goes See

Season: Sydney, Melbourne and Wellington.

Image: Stephen Gregory