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Details: 17 February 2009

Venus & Adonis | Bell Shakespeare & Malthouse Theatre

This romantic epic poem, based on a story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses about the Roman Goddess of Love, Venus and her mortal lover, Adonis, is a cautionary reminder that with great love comes terrible pain.

Details: 16 February 2009

Beckett’s work is always unflinching and these are characters who will ask the painful questions

Details: 16 February 2009

Focus on Schubert was performed amidst the fire smoke, which kept reminding the artists and viewers of the dreadful disaster and ensuing loss.

Details: 16 February 2009

Nostalgia is Yukichi Matsumoto’s ambitious Jan-Jan Opera epic about, the creator says, “the memories of people who lived through the 20th Century.”

Details: 14 February 2009

Las Vegas with a touch of Hollywood stardust comes to Marrickville in the form of the divine Ms Imogen Kelly.

Details: 14 February 2009

The Importance of Being Earnest | Ridiculusmus

Thought you couldn't make an Oscar Wilde play any sillier? An entirely minimalist production maximises the laughs in an unashamedly ridiculous version of The Importance of Being Earnest.

Details: 14 February 2009

If you thought Joan Collins’ career was in the doldrums then you are sorely mistaken because she’s back in fine form in the Mardi Gras Festival’s Betcha Thought I Was Dead.

Details: 14 February 2009

Baghdad Wedding has a certain hum and buzz surrounding it. Since its triumph at the Soho Theatre in London in 2007, theatre companies around the world have been eager to stage it.

Venus & Adonis | Bell Shakespeare & Malthouse Theatre

Fragments | Theatre des Bouffes du Nord

Focus on Schubert

Nostalgia | Ishinha

The Undressing Room | Imogen Kelly

The Importance of Being Earnest | Ridiculusmus

Betcha Thought I Was Dead

Baghdad Wedding | Company B