Theatre
![Red Stitch. Image is an illustration of a red shed atop a green hill and a pile of playscripts with sun beams emanating from behind it and a red sky.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/redstitch-recom.jpg?w=310)
Red Stitch launches 24-hour theatre lock-in to raise funds for 2024
Red Stitch Actors' Theatre is inviting the community into the rehearsal space in December, for a marathon live play-reading as…
![I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron. Image is a man sitting at a grand piano playing and singing, while on a screen behind him are translations of Chinese poetry into English.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/i-swallowed-a-moon-made-of-iron-photo-by-dahlia-katz-7-e1698498447918.jpeg?w=310)
Performance review: 我咽下一枚铁做的月亮 I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron, Dunstan Playhouse
Poetry revealing the despair of a factory worker was turned into songs that tugged at the heartstrings.
![](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Baleen_credit_Daniel-Boud_050.jpg?w=310)
Summer festival season heats up as programs launch nationwide
Adelaide, Perth and Sydney Festivals launched their 2024 programs this week, with Mona Foma waiting eagerly in the wings.
![Cocaine. Two young men, one is learning on the other. They are spotlit.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/If_We_Got_Some_More_Cocaine_I_Could_Show_You_How_I_Love_You_by_John_ODonovan-Cameron-Grant.jpg?w=310)
Performance reviews: If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love you, This is Living, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Two Melbourne Fringe shows – one of which explored mischief-makers in Ireland and the other the loss of a wife…
![Disaster. Image is of ‘Le Freak’ at Melbourne Fringe Festival 2023, with a backdrop of flames behind a devilish figure with horns and one arm raised.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/IMG_3739-e1698195863685.jpeg?w=310)
Performance reviews: Myth, Propaganda and Disaster and the Heirs of America, and Le Freak, Melbourne Fringe Festival
A successful, spine-tingling sequel and good hour of circus entertainment.
![Love Letters. Image shows actor in 'A friendship of life and death' at Melbourne Fringe, bending character on empty stage wearing green costume with black sash and holding red string.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/A-friendship-of-life-and-death-show-pic2_Cross-Encounters_photo-by-Katherine-Ho-e1698108380236.jpeg?w=310)
Theatre reviews: Love Letters and A friendship of life and death, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Ambitious shows aiming to bridge cultural understandings showed good intentions, but needed more development.
![Access. Image is a man in a white T-shirt and dark trousers sitting in a chair with his eyes closed opposite another empty chair.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/05-31-2023-123256-5439-e1698109173713.jpg?w=310)
Performance reviews: Access, Dougie Baldwin and Aza: stories of grief in diaspora, Melbourne Fringe Festival
An hour of anarchic clowning, emotional experimentation and diasporic mourning at Melbourne Fringe 2023.
![A bare chested man is angling his head to stare directly ahead.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/EXHUMED_The_Best_of_Bradley_Storer-Alexis-Delsauniers-Lea-3-e1698034864525.jpeg?w=310)
Performance reviews: Exhumed: The ‘Best’ of Bradley Storer, Leather Lungs: Happy Ending, Baba, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Three impressive shows at Melbourne Fringe Festival: two cabarets that touched on big and personal themes and a moving tribute…
![Fradulent horse girls. Image is a young girl in a blue jumper, red and white stripey T-shirt below, and orange waistcoat with hands on her chest looking upwards in a pleading fashion, with horse pictures behind her.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/All_The_Fraudulent_Horse_Girls-Sophie-Minnissale.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: All the Fraudulent Horse Girls, Trades Hall, Melbourne Fringe Festival
A queer coming-of-age production that involved a fever dream of horses and the novelist work of Cormac McCarthy.
![Frankenstein. Image is the back of a hairless human like monster, full of scars and markings.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/frank-e1698019058238.jpg?w=300)
Theatre review: Frankenstein, Playhouse Theatre, QPAC
Shake & Stir Theatre Co's adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic tale mixes traditional and modern theatre together to create a…