Past Seasons
Season 2022
Comedy Fest 2022

Presented by Live Nation
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Presented by Pietagogetter
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Presented by Fish and Twiner's Bait Shop. Performed by Lily Fish. Directed by Kimberley Twiner.
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Presented by Michael Griffiths
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MILKE Presents
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Comedy Festival at Malthouse
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Presented by Kimmie Lovegrove
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Comedy Festival at Malthouse
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MILKE Presents
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Presented by Maria Angelico
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Presented by Pietagogetter
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MILKE presents
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Presented as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival
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We're all in this together.
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An immersive theatre adventure by Malthouse Theatre
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A conversation about storytelling. Presented in partnership with SAARI Collective.
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One actor. Three dancers. A cave. A rescue mission. And a monster.
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Malthouse Prompt Youth & Education 2021
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Presented by Mistletone
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Presented by RAZ Music
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On Malthouse Outdoor Stage
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Presented by Mistletone
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Presented by Malthouse
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Presented by Penny Drop
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Presented by Token Events
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Presented by Token Events
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Presented by Token Events
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Presented by Chunky Move
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Presented by Rhinestone Rebel Presents
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Presented by Midsumma Festival
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Presented by 5AM Physical Theatre
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Presented by Penny Drop
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Presented by Penny Drop
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Presented by Schwartz Media
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Presented by Penny Drop
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Presented by Penny Drop
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Presented by Penny Drop
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Presented by Penny Drop
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Presented by Penny Drop
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Presented by Penny Drop
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Presented by Penny Drop
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Presented by Penny Drop
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Presented by Chunky Move
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Presented by Chunky Move
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Presented by Token Events
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Presented by Chunky Move
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Presented by the Wheeler Centre
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Presented by the Wheeler Centre
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Presented by the Wheeler Centre
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Presented by the Wheeler Centre
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On Malthouse Outdoor Stage
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On Malthouse Outdoor Stage
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Presented by the Wheeler Centre
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Presented by The People of Cabaret and Midsumma Festival
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Presented by Archer Magazine, The Wheeler Centre, and Midsumma Festival.
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Presented by YIRRAMBOI
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Presented by Party Passport, Midsumma & YIRRAMBOI Festival
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Presented by YIRRAMBOI Festival
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Presented by YIRRAMBOI
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Presented by YIRRAMBOI
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Presented by Quiet RIOT and House of Valerie Joan
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On Malthouse Outdoor Stage
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Presented on Malthouse Outdoor Stage
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Presented by Midsumma and Rawcus.
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Presented by Supersonic events
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Presented by Token Events
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Presented by Token Events
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Presented by Mistletone
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Presented by Mistletone
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Presented by Token Events
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'Exceptionally funny…Glorious absurdity… Makes you hear every line afresh' — The Guardian
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A rambunctious match made on eggshells
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Shakespeare’s tragedy has never been more relevant than in This Ignorant Present
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Australian playwright Ra Chapman's mainstage debut
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Nine ordinary people's lives in lockdown are anything but ordinary
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‘Damn, the real world is a hell of a writer' — Artforum
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‘Truly captivating’ — The Age
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From trophies of delusion to redemption
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‘A searing indictment of the law's treatment of women' — Sydney Morning Herald
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If trouble and mischief is all you live for...
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Asia TOPA 2020

★★★★ 'Chong [is] an immensely sensitive and supple theatre-maker' — Time Out (for Little Emperors)
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A new adaptation of Hao Jingfang's Hugo Award-winning novelette Folding Beijing
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★★★★★ 'A show I'll be thinking about for years to come' — The Age
More infoThe Ars Nova Production of Underground Railroad Game
30 JAN – 17 FEB 2019
★★★★½ 'A show that takes the ground from under you, even as it entertains the hell out of you' — The Age
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Be someone else. Join The Temple.
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Haunted house. Monument of love. Great continent. Cloudstreet is all that and more.
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★★★★½ 'Brilliant, Bold and deeply unnerving theatre' — The Age
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★★★★★ 'Solaris is a triumphant and emotionally vibrant production' — The Music
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★★★★ 'Ambitious and often strangely beautiful' — Time Out
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★★★★★ 'Hilariously intelligent...damn good comedy' — The Music
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★★★★½ 'Genius' — Theatre People
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Control. Co-ordinate. Collide. Checkmate.
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The power and ecstasy of grief
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★★★★★ 'Fast-paced adventure' — ArtsHub
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Season 2018

★★★★★ 'An experience designed to beguile' — Herald Scotland
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★★★★½ 'A brilliantly constructed production and compellingly performed' — ArtsHub
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★★★★ 'A vital confrontation, extraordinary' — The Observer
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★★★★ 'The next laugh is never too far away' — ArtsHub
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★★★★ 'Bursts off the stage' — Time Out
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★★★★½ 'Guttingly powerful' — The Music
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★★★★★ 'Fast-paced adventure that brings the house down' — ArtsHub
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★★★★ 'Accomplished, evocative stage debut' — The Guardian
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'The work of a director who has come into her full powers' — The Conversation
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★★★★ 'Brilliant, irreverent, autobiographical theatre' — The Age
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★★★★★ 'If there's one piece of theatre you see this year, make it Trustees' — Theatre People
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★★★★★ 'Sucker punch funny. I've never seen a play quite like it' — The Scotsman
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'A bittersweet, heartwarming coming of age story laced with humour and irony' — American Theatre
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Season 2017

★★★★★ 'An hallucinatory, tech-augmented tour de force' — The Age
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★★★★ 'Heightened, visually striking domestic melodrama' — The Age
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★★★★ 'A refreshingly urgent piece of new Australian writing' — Time Out
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★★★★ 'Tantalising, entertaining, ridiculous' — Herald Sun
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★★★★½ 'Magnificent on every level' — The Age
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★★★★★ 'Outrageously funny' — The Guardian
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★★★★ 'A play as energised by hilarity as ferocity, by anger as anguish' — The Age
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★★★★ 'A moving road trip through Australia's desert centre' — The Age
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★★★★ 'Repulsive, inappropriate and often brilliant' — The Age
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★★★★ 'A challenging, moving play about spectacle, difference and identity' — Limelight Magazine
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★★★★½ 'Stylish and soulful, wild and disturbing and darkly funny' — The Age
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★★★★ 'Pamela Rabe shines in chiselled, authoritative performance' — The Age
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'A unique two hander' — The Conversation
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★★★★ 'Fearlessly complex and visually arresting' — The Music
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// A fairytale gone rogue
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// Proves that horror is a warm, sunny day
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Curated by Daniel Schlussser
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// Worth living for
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Curated by Samara Hersch
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// Is a stone's throw away from collapse
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Curated by Felix Ching Ching Ho
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Curated by THE RABBLE
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// That are unthinkable, are the hardest to put behind us
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// And peer over the edge
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// Pays the ultimate price for making the personal political
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// Unites two iridescent artists—musician Tim Finn and poet Dorothy Porter
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// Pulls back the covers on teenage boys and porn
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// Is a feast of contradictions
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// Strips Australia bare
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