Written by Australian playwright, Joanna Murray-Smith, Switzerland first opened in 2014 at the Sydney Theatre Company, with seasons in the the US, Melbourne and London in the following years. Switzerland is a psychological thriller that explores the mind of...

By Patrick Weyland-Smith Making a tribute show to a beloved pop icon is always a juggling act of impersonation, parody and affection. Sarah-Louise Young (The Silent Treatment, Je Regrette!) has written and performs a perfect balance of all three in honour of the...

By Jennifer Beasley. Home is where the heart is, in this delightful exploration of three individuals whose lives become disrupted by an unfeeling public housing policy and questions, where is Home?  We all want a home, a place where we belong. In Ros Varley’s Home,...

  Written by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Come From Away made its Australian professional debut at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre in July 2019. A COVID interrupted tour followed, including two encore seasons for Melbourne. In 2024 CLOC presented the award winning...

There’s no better sell for a Cabaret than a pithy musical treatise on the state of Musical Theatre and/or Modern relationships. Joining the ranks of popular comedy numbers that incisively call out bizarre industry standards like Alto’s Lament and Random Black Girl...

By Darby Turnbull In her opening night speech Irene Holub reflected that when we attend or listen to Opera we’re frequently engaging with a language we’re either unfamiliar with or not fluent in. Developed in association with Arts House and Melbourne Fringe’s Radical...

By Oscar Bray It’s not news to anyone that despite the internet connecting us beyond our wildest dreams, many people feel alone. The struggles of online communication give young people so many ‘loneliness traps’ to fall into. Of course, this trickles into the art...

By Nick Pilgrim Back in the day, one of my first interactions with a personal computer occurred via a video game called Lemonade Stand. The simple premise allowed users to sell cups of home-made squash, determining juice to sugar to ice cube ratios, how many units...

By Jennifer Beasley. A Queer love trajectory that examines the transformative powers of time on relationships.  An interesting title. A Rhomboid in mathematics, and not the muscles in your back, is a parallelogram, its opposite sides are equal and parallel, with no...