Due to overwhelming demand, after a regional tour in 2025 The End of the Wharf As We Know It!!! will return to Sydney in April for five final performances. How could the last, final ever performances of The Wharf Revue happen anywhere but Sydney!
The End of the Wharf As We Know It!!! runs at the Seymour Centre until 23 December, then tours regional NSW, Brisbane and Melbourne, before returning to the Seymour Centre for the final shows.
After twenty-five years in the harsh and unforgiving spotlight of politics, The Wharf Revue has decided to step away from public life.
“It’s an opportunity to spend more time with family,” said a spokesperson. “At the end of the day, this is about the need for renewal. We’ll serve one last term to max out the super and then try to pick up some kind of consultancy work or do a series of Survivor – look, it’s too early to say but it has been an honour to serve the Australian people.”
Many public figures who’ve appeared in the show regularly over the years are lining up for a place in the final hurrah: Keating, Howard, Downer, Costello, Gillard, Abbott, Carr and other throwbacks too numerous to mention. And there are those who bear the torch of democracy today: Lambie, Hanson, Bandt, Dutton and Albo – a veritable “Who’s that?” of Australian politics.
So join us for this joyous yet bitter-sweet send-off to one of the great national theatrical institutions – but please, no flowers by request.
THE END OF THE WHARF AS WE KNOW IT!!!
Written by Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott
Directors Jonathan Biggins and Drew Forsythe
Musical Director Phillip Scott
Performers Jonathan Biggins, Mandy Bishop, Drew Forsythe, Phillip Scott and David Whitney
Venue: Seymour Centre
Season: To 23 December, then 15-18 April 2025
Performance Times: Mon-Tues 6:30pm, Wed-Sat 7:30pm, matinees Wed 1pm, Sat 2pm
Price: Adults $95, Concessions $80, Under 30 $50
Bookings: seymourcentre.com or (02) 9061 5344
Also touring to:
Merrigong Theatre Company, Wollongong: January 28 – February 1, 2025
Performance Arts Culture Cessnock: February 5
Capitol Theatre, Tamworth: February 7 – 8
QPAC, Brisbane: February 11 – 16
Riverside Theatre Parramatta: February 19 – 22
The Art House Wyong: February 25 – 6
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith: February 27 – March 1
The Glasshouse, Port Macquarie: March 5
Civic Theatre, Newcastle: March 8
Dubbo Regional Theatre: March 11
Orange Civic Theatre: March 14-15
Wagga Civic Theatre, Wagga Wagga: March 18-19
Glen Street Theatre, Frenchs Forest: March 24 – April 9
The Round, Nunawading: April 11 – 12
