Featuring: Siena Baxendell as Laura, Haylie Morton as Carmilla, and Anna Ding as a Vampiric Shadow

How do you navigate a relationship that is actively killing you? 

Carmilla follows the journey of Laura and Carmilla. Carmilla is a vampire and feeds on Laura throughout their relationship without her knowledge, draining Laura of her energy. The dynamic explores relationships where a depressed person and a non-depressed person become emotionally drained, feeling like a burden or being burdened, needing support and being unable to receive it. 

This performance will highlight Carmilla and Laura's relationship with each other as well as their physicalities, both with each other and individually. 

Content Warnings: Implied violence and murder; References to mental health

Featuring: Daniel Gyte as Daz and Penelope Coleman as Lauren

Salt on the wind. Chips on the pier. A cheap teddy bear, a bed and breakfast, the grey sea glittering behind the glass.

It looks like a postcard. It isn’t.

There’s a boy who knows every joke that will make the room laugh, and not enough money for the bus home. There’s someone who booked the room, paid for the weekend, and decided what to call it. We’re taught to laugh at this story, to envy it, to wave it through. Daz’s side of it is almost never given room: the jokes he makes to stay afloat, the toys he reaches for when words run out, the way he runs out of ways to hold himself up. Scarborough watches a boy be made smaller by someone he trusted. We’re chasing the moment you realise you read the first minute wrong. Listen closely to the first thing you hear.

Content Warnings: A sexual relationship between an adult and a minor (central to the plot, not depicted on stage); themes of grooming and abuse of power; coarse language; romantic physical intimacy (kissing, touching).

Featuring: Lilianna Zele, Tayla Van Heerden, and Gilda Verner

Some say that we are experiencing a modern industrial revolution. Tuesday morning brings another technological breakthrough as you sip your mediocre office coffee. Every change promises an increase in efficiency but, for the average worker quality of life doesn't seem to change– the expectation of output just increases.

Business as Usual is a physical theatre piece that explores the dichotomy between fearing the corporate system and simultaneously striving to achieve within it. The goal of productivity can be a curse as it wants humans to be machines. But recognition does not automatically mean escape.

Content Warnings: References to negative mental health states

Featuring: Ellie Rothfield as Alexis, Darcey Eilola as Poppy and Halle Phipps as Morgan

Women aren’t being burnt at the stake anymore, but when someone wants to take a woman’s power away, they’ll still call her a witch.

The Weird Sisters brings Shakespeare’s Macbeth and The Tempest into conversation with Euripides’ Medea to explore how society manufactures female villains out of women who refuse to conform to acceptable notions of femininity. Three sisters, suffocated by the harmful, unrealistic standards placed on women’s bodies, minds, and mothering, become possessed by the spirits of three powerful witches. Their frustration drives them towards an unthinkable act: the sacrifice of one sister’s newborn baby in exchange for the power to curse those who have wronged them. The Weird Sisters asks us to look beyond the label of villain and consider the cultural, social, and psychological forces that shape the women we condemn, both today and centuries ago.

Content Warnings: Disturbing themes; Infanticide

Featuring: Charlie Camilleri as Faith and Te Roberts as the Husband

Faith has three hundred thousand followers, a flawless pie crust, and no idea how she got here.

The Work follows a tradwife influencer filming her life while the polished version she thinks she has keeps slipping. The audience follows her ups and downs as she realises her autonomy, and who she once identified with, have been lost somewhere along the way. 

Social media can be a positive outlet and a curse. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be a mother and wife, but this play shows what the highlight reel leaves out as Faith tries to convince herself, and her followers, that this is what she wanted.

This production puts the audience in the position of Faith’s followers: complicit eyewitnesses to an untouched version of her videos before they’re edited and cut, watching a downward spiral. There is no catharsis.

Content Warnings: Coarse language; References to miscarriage and animal slaughter; ambiguous representation of violence and depictions of coercive control.