Theatre Archives

Yes Yes Yes – Unpick Consent

May 2, 2025

Yes Yes Yes is an award-winning show specifically designed for young adults, dealing with the difficult area of consent. Presented as part of Seymour Centre’s Arts Education program, this is an insightful piece that supports parents looking for meaningful theatre for their children that aligns with NSW curriculum outcomes. Part documentary, part confession, part open conversation, Yes Yes Yes is a theatre show created specifically for teenagers exploring the knotty and necessary topics of healthy relationships, desire and consent. “Young people have the skills already to be having super healthy consensual relationships with everyone in their lives.” says Karin McCracken, writer and performer of…

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Events

Cicada at Sydney Theatre Company

August 23, 2024

Sydney Theatre Company presents this new adaptation of master-storyteller Shaun Tan’s much-loved CICADA, brought to life in a stunning puppet show created by one of Australia’s premier children’s theatre companies – Barking Gecko Theatre. Cicada spends his days dutifully working away in a grey office. Overlooked by his superiors and overworked by his colleagues, he is getting very close to the end of his tether. But one day, looking out over the city from the rooftop of his office building, Cicada has an epiphany. A small story of epic proportions and winner of the Children’s Book Council Award for Best…

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Events

Queenie van de Zandt in BLUE: The Songs of Joni Mitchell at Bondi Pavilion

February 22, 2024

Settle in for a treat and be transported to Woodstock as Queenie van de Zandt, with her live band, performs the spellbinding show, BLUE: The Songs of Joni Mitchell. Australian cabaret chanteuse and musical theatre star Queenie van de Zandt, renowned for her artful storytelling and raw, emotive vocals, takes us on a sonic journey in BLUE, through the songs, stories and art of this musical legend. Affectionately reinterpreting Mitchell’s music, Queenie reveals the intimate stories behind Joni’s haunting songs such as A Case of You, River and Little Green from her iconic album, BLUE (one of Rolling Stone’s greatest…

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Events, School holidays

Family fun, Bell Shakespeare presents: Just Macbeth! (abridged)

September 22, 2023

What do you get when you combine Shakespeare, Andy Griffiths, garden gnomes, daggers, Wizz Fizz and brussels sprouts? Just Macbeth! (abridged) of course! Journey to medieval Scotland for this perfect introduction to Shakespeare for young people. Just Macbeth! (abridged) is a really silly version of Shakespeare’s great big gory tragedy starring Andy, Danny and Lisa from Andy Griffiths’ Just! series, packed into a pocket-sized play. Exploring the story of Macbeth through the eyes of Andy Griffiths’ much loved characters, this hilarious and irreverent take on Shakespeare’s classic tragedy will have the whole family in stitches. Just Macbeth! (abridged) is aimed…

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