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A publicity image for 'Troy', one of seven productions in Malthouse Theatre's 2025 season. A multi-racial cast of seven, including men in skirts and women in tunics reminiscent of ancient Greece, link hands as they struggle across a dramatically lit and smoky battlefield.
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Malthouse Theatre eschews naturalism in its 2025 season

Addressing the cost of living and leaning into the theatrical, the Malthouse’s new season promises the epic and the intimate…

Close up of four women sitting in a car at night; they are lit from inside the car.
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Performance review: The Cadela Força Trilogy – Chapter 1, RISING Festival, Malthouse

A graphic and disturbing look at violence against women.

The Hotline. Three people sit at a table laden with food while a man stands behind them.
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Performance reviews: The Hotline, Poet No.7 and Zaffé, Melbourne Fringe Festival

An on-demand pregnancy hotline, post-apocalyptic Melbourne and reimagining of a traditional Lebanese wedding at Melbourne Fringe 2023.

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The daring future of sovereign Blak storytelling

ArtsHub speaks with YIRRAMBOI Festival and new First Nations theatre company A Daylight Connection, about bold and experimental First Nations…

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Theatre review: This is Living, Malthouse Theatre

A study of love, friendships and chosen families.

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Theatre review: Nosferatu, Malthouse

A modern telling of a classic tale plays around with a pastiche of Gothic tropes.

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Dance review: Monsters

An uncomfortable, thrilling glimpse into the darkness with which we are all learning to live.

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Theatre review: Looking for Alibrandi

The Aussie classic bursts to radiant life on stage in this joyous sunbeam of a production.