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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…

Against red drapes stands a dark-haired woman wearing lacey, black underwear-style clothing.
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Theatre review: Apologia, Malthouse Theatre

Reality and surrealism collide in one woman's fantasy of wanting to be a French actress.

Three panels. A man is on the left, a woman on the right. The middle section is bare except for a wooden household object. The panels are lit inside but there is darkness surrounding them.
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Theatre review: Macbeth (An Undoing), Malthouse Theatre

The Scottish play returns with a few modern twists and a (muddled) feminist focus on Lady Macbeth.

The Hate Race. A woman in blue is standing on a stage marked with yellow and brown wavy patterns. She next to a bicycle and there is a large half circle light shape on the back wall.
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Theatre review: The Hate Race, Malthouse Theatre

Maxine Beneba Clarke's memoir receives a poignant and powerful adaptation.

Daylight Connection. Image is an Aboriginal man flanked by two Aboriginal women whoh each have a hand on his shoulder. All are wearing grey T shirts.
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Theatre review: Whose gonna love ‘em? I am that i AM and Chase, Malthouse Theatre

First Nations Theatre collective A Daylight Connection presents a double bill that provokes, examines and entertains.

Hour of the Wolf. Image shows the back of a silhouetted wolf figure and a man with his back to the wall brandishing a sharp object at it in fear.
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Performance review: Hour of the Wolf, Malthouse

This choose-your-own adventure (again) is the Malthouse's latest immersive production.

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Dance review: 4/4, Merlyn Theatre

Embodied, rigorous and sensorially spectacular, Chunky Move’s latest dance work will linger long past the final beat.

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Theatre review: Telethon Kid, Malthouse Theatre

The moral of ‘Telethon Kid’ hangs on a precarious through line that is tarnished in this make-believe world.

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Theatre review: Loaded, Malthouse Theatre

A freewheeling, caustic monologue performed with feverish intensity by the spellbinding Danny Ball.

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Theatre review: Made in China 2.0, Malthouse

What's the role of the artist if not to provoke and to challenge?

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