Events and opportunities just for you 🔥
No images? Click here
MARCH NEWS
Get excited Playwavers, a new season ArtsLab is just around the corner!
ArtsLab: REVERB is bringing 8 epic new works from emerging artists straight to the stage. With daring new performance works spanning installation, theatre, puppetry, music, cabaret and comedy – it's all happening!
Oh, and did we mention killer shows from Belvoir St Theatre and Ensemble Theatre? This is your sign to get amongst it.
WHAT'S ON?!
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY
Presented by Belvoir St Theatre
Redfern 1966. Cheryl, Lulu and Queenie are young and life is glorious, full of hilarity and joy, even if jobs are precarious, the police harass them, and racism seeps into everything. But as they gear up for the biggest night of the year – the Deb Ball – their lives, Redfern, the country are all about to change.
Playwave tickets available until Wednesday 9 April. Book your tickets today to secure your Playwave member price!
REX
ArtsLab: REVERB Festival
An ambitious adaptation of good proportions, Sophocles’ three Theban plays will be packed into a one-person show, told through the eyes of a fool. When we take a step back and look at these stories of a royal family whose kingdom suffers, we must ask ourselves: Do I have enough RAM for this?
BUNNY BOILER
ArtsLab: REVERB Festival
Rigby spends most her nights working as a bartender at “The Bloody Heart”. Every shift is the same. Craig pisses in an alley, Darren smashes a glass, and Colin tries to take her home. Nothing surprises her anymore. Except for tonight when a greasy man walks in accusing her of a hit and run.
MAYBELLINE IS IN HER SLUT ERA
ArtsLab: REVERB Festival
On Monday, 21st August 2023, Maybelline was liberated from a 5 year long-term relationship.
In the 132 days that followed, Maybelline slept with 23 men, consumed 3 Plan B’s, had her heart broken by a J-Named Man (a canon event), took a midnight train, and kissed a girl. Statistics show that Maybelline is a Slut.
TAUTUA: A JOURNEY
ArtsLab: REVERB Festival
‘O le ala i le pule o le tautua’ (the path to leadership is service)’ - a prominent proverb in Sāmoan culture believed to be a way of life and how Sāmoan individuals navigate the world. In this exhilarating new autobiographical work, Fale Tumanu interrogates tautua using thought-provoking poetry and monologues - a recollection of 6 pivotal stages of her life where the ‘acts of service’ is being challenged.
MANIC PIXIE MELTDOWN
ArtsLab: REVERB Festival
Teddy is furious with the ‘Manic Pixie Dream Girl’ trope. Convinced it's a dangerous concept, she embarks on a darkly comedic crusade to take it down. Banding together for murder and chaos, manic pixie meltdown is led by an all-neurodivergent AFAB main cast, director and writer.
WE HAVE STOLEN OUR BODIES FROM GOD
ArtsLab: REVERB Festival
On a tranquil afternoon, in rural New South Wales township, a deeply religious community watches as a UFO crash-lands into a nearby bushland. Some deem it a biblical apocalypse, some form entirely new belief systems around it, while others struggle to reconcile everything they thought to be true with the unearthly events they’ve witnessed.
ULTRAREALITY!
ArtsLab: REVERB Festival
a synthetic opera in a trial universe; ultrareality! a journey through this cosmic, an exploration of life, self and technology. part deep-sea expedition, part puppet rave, part audio-visual experiment, ultrareality is an expression of things that don’t have words.
MUMMY, I'M SCARED!
ArtsLab: REVERB Festival
Put on your ghostly best, cause you’re invited to the hottest candle lit seance table at the house of the FeatherBottoms. In a race for motherly connection, performers Alison Cooper, Georgia Condon and Fia Morrison take us through a mysterious and ridiculously silly exploration of all things supernatural.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Presented by Ensemble Theatre
Amanda Wingfield can’t help but dream of the past — a long-gone adolescence of lavish parties and high society suitors. But her present is anything but dazzling. Living in squalor with her two adult children Tom and Laura, the bills are piling up and pressure to secure the Wingfield family’s future is swelling. Will a gentleman caller be the answer to their problems?
OPPORTUNITIES
PLAYWAVE CREATIVE
Are you creative?
Be part of a dedicated team of Playwave members turned Creatives re-defining the business. We want to hear from YOU - express yourself through reviews, film, art making and much more in response to what you're seeing and doing via Playwave.
Apply now!
QTOPIA PRIDE FEST EOIs
Running from 1 – 30 June, Pride Fest offers a month of dazzling works and moving stories that celebrate the astounding talent of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Please fill in the form below for your show to be featured in this year's Pride Fest season.
Applications close 16 March at 11:59pm
THE WRITER'S SPACE PROGRAM
A free, 6-week writing program for writers with disability in Penrith, meeting on Sunday mornings at Penrith Library.
Facilitated by Fiona Murphy and co-facilitated by former Writer's Space participant Shannon Anima, each session of this free writing course will focus on a different theme – from idea generation to developing compelling characters.
Spaces are limited.
CHANGEMAKERS LAUNCHPAD
Applications for the City of Sydney's Changemakers Launchpad program are now open.
The program is open to young people aged 16 - 24 who live, work or study in the City of Sydney local area and aims to develop civic leadership skills in young people and empower them to drive meaningful change in their communities.
Applications close Monday 7 April 2025.
PLAYWAVE TIP
UPDATE YOUR DETAILS
Did you know that you can update your email address and other details on your Playwave account? Check out the video above or follow the instructions below:
1. Head to the Playwave home page and LOG IN
2. Click EDIT under Account Details
3. Update your email and other details
4. Scroll to the bottom of the form and click UPDATE ACCOUNT
Email us at hello@playwave.com.au if you run into any issues!
Playwave acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which the company operates, the Bediagal and Kameygal People of the Eora Nation. We pay our respect to Elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with whom we work and create.
