Category: The Old 505 Theatre

DISTORTED is the latest play from Australian writer, Xavier Coy, whose other plays BURIED and ARE YOU LISTENING NOW? I have seen, both at the OLD 505. Mr Coy’s writing has always intrigued, provoked and excited me. This work is 90 minutes long with no interval and charts ten characters in a journey-arc to depression. Mr Coy is exploring Mental Health. Director Richard Hilliar with Mr Coy and his actors have ‘workshopped’ the original collection of independent people into a text to reveal definite characters with individual narratives, all existing in the same world but not at all connected to each other.…

The Set has a large bed. On it gathers a group of five friends, five lesbians. We are at a Bed party in a shared house. Jasmine (Brigitta Brown) arrives with her latest date, Finn (Alex Moulis). They are interrupted by long time school friend of Jasmine’s, Tara (Suz Mawer), who lives in the house, having declared herself bi-sexual, and is in a kind of permanent crisis of identity. An excited woman in the throws of a new last night romantic meeting, George (Mathilde Anglade), bursts into the room with an irrepressible fire-cracker energy, and in contrast, Bri (Julia Billington)…

Photo by Jasmine Simmons Bite Collective and the Old 505 Theatre presents, WHOSE UTERUS IS IT ANYWAY?, by Georgie Adamson, at The Old 505 Theatre, Eliza St, Newtown. 30th October – 10th November. WHOSE UTERUS IS IT ANYWAY?, is a new play by Georgie Adamson. Ms Adamson recently completed her MFA (Writing for Performance) at NIDA and this was the play she wrote whilst she was there. It is being presented as part of the inaugural FreshWorks Femme season at the Old 505 Theatre: FreshWorks Femme is a brand-new initiative, bringing together some of Sydney’s fiercest young female theatre makers…

Photo by David Hooley Brave New World presents, LIE WITH ME, by Liz Hobart, at The Old 505 Theatre, 5 Eliza St, Newtown. 2 – 13 October. LIE WITH ME, is a new Australian work by Liz Hobart. This is a new iteration of this project that has been in development over a period of almost 2 years. It examines the circumstances of a ‘serial’ killer. It focuses in on the parents of the young man – Sebastian – and the devastating effects that it has on them. Questions of responsibility in the manners and hazards of bringing up a child…

ROOMBA NATION. Photograph by Reinhardt. Hurrah Hurrah presents the World Premiere of ROOMBA NATION, at The Old 505 Theatre, Eliza St. Newtown. July 4 – 21. ROOMBA NATION is a new Australian work from the company Hurrah Hurrah, led by Alison Bennett. Roomba relates to a Roomba Robotic vacuum cleaner – built by the company, iRobot. This performance work has three Roomba robots that have been cast in a role sometime in the near future in assisting humans in medical research. Doctor Uta Haagen Dazs (Kate Walder), assisted by a human Nursie, Seigret (Nick O’Regan), and the Roomba robots are…

Photo by Mansoor Noor Joanna Erskine, Eloise Snape and Samantha Young (co-Producers) present AIR, by Joanna Erskine, at The Old 505 Theatre, Eliza St. Newtown. 13 June – 30 June. AIR, is a new Australian play, by Joanna Erskine. In a Community Radio station (2RIP – Ms Erskine’s comic sensibility is signalled there!) Annabel hosts a program that reads the listed Obituary’s of the Day to assist those who are reading impaired – this is a reality to be heard at 8.45am on 2RPH – 1224Am or 100.5FM, that Ms Erskine noted and took as her starting point for this wonderful…