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How the King Learned to Live Forever
SHOW DETAILS:
Thursday 18 – Saturday 20 December 2025
duration: 70 minutes
times:
Thursday to Saturday 7:30pm
ticket price: $35 – $45
bookings: 03 9662 9966
warnings: Coarse sexual references; coarse language; adult themes; crossbow violence; staged violence; partial nudity; references to death, grief, sexual misconduct, starvation, blood and gore
Click HERE to read the Social Script for the production
Click HERE to read the program
Fresh off multiple Green Room Award wins for ‘Spring has Sprung or The Beautiful Show’ and ‘Twenty Million Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’, theatre renegades Pummel Squad are coming to fortyfivedownstairs with their third annual pantomime: a raucous celebration of death, hubris, and all we love about theatre.
In a time long ago and land far away, a brave knight is summoned to bring life back to the dying king. Is he dead? Maybe. Are his three evil advisors propping him up and carrying him around so that they may live the good life of creamed corn and gravy? It’s possible. The one thing that is certain is that the fate of the kingdom rests in the hands of the brave knight, their squire, their crazy friend Death and the enchanting princess.
Join Pummel Squad and a ragtag bunch of beloved Melbourne actors as they turn our beloved venue into the King’s banquet hall, for a night of mayhem and revelry that’ll send the year packing with a laugh.
Photo by George Jefford
Creators: Pummel Squad
Cast: Damon Baudin, Bailey Ackling Beecham, Keegan Bell, Sam Buckley, Sonya Chong, Sophia Derkenne, Maddi Formosa, Sybilla George, Eliza Grundy, Blake Hohenhaus, Molly Holohan, Chris Kemp, Harry McGee, Ludomyr Kemp-Mykyta, Stefan Kemp-Mykyta, Sasha Lanyon, Michael Leonard, Indra Liyanaarachchi, Cooper Donald McDonald, Halyna Mykyta, Dan O’Halloran, Karl Richmond, and Lauren Swain
Set and Costume Design: Pummel Squad
Design Consultant: Savanna Wegman
Costume Assistant: Lucy Mills
Lighting Designer: John Collopy
Sound Designer: Justin Gardam
Producer & Dramaturg: Mark Pritchard
Ticket Prices:
Full: $45
Concession: $35
Group 6+: $35
Concessions:
Pensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members
Ticket sales are subject to a booking fee of $5.00 per ticket plus any merchant charges for payments by American Express
Ticket fees are charged reluctantly. As an unfunded CBD located venue, our expenses continue to rise. If fortyfivedownstairs is to survive, we are obliged to increase our revenue without inflicting costs on already struggling artists. Without support, we risk losing artists or having to close our doors. We do hope for your understanding!