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  • RUNT

    Dee & Cornelius & Wilks

    A play about the runts of the world: the lesser, the unwanted, the weak, those without clout, the insignificant; all the unders.

  • SHORT STORIES

    Lisa Sewards

    With a great love for books, Lisa Sewards explored short stories during Melbourne’s 2020 COVID-19 restrictions. Each book turned into a capsule of reflection and hope and has led to this new series of printmaking and painting works that celebrates the short story genre in Australian literature.

  • all / most / some / none

    Madeleine Joy Dawes

    Utilizing a system whereby the ruled grid becomes the vessel for a lexicon of hand-drawn symbols, the principal theme in Madeleine Joy Dawes' work is the utilization of iterative mark making as a temporal site to record measured and psychological time.

  • Playreading: June by Patrick McCarthy

    Fabricated Rooms

    Following their critically acclaimed productions Grief and the Lullaby (2015) and The Sky Is Well Designed (2017), Fabricated Rooms present a work-in-progress reading of their third project, June.

  • Trouble in a Monochromatic Town

    Solstice Trio

    A lush and gritty program inspired by a palette of shifting drones, acid house, electronics, Dada and silk scarves

  • The Trauma Project by Elizabeth Walley

    Elizabeth Walley

    An immersive composition for theatre crafted by Elizabeth Walley in response to her eyewitness experience of a homicide in her suburban street.

  • elemental

    Joan Blond | Aliki K | Bev Plowman | Jo Carroll

    A collection of new paintings exploring facets of landscape and abstraction by Joan Blond, Aliki K, Bev Plowman and Jo Carroll.

  • Old Friends | New Beginnings

    Luke Severn and Elyane Laussade

    Luke Severn and Elyane Laussade will make their triumphant return to performing as a duo with a concert of some of their favourite works for cello and piano.

  • A Pilgrim’s Progress

    Nel ten Wolde

    A series of paintings and digital collage works exploring the discarded and lost clothes that crossed the artist's path on the pilgrimage trails she has covered throughout Europe, especially Spain.

  • Iteration

    Margaret Manchee

    Iteration presents two series of Margaret Manchee’s recent work: etchings using Spirograph; and mixed-media paintings and collages.

  • Kavisha Mazzella with Irine Vela

    The Boite

    LIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME
    Kavisha Mazzella returns briefly to Melbourne for an intimate concert at fortyfivedownstairs with guitarist Irine Vela

  • From Don Giovanni to Peking Opera

    Yiyun Gu

    LIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME
    Virtuoso pianist Yiyun Gu plays brilliant program of music from the stage by Liszt, Goossens and young female Chinese composer Wang A Mao

  • Making Nonsense

    Janno Mclaughlin

    An unapologetic, wildly exaggerated, absurdist conflagration of installation, large- and small-scale paintings, paper works, textiles and hand-sewn soft sculptures with bold explosions of colour.

  • Electric Loneliness

    Night Creatures

    A strange and mysterious seaside cabaret told through vaudeville, puppetry, fairy tale, and 80s synth-inspired song.

  • Don’t Make Me Play Piano Man

    Steven Kramer

    After his acclaimed and hilarious debut cabaret ‘I Sing Songs’, join Steven Kramer on a journey through all the great piano hits across the ages.

  • Michael Griffiths: Greatest Hits

    Michael Griffiths

    Helpmann Award winner and fortyfivedownstairs repeat offender Michael Griffiths returns with his greatest hits.

  • cCORDA

    Michelangelo Russo & Jennifer Jabu

    cCORDA represents a journey through the meditative motion of cutting and consequently assembling cardboard, jute and hexcel paper within a confined, framed space. The essence of the composition is fully revealed when finally embalmed with chosen encaustic colour.

  • Voyage

    Helen Begley

    In the midst of convict ships arriving each week from Britain, a different cargo leaves for Australia. On board are 287 immigrant women enticed by promises of a better life.

  • Retreat

    James Grant

    An exhibition of paintings exploring local landscapes and private domestic environments which have become increasingly important spaces of both refuge and of tension over the last year.

  • Greedy Pixiu

    William Eicholtz

    Greedy Pixiu are a pan Asian chimera to accompany us back from a difficult pandemic year.

  • RUNT

    Dee & Cornelius & Wilks

    RUNT to return to our theatre after a sold-out premiere season

  • Still by Jen Silverman

    Jen Silverman

    Written by one of the hottest young playwrights from New York City, Jen Silverman’s award-winning play will make you laugh, cry and reflect, often all at the same time.

  • Fantastique! The Life and Loves of Hector Berlioz

    Karen van Spall, Adam Miller, Coady Green, Melanie Hillman

    LIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME
    Created using journal entries, letters and articles from Berlioz’s life, combined with a selection of his songs, and transcriptions of his orchestral works

  • HERE again

    presented by fortyfivedownstairs

    HERE again is part of fortyfivedownstairs' Fragments online series. The exhibition brings together artists from the fortyfivedownstairs community, many who have had exhibitions affected by Melbourne’s six lockdowns to date. This is a chance to experience new work created in these challenging times, as well as sneak peeks into forthcoming exhibitions.

  • Silence #1.6: The Beauty in Death

    Pimpisa Tinpalit

    Silence #1.6 is a philosophical study of mindfulness that all metaphysical conditions co-exist, and that death can provide a beautiful insight to understand and appreciate life.

  • Step. Float. Fly

    Chloe Vallance

    Step. Float. Fly has been formed through a warm and sometimes mysterious observation of people and animals as they engage within everyday activities and moments of contemplation.

  • King Lear Online

    Melbourne Shakespeare Company

    A moving contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy

  • Duo Eclettico Online: Solicitude

    Coady Green & Justin Kenealy

    Watch the recording of Duo Eclettico's 'Solstice' concert, filmed during a live Zoom broadcast in January 2021.