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SUMMARY:Slivers of Time: an exhibition of drawings
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nSlivers of Time\nan exhibition of drawings\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nSuzanne .k. Franklin\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]20 – 31 October 2026 \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n… push[ing] the boundaries between drawing and painting while concurrently capturing the passing of time… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]Load More[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text css=””]Perth based artist Suzanne .k. Franklin (sue.k.) returns to Melbourne with a new body of work. Further exploring her materialist positioning as an artist\, the development of the work for Slivers of Time adhered to strict rules of format and composition with the motif of a single sphere and an horizon line becoming simply devices for navigating space. Freed is the exploration and discovery of the material of the medium of Inktense Pencil. \nBy approaching the production of the work in a diaristic structure\, with an addition of writing down thoughts and feelings relevant to the day when a drawing was completed\, each work provides a slice of time framed and hung one-by-one in a row that mimics that of a filmstrip. Moments caught in time. \nFull of colour and texture\, the work pushes the boundaries between drawing and painting while concurrently capturing the passing of time. \nPlease note: the artist will be in attendance at the opening on Tuesday 20th Oct. and on Saturday 24th and 31st Oct. 12pm – 4pm.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist Bio” tab_id=”1787131951383-51b96f1a-c01a”][vc_column_text css=””]Suzanne .k. Franklin originally trained as an artist at Claremont School of Art\, Western Australia\, graduating in 1992 with a Major in Sculpture and a Minor in Painting\, though her forté has always been drawing. Since then\, she has maintained an ongoing practice focussed on sculpture\, drawing\, and experimental video work\, as well as performance pieces. Much of this work has been conducted under the name of sue.k with a return to using her full birth name\, Suzanne Franklin\, taking place in 2012. For more than three decades her work has been shown across Australia\, UK\, US\, Europe\, and Asia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Slipping Sideways
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nSlipping Sideways\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nDorothy Lipmann\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]20 – 31 October 2026 \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n… crossing a line with what society chooses not to see\, and how it views women who don’t conform to its norms… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Artist Statement”][vc_column_text css=””]Slipping sideways is to move outside\, from the predictable into the unknown. Its an asymmetrical movement indicating uneasiness and discomfort\, with a sense of impermanence and loss of control. The concept of slipping sideways encompasses the absurd\, out of character\, not normal\, and free of directness. \nMore elderly women are becoming homeless who have never faced circumstances outside of their control before. This is a re-occurring theme in my work which involves memory and a sense of injustice since I started exhibiting in 1987. It allows for hybrid forms to go off at a tangent into something you don’t know what you are looking at.  It is crossing a line with what society chooses not to see\, and how it views women who don’t conform to its norms. The point is\, it could be anyone\, battling for visibility and wanting to be treated with humanity. \nThe essence is towards a unity of opposites even when the present is unpredictable and uncertain. This is about finding the extraordinary in something very ordinary\, where something seen sparks the imagination and gives total freedom to paint exactly as we please. \nThis exhibition also depicts paintings from the Pilbara\, where I saw Burrup  Peninsula rock art (petroglyphs) being sacrificed for mining. \nI see a commonality between our attitude to homelessness and our reluctance to control mining excesses. \nI want to give form and feeling to concerns such as what it is like to live rootless\, as a drifter without a home or connections\, and to live in a landscape that we mythologise yet exploit.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Artist CV” tab_id=”1787131951383-51b96f1a-c01a”][vc_column_text css=””]Dorothy Lipmann is a Melbourne based artist. \n  \nTraining \n1967-69 – Fine Arts (Painting) – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology \n1970 – Fellowship Year – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Melbourne University \n  \nExhibitions \n1987 – Pinacotheca Gallery\, Waltham Place\, Richmond –  solo show \n1989 – Pinacotheca Gallery\, Waltham Place\, Richmond –  solo show \n1992 – Pinacotheca Gallery\, Waltham Place\, Richmond –  solo show \n1994 – Pinacotheca Gallery\, Waltham Place\, Richmond –  group show \n1995 – Pinacotheca Gallery\, Waltham Place\, Richmond –  solo show \n1997 – Pinacotheca Gallery\, Waltham Place\, Richmond –  solo show \n1997 – Pinacotheca Gallery\, Waltham Place\, Richmond –  group show \n1999 – Pinacotheca Gallery\, Waltham Place\, Richmond –  solo show \n2001 – Polly Courtin Gallery\, Swanston Street\, Melbourne – solo show \n2004 – 4 Cats Gallery\, Johnston St\, Collingwood – solo show \n2005 – 4 Cats Gallery\, Johnston St\, Collingwood – solo show \n2008 – Collingwood Gallery\, Smith St\, Collingwood – group show \n2008 – Collingwood Gallery\, Smith St\, Collingwood – solo show \n2011 – Collingwood Gallery\, Smith St\, Collingwood – solo show \n2012 – Collingwood Gallery\, Smith St\, Collingwood – solo show \n2013 – Collingwood Gallery\, Smith St\, Collingwood – solo show \n2014  – Summer Salon – Collingwood Gallery – group show \n2014 – Leave the Animals Alone – Collingwood Gallery – group show \n2014 – Collingwood Gallery\, Smith St\, Collingwood – solo show \n2016 – Collingwood Gallery\, Smith St\, Collingwood – solo show \n2017 – Collingwood Gallery\, Smith St\, Collingwood – solo show \n2020 – Tanami Desert – drawings \n2021 – fortyfivedownstairs\, Flinders Lane – group show online \n2022 – fortyfivedownstairs\, Flinders Lane – solo show \n2024 – fortyfivedownstairs\, Flinders Lane – solo show \n2026 – fortyfivedownstairs\, Flinders Lane – solo show \n  \nAcquired By \nMuseum of Modern Art\, Brisbane \nYarra City Council\, 2013[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:5/6
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\n5/6\nA celebration of friendship through art\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nJennifer Fletcher\, Lisa O’Keefe\, Carolyn Roberts\, Chris Rowe & Jill Symes\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]3 – 14 November 2026 \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…five individuals working in different ways\, showing their distinct and passionate views of the world through their own personal visual narratives… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″]Load More[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Exhibition Description”][vc_column_text css=””]In 1993 six artists: Jennifer Fletcher\, Lisa O’Keefe\, Carolyn Roberts\, Chris Rowe\, Jill Symes\, and Dee Waterhouse\, came together for the exhibition Form\, Figure\, Fragment\, at Caulfield Arts Complex. \nFrom this meeting of minds\, an enduring friendship developed and in 2013 there was a further group show. \nThey have remained artists and friends for over three decades\, each continuing to exhibit and work in her own art practice. \nSadly\, Dee Waterhouse is no longer with us\, but the remaining five friends have come together again for one more display of collective energy – a celebration of friendship through art. \nThe exhibition 5/6 is five individuals working in different ways\, showing their distinct and passionate views of the world through their own personal visual narratives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Jennifer Fletcher” tab_id=”1787131951383-51b96f1a-c01a”][vc_column_text css=””]Jennifer Fletcher is a mixed-media artist who has been working and exhibiting both nationally and internationally since the 1980s. She has a BA Fine Arts (Printmaking) with a special interest in creating unique state prints. \nJennifer was born in north west NSW into an aviation family. Flying low over the Australian landscape in small aircraft gave her an aerial perspective of the world from a very young age.  Living close to the bush and swimming in the sea have always been close to her heart\, producing a profound fascination with the natural world and this ancient land we call home. \nGathering detritus from storm washed beaches\, kelp\, seaweed and sea sponges\, delicate plant life\, the patterns of roots and branches\, the mysterious sacred geometry of our world that knits everything together. Intricacies of plant forms\, in sea or on land\, ancient formations of weathered stone or mountain ranges all exert a powerful fascination that never grows old. \nJennifer spent nine years in Italy\, living in a rural area absorbed in local life\, history and culture while working and exhibiting. Home is now on the Mornington Peninsula\, Bunurong country\, where she swims in the Bay and delights in the beauty of this diverse geographical area. \nOver many years exhibiting in solo and selected group shows\, of opening her studio to the public on a regular basis\, Jennifer’s work has been collected by private\, public and corporate collections. \nFB       :           Jennifer Fletcher Artist\nIG        :           @jennifer.fletcher.artist\nPST    :           www.peninsulastudiotrailinc.org[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Lisa O’Keefe” tab_id=”1787214879275-0c2fec48-c572″][vc_column_text css=””]Lisa O’Keefe studied Art at the ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE des BEAUX-ARTS\, Paris\, graduating with Honours in Painting. \nIn the nearly 15 years she lived there\, her work gradually moved from abstract to figurative\, becoming more so on her return to Australia.  However\, abstraction did not disappear entirely.  The figures and other figurative elements exist within an abstract framework\, and within this\, she sets out to explore colour and texture (or the illusion of it). \nThe stories that unfold\, often diverse and detailed\, are juxtaposed against a smooth and empty background\, the intention being to create an area of calm\, a void.  These are paintings from the imagination but rooted in reality. – the world around us\, anecdotes\, personal experiences.   Questions are asked.  Do we have answers? \nAnd\, they express that endless need to record\, make marks and communicate in a visual way. \nLisa has exhibited consistently over the years\, picked up several awards and is represented in private and public collections in Australia and overseas. \nWebsite:        www.lisaokeefe.com.au\nInstagram:     Lisa.okeefe4\nGroups:          MSWPS (Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors)\nMelbourne Artists Society\nPAS (Peninsula Artists Society )[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Carolyn Roberts” tab_id=”1787214951249-0ebdeebf-2b4c”][vc_column_text css=””]Carolyn Roberts is a multi-media artist who works mainly in watercolour and mixed media on paper.  Her love of watercolour comes from its freshness\, directness and immediacy. \nShe has long been interested in questions of time\, place and identity\, interwoven with the natural world and the cycle of life.  Carolyn examines the big picture\, by the close observation of its components; her works examine the minutiae of the landscape\, the little things that make up the whole. \nCarolyn has spent the last 13 years living between Melbourne and rural Normandy\, which has influenced her work to a great extent.  This latest body of work is concerned with destruction and regeneration; in particular the bombing of the city of St Lo by the allies in 1944. \nThe built environment has been restored since the war\, just as the natural world continually restores itself.  However the scars still remain visible in the landscape. \nInformed by\, but not bound by the rules of botanical and scientific illustration\, the artist reconstructs her environment in order to better understand it. \nCarolyn has a long exhibition history and has won several awards.  She has works in both private and public collections. \nShe has a Master of Fine Arts from Monash University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Chris Rowe” tab_id=”1787214992702-88ceeca6-5cc4″][vc_column_text css=””]Chris is a full time award winning mixed media artist\, holds a BA Fine Art (Painting) and has been exhibiting nationally and internationally in solo\, selected and group shows since the late 1980s. \nCombining collage with a variety of compatible professional mediums has been her enduring challenge and continuing journey. \nOver the years Chris’ works\, informed by her life’s experiences\, have gradually become more complex and multilayered. \nHer people gather and wonder in environments of unknown composites. \nThey confer\, wait\, and search to understand themselves\, each other and their world. \nPerspectives are altered\, different in time and place while simultaneously\, an echo of life. \nWhat if anything is real or purely imagined? \nHer works are the imagery\, the viewer creates their story\, where the more one looks\, the more one sees. \nWebsite: www.chrisrowe.com.au\nBluethumb Online Gallery: https://bluet.hm/ChrisR\nInstagram: @chrisrowefineart[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Jill Symes” tab_id=”1787215058377-84b57aa8-e43a”][vc_column_text css=””]Jill Symes is a Melbourne based ceramic artist working with hand built terracotta and white earthenware since the 1970’s. Known for her strong forms and love of simplicity\, asymmetry and mark making her works have been acquired by numerous public collections such as the City of Bayside\, City of Whitehorse\, and importantly several in the Shepparton Art museum (SAM) as well as many private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas. \nKnown for her hand built sculptural vessels and layering techniques with recycled and earthenware clays\, Jill employs unique firing methods including gas kiln sagger firing and shallow in ground pit firing with timber\, sawdust and salt. She is well known for her love of surface treatment\, frequently burnishing the leather hard clay surface with polished gemstones or the back of a spoon\, then often adding slips\, oxides and sgraffito details before firing. \nA multiple award winning artist\, Jill has conducted many workshops in New Zealand and across Australia\, imparting her knowledge and experience to all levels of ceramic artists from professional to beginner. To this end she has run workshops in hand building and firing for numerous potters groups around Melbourne and country Victoria\, mostly under the auspices of Craft Victoria. \nJill Symes distinctive sculptural forms are based on her close observation of history\, landscape and the earth from which her material comes.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:This Is Our Youth
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nLunatix Theatre presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1785804429454{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nThis Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1785804440074{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]5 – 15 November 2026[/vc_column_text]book online Double Bill – Never Closer & This Is Our Youth [vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1517972522288{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” el_class=”ffds-theatre-details”][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1517986542329{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #f8f8f8 !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517986153292{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}”]\nSHOW DETAILS:\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator align=”align_left” el_width=”40″ color=”custom” el_id=”ffds-theatre-divider”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1787119431296{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Thursday 5 – Sunday 15 November 2026\n\npreview: Thursday 5 November\nopening night: Friday 6 November\nduration: 2 hours & 20 minutes including interval\ntimes:\nTuesday to Saturday 7:30pm\nSunday 4pm\nticket price: $30 – $50\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: TBC[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e29065c5-b63365ad-01c60201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f1b3a9-604b” title=”Description”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]New York\, 1982 – the future is here and it’s going to shit. When 19 year old stoner Warren is kicked out of home and steals money from his ‘not a criminal\, just in business with criminals’ father\, he sets off a wild 24 hours of schemes\, dreams\, awkward romance and crashing headfirst into the real world. \nFunny\, painful and compassionate\, Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth is a contemporary classic about coming of age in uncertain times\, brought to life in Melbourne’s iconic fortyfivedownstairs venue! \nDirected by Maeve Hook (Never Closer)\, starring Amir Antoine (Cleopatra and Antony)\, Lachlan Herring (Punk Rock) and Emily O’Brien (Mojo).[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Cast and Creatives” tab_id=”1452941644640-19a0de81-e87a0201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f1b3a9-604b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]CAST  \nDennis: Amir Antoine \nWarren: Lachlan Herring \nJessica: Emily O’Brien \n  \nCREATIVES \nDirector: Maeve Hook \nStage Manager: Estella Koce \nSet Designer: Ashley Reid \nLighting Design: Gabe Bethune \nSound Design: Julian Smith-Gard \nCostume Design: Perrie Taylor \nProduction Assistant: Lachlan Herring \nIntimacy Coordinator: Jessica Stanley \nFight Coordinator: Joshua Bell \nAccent Coach: Matt Furlani \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Ticket Prices and Concessions” tab_id=”1452941768731-94b426f3-57530201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f1b3a9-604b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\nTicket Prices:\nPreview: $35\nFull: $50\nConcession: $40\nGroup 6+: $40\nMob tickets (discount for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island mob): $30 \nConcessions:\nPensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members \nTicket sales are subject to a booking fee of $5.00 per ticket \nTicket 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![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]book online [/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:DIREL Lake Tyrrell: Traces in Salt\, Colonisation by Design
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-artistname”]\nDIREL Lake Tyrrell\nTraces in Salt\, Colonisation by Design\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”ffds-gallery-exhibitionname”]\nLea Rose\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text css=””]17 – 28 November 2026 \nInteractive artist talks: \nSaturday 21 November\, 1pm\nSaturday 28 November\, 1pm \nhours:\nTuesday – Friday: 12pm – 7pm\nSaturdays: 12pm – 4pm \nadmission: Free[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\n…fosters contemplative engagement with collective responsibility\, exposes cultural injustices\, and challenges Australia’s national psyche to reckon with colonial histories… \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs shape=”round” color=”white” active_section=”1″ no_fill_content_area=”true”][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1518320329614-868977ba-1f9e905c-b0b3368e-b9ef2edb-f0663f53-0933″ title=”Exhibition Description”][vc_column_text css=””]Lea Rose (Irish settler) is a Naarm-based political ecologist\, human and cultural geographer and emerging artist. Rose is undertaking a transdisciplinary PhD at the University of Melbourne\, Faculty of Science (School of Geography\, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)\, following postgraduate study in Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). Rose’s research critically examines the legacies of colonial power\, governance and systems of control\, with a place-based focus on the impacts of colonisation on Direl (Lake Tyrrell)\, Mallee\, Victoria. Across academic and artistic practice\, Rose fosters contemplative engagement with collective responsibility\, exposes cultural injustices\, and challenges Australia’s national psyche to reckon with colonial histories. This solo exhibition presents the culmination of Rose’s practice-led PhD research\, bringing together extensive fieldwork undertaken at Direl (Lake Tyrrell). Combining moving image\, installation and archival research\, the exhibition reflects the relationship between the landscape and colonial histories. \n2026 PhD Graduate Researcher (Cultural Geography\, Fine Arts\, History of Empires\, Imperialism and Colonisation\, Australian History) Faculty of Science (School of Geography\, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences) University of Melbourne \nGraduate Certificate Visual Arts VCA\, University of Melbourne \nGraduate Diploma Education\, University of Melbourne \nBA Fine Arts\, Prahran/VCA\, University of Melbourne \nlea@learose.com.au\nInstagram:@lea.kylie.rose\nwww.learose.com.au[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs gallery\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:gallery
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261203
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SUMMARY:The Highly Strung Players
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nThe Highly Strung Players present\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1787120894620{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nThe Marriage Game & The Volcano\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1787120907426{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]1 – 2 December 2026[/vc_column_text]book online for the marriage game book online for the volcano [vc_empty_space]book online for double bill [/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” el_class=”ffds-theatre-details”][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1517986542329{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #f8f8f8 !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517986153292{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}”]\nSHOW DETAILS:\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator align=”align_left” el_width=”40″ color=”custom” el_id=”ffds-theatre-divider”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” css=”.vc_custom_1788922190220{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Tuesday 1 December – Wednesday 2 December 2026\n\nduration: 90 minutes\ntimes: 7:30pm\nticket price: $25 – $65\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: TBC[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e29065c5-b63365ad-01c60201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f1c796-b36f” title=”Description”][vc_column_text]Over the past decade the Highly Strung Players have been entertaining audiences with performances of Peter Rose’s short plays. This absurdist troupe\, which began appearing at fortyfivedownstairs in 2017\, presents rehearsed readings with a changing ensemble. Now the Highly Strung Players return to fortyfivedownstairs with its most ambitious program yet: a two-night season of four inter-related plays\, with Rose’s trademark ironies and satire. Along the way we meet or learn about many of his eccentric characters\, including the enigmatic and much-maligned Vanessa. The season culminates with Rose’s latest play\, The Volcano. Audiences can expect two nights of sophisticated humour and absurdist leaps. \n“The Highly Strung Players’ original absurdist works are playful\, witty and multi-layered. Renowned wordsmith Peter Rose has a fine sense of what lies beneath the surface of relationships and social interaction. His clever duologues highlight our foibles and delusions with sensitivity and humour.” Helen Morse \n“The more you see The Highly Strung Players perform\, the more you learn. The company’s repertoire comprises not separate plays but is part of an ever-expanding continuum. Peter Rose’s words are naturally poetic\, proving the power of poetry in motion and emotion. As with fine chamber music\, Peter’s words are designed to make you listen\, to pay attention\, to focus – to narrow down on all the quirks and frailties and intensities of the human condition.  \nThese are true conversation pieces. At first\, the exchanges may seem like small talk – superficial\, brittle\, even bitchy – but they coalesce gradually\, inexorably\, to reveal a world of past experiences and associations that have occurred somewhere offstage\, remaining unforgotten and often unforgiven. There are epiphanies\, too\, an ominous undercurrent that is indicative of profound\, life-changing force. Surprises\, even shocks\, can erupt swiftly.” Michael Shmith[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Program” tab_id=”1787121213739-0564f716-1d67″][vc_column_text]The Marriage Game – Tuesday\, December 1\, 2026 \nPeter Rose and Ellie Nielsen present three short plays drawn from The Ones\, Rose’s celebrated series of satires about publishing and married life. We follow our two publishers over the course of twenty years: from the start of their relationship to the brittle present\, when Robert seeks to revisit the ‘pact of infertility’. \nThe program will run for ninety minutes\, including one interval.  \n  \nThe Volcano – Wednesday\, December 2\, 2026 \nRose’s new play (2026) presents four characters not encountered in previous works\, but they have deep social connections with those featured in The Ones and other plays. In the first act we meet Dallas and Edward\, tourists in Sicily who contemplate a momentous visit to a volcano. In Act 2\, five years later\, their twin children (Timmy and Melody) recall the events of that day and reminisce about a lost sibling\, Teddy. In the final act\, Timmy – trying to make sense of why he has been disinherited – is enlightened by an unexpected guest. \nThe Volcano (performed by Georgina Banks\, Ellie Nielsen and Peter Rose) will run for ninety minutes\, including one interval.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Biographies” tab_id=”1452941644640-19a0de81-e87a0201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f1c796-b36f”][vc_column_text]Georgina Banks – a writer\, facilitator\, and performer – was a professional actor in her twenties\, studying acting in New York and then working in theatre and television for over a decade. In 2023 she published her first book\, Back to Bangka\, which was recently featured on ABC TV: Compass\, The Myth of the Nurses on the Beach. She first performed with the Highly Strung Players in 2025. \nEllie Nielsen holds a degree from VCA drama school and a Master of Creative Writing from RMIT University. As a Naarm (Melbourne)-based actor\, writer and dramaturg\, her work focuses on new and independent theatre. She is the author of the internationally published memoir Buying a Piece of Paris\, and has performed with the Highly Strung Players since 2023. \nPeter Rose is a poet\, novelist\, memoirist and critic. Attention\, Please! (2025) is his seventh book of poetry. Rose Boys\, a family memoir\, won the 2003 National Biography Award. He founded the Highly Strung Players in 1989 and revived it in 2017. Since then he has written many plays\, including the five-part The Ones. 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URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/the-highly-strung-players-3/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs theatre\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne 3000\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:theatre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261203
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SUMMARY:The Cooper Prize
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\n16th Street Foundation and Company 16 present\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” css=”.vc_custom_1789433193571{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nThe Cooper Prize\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” css=”.vc_custom_1789433203885{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]Thursday 3 December 2026[/vc_column_text]book online [vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1517972522288{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” el_class=”ffds-theatre-details”][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1517986542329{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #f8f8f8 !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517986153292{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}”]\nSHOW DETAILS:\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator align=”align_left” el_width=”40″ color=”custom” el_id=”ffds-theatre-divider”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” css=”.vc_custom_1789433277240{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Thursday 3 December 2026\n\nduration: TBC\ntimes: 7:30pm\nticket price: $35 – $45\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: TBC[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e29065c5-b63365ad-01c60201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f1d8c6-afbf” title=”Description”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]The 16th Street Foundation and Company 16 invite you to the announcement of The Cooper Prize 2026 winner\, a prestigious international $20\,000 playwriting award championing bold\, original theatrical voices. \nDuring the evening\, excerpts from the top four finalists’ new theatre works will be presented through professionally directed readings\, brought to life by an ensemble of Melbourne’s finest actors\, culminating in the live announcement of this year’s winner. \n“The Cooper Prize stands as a beacon for work that might otherwise never be heard – and in doing so\, reaffirms the power of the arts to awaken\, challenge\, and heal.” – Philanthropist\, Peter Cooper \n“While many international awards exist\, few actively encourage writers to sit inside the ambiguity of life – to explore its contradictions rather than resolve them. What distinguishes the Cooper Prize is its commitment to one of the most vital functions of art: to provoke thought\, to expand emotional understanding\, and to bridge the space between intellect and feeling.” – Associate Artistic Director of 16th Street\, Harry Haynes[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Ticket Prices and Concessions” tab_id=”1452941768731-94b426f3-57530201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f1d8c6-afbf”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\nTicket Prices:\n\nFull: $45\nConcession: $35 \nConcessions:\nPensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members \nTicket sales are subject to a booking fee of $5.00 per ticket \nTicket 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![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]book online [/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/the-cooper-prize/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs theatre\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne 3000\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261220
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SUMMARY:Jerk Beach
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nPummel Squad presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” css=”.vc_custom_1792026125561{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nJERK BEACH\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” css=”.vc_custom_1792026159362{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]16 – 19 December 2026[/vc_column_text]book online [vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1517972522288{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” el_class=”ffds-theatre-details”][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1517986542329{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #f8f8f8 !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517986153292{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}”]\nSHOW DETAILS:\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator align=”align_left” el_width=”40″ color=”custom” el_id=”ffds-theatre-divider”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” css=”.vc_custom_1792026273243{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Wednesday 16 – Saturday 19 December 2026\n\nduration: TBC no interval\ntimes: 7:30pm\nticket price: $30 – $45\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: Jerk behaviour[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e29065c5-b63365ad-01c60201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f17012-498b” title=”Description”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Nothing good ever came out of Jerk Beach. \nPummel Squad have been allowed back to fortyfivedownstairs for their fourth annual pantomime. After sold out seasons of Marginalia and How The King Learned To Live Forever\, they’re taking us on a trip to a town that time forgot. \nJerk Beach. It’s your forever-summer holiday spot gone sour – washed out\, corrupt\, and overrun by the jerks. Beefed these no-good youths spend their days catching waves\, beating up nerds and wondering how they’ll ever get out of this wretched place. But when a mysterious little green visitor from beyond the stars crash lands in this godforsaken place\, spit hits the fan faster than grandma on gravy night.  \nIt’s Gidget meets Jaws meets ET meets Pummel Squad\, and it’s playing for four nights only. So grab your boogie boards and get down here or you’ll regret it.  \nWhop bop b-luma b-lop bam boom! \n“Pummel Squad have gained a reputation for their wild\, physical\, silly\, cartoonish\, hilarious\, idiosyncratic\, poor theatre over the last few years… I finally understand all the superlatives that have been thrown their way.” Keith Gow on How The King Learned To Live Forever[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Cast and Creatives” tab_id=”1452941644640-19a0de81-e87a0201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f17012-498b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Created by Pummel Squad \nWriters: Ludomyr Kemp-Mykyta\, Harry McGee\, Cooper Donald McDonald \nDirector: Cooper Donald McDonald \nCast: AYA\, Miela Anich\, Keegan Bell\, Sam Buckley\, Alex Fimeri\, Molly Holohan\, Ludomyr Kemp-Mykyta\, Harry McGee\, Cooper Donald McDonald\, and more. \nLighting Designer: John Collopy \nStage Manager: Anneka van der Velde \nProducer & Dramaturg: Mark Pritchard \nAssistant Producer: Keegan Bell \nArtwork: Ludomyr Kemp-Mykyta and Cooper Donald McDonald[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Ticket Prices and Concessions” tab_id=”1452941768731-94b426f3-57530201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f17012-498b”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\nTicket Prices:\nFull: $45\nConcession: $35\nGroup 6+: $35\nMob tickets (discount for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island mob): $30 \nConcessions:\nPensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members \nTicket sales are subject to a booking fee of $5.00 per ticket \nTicket 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![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]book online [/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/jerk-beach/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs theatre\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne 3000\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:theatre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270315
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SUMMARY:Bright Star
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”ffds-theatre-company”]\nfortyfivedownstairs presents\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1764047903414{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-title”]\nBright Star by Emmanuelle Mattana\, based on the screenplay by Jane Campion\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” css=”.vc_custom_1788498327817{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}” el_class=”ffds-theatre-dates”]13 February – 14 March 2027[/vc_column_text]book online [vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1517972522288{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” el_class=”ffds-theatre-details”][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1517986542329{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #f8f8f8 !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1517986153292{padding-bottom: 5px !important;}”]\nSHOW DETAILS:\n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator align=”align_left” el_width=”40″ color=”custom” el_id=”ffds-theatre-divider”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” css=”.vc_custom_1792118177863{padding-top: 5px !important;}”]Saturday 13 February – Sunday 14 March 2027\n\npreview: Saturday 13\, Sunday 14\, Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 February\nopening night: Thursday 18 February\nduration: 90 minutes\ntimes:\nTuesday\, Thursday\, Friday\, Saturday 7:30pm\nWednesday 11am (schools matinees)\nWednesday 6:30pm\nSunday 5pm\nticket price: $55 – $79\nbookings: 03 9662 9966 \nwarnings: TBC[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section tab_id=”1451285630039-f4b33ad9-e29065c5-b63365ad-01c60201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f18ded-b409″ title=”Description”][vc_column_text]”I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain” \nfortyfivedownstairs is proud to present the world premiere stage adaptation of Jane Campion’s beloved film\, inspired by the profound romance between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne.  \nAdapted by Emmanuelle Mattana (Trophy Boys) and directed by Cassandra Fumi (The Crocodile and Rhinoceros)\, Bright Star melds Campion’s tender screenplay with Mattana’s theatrical reimagining\, Keats’ transcendent poetry\, and original compositions by Rachel Lewindon (The Inheritance) to create one of the year’s major theatrical events.  \nSupported by City of Melbourne\, the Malcolm Robertson Foundation\, and the Robert Salzer Foundation. \n    [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Cast and Creatives” tab_id=”1452941644640-19a0de81-e87a0201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f18ded-b409″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Writer: Emmanuelle Mattana \nDirector: Cassandra Fumi \nCast: To be announced! \nComposer: Rachel Lewindon \nCostume Designer: Dann Barber \nSet Designer: Savanna Wegman \nLighting Designer: Jenny Hector \nProduction Manager: Harry Dowling \nProducer: Cameron Lukey on behalf of fortyfivedownstairs[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Ticket Prices and Concessions” tab_id=”1452941768731-94b426f3-57530201-342dcb0a-2ec9a177-581a2513-a5c51f1f-8993a3c4-5ca5cb85-3d54189f-4d6f8ba6-b9f18ded-b409″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\nTicket Prices:\nPreview: $55\nFull: $79\nConcession: $59\nGroup 6+: $59\nMob tickets: $55 \nConcessions:\nPensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members \nTicket sales are subject to a booking fee of $5.00 per ticket \nTicket 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![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space]book online [/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://fortyfivedownstairs.com/event/bright-star/
LOCATION:fortyfivedownstairs theatre\, 45 Flinders Lane\, Melbourne 3000\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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