Midsumma at La Mama 2022

Artemis looks directly at the camera with an expression of concern. They have olive toned skin and short, curly, dark brown hair. They are wearing a green dinosaur onesie. One of their arms is deep within a cardboard box which is labeled ‘fragile’. The background of the image is a pale blue colour.

Artemis: Utter Mess

Framed within a large beige gazebo with towering columns stands two people, shoulder to shoulder. The person closest stands with his back facing out and he is a white man wearing a checked grey suit jacket, his gaze is up and out into the distance. Next to him is a white woman facing outwards and staring up at the horizon line. She is wearing a fur-like coft and her hand is curled underneath her chin. To the lest of the gazebo is a large tree with just the upper branches catching the warm golden sunrise on its limbs.

From All Who Came Before

A rainbow flag with a flute

Homophonic! BYOB*

Feb 11 - Feb 13

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La Mama for Kids

In front of a dark purple background is a blue/purple book, decorated with a yellow diamond and some stars. From between the book’s pages emerge beams of light, along with some a castle, a king, a fairy godmother, a fish tail, a dragon tail, and a viking. Further to the right, there is a jumping fox, and a chicken.

Midsumma: The Story Keepers

Feb 12 - Feb 13

abstract reality with rocket

Workshop: The Imagination Machine

Mar 19 - Mar 20

A brightly coloured Mermaid puppet is swimming below a white Porpoise puppet. Both puppets are made from recycled rubbish.

MICF: Trash With A Porpoise

Apr 20 - Apr 24

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La Mama HQ Summer 2022

8 Feb - 24 Apr

Dr Rob is Shouting, buried up to their neck in Australian theatre history books, plays and press releases.

An Unforgivably Brief History of Australian Theatre with Dr Rob

Feb 15 - Feb 20

An outline of a female lighting a match next to a fire place.

Nellie Kelly is a female Ned Kelly, wearing his famous hand made armour, with a rose in her rifle.

a pastel drawing

WAITING……but for ….?

Mar 23 - Mar 27

A Man in chains.

A close-up of the corner of a man’s face, his eye staring out. There is blood on his face.

A blurry image of two men in winter coats stand against a black wall looking ambivalently at the viewer.

Mark and Declan solve nothing at La Mama

Apr 13 - Apr 24

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La Mama Courthouse Summer 2022

8 Feb - 24 Apr

We Too Us Too Me Too Too Too

Feb 16 - Feb 27

A woman with long black hair is falling backwards.

A collage of images: B&W photo of a 5 year-old boy (the writer). Also in the collage is postcard painting of the passenger ship “Fairsky” which brought the writer and his family from Ireland to Australia in 1963. He is bare-chested, wearing his Dad’s shirt, his Mum’s tea-cosy and holding a mop. (taken around 1956). B&W photo of the same person (the writer) now grown up. (circa 2020).

The Fall of the Roman Umpire

A head of a woman looks straight out at us, she overlaps a second image of herself where she’s now coloured red, and she in turn overlaps a third image of herself but this time now coloured yellow, the red and yellow are suggestive of fire, behind the three faces is a billabong.

Fire in the Head

Mar 16 - Mar 27

Two women, side by side, looking directly at the viewer. One woman has a coil of knitting in blues, greens, grey curled around her shoulder and wrist, she offers a handful of mud to the viewer.

Unravel_Reckoning

A young woman and an American sailor dance the Jitterbug.

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La Mama Musica

A black and white image of a microphone on a stage with misty stage lighting

La Mama Musica: Rethinking the Music City

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La Mama Poetica

La Mama Poetica: March

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La Mama Cabaretica

a pink background with four images on it. The images from left to right are: Image one: a woman stands in front of a grey background, she is smiling and has her arms crossed in front of her. She is wearing a black lace jumpsuit, her hair is curled and falls around her shoulders. Image two (below): Two non-binary people stand in front of a pink background, looking over their shoulders. They are wearing pink shirts, pink moustaches, and witches hats Image three (above): Diimpa in a hat plays a music box on stage Image four: A woman in a back top with one hand on her head and one on her hip, hair blowing in the breeze, looking off into the distance

La Mama Cabaretica: March

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La Mama Cinematica!

A man and woman in a phone booth at night. The man is on the phone. The woman has red hair and purses her lips.

Cinematica: Edition #5

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Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2022

Empathy Training

Apr 12 - Apr 17

A panicky naval officer with a giant squid in the background.

Apr 19 - Apr 24

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Playreadings & Book Launches

Three identical hands holding a melting mint chocolate chip ice cream, the images are glitching.

Playreading: The Marvellous Life of Carlo Gatti

self-portrait by Maggie Diaz.

Film Script Reading: Almost Human, The Movie (Fundraiser)

an interpretation of Medusa

Playreading: Where there’s a Will

A young girl of 10 years old stands next to a sitting man who is her family’s restaurant’s chef, in front of an old wooden suburban fence with the chimneys of East Melbourne behind her.

Script Reading: La Societa Italiana

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La Mama Mobile

a pop art style image with a super hero woman standing in a strong stance with her fist out. The background is yellow, blue and red stripes

La Mama Mobile for Kids: Super Jenny LIVE

Apr 10 - Apr 22

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War-Rak/Banksia Festival

9 Dec - 12 Dec

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Deadly Events at La Mama

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