Summer & Autumn 2021

23 Feb - 4 Jul

Two teenage girls in school uniform. One hugging the other from behind they both look into the camera smiling.

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Melbourne Festival of Puppetry 2021

6 Jul - 11 Jul

A poster shows a face with seagulls for eyes, rocks for hair around its face, a lighthouse for its nose, and light streaming out from the lighthouse.

The Last Lighthouse Keeper

a peasant stands next to a cart driven by an ox. He looks across to a young man wearing a red tunic and jester’s hat. Image: Kasia Pudlo

The Land Where One Never Dies

A person in a giant koala puppet head

Free roving Performances

Amongst some salvaged wood, a trio of wooden puppet characters look nervously at each other.

Hammer and Thumb

a bald man with a puppet dog

Picasso and His Dog

Four rainbow sock puppets looking in different directions.

Workshop: Sock Puppets

viewed from above, the head and torso of an old lady puppet wearing a patterned jacket, in front of a blue curtain

Free street performance

Two clothes peg puppets

Workshop: What’s a Puppet?

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La Mama VCE program 2021

a young person in a long red wig.

Jul 14 - Jul 25

A stack of suitcases on a brown background

My Brilliant Career

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La Mama Courthouse Winter & Spring 2021

27 Jul - 19 Dec

Three people in pink satin pyjamas holding each other and looking into the camera

Hedda GablerGablerGabler

Aug 10 - Aug 15

A family — man in his sixties carrying a space helmet, an 11 year old girl wearing a blue space suit, a man in his 30s in an orange space suit carrying a space helmet, and a woman in her 50s stand against an alien looking, rock wall. They hold lights aloft in the darkness.

Voyagers: a new musical

Aug 18 - Aug 22

A crow flying through a storm with a child’s doll in its claw.

Birthday Book of Storms

Aug 25 - Aug 29

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

Woman in red dress walking cobbled streets of a Greek island

A House on an Island in the Aegean

A woman with long black hair is falling backwards.

Sep 15 - Sep 26

a woman and a cat lay on a bed

Oct 26 - Oct 31

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La Mama Musica

a person with close-cropped hair, ear piercings, and a tattoo of a feather looks directly into the camera.

La Mama Musica: (dis)locations

A man in a floral shirt plays violin, looking intensely into the camera.

Musica: Book of Wanderings

woman in a pink ruffled blouse wears a black fascinator with netting that covers her face. Her earring is an outline of an Aboriginal flag.

Musica: Sounds Like Us, Like Love

A woman with shoulder-length hair uses Auslan to sign “deaf” and “flat”

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La Mama Poetica

A black and white photo os a woman with short curly hair leaning against a fence

La Mama Poetica June 2021

Poetica: September

A woman in a black dress stands in the middle of a rocky island with an umbrella.

Poetica: The Inheritors

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La Mama Cabaretica

Cabaretica: September

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La Mama Cinematica!

A person lying down on the rocks of a river

La Mama Cinematica: Edition #3

A graphic image with text: VODmilk in the flesh

Cinematica: VODmilk: In The Flesh

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

Three images, the largest is 4 figures silhouetted. The top right image is a black and white still of a man wearing sunglasses and the bottom right images is two people talking.

Cinematica: Edition #6: Unknown Pleasures

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Melbourne Fringe at La Mama 2021

28 Sep - 17 Oct

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 single red high-heeled shoe and gas mask hang in blackness.

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Seniors Festival at La Mama 2021

19 Oct - 24 Oct

A young woman and an American sailor dance the Jitterbug.

Oct 19 - Oct 24

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La Mama HQ Winter & Spring 2021

21 Oct - 12 Dec

a pastel drawing

WAITING……but for ….?

Oct 27 - Oct 31

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

Nov 17 - Nov 28

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

Nov 19 - Nov 28

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

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Deadly Events at La Mama

A hand strumming a guitar near gum leaves. A small Aboriginal flag is on the Cole Clark guitar.

Blak Stage at La Mama

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An Indigenous Trilogy

16 Nov - 5 Dec

A desert landscape with three young Indigenous children walking towards a mountain through dry grasslands.

Act I: Three Magpies Perched in a Tree

Nov 16 - Nov 19

a desert mountain range with a body of water in front.

Act II: Masterpiece

Nov 21 - Nov 24

A landscape with red dirt, green shrubs, a mountain and blue sky with clouds.

Act III: Some Secrets Should Be Kept Secret

Nov 26 - Nov 29

A red dirt road, a mountain and blue sky with clouds

Durational Performances

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La Mama Mobile

A woman in a blue scarf holds a baby wrapped in a red blanket, a dark night sky behind them.

Jul 28 - Aug 13

a tree on a river at dusk

Nov 19 - Nov 21

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Playreadings & Book Launches

Black and white Corner of patterned couch.

Book launch: The Archaeology of a Dream City

self-portrait by Maggie Diaz.

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

Three women reading scripts on stage under theatre lights.

Playreading Mini-Fest

Playreading: Heretics

A red devil mask in foreground and a woman in sillhouette against a rural backdrop.

Playreading: The Devil Made Her Do It

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.

Playreading: La Societa Italiana

Fireworks outdoors at night

Playreading: My Sister Jill

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La Mama Online

Raphael has sparkling dancing blue eyes and a shaved head. He is wearing headphones speaking into a microphone recording an interview.

Podcast: The Artists of Arts Access Victoria and La Mama Theatre

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