Spring 2024 - La Mama Theatre

Spring 2024

Melbourne Fringe at La Mama 2024 Seniors Festival at La Mama 2024 Primary Seasons Festival of Mother Tongues 2024 La Mamica

Melbourne Fringe at La Mama 2024

White woman wears black Be Kind T-Shirt, looks up at a clothesline of different things. A pink peg in her mouth.

Oct 2 – Oct 6

A black woman with braids laughs while holding a microphone.

Black Girl Rising

Oct 2 – Oct 6

A woman sits on a stool holding a cup of tea. She wears a white top and red jeans.

Oct 9 – Oct 13

Two people hold onto each other as they grin and laugh. They are wearing matching blue polo shirts and flap hats.

Ballkids (or, scenes from a friendship)

Oct 9 – Oct 13

A Caucasian woman is in a suit with her eyebrow raised. She is surrounded by early internet glitches and errors.

I watched someone die on Tik Tok

Oct 15 – Oct 20

A woman in a yellow boilersuit stands with a jellyfish on her head, in front of a starry sky . She is holding a phone to her ear and the cut phone cord in the other.

Notes From a Black Hole

Oct 16 – Oct 20

Seniors Festival at La Mama 2024

An old man in ragged clothing. He has a grey rough beard. He is holding a burning candle, in a candlestick, in his right hand. He is looking straight at the viewer with a wild, haunted look.

Oct 22 – Oct 24

Two figures looking like slabs of meat in the butcher

The Butcher, The Baker

Oct 23 – Oct 24

Two women in suits stand looking at camera. One is wearing a moustache. The other holds a ukulele.

Oct 26 – Oct 27

Hughes under examination by the Prosecutor.

Billy Hughes P.M. – “Dirty Little Rat!”

Oct 26 – Oct 27

A woman with a sad face and hair messy. The face is overlaid with abstract image of lungs.

Oct 21 – Oct 27

Primary Seasons

Tamblyn Lord in The Poltergeist by Philip Ridley

The Poltergeist

Oct 30 – Nov 10

A woman suckles a bloodied baby whilst sitting on a human size baby with three naked witches behind her.

Oct 30 – Nov 10

OH MY GOD I’M BLAK!

Nov 27 – Dec 8

Jack Hibberd Memorial

Festival of Mother Tongues 2024

A woman with long black hair pulling her hair to cover her face. Two people are holding a photo frame around her with only their hands visible in the shot.

I’m a virtual being, take photos of me

Nov 12 – Nov 13

Four women actors colourfully dressed with their faces masqueraded to repress the characters Rooster, Cat, Fox and Skylark.

The Golden Rooster/Khoroos Zari Pirhan Pari

Nov 12 – Nov 14

A woman trying to hold salt that is sifting through her fingers.

The Last Sicilian

Nov 13 – Nov 15

A woman in a black saree showcasing different sides of the character.

Nov 14 – Nov 16

Ceremony of Cultural Rings

A woman

FIN-I (the utopian connection)

Nov 14 – Nov 16

A woman

Nov 15 – Nov 17

A woman wearing a sculptural piece made of newspaper, holding a long paper chain.

The Field of Forgotten Dreams

Nov 16 – Nov 18

Quijocentos from Bolivia...

Nov 16 – Nov 23

There is a man sitting, holding his hat for some comfort and a woman standing over him with satisfaction.

I topi non avevano nipoti

Nov 17 – Nov 19

A middle-aged woman in black stands with her hands tied up and a suitcase next to her

Nov 18 – Nov 20

A man in his seventies with apipe in his mouth sits on the chair firmly holding his suitcase and

People, what have you done

Nov 18 – Nov 20

Nancy Wake, in a blue 1940

La Souris Blanche (The White Mouse)

Nov 19 – Nov 20

Black and white wedding photo of a bride and groom with two older women. Surrounding items include a bouquet of white flowers, a bottle of liquid, decorative ribbons, and eggshell-colored almonds.

An Italian Wedding

Nov 21 – Nov 23

A woman with eyes closed and red thread tied around her face. / A woman with eyes staring at the camera and red thread tied around her face.

Αριάδνη / Ariadne

Nov 22 – Nov 24

A wooden chair with a sheet of music taped in the back casts a dark shadow on the orange background

弦外之影 Hidden Tunes

Nov 22 – Nov 24

A portrait of a woman crying, a tear drops on her cheek

Nov 22 – Nov 24

A woman with dark hair, her eyes closed stands with her arms creating a kind of circle around her upper body and is immersed in stars.

Nov 23 – Nov 24

La Mamica

Musica Dec 2024: End of year celebration!

A woman in a flowing white dress is floating in a dream-like state in a vast blue sea.

Poetica Dec 2024

Cabaretica Dec 2024

A man sits in a chair with a script in his hand. He is looking out at someone with a look of pleased surprise.

Scratch Dec 2024