Thyestes
- Dates:
- 15 January - 19 February, 2012
- Venue:
- Carriageworks
“4 1/2 STARS – Thyestes is thrilling and astounding. The production is a masterpiece of writing, a triumph of staging, and a sublime act of performance.” – Martin Ball, The Age
“Hayloft’s best work yet and one of the highlights of the year. Thyestes is rock ‘n’ roll theatre: confronting, transgressive, uncomfortably hilarious, obscene, horrifying and beautiful.” – Alison Croggon, The Australian
Delectable Shelter
- Dates:
- 31 March - 17 April 2011
- Venue:
- Theatre Works, 14 Acland St, St Kilda
A black comedy about white terror, Delectable Shelter is a no-holds-barred portrait of the privileged, facing the end of the world as they know it. In a bunker deep within the earth, five survivors plan a utopian society. Their dreams are lavish, their visions grand, and their aspirations (somewhat) noble. But saving the world is the easy part, the hard part will be learning to share it with those they thought were beneath them.
The Nest
- Dates:
- December 4-19, 2010
- Venue:
- Northcote Town Hall, Studio 1
They dream of changing the world. Until they wake up.
They’ve got no plans. There is no revolution. They’re between projects. They’re between sheets. They’ve had too much to think and they’re dripping with an irony that no one enjoys.
In a rambling house, a restless rabble live, fight, dance, pray, drink, love and try to find a way out.
The Suicide
- Dates:
- 18 March - 11 April 2010
- Venue:
- Belvoir St. Downstairs Theatre
The cast and crew of The Only Child returns to B Sharp with The Suicide.
The world is in the midst of a huge environmental and economic crisis. Semyon Semyonovich can’t find a job and he’s stuck living with…
Yuri Wells
- Dates:
- February 12 - March 13, 2010
- Venue:
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide Fringe Festival
WINNER Adelaide Fringe Performance Award (Melbourne Fringe Festival) 2009
Melbourne Dramatists’ New Writing HIGH COMMENDATION 2009
“This is a creepy monologue, deftly performed by Melbourne actor Benedict Hardie…. Yuri Wells will sneak up on you days later, sending a shiver up the spine.” FOUR STARS – The Advertiser
“… a beautiful piece of theatre, created with deeply thought artfulness and craft … I thought this show utterly enchanting … Remembering of course that spells have their darker side.” – Alison Croggon
B.C.
- Dates:
- November 30 - December 19, 2009
- Venue:
- the Arts Centre, BlackBox
In our fifth and final production for 2009, Simon Stone directs Rita Kalnejais’ irreverent renovation of the Immaculate Conception. In a recognisable modern world of lounge rooms, food courts, bus stops and dinner tables, divine impregnation is the last thing you’d expect. B.C. depicts Mary, still living with her parents, as a young hairdresser with a romantic interest in store clerk, Joseph.
The Only Child
- Dates:
- September 17 - October 11, 2009
- Venue:
- B Sharp: Belvoir St Downstairs
We’re following up our 2008 B Sharp season of Spring Awakening with The Only Child, a new play written by Simon Stone with Thomas Henning, inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s 1894 play Little Eyolf. Since the accident that injured their child, Alfred and Rita’s marriage has degenerated into a mess of recriminations, sexual frustration and misdirected fury. Then one day their son goes missing. What follows is this young couple’s sometimes shocking, sometimes hilarious struggle to stay together despite the odds. The Only Child is an unflinchingly honest, bittersweet look at the complicated terrain of a modern relationship.
3xSisters
- Dates:
- April 24 - May 10, 2009
- Venue:
- Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
2009 Green Room Award Nominations (Theatre – Companies)
Best Production
Male Supporting Performer – Joshua Hewitt
Set Design – Claude Marcos
Lighting Design – Danny Pettingill
3xSisters is a playful and inventive deconstruction…
Spring Awakening
- Dates:
- April 24 - May 10, 2009
- Venue:
- Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
Spring Awakening is The Hayloft Project’s acclaimed version of Frank Wedekind’s 19th century masterpiece of teenage sexual awakening, named Best Independent Production of 2008 by Sydney’s Sun Herald. The original play’s frank treatment of adolescent sexuality was labelled pornographic, it…
