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2008 Subscription Season
As You Like It
Thursday 3 April to Saturday 5 April

Follow the course to a place where running from loneliness, ageing and questioning loyalties gives way to friendship and a taste of love in a hostile, confusing world. Written by William Shakespeare and directed by John Bell.

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Beware of the Dogma
Wednesday 16 April to Saturday 19 April

It’s time to once more glove up and join The Wharf Revue, Australia’s finest satirical vivisectionists, as they fillet the sacred cows with a blunt knife, a piano and a capful of Dettol. Politicians, as usual, are well and truly put under the microscope as well as much more!

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Gadgets
Tuesday 22 April and Wednesday 23 April

A witty and innovative show that combines technology, live music and spectacular circus skills with special guest Erik the Dog – a remote controlled tin terrier with attitude.

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Melbourne Comedy Festival
Thursday 24 April and Friday 25 April

A line up of some of THE best Australian and international performers from the MCF.

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LaLaLuna
Tuesday 3 June and Wednesday 4 June

Fresh from a season in London - a surreal and whimsical tale of the moon’s caretaker as he struggles to relight the darkened moon.

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Strangers in Between
Friday 13 June and Saturday 14 June

From the director and writer of the box office smash hit Holding the Man comes one of the most tender and excruciatingly funny comedies seen on the Australian stage in years. A brilliant comedy from one of Australia’s most talented young playwrights.

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The Pitch
Thursday 26 June to Saturday 28 June

Peter Houghton’s The Pitch is a hilarious satire about the trials and tribulations of trying to crack the big time in Hollywood and is a superbly comic antidote for the many clichéd and overdone Hollywood blockbusters that we are all familiar with.

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Cosentino – Threshold
Thursday 10 July to Saturday 12 July

From beginning to end the action never stops. Audiences of all ages, from 5 to 85, will be totally enthralled by Cosentino - one of the world’s most talented young illusionists. Cosentino’s brand new production, Threshold, will take you into the mysterious depths of your imagination.

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Parenthesis
Friday 18 July and Saturday 19 July

With parenting and motherhood as their inspiration, choreographers Natalie Weir and Kate Denborough present a captivating program for the whole family.

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Emily Loves To Bounce
Thursday 21 August to Saturday 23 August

A wondrous theatrical journey for young people – the best yet from Patch Theatre Company.

(Illustration © 2000 Stephen Michael King)

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Steven Berkoff One Man
Friday 29 August and Saturday 30 August

Surely one of the scariest tales of dementia and murderous compulsion ever. A gothic tale of horror, told by a man who stands alone in the spotlight, protesting sanity while he explains how he systematically went about killing and dismembering a neighbour whose “vulture eye” offended him, and how his perfect crime went astray.

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Menopause The Musical
Tuesday 21 October to Saturday 25 October

More than half a million Australians have seen it. And in case you haven’t heard about it, think of your favourite songs of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s – imagine them sung with some of the wittiest lyrics imaginable – and you have it in one.

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