2022 OLD FITZ LINEUP
2022 LINEUP
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CHEWING GUM DREAMS
20 JANUARY — 19 FEBRUARY
Tracey is 14 and she knows where she stands. Indian bus drivers are the best. Candice is the buffest girl she’s ever seen. Fat Lesha can lick her own vagina. And Connor Jones? He's eyeballing her pop socks… hard. Michaela Coel's Chewing Gum Dreams is a hilarious, irreverent ride through Tracey’s last precious days of childhood.
HAND TO GOD
24 FEBRUARY — 26 MARCH
In The Tiny, Conservative Town Of Cypress, Texas, The Shy, Mild-Mannered Jason Is Just Trying To Be A Good Son.
When he joins his mother Margery's Christian Puppet Ministry at the local church, Jason discovers a burgeoning talent for puppetry, and after his father’s sudden death it seems like things might just turn out okay. Tyrone the puppet, though, has other plans.
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS & MAHAGONNY SONGSPIEL
31 MARCH — 23 APRIL
A Tap Dance On The Edge Of The World. A drunken reverie. A live band featuring tuba, banjo, and a piano on its last legs.
Constantine Costi and his team present a Kurt Weill Double Bill of operatic cantata, dance, and theatrical mayhem. The Seven Deadly Sins (Weill/Brecht) sees two sisters hustling their way across America. They will charm and swindle to make ends meet in any way they can to survive. The Mahagonny Songspiel (Weill/Hauptmann/Brecht) is a manic celebration of the fall of a fictitious city, Mahagonny, whose gold façade is nothing but a cover for nausea, vice, and despair.
VOLCANOES AND VULVAS
3 MAY — 7 MAY
A Queer Love Story Between A Woman And Mother Earth.
A volcanologist takes her first step to reach the opening of the vulva-cano. An experimental performance piece exploring the intersections and parallels of Mother Earth in relation to human behaviour, focussing on natural disasters, climate change and the human body as a site of expression. Mother lover becomes the ultimate mother f*cker.
ATE LOVIA
12 MAY — 4 JUNE
Life seems to be looking up for the Ejercito family in 1996, despite a new boom of conservatism spearheaded by John Howard and Pauline Hanson.
Nineteen year old Lovia falls in love for the first time, her disenfranchised, alcoholic father Jovy finally gets a job, and her brother Vergel lands a role in an ultra-fabulous amateur production of a Broadway classic. While the family embrace and challenge the opportunities presented to them, the return of a long-estranged presence rocks the lives of the Ejercito family to its very core.
CLEANSED
9 JUNE — 25 JUNE
The Vision. The Loss. The Pain. The Loss. The Gain. The Loss. The Light. Here, now.
Somewhere, someplace. Seven bodies. Love slides on the surface of sex, loss, betrayal and brutality. Part-installation, part-mixtape, part-fantasia, a conjuring of Sarah Kane’s most uncompromising and visionary universe.
BURN WITCH BURN
7 JULY — 30 JULY
Tansy Is A Witch. When her no-nonsense husband Norman discovers her powers and burns all her charms, he realises how little his success has to do with his talent. Without Tansy’s protections, the boundaries between reality and supernatural blur; salvage, sacrifice, nightmare, reverie, pleasure, pain. As Norman’s world descends into hallucinatory hell, Tansy teeters on the edge of ecstasy and evil.
DANCE DOUBLE BILL: BEING HERE NOW & UH OH
2 AUGUST — 6 AUGUST
“Being Here Now” investigates how our perception of time changes as we age, and how we recognize and accept our own mortality as we enter the autumn phase of life.
“uh oh” is a multidisciplinary dance-theatre work will reveal the awkwardness of very normal human interactions and celebrate everyday absurdity.
HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF
11 AUGUST — 3 SEPTEMBER
Seven college students gather for a DIY self-defense workshop after a sorority sister is raped.
They learn to use their bodies as weapons. They learn to fend off attackers. They learn “not to be a victim.” Learning self-defense becomes a channel for their rage, anxiety, confusion, trauma and desire – lots of desire.
THEY TOOK ME TO A QUEER BAR
6 SEPTEMBER — 10 SEPTEMBER
Tommy has always been a drifter and a series of events has left them jobless and questioning everything they thought they knew about family and themselves.
Fate and the search for a tinnie under $10 leads them to long running fictional Queer clubhouse Aunty Lavenders. And so begins a journey of Queer party history, self discovery and deep connections to the dancefloor and asks, where to from here?
THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN PLAY
15 SEPTEMBER — 8 OCTOBER
Australia, 1930. As the Great Depression tightens its grip on a hungry, fledgling nation, Harold Bell Lasseter charms everyone with his story of a fabulously wealthy “reef” of gold hidden in the vast Interior.
Australia, 2022. Lockdowns and relentless funding cuts have left the arts community weary and desperate. Five intrepid screenwriters lock themselves away to create the next great Australian story out of the myth of Lasseter’s Reef.
LOSE TO WIN
12 OCTOBER — 22 OCTOBER
An intimate exploration of perseverance, self-acceptance and hope.
Mandela Mathia takes you on a journey from Juba, South Sudan to Cairo, Egypt and finally to Sydney, Australia. Along the way he details the trials he has overcome to be truly grateful for where he is today.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Please note: Due to scheduling changes, this production has been postponed. We look forward to sharing the work with you soon.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S CREAM
Please note: Due to scheduling changes, this production has been postponed. We look forward to sharing the work with you soon.