The program takes on a new format while continuing the company’s commitment to risk and rigour and to championing the best contemporary theatre-makers, performers and artists. Replacing the linear, spinal chronology of past seasons are three thematic chapters, which encompass all of the year’s primary and satellite events and the building’s various spaces into the program. The result is three acts, involving shows, panel discussions and extra events occurring in all the theatres, as well as the courtyard.
Next year will see Malthouse utilise all spaces in its iconic building with performances in the courtyard as well as its three theatres; present a new approach to the season with thematic chapters; premiere new work from Chunky Move, Ash Flanders, Nicola Gunn and David Woods, Declan Greene and Lally Katz; re-imagine Sophocles’ Antigone; celebrate the large dancing body; hold a banquet for 39 people; and introduce audiences to Caryl Churchill’s exhilarating new play Love and Information. Blak Cabaret works as the prologue to the season, and is a bold and irreverent party that includes music, stand up comedy, dance and brings together some of our greatest Indigenous artists.
Other highlights include the part meal, part performance work The Last Supper, which will see UK company Reckless Sleepers invite Melburnians to an exclusive banquet, and a festive new work from The Listies, who with their particular brand of unadulterated silliness, will ruin Christmas for everyone.
