Written by Will Shakespeare and Tom Middleton Adapted by Damien Ryan and Margaret Thanos Directed by Margaret Thanos Celebrating our 15th Annual Leura Shakespeare Festival!!! Tickets: https://www.sportforjove.com.au/timon-of-athens Be honest now. Do your friends suck? Not always. But, come on, sometimes...? So they secretly love it when you screw up, fall down, miss out, give in? Do you do it to them... have you? What's it worth, any of it? Friendship? Loyalty? Love? If it were made of gold, what would it weigh? Well... Timon has it all... the cash, the cache, the companions, and a heart of gold. But that'll never last, you know the story! And when it all goes up in smoke, so does everyone around him. One friend tried to warn him, but who listens to the pessimist? We all hate a misanthrope. But we hate ingratitude more. And nothing burns like betrayal. Alond and enraged, Timon strips himself bare, runs from the world, curses the city, and revels in exile. And wouldn't you know it... digging in the dirt for a scrap of food... finds mor wealth than he had before, just lying there under the earth in a barren field. What will he do with it this time, being generous never paid off, so what's the opposite?? Shakespeare's Timon of Athens is a black comedy dressed up as a Greek tragedy, an hilariously dark, joyfully brutal and very modern immorality tale. Dicken's borrowed from it, Marx built a new world order out of it, our contemporary age sits squarley in its sights - and it gives you, the playgoer, an extraordinary opportunity... ... to watch a Shakespeare play where you don't know what happens next, have no idea how it ends, and will be surprised at every turn. Directed by the bold and brilliant Margaret Thanos for Australia’s most consistently revered Shakespeare company, Sport for Jove, I Hate People; or Timon of Athens is a truly unique theatrical experience. A renaissance play that feels like it was written yesterday and tells us so much about today. Grab a picnic, bring every "friend", pop a bottle of bubbly and celebrate having it all... until you don't! Full of dance, song, libidinous life, and a stunning cast, don't miss it! Event Name: I Hate People; or, Timon of Athens Presenter: Sport for Jove Theatre Company Location: Leura Everglades Gardens, Leura, NSW Dates: Saturday 6th Jan - Sunday 21st Jan 2024 Tickets: $30 - $47.50 (plus bf) Event Link: https://www.sportforjove.com.au/timon-of-athens

Performances from 8 March - 6 April 2024 Approximately 2 hours - including interval https://hayestheatre.com.au/event/zombie-the-musical/ Book, Music, and Lyrics by Laura Murphy Presented by Hayes Theatre Co WORLD PREMIERE It’s like 42nd Street… but with ZOMBIES Sydney, Australia. It’s the turn of the 21st century, and a dedicated community theatre troupe are frantically rehearsing in the final hours before their big opening night. Little do they know that beyond the walls of the theatre, a highly infectious disease is rapidly spreading through the city – turning its victims into full-blown zombies. Will humanity take its final bow, or can the power of musical theatre save the friggin’ world? From the creator of The Lovers, this brand-new Australian musical wields a genre-blending original score and a fast-paced, farcical script that combines two of the most subtle forms of storytelling: traditional musical theatre and cult-classic zombie films. Zombie! The Musical follows an ambitious starlet, an optimistic understudy and an ol’ hoofer (who thought she’d seen it all) as they’re faced with an impossible dilemma – what role to play in humanity’s final act? They discover that impending doom has a funny way of revealing our true character. Grab your torch, your pitchforks, and your headshot. The apocalypse begins in 5, 6, 7, 8… Prices Previews Adult $69 | Concession/Group (8+) $64 | Under 35 $55 Mid-Week Matinees Adult $79 | Concession/Group (8+) $69 | Under 35 $60 Weeknights & Saturday Matinees Adult $84 | Concession/Group (8+) $74 | Group (8+) $65 Friday, Saturday & Sunday Evenings Adult $89 | Concession/Group (8+) $79 *Concession prices apply to Seniors, Pensioners, Students and MEAA members. Times Monday 6:30pm Tuesday – Saturday 7:30pm Thursday 1:00pm Saturday 2:00pm POST SHOW Q&A – Monday March 18 No matinee performances on March 9 & 14 No performance on March 29 Running Time Approx. 2 hours – including interval

Performances from 11 October - 9 November 2024 Approximately 2 hours - including interval https://hayestheatre.com.au/event/flat-earthers-the-musical/ Book & Lyrics Jean Tong & Lou Wall Songwriting Lou Wall & James Gales Music Production James Gales Presented by Hayes Theatre Co and Griffin Theatre Company Developed with the assistance of Arts Centre Melbourne WORLD PREMIERE Somewhere on the fringes of the internet, Ria e-meets Flick and instantly falls in analogue love. They’ve never actually met IRL, but their passion is as real as the moon landing, the loch ness monster and the flying saucers over Roswell. That is, until Ria learns with horror that Flick is a ‘Flat Earther’ – and Flick learns with horror that Ria is a ‘Globe Earther’. In this beautiful and chaotic electro-pop musical epic, star-cross’d lesbians tumble into the depths of the dark web – where the most far-out, dangerous conspiracy theories turn out to be very, very real… With a cast of wild, OTT characters and packed with irresistible earworms, Flat Earthers satirises our divided age of post-truth politics with a winning balance of hilarity, absurdity, and empathy. West Side Story meets QAnon in this unique queer pop spectacle. Prices Previews Adult $69 | Concession/Group (8+) $64 | Under 35 $55 Mid-Week Matinees Adult $69 | Concession/Group (8+) $64 | Under 35 $55 Weeknights & Saturday Matinees Adult $89 | Concession/Group (8+) $79 | Group (8+) $65 Friday, Saturday & Sunday Evenings Adult $89 | Concession/Group (8+) $79 *Concession prices apply to Seniors, Pensioners, Students and MEAA members. Times Monday 6:30pm Tuesday – Saturday 7:30pm Thursday 1:00pm Saturday 2:00pm POST SHOW Q&A – Monday October 21 No matinee performances on October 12 & 17 Running Time Approx. 2 hours – including interval

Performances from 23 May - 22 June 2024 Approximately 100 minutes – no interval https://hayestheatre.com.au/event/ride-the-cyclone/ Book, Music & Lyrics by Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell Additional Material by Alan Schmuckler Presented by Hayes Theatre Co By arrangement with ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL on behalf of Broadway Licensing AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE In this hilarious and exhilarating story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a rollercoaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other – the chance to return to life. Bursting with witty, memorable songs and featuring some of the most compelling characters in modern musical theatre, this remarkable show makes a uniquely uplifting and deeply funny case for what makes a life worth living. This bold, striking, and genre-busting musical started life in Canada, before becoming a hit in Chicago and New York, and then a record-breaking online phenomenon (with over half a billion views on Tik-Tok). Now the show has its long-awaited Australian premiere in an all-new production from our Co-Artistic Directors. Prices Previews Adult $69 | Concession/Group (8+) $64 | Under 35 $55 Mid-Week Matinees Adult $79 | Concession/Group (8+) $69 | Under 35 $60 Weeknights & Saturday Matinees Adult $84 | Concession/Group (8+) $74 | Group (8+) $65 Friday, Saturday & Sunday Evenings Adult $89 | Concession/Group (8+) $79 *Concession prices apply to Seniors, Pensioners, Students and MEAA members. Times Monday 6:30pm Tuesday – Saturday 7:30pm Thursday 1:00pm Saturday 2:00pm POST SHOW Q&A – Monday June 3 No matinee performances on May 25 & 30 Running Time Approximately. 100 minutes – no interval

We are back with a new episode of the podcast and this time we feature our first IN STUDIO GUEST the talented Ally Morgan! Ally's show Not Today arrived at the 2022 Sydney Fringe Festival to stellar reviews and nominations and now we get all the behind the scenes stories on how it came to be. Ally sits down in our powerhouse museum studio to discuss climate change activism, how lockdown forced her to be creative and how this eventually led to her writing her own one woman show. We also have the return of our new favourite game, One Minute Theatre Thoughts and Ally also performs one of her songs from Not Today just for the podcast! This episode was produced by Echidna Audio (@echidnaaudio) and organised in coordination with Rogue Projects (@rogueprojects). Tickets for the performances of Not Today at Riverside Theatre Parramatta from 23-24th September can be booked at riversideparramatta.com.au or through this link. Don’t forget you can find all our episode information on our dedicated podcast site. Follow the link in this episode’s description or follow us on Instagram @theatrethoughtsaus as well as our Youtube Channel. You can find all of our THEATRE THOUGHTS LINKS on our Linktree. https://linktr.ee/theatrethoughts