Welcome to the Digital Stage
AUSTRALIAN THEATRE FROM STAGE TO TV SCREEN
Introducing Australian Theatre Live ON DEMAND
We’ve teamed up with the incredible crew at Australian Theatre Live to bring you our favourite theatre from the other side of the world - straight to your TV screen!
Browse our catalogue below and sign up for unlimited access to an incredible trove of Australian talent.
Take a sneak peek: The trailers
Cactus
By Madelaine Nunn
Abbie and Pb are in their last year of high school. It’s going well. I mean, they’re still virgins, but it’s going well. And then Abbie finds out that she can’t have kids. It doesn’t mean much to her at first – who wants a kid at seventeen? But as things and people start to change around her, she is suddenly and unceremoniously confronted with a world she wasn’t ready for.
“Cactus is warm, funny, heartbreaking and captivating from start to finish. It will have you laughing hysterically one minute and crying the next, as it takes you through the journey of friendship, loss and adolescence.”
Stephanie Lee | Theatre Travels
Content warnings: Contains coarse language consistent with contemporary Australian writing and speech. There are references to sexual encounters, references to drinking alcohol, references to female menstruation, and references to surgery.
Italian Baroque
with circa
Presented by Australian Brandenberg Orchestra in association with Sydney Festival
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra takes you on a rollicking ride through Italy’s multi-layered past with a new daring choreography from Circa’s energetic acrobats.
“Music and movement; pride and passion.”
“A must-see combination of vibrant music & death-defying acrobatics.”
ABC Classics
Content warnings: none, rated G
Platée
Pinchgut Opera
Celebrated Australian director Neil Armfield makes his Pinchgut debut in a deliciously twisted comedy by one of the greatest French baroque composers.
"A tour-de-force… The score under Helyard changes quickly from storms to serenity, from parody to poignancy, its textures mutating from spontaneous sighs to richly woven polyphony. Theatrically, Armfield's unflagging production is, for me, the best in Pinchgut's 20-year history." ★★★★★
Sydney Morning Herald
Content warnings: none, rated G
The Pulse
Gravity & other Myths
Physical theatre with 24 bodies and 26 voices.
Performed by Gravity & Other Myths, a company that routinely eludes earth's forces and a euphoric symphony of strength, sinew, and song, it sends humans into the air and hearts into mouths.
★★★★★
“This display… moved into a fast and flourishing finale featuring an amazing willowy figure – and it was all over in a roar of applause. Perfect timing to the end.” ★★★★★
Sydney Morning Herald
Content warnings: none, rated G
Whitefella Yella Tree
Dylan Van Den Berg | griffin theatre
In Whitefella Yella Tree, two Indigenous teenage boys from different communities meet to share notes on the encroaching Europeans during a period of early settlement. As they come together each month to swap intelligence, the two boys begin to fall in love.
“The deeply personal and tenderly observed story of these two Indigenous boys captures the heady freedom of first love. This love story is a pitch perfect counterpoint of hope and resilience in the face of irreversible societal change.”
The Wheeler Centre
Content warnings: loud noise, blinding lights, sex scenes and weapons. It contains descriptions and representations of colonial violence.
