CHARLOTTE LEAMON
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MONSTER
KXT
Tiny Dog Productions
“He's got zero empathy. You could be having a conversation and start choking to death and he'd just think, 'Well, this conversation's over.' He'd probably just sit there and finish eating whatever you were choking on.”
A teacher is given the job of saving a disturbed, violent fourteen-year-old boy from permanent expulsion. Alone in the classroom, an intense battle of wills takes place - but what can be done when a child is afraid of nothing and cares for no one? What begins as a seemingly ordinary conversation between teacher and student descends into a raw examination of violence and culpability.
A provocative and highly relevant play by acclaimed British playwright Duncan Macmillan (People, Places & Things), Monster doesn’t offer easy answers. Instead, it asks us to reflect on whether monsters are born or if they are shaped by the systems and societies that fail them. This gripping Australian premiere thrusts audiences into the uncomfortable space between blame and empathy for a misguided teenage boy with nothing left to lose.
CONTEST
Flightpath
Space Jump Theatre
The game slows. It’s a dance. A memory, a dream, the body remembers. Muscles tense and release, bones anticipate the landing after the leap we can do this in our sleep.
We Play on.
When new player Cass joins a suburban netball team, the fragile balance of the group shifts. Secrets, unspoken grievances, and long-held frustrations rise to the surface, turning every pass, pivot, and collision into a reckoning.
Set entirely on the netball court, Contest, written by Australian playwright Emilie Collyer and produced by Space Jump Theatre Company, immerses women of every age, shape, size, and ability in a world governed by rules, expectation, and relentless pressure. Bodies move side by side, sweating, enduring, testing limits. The game becomes a powerful metaphor for resilience, courage, and endurance, both on and off the court, capturing the subtle, fierce, and unrelenting ways women persist.
Blending stylised movement, poetic dialogue, and raw physicality, Contest is a bold, immersive, and unforgettable story of connection, rivalry, and the extraordinary endurance of women. Every moment on the court resonates with intensity, intimacy, and the unflinching reality of human emotion.
DANCING WITH DEATH
Commission · Illuminated NOW!
The Australian Haydn Ensemble
Save the Dingo
The dingo is a highly misrepresented native species, defined as ‘noxious’, ‘invasive’ and ‘pests’. They are the only Australian mammal to not be protected by law which allows for the brutal killing of these creatures through baits, caging, and shooting.
Many Australians are fighting for dingo rights, to stop the vilification of these animals and the brutal murdering and glorification of their death. The dingo is incredibly vital to the Australian environment and communities all around Australia.
I hope, just as many others do, to turn around this narrative and protect our beautiful dingo.
About the work
Dancing with Death celebrates the Australian dingo, taking the listener through the perspective of the mammal as it hunts in the wild desert. Through pulsing rhythms, sudden shifts of hope and fear, the music mirrors the dingoes struggle for survival. A very cautious, highly intelligent and determined creature as it hides and pounces upon their prey.
But when does the narrative shift? This piece invites the audience into the world of the dingo, are they hunting, or being hunted?
Dancing with Death is both a literal and symbolic pursuit. At its heart is the dingo: a creature caught in a cycle of violence and survival, whose future depends not only on its agility in the wild, but on the narratives we choose to tell, and most importantly change.
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