FREE Lunchtime Theatre

For over 40 years Curtin’s Theatre Arts has presented FREE Lunchtime Theatre. Every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we present a short play at the Hayman Theatre. This Autumn season of FREE Lunchtime Theatre includes drama, comedy and new works all produced and performed by Curtin’s Theatre Arts students.

NO BOOKING REQUIRED.

So grab your lunch and a friend and come along!

The plays start at 12.10pm sharp, you’ll be out before 1pm!

5, 6 & 7 March, 12.10pm

THE LABOUCHERE FILE

By Tony Nicholls

Forrest enrols in the army to escape his past life

A surreal comedy of errors set in a mercenary camp in the outback of Australia. When Forrest shows up after answering a cryptic ad, he’s met with confusion, mistaken identities, and a suspicious file that could blow the whole operation apart. Packed with absurd twists and ridiculous antics, this is a tale of laughs, wit, a little mayhem, and the ultimate question: what on earth does it all mean?

Directed by Rhys Healy

12, 13 & 14 March, 12.10pm

LITTLE LADYBUG

By Jarrad Whitehurst.

Little Ladybug it’s ok to pretend you’re ok!

Old high school friends gather to drink, party, and not talk about anything that’s happened since they last saw each other. And also, to remember their late friend. Little Ladybug takes both a comedic, emotional and abstract look at grief, remembrance, and friendships – wrapped with a neat bow of UNO cards, fairy lights and Kath And Kim quotes.

Directed by Jarrad Whitehurst

19, 20, 21 March, 12.10pm

ROGUE

By Tasha Fraser.

The greatest danger may come from within.

A bittersweet play about found family, centred around four scientists working at the Western Australian Space Centre. As they grapple with the mystery of their missing coworker, they must also confront their own loneliness and helplessness, watching as their former lives drift further away into the vast abyss of space.

Directed by by Tasha Fraser

26, 27 & 28 March, 12.10pm

THE BALD PRIMA DONNA

By Eugene Ionesco.

A Perfectly English couple in a perfectly English home

An absurdist play about the futility of meaningful communication in modern society. One English evening, an English couple, the Smiths, sit in their English home after an English supper, awaiting the arrival of their English friends, the Martins, for an English dinner party. The evening begins in a respectable English manner as the couples exchange meaningless anecdotes and tell nonsensical stories. Over the course of the evening, the party slides into chaos as tempers flare and communication breaks down entirely.

Directed by Alli Mack

2, 3 & 4 April, 12.10pm

BRAW MEWN YR COEDWIG (Terror in the Forest)

By Tom Cartwright

Love is fleeting, grief is eternal.

During a hunt gone wrong in the forest, a family is left separated and in danger. A man and a wife have their love for one another tested as they attempt to reunite with their lost kin. All the while as a demonic spirit torments and tears them further apart. This theatrical work of Gothic-Horror, adapted from Welsh mythology, explores the consequences of unchecked masculine pride and family abuse.

Directed by Tom Cartwright

9,10 & 11 April, 12.10pm

THE WHALE FALL

By Sam Nichols.

A man-made mythology.

A horrific yet ethereal delve into the devotion and depravities of faith all in the husk of an ancient, oceanic world. Using movement and prose, this play echoes with songs and sorrow, diving and rising so it may yet see the surface.

Directed by Sam Nichols

15, 16 & 17 April, 12.10pm

THE WAITING ROOM

By Poppy Algie

In the stillness of a hospital waiting room, lives entwine, truths emerge and fractured bonds begin to mend.

Two siblings, a hospital waiting room and unsaid words- what happens when the silence finally breaks? The Waiting Room delves into the messy complicated reality of family as Hazel and Lucas grapple with years of tension while their mother’s life hangs in the balance. As old wounds reopen, they discover surprising connections- not just with each other but with the strangers around them. Come for a story of healing, guilt, change and to remind yourself pick up the phone and reconnect with your loved ones.

Directed by Poppy Algie