ACROSS THE YEAR

Beginners & International Student Performance Program – a new model for these fun, accessible workshops
Several Cycles of 4 weekly sessions across the year. Contact Yvonne for more.

Here, Queer, Everywhere!, a New Podcast exploring LGBTQIA+ Health and Wellbeing
Created and Hosted by Farheen Siddiqui, Jerry Jiang & Team in collaboration with MUST and Radio Monash

From Scratch Monologue Writing Group and Performances Led by Sam Pringle, starting Weds Wk 3

SEMESTER ONE PERFORMANCES & EVENTS

The MUST Season Launch Party! Wk 3 Thurs 14 March, 6pm till late
Meet our creatives, be entertained by talented students, make friends and hear about our plans, all at a great party!

Chrysalis: A New Contemporary Dance Work  Auditions O-Wk & Wk One | Performances Wk 10, May 7 – 11
Created by Yasmin Bouzas & Su Min Lee, composed by Sofia Jorgovic & Su Min Lee

MUST and Bloomshed present We’re Banking On It! at fortyfivedownstairs
Auditions O-Wk & Wk One | Performances Wks 11 & 12, May 16 – 26
Ten years after the MUST production that launched the Bloomshed ensemble, we team up again with a reprised
corruption of Gogol’s The Government Inspector. Directed by James Jackson, created in collaboration with Bloomshed,
Designed by Nathan Burmeister

Stupid F##king Bird by Aaron Posner (Sort of Adapted from ‘The Seagull’ by Anton Chekhov) Auditions O-Wk & Wk One | Performances Wk 13, May 28 – June 1
An irreverent contemporary adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull, following the life of Con, a struggling playwright.
Directed by Seamus Allan, assisted by Max Pickering

SEMESTER TWO PERFORMANCES & EVENTS

MUST CabFest   EOIs from March May | Festival dates Wks 4 & 5, August 14 – 24
A brilliant, two-week festival filled with dynamic performances of music, comedy, circus, drag, magic and more!
Co Curated & Produced by Pavan Sundar and Sacha Acland

From Scratch Monologue Writing Group and Performances | Performances Wk 3, August 8 – 9
Led by Sam Pringle, writers have been meeting weekly to develop amazing monologues over Semester One which shall now be performed by dedicated actors and directors.

48 Hr Short Film Generator   Wk 8, September 13 – 15
Make short films in teams, responding to our prompts, over a weekend. Led by Lisa Baker

Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Performances Mid Sem Break, September 26 – 28 | The Alexander Theatre

Shakespeare’s famous tragedy of the dangerouslu corrupting effects of unchecked ambition and violence.

Presented by MUST in collaboration with MPAC, Artistic Director Yvonne Virsik, Set Design by Callum Dale

Postal Confessions by Chelsea Rabl Auditions Wk One | Performances Wks 11 & 12
A murder mystery romp, funnelled through the rich imagination of Ash, one of the post officers in a small town.
Directed by Amanda Dhammanarachchi

Halloween Party & Interactive Performance Date TBA
Produced by Caitlin Begg

MUST Wrap Party and Awards Night! Mid – Late November

MUST Training Camp Late November / Early December
A week of workshops, art making, training and fun for MUST leaders in the High Country

WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT

– Lisa Baker – Film script in development
– Tavisshi Dhawan – The Mutineers, a playscript in development
– Madeline Willshire – a sci-fi playscript in development, set in a futuristic city 30 years after the robot revolution
– Oliver Anderson – an adaptation of Virgil’s Eclog, playscript in development
– Annabelle Wemyss – a new devised work in development
– Bella Kourdoulos & Jill Doughty – After Artemis, a new devised work in development

SOME OF OUR PLANNED WORKSHOPS FROM SPECIAL GUESTS – DATES TBA

– Directing Theatre – Katie Mitchell’s Process with Olivia Staaf
– Access & Inclusion with Olivia Staaf
– Promo photography, Making Trailers, Creating Great Visual Marketing Assets with Elena Ruefenacht
– The Theatre-Making Methodologies of Peter Brook with Imi Vassallo