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Jamie and Zahra sit together at a dining table under purple stage lighting in Cut Chilli.

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Some home truths are hard to swallow: Cut Chilli

Wickedly witty, deeply complicated and remarkably tender, Cut Chilli finds comedy, anguish and profound intimacy in the messy politics of family, intercountry adoption and what it means to belong.

Rae sleeps on the kitchen bench while Pop sleeps nearby in his chair inside Pamela’s dimly lit home, surrounded by the darkness of the stage.

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Break of Day: Dignity without innocence

A deeply moving new Australian play about class, care, social mobility and the lives we make within forces we did not choose.

Five performers in party hats and exaggerated costumes crowd around a noseless figure crouched on the floor with hands over ears, amid a ramshackle set plastered with ‘FRAUD’ posters.

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The clown gag inside the horror: Marginalia

Funny, disturbing and increasingly unhinged, Pummel Squad’s Marginalia uses grotesque clowning and poor theatre to expose a world warped by power, precarity and need.

Jane Montgomery-Griffiths as Layla, standing amid the rubble of a war-damaged interior.

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Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity: What might we become

In a world of extraordinary brutality and beauty, Heather McDonald’s Masterpieces asks what human beings preserve, what they destroy, and what they might yet become.