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Auditions - Every Lovely Terrible Thing

Audition applications are now open -19 – 20 Jan, with callbacks held on 22 January

Reviews - Equus

“Masterful, inventive, imaginative production …Jack Shanahan is riveting, offering a brave performance that requires him to perform naked for much of the second act…Arran McKenna shines in the demanding role of the psychiatrist, Martin Dysart…Sam Thomson… displays remarkable presence in the non-verbal role of the horse, Nugget, and his stablemates… it is the spectre of […]

Horse power: Free-Rain unbridles Shaffer's Equus

By NICHOLAS FULLER.This article was originally published in the Canberra Daily website and Canberra Weekly magazine on 11 November 2025. Half a century ago, Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play Equus “shocked audiences everywhere”, to quote the tagline for Sidney Lumet’s film adaptation. It remains one of the most shocking works in modern theatre, one that “engages, provokes, and repulses”, says […]