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Auditions - Open Casting Call for Free-Rain's 2025 Season at ACT Hub

Free-Rain Theatre Company will be staging 3 (three) productions at ACT Hub in 2025. We have two dramas and one comedy to cast. Together with the two other companies in the ACT Hub collective, there will be 10 plays staged at ACT Hub in 2025. Date, Time & Location Free-Rain Theatre Company will be holding […]

Reviews - Mary Stuart

Reviews of Chaika’s production of Mary Stuart at ACT Hub in Canberra PR for Chaika’s production of Mary Stuart at ACT Hub in Canberra Quotes from the reviewers Steph Roberts (Mary Stuart) and Karen Vickery (Elizabeth) provided strong pivotal performances… an opportunity to experience something of the very essence of power play and how it […]

Audition - Tick, Tick... Boom!

This December ACT Hub presents Tick, Tick… Boom! and we are holding video auditions for the lead role. Send in your submission before 9 August.

Cast announcement - August: Osage County

Free-Rain Theatre Company is delighted to announce the full cast for our upcoming production of August: Osage County, to be staged at ACT Hub from 5 – 15 September 2024. Beverly Weston – David H. BennettViolet Weston – Karen VickeryBarbara Fordham – Louise BennetBill Fordham – Bruce HardieJean Fordham – Ella BuckleyIvy Weston – Crystal […]

Reviews - A Streetcar Named Desire

Triumphant production of a searing classicby Alanna Maclean, Canberra City News, 20 June 2024 Tennessee Williams is not for the faint of heart. Free-Rain do a fine job with this searing classic. Amy Kowalczuk as Blanche and Meaghan Stewart as her sister Stella are one of the best matched set of Streetcar sisters that you […]

Cast announcement - A Streetcar Named Desire

Following their acclaimed production of Speaking in Tongues in 2023, Free-Rain Theatre Company returns in 2024 with one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century, with Amy Kowalczuk as Blanche DuBois, Alex Hoskison as Stanley Kowalski, and Meaghan Stewart as Stella Kowalski.

Reviews - Seagull

Read about Chaika’s namesake play, Seagull, and the wonderful things written about this new translation and adaptation by Karen Vickery.

Reviews - The Importance of Being Earnest

Reviews from our 2022 production, and Dec 2023 revival, in anticipation of our 1 night only show on 2 March 2023.

Reviews - Queers

Read the lovely things reviewers have said about our beautiful show.

Reviews - The inaugural Canberra Cabaret Festival

Hear about how our very first Canberra Cabaret Festival went – hint … AMAZINGLY WELL!