New Show
27-31 May 2025, 7PM
PACT THEATRE, ERSKINEVILLE
Vous rêvez d’une soirée à Paris ? Vous êtes invités à participer à une experience typiquement Française avec Le Prénom, un simple dîner entre amis qui vire au règlement de comptes familial. Ego, secrets de famille et punchlines cinglantes : tout y passe ! Alors prenez place, aiguisez vos couteaux et préparez-vous pour une soirée explosive et hilarante.
Dreaming of a dinner party in Paris? You’re invited to a quintessentially French experience with What’s in a Name?, or how a simple dinner among friends turns into an explosive family showdown - in true French fashion. Egos, deep secrets, and razor-sharp one-liners — nothing is off-limits. So take a seat, sharpen your knives and prepare for an explosive and hilarious evening.
Performed in French with English surtitles.
Past Shows
Hors Tempo
Hors Tempo
Hors Tempo
12-23 November 2024
Chippen St Theatre
Hors tempo (Off beat) is combination of 5 short plays united by a common theme: music. Let yourself be carried away by this symphony of encounters, disillusions, and misunderstandings. The stories intertwine, orchestrated by a cast of funny, touching, and surprising characters who often find themselves out of sync! Hors tempo (Off beat) is performed in French with English surtitles.
8 Femmes
Hors Tempo
Hors Tempo
1-11 May 2024
When an upper class family’s patriarch is found murdered, a snowy morning in the French countryside, the 8 women in his life discover more than they expected. The revelations come flying with every door slammed and every suspicious look. But who killed Marcel?
Le Nombril
Hors Tempo
Bon... Voyage !
17-26 June 2021
Who’s come a knocking this time?
Is it Lucie, Leon’s tiresome daughter, who wants help with her divorce, Ardèle, his wife who is ready to send him mad, Josephine, his mistress, who is determined to make it on the stage like Leon promised. Or is it Gaston, who cherishes their long friendship whenever he’s low on cash. One thing is certain, Leon knows full well that they want nothing but his money.
The play ‘Le Nombril’ by Jean Anouilh, shows a playwright’s never ending search for peace as his friends and family, with the most honourable of pretexts, want only his money.
Bon... Voyage !
Bon... Voyage !
29 October-2 November 2019
"Bon... Voyage!" is a combination of 7 short plays which all have a common theme: TRAVEL. Whether it’s the struggle of comparing airfares or living with Airbnb hosts,Le Petit Theatre Sydney scrutinizes and pokes fun at our travelling idiosyncrasies. The play is in French with English surtitles, so whether you are French speaker or you just love the sound of French, hop on board and come on a journey with us!
Lysistrata ou la grève du sexe
13-17 November 2018
An adaptation of 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes. Women decide to organise a coital lockout to put an end to the war -no sex for the men until they stop fighting.Major scenes are played in the original text and then in a modern version.Add to this dramatic cocktail live music and singing!
Jeux de Lois
14-18 November 2017
Bending the Rules is a compilation of 6 short French plays, performed in French, with English surtitles. 18 colourful characters will respect, flout and bend the rules over 2 hours. Entertainment guaranteed.
Marius
On n'est pas là pour être ici
On n'est pas là pour être ici
13-17 June 2017
An adaption of Marcel Pagnol's classic, the first of the Marseilles Trilogy.
Marius is a young man living in Marseilles, impassioned by the sea. He has dreamt, all his life, of travelling the world. He resists the call of the sea because he doesn't want to leave his father César nor Fanny, the girl he loves.
On n'est pas là pour être ici
On n'est pas là pour être ici
On n'est pas là pour être ici
8-12 November 2016
Compilation of 7 short plays by modern
French playwrights.
All plays have one thing in common:
they’re absurd!
Terribly funny and witty show!