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Season 2025
EXPLOSIVES FACTORY
Rear Laneway 67 Inkerman Street,ST KILDA 3182
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 20 - 24 JAN 

PETER PAN:
A TWINKLE
IN TIME

       festival works

explosives factory

BY DEAN ROBINSON

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 27 - 31 JAN 

P*RN

       festival works

explosives factory

BY KEELAN ARMSTRONG

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 27 - 31 Jan 

He Partied Like It’s 1999

       festival works

EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

BY GARY HELMORE

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 3 - 7 FEB 

DISCO IS
DEAD!

       festival works

explosives factory

BY MILLIE CRAVEN AND CASSIDY COGIN

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 3 - 7 feb 

dead mum

       festival works

EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

BY JACK FRANCIS WEST

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 12 - 21 feb 

The Deadmouse and Peabrain Dreams

          fresh works

EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

BY ALANA LOUISE

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 25 feb - 7 mar 

I THOUGHT
YOU SAID

          fresh works

EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

BY BRONTE LEMARIE

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 25 feb - 7 mar 

NOW

          fresh works

EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

BY HELENE TARDIF

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 25 MAR - 4 APR 

EIGHTEEN
LIVES

          fresh works

EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

BY ZONGXI LI

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 8 - 25 apr 

THE
IRREDUCIBLE

          fresh works

EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

BY COHAN AND COLLABORATORS

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 6 - 16 MAY 

BEASTS

       with theatre works

explosives factory

BY ROBERT LEWIS

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 20 - 30 MAY 

sainting
JOAN

       with theatre works

explosives factory

BY ABIGAIL BANISTER-JONES

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 3 - 13 jun 

KATZENMUSIK

          fresh works

EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

BY TOM FOWLER

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 17 - 27 jun 

Corporare - Evan Task in Outer Space

       with theatre works

explosives factory

BY MATTHEW CROSBY

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 29 jun - 12 jul 

FUTURESTAGE

       by theatre works

BOTH VENUES

A FESTIVAL OF THEATRE AND IDEAS

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 JUL + DEC 

SHOWCASES

       by theatre works

BOTH VENUES

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 22 jul - 8 aug 

When We Dead Awaken
(We Have Never Lived)

       with theatre works

explosives factory

BY DOPPELGÄNGSTER

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 12 - 22 aug 

The Ballad of Dan O'Malley: 
A Football Tragedy

       with theatre works

explosives factory

BY PAUL MITCHELL

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 26 AUG - 5 sep 

BIG RELIGION

          fresh works

EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

BY MADDI FORMOSA

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 9 - 19 sep 

HOLY FOOL

       with theatre works

explosives factory

BY FABIO MOTTA

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 22 - 26 SEP 

THE ETERNALLY
HOPEFUL

          fresh works

EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

BY ISABELLE DAVIS

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 18 - 24 oct 

SMOKE

          fresh works

EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

BY HUGO GUTTERIDGE

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 27 oct - 7 nov 

crapbox

       with theatre works

explosives factory

BY KEVIN NEMETH

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 11 - 28 nov 

CAESAR
CAESAR

       with theatre works

both venues

BY CHRISTOPHER BRYANT, HEATHER FAIRBAIRN AND KATE WILD

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