Our Story
La Mama is a not for profit, independent theatre with a distinct artist focus. Treasured for its continued advocacy of those seeking to explore beyond the mainstream theatre, La Mama champions artistic freedom and individuality. Providing the integral foundational resources and support for new and experienced theatre makers, La Mama ensures artist remuneration, celebrates creative risk and pedestals the development of new vibrant work.
La Mama prioritises accessibility and celebrates it’s excitingly diverse community, warmly welcoming artists and audiences alike from a wide cross section of the community. With its rich history spanning over fifty years, La Mama stimulates work that is adventurous, vigorous, relevant and reflective of a vital range of needs and voices.
La Mama is home to many and open to all.
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Big day for us today - day 1 of rehearsals for our brand new show "Trash with a Porpoise"! 😁
After 18 months of planning, these fabulous individuals will be creating a new Sketch Comedy Show for kids and families focusing on marine waste and how we can all make a difference. 😊
We are proud to be partnering with Packed House Productions La Mama Theatre and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for our first public season, during the upcoming April school holidays. 🤗
Tickets are already on sale, so grab yours now via the link below 😉
This project is supported by the State Government of Victoria through Creative Victoria
https://lamama.com.au/whats-on/la-mama-for-kids/micf-trash-with-a-porpoise/
Some throw-back images from our workshop: What’s a Puppet? Held as part of Melbourne Festival of Puppetry, 2021. Photography by Darren Gill. Thanks to Lemony S Puppet Theatre + La Mama Theatre.
Image descriptions:
1. Two puppeteers stand in the middle of the frame wearing paper hats and holding paper puppets, as children look towards them.
2. In the left of the frame, two hands hold up a small bird puppet, next to this a row of children stand in front of a table filled with bright and colourful craft materials.
3. Two smiling children sit cross legged on the floor, scrunching up big pieces of paper
4. A small child in the foreground holds a piece of stuffing while children in the background work with craft materials.
We don’t stop we just pause
A moment of breath with precious women
Thank you La Mama MUSICA, @la La Mama Theatre, Gemma Horbury , @darren gill and the extraordinary artists of Mother Lode for your generosity
Vahideh Eisaei, Sarita McHarg and Nela Trifkovic of The Resonant Heart at Musica: Rethinking the Music City, March 7, 2022 - La Mama Theatre
📸 Darren Gill
Here's a link to my (brief) review of An Unforgivably Brief History of Australian Theatre with Dr. Rob.
(My review is probably shorter than the title!)
Thanks, Rob! Robert Reid
Yellingbo, coming to La Mama Theatre is a darkly witty drama inspired by playwright Tee O’Neill's past work with Eastern European asylum seekers. When it’s time for Australians to put our human values into action - whose lives do we save?
New performance by Artemis Munoz on screen at La Mama Theatre!
Are you a proud traveller on the hot mess express? Artemis: Utter Mess is not to be missed! With an online offering until 2 March and a live show later in the year, there’s no excuse not to see this this one-hour, one-enby show at La Mama Theatre
More info (+ the online show link) is available here:
midsumma.org.au/artemis
Artemis Munoz
Some sessions already booked out for this edge of the seat refugee thriller at La Mama Theatre. Book at
www.trybooking.com/843503
The first reviews are in for our work 'From All Who Came Before'.
Thank you to La Mama Theatre and Midsumma Festival for creating the perfect pairing of place and time to present this work that we're so proud to share.
While the season is sold out, we'll be recording tonight's performance and you can grab a ticket to experience it from the comfort of your own home when it's up next week on the La Mama website. The recording is Auslan Interpreted thanks to Auslan Stage Left and the performance, and entire season, is Audio Described.
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Image descriptions
1: a large bronze tiered cake stand floats in the foreground. A female appearing person with red tinged hair and a cream blouse lies behind it stomach down on the floor, their back arched upwards and head tilted back, staring with mouth agape at the stand.
2: a dark theatre with a black chasm between two performers. The male appearing person in the far left of frame hangs slumped over a chair, face down, and in front of them sits a small wooden coffer. To the right of frame sits a female appearing figure on the floor, their hands nestled in an unknown dark object where a warm light from within it spills over them. Between them are the words 'Their successful collaboration and chemistry as performers was clear through their ability to elicit so much meaning from even the smallest of movements. Greta Doell - Theatre Travels'
3: a male appearing person sits hunched over a small wooden coffer, desperation in their eyes as they stare at a petite rolled up letter in their hands. A warm light is emitted from the coffer and spills over them. Above them are the review quotes 'The questioning of the self, relationships, creativity, and raison d'être that this elicits is not cast as confronting but challenges the viewer in a very gentle and sensitive manner.' Below the person is another quote 'an elegant and sophisticated piece of experimental theatre. Patricia Di Risio - Stage Whispers
Tonight we film Utter Mess. This time next week you can watch it from the comfort of your own home.
It was incredibly difficult to make the decision to move this work online but nevertheless I’m still exceptionally proud of it and excited to share it with you all. Thanks to La Mama Theatre for being so adaptive and accommodating as I do my best to navigate the chaos that is making theatre in a pandemic.
Save the date - Wednesday the 16th of Feb. I can’t wait to hear what you all think of it 💜
📸 Darren Gill
The stunning duo of Ben Opie and Marshall McGuire are performing a stunning, virtuosic, and evocative program of Harp and Oboe music by Sally Whitwell, Vincent Plush, Reynaldo Hahn, and Michael Finnissy.
To see this world-class duo in concert is a rare and special event!
Only three half-hour concerts available! Book quickly for a private theatre for your social bubble, and your social bubble only!
https://lamama.com.au/whats-on/midsumma-at-la-mama-2022/homophonic-byob/
Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants
La Mama Theatre Midsumma Festival City of Melbourne