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ACT Hub

Canberra's home of independent theatre. We hope that you'll come and join us, have a drink at the HUB PUB and enjoy the brilliant plays we have on offer.

ACT HUB is the home of three of Canberra's most respected theatre companies, Free Rain Theatre, Everyman Theatre and Chaika Theatre Company. Recipients of no less than 13 Canberra Critics Circle Awards between them - along with many other accolades - these artists have united under the ACT (Australian Capital Theatre) HUB banner to thrill, stimulate, challenge and entertain Canberra audiences. With the generous support from the ACT Government, Canberra has its first and only venue dedicated solely to producing independent theatre. Situated in the gorgeous heritage-listed Causeway Hall on the edge of Kingston and close to the popular foreshore, the ACT Hub team will bring patrons 6 plays per year from Australia and around the world, with the aim of telling great stories while utilising the talents of Canberra's best theatre practitioners. Additionally, with the creation of HUB TOO, emerging and developing local directors and artists will have support from the ACT Hub team with curated seasons chosen from submissions. Expert assistance and mentoring as well as in-kind support will allow new talent to create and showcase their work in a low-risk and nurturing environment. As Australia's capital, Canberra deserves to experience exciting, vibrant theatre and for it to be told by the brilliant array of talent this city has to offer.

23/10/2026

An antediluvian myth. Caught between liquid and dust.

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
Must close 7 November 2026

From the book by Joan Lindsay
Adapted by Tom Wright
Directed by Caitlin Baker
Presented by Chaika Theatre

Featuring Jessi Gooding, Karina Hudson, Breanna Kelly, Thea Jade, and Paris Scharkie.

It is 1900.
It is Saint Valentine's Day.
It is hot and sweltering.

Three schoolgirls and their teacher vanish without a trace.

As the search begins, the boundaries between memory, desire, country, and truth begin to blur.

Chaika Theatre’s production brings together an all AFAB cast and creative team to retell this national myth, loose threads and all.

As the cast swap between characters, a story about memory, country, repression and colonial dread emerges.

Tom Wright’s acclaimed poetic and provocative adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s classic novel reminds us that this story is as much about how we tell it, as it is about the girls, the picnic and the Rock itself.

👒 Picnic at Hanging Rock
🧺 23 October – 7 November 2026
🪨 Tickets at acthub.com.au

📸 Jane Duong

This production is generously supported by Eva Schroeder and Brent Juratowitch.

22/10/2026

Sneak peek behind-the-scenes of the PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK cast and crew bumping in last weekend.

This all-AFAB team has tested the limits of our little ACT Hub theatre to create a space between worlds.

We made this for us to share story.
We made this for you to bear witness.
We made this for the lost to be seen and so to be found.

The portal is waiting. Will you walk with us?

👒 Picnic at Hanging Rock
🪨 23 October – 7 November 2026
🎟️ Tickets at acthub.com.au

21/10/2026

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK opens in just TWO DAYS! So we’re looking back at the fun we had in the rehearsal room playing with Tom Wright’s poetic script, exploring language and movement to bring Joan Lindsay’s iconic Australian gothic narrative to life.

This is 80 minutes of mystery and mythology where we ask what happened to the girls that fateful day when they climbed into…

Book your tickets today to join the search.

👒 Picnic at Hanging Rock
🪨 23 October – 7 November 2026
🎟️ Tickets at acthub.com.au

20/10/2026

“The girls are beautiful
That is their role
They are young ladies
With their Saint-Valentine cards
Their thoughts of love
And this co**se of a volcano
It is
It is the other thing.”

Less than one week till the girls go up the Rock. Less than one week till three of them never come back down.

Tickets on sale now. Opening Night sold out.

👒 Picnic at Hanging Rock
🪨 23 October – 7 November 2026
🎟️ Tickets at acthub.com.au

19/10/2026

It’s a hot ticket to the Rock. Opening night this Friday 23 October is already SOLD OUT!

You can still be one of the first to climb the Rock this Saturday evening, 24 October. Or join us during our short season over the following two weekends. We close 7 November.

The cast features some of Canberra’s best actors, both emerging and established.

The director’s previous work has been praised as ‘a two-by-four to the face’.

This is not the production to say “oh, I missed that”.

Book your tickets today. Join the Picnic. We promise you'll return changed.

👒 Picnic at Hanging Rock
🪨 23 October – 7 November 2026
🎟️ Tickets at acthub.com.au

23/09/2026

On a blistering Valentine’s Day in 1900, a group of schoolgirls from Appleyard College venture to the mysterious Hanging Rock. What begins as an idyllic picnic spirals into haunting uncertainty when several girls and a teacher vanish without a trace.

In Tom Wright’s evocative stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s iconic novel, five young women reconstruct, relive, and unravel the events of that fateful day.

As memory fractures and myth takes hold, the line between truth and the inexplicable dissolves.

Part ghost story, part psychological puzzle, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is a chilling exploration of repression, desire, and the unknowable forces that shape us.

From the book by Joan Lindsay
Adapted by Tom Wright
Directed by Caitlin Baker
Presented by Chaika Theatre
Featuring Jessi Gooding, Karina Hudson, Thea Jade, Breanna Kelly, Paris Scharkie

👒 Picnic at Hanging Rock
🪨 23 October – 7 November 2026
🎟️ Tickets at acthub.com.au

12/09/2026

Join us for an intimate evening as John Bell introduces his new book, LIVING SHAKESPEARE, and gives a special reading, followed by a conversation with Karen Vickery and audience Q&A. You’ll then be able to purchase your own copy of the book before the official release date… and get it signed!

This is a rare chance to hear firsthand stories from a career that has shaped Australian theatre as we know it, in a relaxed, up-close setting.

For nearly six decades, John Bell has been one of the most significant figures in Australian theatre. Co-founder of Bell Shakespeare, celebrated actor and director, and a name synonymous with bringing the Bard to Australian audiences on his own terms, Bell now turns storyteller of his own remarkable life with his new book, LIVING SHAKESPEARE.

All tickets $15. Bar opens at 6.00pm. Event starts at 7.00pm. Book sales and signing to follow.

🎭 John Bell in Conversation
🎤 24 September 2026
🎟️ Tickets at acthub.com.au

31/08/2026

It’s the final week and there are only 5 more chances to see I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE.

“This is a great show which takes its audience on a fabulously entertaining rollercoaster of emotions with belly laughs aplenty along with passive moments of quiet reflection.” (Ian McLean)

Bring your partner, gather a group, or come alone and get wrapped up in “hilarious comedy, catchy tunes and familiar insights into the power and fickle frailty of Love.” (Peter Wilkins)

This week only at ACT Hub, Kingston.

🩷 I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
💛 19 August – 5 September 2026
🎟️ Tickets at acthub.com.au

📸 Janelle McMenamin (Janelle Mac)

28/08/2026

“Too many magic moments to mention, this 30 year old Off Broadway musical has stood the test of time with book, lyrics and music that prove that Love’s game of chess has not changed. There will be someone in the audience who, like an audience member in 1996 will think, if not cry out “That’s my life.”

[...] Off Broadway has come to ACT HUB with a wonderful cast of local performers and this is an opportunity not to miss. Audiences will laugh, some may shed a tear. All will see a bit of their lives performed by a cast that make every moment shine.” — Peter Wilkins, Canberra Critics Circle

Canberra has caught the love bug! I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE tickets are hotter than your latest Tinder date. Four chances this weekend to see what everyone’s humming about.

🩷 I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
💛 19 August – 5 September 2026
🎟️ Tickets at acthub.com.au

📸 Janelle McMenamin (Janelle Mac)

26/08/2026

“The 6-member cast play a total of 58 different characters and play each one superbly. To carry it off, the actors need to be somewhat over the top with characterisations, have the ability to act with their eyes and bodies along with their spoken dialogue, singing voices and movement, as well as be frantically paced with costume changes and with the ability to become an alternative persona in the flash of a second.

Amelia Andersson-Nickson, Deborah O’Toole, Connor McNaught, Sam Thomson, David Pearson and Sarah Copley possess those qualities in spades, both individually and collectively. With their many talents, the performers convey joy, frustration, sadness and humour seemingly effortlessly, enabling the audience to live, for a moment, captured within every varied emotion being portrayed on stage.” — Ian McLean, Canberra CityNews

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE is back this week at ACT Hub. Tickets are selling fast, so swipe right today!

🩷 I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
💛 19 August – 5 September 2026
🎟️ Tickets at acthub.com.au

📸 Janelle McMenamin (Janelle Mac)

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Canberra, ACT
2604

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Wednesday	6:30pm - 12am
Thursday	6:30pm - 12am
Friday	6:30pm - 12am
Saturday	1pm - 12am

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