Devised & Performed by Tom Davies
Directed by John Bolton

Starring Chris Palframan
Written by Barry Dickins
Directed by Peta Coy

Starring Geoff Paine, Ross Daniels, Syd Brisbane & Michelle Nussey

Written by Pauline Argius, Sean Moran and Sara Burnham
Performed by Moving Theatre
Presented by The Dog Theatre in association with Euro Masonic Hall

Translated by Anne Carson
Directed by Adena Jacobs
Performed by Zahra Newman, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, Luisa Hastings Edge, Gary Abrahams, Karen Sibbing and Josh Price
Presented by Fraught Outfit

Presented by Fifth Gear Productions

Directed by Stefan Mrowinski
Performed by Chris Palframan and Soren Jensen
Presented by eVolVing Door Productions

Presented by Born In A Taxi & The Public Floor Project

Presented by That Girl

Performed by Hayley Butcher, Kelly Hynes and Victoria Morgan
Presented by Verve Studios

Presented by Forty Forty Home
Performed by Shirley Cattunar and Anna McCarthy
Designed by Rafaella McDonald
Lighting Design by Katie Sfetkidis

Thought-provoking stories about mental health are a well-established tradition in the dramatic world. While some of these stories are not much more than formulaic storytelling with a bit of extra pathos and some cloying life lessons thrown in, the best offer a sensitive, if challenging, view into an often unfamiliar world and question where the walls really ought to be, both in our institutions and in our minds...

NIL, Cat and Buried are three short plays from 1995 by Stephen Sewell centred on characters who are governed by themes of rejection, depravity and abjection..

"GAY Asian murders lover in public toilet!" The tabloid-style plot of expatriate Singaporean playwright Chay Yew's Porcelain becomes the set-up for an examination of prejudices...

Following a sold-out season at the 2008 Midsumma Festival, La Mama's critically acclaimed production of Porcelain by Chay Yew returns to The Dog Theatre in Melbourne...

IT WAS a scene like no other in the queue to see the Fringe Festival show Beowulf, by Felix Nobis, at Footscray's Dog Theatre...

IT'S hard to say whether Toni Collette or comedian Ross Daniels got there first, but alter egos are big this year...

IT MUST be the year for reinventing classiscs; Hamlet's getting a makeover at La Mama, the Dog Theatre is giving the works to Orpheus, and here comes actor-poet Felix Nobis with a reworking of the medieval legend Beowulf...

OVER at the Dog Theatre the All Excellent Men season is a curated collection of one-man shows...

ALTHOUGH Ross Daniels has lived in Footscray for the past nine years, The Transposed Man will be his first live performance in the West...

IT'S raining men in Footscray - at least on stage. In a first, Dog Theatre is hosting a season of one-man shows as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival...

THESE excellent men are set to make their mark of Footscray's Dog Theatre...

DANIEL Keene is to writing plays what Leonard Cohen is to songwriting...

DANIEL Keene has always been interested in exploring human emotions, particularly in liminal characters on the threshold of despair...

BETWEEN them, actors Carolyn Bock and Helen Hopkins have decades of experience on stage and screen. Together they have launched a new independent company, the Shift Theatre...

It's that time of year again when hundreds of comics come out in force. Yes, it's the Melbourne International Comedy Festival time...

THE Dog Theatre is a funky addition to the arts scene in Footscray. Walk past the counter at the Dancing Dog in Albert Street and you'll find yourself in a space that has all the intimacy of La Mama, with the added benefit of a groovy cafe and beer garden...

WOW! What a wonderful night I had at the "Dog Theatre" Dancing Dog cafe-bar attending the If Theatre presentation of Daniel Keene's play Half and Half...

WHAT a wonderful night I had at the Dancing Dog cafe/bar presentation of Daniel Keene's play 'Half and half'...

The Dog Theatre is the latest theatre in town and to celebrate being let off the leash, a pack of recent VCA graduates is presenting the play Half and Half by Daniel Keene...

DANCING Dog Cafe in Footscray will launch the Dog Theatre's performance of black comedy Half and Half on Friday...