Savage Grace

Savage Grace

We are celebrating 21 years of Steamworks Arts, bringing back our inaugural award-winning smash-hit production, SAVAGE GRACE, by one of Australia’s leading playwrights, Alana Valentine. With the original cast, we revisit this powerful classic Australian play by Alana...
SYDFEST 2021 – Walkleys Live

SYDFEST 2021 – Walkleys Live

Great journalism holds the powerful to account, changes lives and strengthens Australia’s democracy. The annual Walkley Awards recognise the year’s most impactful and courageous journalism – the stories that define Australia and our history. Walkleys Live brings a...
Wayside Bride

Wayside Bride

COMING IN 2021 . . . We wouldn’t normally announce a work-in-progress but this one’s special. Alana Valentine has been making work with communities for decades but for this show she needs your help. Alana’s mother and stepfather were married at Wayside Chapel when she...
Notre-Dame

Notre-Dame

Featuring music by French composers Campra, Lully, Rameau, Rebel and more. When Notre-Dame de Paris was partially consumed by fire in April 2019, the French people grieved and the world ached over the loss. Notre-Dame is a narrative concert inspired by Our Lady of...
Ratticus and Reidar

Ratticus and Reidar

Meet the residents who lived alongside the soldiers and convicts in the Hyde Park Barracks – the rats! Ratticus is the most cunning rat in the pack and when Reidar, a Norwegian brown rat arrives fresh off the prison hulk, it’s Ratticus who shows him how to...
Doing Dawn

Doing Dawn

Doing Dawn is the story of five young pilgrims who travel to the Gallipoli Peninsula for the ANZAC Day commemorations. Based on interviews with actual travellers and Turkish soldiers, Doing Dawn is a searing confrontation of the babyboomer, anti-war rhetoric that has...