THEATRE
Bloomshed
Bloomshed is an award-winning ensemble of Australian artists devising cutting-edge political satire and re-energising classic texts with physical comedy and outrageous dance breaks.
From immersive installations to radical re-imaginings, we mix big political ideas with entertaining and accessible storytelling. Since 2012 we have created 12 newly devised and adapted works including A Dodgeball Named Desire, Animal Farm, and Paradise Lost.
“The most innovative, bold, daring and creative theatre-makers around”
Animal Farm
A Bloomshed Production
This wild adaptation of Animal Farm takes George Orwell’s scathing fable about the horrors of Stalinist Russia and smashes it into a madcap satire of Australian politics and the dark carnival of late capitalism.
Please note: Contains imagery that may be distressing to pigs.
Animal Farm recently took home the Drama Victoria’s Best Production award, and the 2024 Green Room Awards’ Best Independent Production.
★★★★½ The Age
“Bloomshed has form on adapting literary classics... and the company has perfected a style of avant-garde ensemble theatre in which creative irreverence is wedded to a reverence for the spirit of the original.”
★★★★½ Artshub
“Bloomshed has created something pretty special here. It’s thrilling theatre, done brilliantly.”
Paradise Lost
A Bloomshed Production
Adam and Eve are really digging paradise. There’s no judgment here. It’s the perfect place for some relentless fornication. But nothing this good lasts long… and so the fall begins.
At the 2023 Greenroom Awards, Paradise Lost took home Best Production, Best Direction, Best Lighting Design, Best Sound Design and Best Set & Costume.
★★★½ The Age
“Bloomshed’s bastardised and bonkers reimagining of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost is a literary, political and religious satire with a fair dose of blasphemy.”
“The satire is pointed, the comedy is hilarious and the entire team spin around the stage like clockwork. The audience is in the hands of expert theatre makers, telling us a tale as old as time while confronting the realities of post-paradise head-on.”
Home Economics
Written by Declan Greene
Directed by Stephanie Lee
Real food, real mess and a sickly saturated design underpin our society’s complicated relationship with overindulgence of all kinds in this new staging of acclaimed theatre maker Declan Greene’s ‘Home Economics’. It is a lip-licking critique of where desire meets violence that will leave you starving for more.
This outstanding cast offers their take on the triptych of FLOUR, SUGAR, and TRUFFLES: a deliciously icky series of character studies. Ruthless, biting and critical but also extremely human and touching, these short works reveal the writer’s genuine fondness for his characters.
★★★ The Age
“Home Economics, Declan Greene’s visceral, provocative and uncomfortably funny suite of vignettes focused on sex and food was first staged in 2009 by queer theatre mavericks Little Ones Theatre. It stands the test of time.”
“Goodall is phenomenal”