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Mockingbird Theatre is an award-winning Canberra-based theatre company bringing discerning audiences the best text-based 20th and 21st Century plays from around the world. Utilising the talents of Canberra’s brightest experienced and emerging theatrical talents, Mockingbird Theatre will ensure you are moved, thrilled and entertained.
We aim to create theatrical magic that will touch the soul.
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2026 Season
Our exciting 2026 season, bringing you great plays from Australia and around the world is in full swing. Award-winning comedies, iconic dramas, modern classics – there is something for everyone. We are now offering a season subscription for our main stage productions!
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WHO ARE YOU… WHEN LOVE DEMANDS A CHOICE?
A razor-sharp modern classic about identity, desire and the cruelties of indecision.
Mike Bartlett’s C*ck has, in just over a decade, secured its place as a seminal modern classic — strong, startling, and unforgettable, it’s a play that confronts identity, desire and the cruelties of choice with wit, tension and emotional clarity.
When John, long in a relationship with his boyfriend, meets a woman who captivates him, everything fractures. His decision — or indecision — spirals outward, dragging in friends, rivals, lovers, and expectations, until a final dinner becomes a battleground for truth. With blistering dialogue and brutal honesty, C*ck forces us to ask: can anyone really choose? What happens when identity is fluid, but allegiances demand definition?
“Bartlett’s sharp, witty study is less about tortured bisexuality than the paralyzing indecision that stems from not knowing who one really is.” — The Guardian
Winner: Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre
1-4 June 2026
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WELCOME TO THE RING. ONLY ONE SURVIVES.
A lean, brutal modern classic — a companion piece to C*ck, turning the workplace into a gladiatorial arena.
Just two weeks after staging Bartlett’s C*ck, we turn to Bull — an elemental, unflinching exploration of power, survival and psychological warfare in a boardroom-as-arena. If C*ck interrogates identity and desire, Bull rips open the raw mechanics of social ranking: who wins, who loses, and what lengths we go to in order to survive.
Written by the same bold voice, Bull stands today as a seminal modern classic of contemporary drama — compact, merciless, and etched with brutal clarity. Bartlett himself originally conceived it in conversation with C*ck — they share casting shape, thematic symmetry and a merciless aesthetic. It’s also very funny.
Set in any grey-lit office, three colleagues await a meeting with their boss — one of them will be culled. From the start, the cruelty is ritualised: whispers, insinuations, triangulation, humiliation. The tension tightens until the final moments feel less like resolution and more like exposure.
“Fast-paced, fanged and darkly funny … BULL charges and makes impact.” — New York Daily News
This play contains adult themes and language.
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Happy Students
Chris has created something truly special with the Mockingbird classes – an incredibly supportive community free of judgement, where people are encouraged to take risks, be themselves and have fun! I’ve learnt so much more than I ever expected – about acting and about myself – under Chris’ guidance. The classes are truly the highlight of my week! I can’t overestimate how much joy and value Mockingbird brings to us all!