Welcome to Mockingbird Theatrics, Canberra’s most respected and popular acting studio and award-winning theatre company. Now in residence at Belconnen Arts Centre.

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Great Plays. Great Performances. Great Theatre.

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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If you love what we do, please consider donating. Your generosity will allow us to raise the standards of local theatre, pay our artists and continue to spread the word to Canberra that there is great theatre on their doorstep.

There are gifts for different tiers of donations as a way to say thank you for you fantastic support. Please click the link below to find out more. 

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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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

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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!

- Sinead