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FUTURE LOVES BURNING

/ AGE OF EXTREMES

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY TIM WOTHERSPOON

7 - 23 MAY 2026
THE MOTLEY BAUHAUS

Tim Wotherspoon’s latest attempt to reconcile reality brings you two one-act plays in one coherent* experience; join us as 8 performers remix history with Future Loves Burning, and deliver the brand new Age Of Extremes in a full-venue takeover of the Motley Bauhaus this May.

In this premiere production, developed in-and-for the Motley Bauhaus in Carlton, cast and audience are thrown headlong into a multiverse of potentia.  

From the Dictaphone of Nikita Khrushchev - the first Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to a 2017 Melbourne Fringe production of Future Loves Burning now brought to the floor for re-examination, a troupe of actors (either narcissists or members of the intelligence community, or both) guide us mercilessly through the quantum while gnomes eat the moon.

These performances at the Motley Bauhaus will be unlike any other in this universe or that one over there. Or at least this year, or that one over there..

Tragedies are present and remote, personal and common, streaming jumbles no matter preference nor subscription. You get the wash. This stuff isn't cheap. This stuff breaks your head. Where is unity that isn't foul or passed through steelwork made for purpose? Even unity in passing's hard to find.

 

Here we give you two acts and an interval. Step right up. Sit right down. You can even wander about, you cheeky bee... 

A time and place to laugh and cry together, and shift our seats in boredom or discomfort; what's more fun than that, cos let's do whatever your thing is otherwise... Is it drugs? We can't advertise that kind of thing. Don't do drugs. It's part of the problem unless it's like a bit of weed... 

Previous Reviews

"mind-twisting, hilarious sci-fi"

-Sometimes Melbourne, POINT8SIX.


"POINT8SIX is a rare bit of bizarro brilliance"

-Artshub, POINT8SIX

'POINT8SIX is a rare performance piece, exemplifying what is best in Melbournian theatre. It is dedicated, skilled, uncompromising, literary exploration of themes of power, technology, history, along with time travel, shifting identities, cosmological horizons and micro perceptual. Tim Wotherspoon has written a complex weft of action, comedy, music interlude, drama through a bold yet intricate warp of attuned poetry.'

- Sydney Arts Guide, POINT8SIX.

"This is delicious Theatre of the Absurd and Wotherspoon, as writer, is the love child of Pinter and Becket, with Ionesco and Genet fighting over who will tutor... this is spectacular theatre and marvellous comedy."

-Stage Whispers, SAFEHOUSE.

Tim Wotherspoon / Writer & Director
Kara Floyd / Stage Manager
Mattea Davies / Design & Collaborator
Robert Draffin / Dramaturg


Blake Barnard / Cast
Clarisse Bonello / Cast
Matthew Connell / Cast

Izzy Ford / Cast
Lily McGee / Cast
Veronica Thomas / Cast
Greg Ulfan / Cast
Zak Zavod / Cast

  • Thursday 7th May 7:30pm (PREVIEW)

  • Friday 8th May 7:30pm (OPENING NIGHT)

  • Saturday 9th May 7:30pm

  • Tuesday 12th May 7:30pm

  • Wednesday 13th May 7:30pm

  • Thursday 14th May 7:30pm

  • Friday 15th May 7:30pm

  • Saturday 16th May 7:30pm

  • Tuesday 19th May 7:30pm

  • Wednesday 20th May 7:30pm

  • Thursday 21st May 7:30pm

  • Friday 22nd May 7:30pm

  • Saturday 23rd May 7:30pm

Venue:

The Motley Bauhaus

118 Elgin St, Carlton VIC 3053

Prices:

Full $35
Concession $25
Group +4 $25
Preview $20

Show Duration:

120 min (with interval)

Warnings:

Drug use, violence, sexual themes

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future loves burning / age of extremes

a new play by tim wotherspoon

cast/ clarisse bonello, blake barnard, matthew connell, izzy ford, lily mcgee, veronica thomas, greg ulfan, zak zavod

designer/ mattea davies

stage manager/ kara floyd

dramaturg/ robert draffin

Thursday 7th May 7:30pm (PREVIEW)
Friday 8th May 7:30pm (OPENING NIGHT)
Saturday 9th May 7:30pm
Tuesday 12th May 7:30pm
Wednesday 13th May 7:30pm
Thursday 14th May 7:30pm
Friday 15th May 7:30pm
Saturday 16th May 7:30pm
Tuesday 19th May 7:30pm
Wednesday 20th May 7:30pm
Thursday 21st May 7:30pm
Friday 22nd May 7:30pm
Saturday 23rd May 7:30pm

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we have been supported by: the city of port phillip cultural development fund, creative australia, regional arts fund, australian cultural foundation, cybec foundation, palais theatre, kawai, the alex theatre, theatre works, melbourne fringe festival.

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