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Welcome to the Independent Theatre. Proudly owned and operated by Wenona School.
Please note we have recently undergone a refurbishment of the venue, and images may differ from the updated spaces
Events 2025
IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition Semi-Finals Concert
Sunday 17 August 2025 from 4:30pm to 7:00pm
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Discover the future of opera in this exciting afternoon concert as ten brilliant young singers compete for prestige, career opportunities, cash prizes and the chance to be named as a Finalist in the 2025 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition (ASC). Now in its 4th decade, the ASC continues to honour, support, and present the most promising young opera and classical singers in Australia.
Alexander Yau in Recital
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Music in a fantastical and divine world'
Saturday 24 May 2025 at 7pm
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Multifaceted Sydney-born pianist Alexander Yau makes his debut recital at the Independent Theatre with works by Beethoven, Ravel and Liszt. Described as ‘A Master at the piano’ by pianist Balazs Sokolay, who praises his 'artistic taste is good enough not to make any any kind of “show” even in the most brilliant parts of great masterworks'. In this concert, Alexander will take us into the poetic world of piano music, which contains direct references and allusions to poetry, summoning the marriage of poetic ideas and musical thought.
2025 marks an important year for Alexander as he has commenced his position as Associate Lecturer in Collaborative Piano Faculty at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. This recital celebrates his early staged and promising career in some of his best interpretations of the great masterpieces by Beethoven, Ravel and Liszt.
MAYHEM & Madness​
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Friday 16 May from 7pm to 8.45pm
Saturday 17 May from 2pm to 3.45pm
Saturday 17 May from 7pm to 8.45pm
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We are living in a time when the world seems constantly out of kilter. Bittersweet Productions has curated a TRIPLE BILL that explodes in pleasurable mayhem and biting poignancy at affordable prices ($49 & $45 conc.)
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Alice Gerstenberg’s THE POT BOILER is a satiric take on the construct of producing a play with farcical and physical comedy a plenty. Director, Sarah Carradine.
Bertolt Brecht’s THE JEWISH WIFE is a 10-minute sketch where we feel the full weight of history and its madness and glimpse the scale of the disruption that dictatorship may produce in a simple domestic world. Director, John Grinston. By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical On Behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company.
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Alan Ayckbourn’s GOSFORTH’S FETE is a riotous exploration of small-town life when no matter what peoples’ best intentions are everything goes stupendously wrong, and the comic gods are unleashed. Director Christine Firkin. By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical On Behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company.
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