School of Creative Arts and Humanities
Discover the vibrant artistic talent of UOW students! This is your central hub for information on all upcoming theatre productions, live performances, and visual arts showcases developed by our students. Find event dates and booking links here.
Check back soon for updates on our 2026 events.
The original Shakespearean tragedy of King Lear (1606) transcends time and space to politically and socially challenge contemporary audiences in Lucy Heffernan’s adaptation The Fool (2025). As a kingdom is divided pending the death of King Lear, an enthralling battle of greed, lust, corruption, and most importantly power ensues. Adapted to a powerful live rock soundtrack, ‘The Fool’ explores today’s tumultuous political climate in a compelling and unique musical form.
Written by: William Shakespeare, adapted by Lucy Heffernan
Director: Tim Maddock
Cast: Claudia Badorrek, Sophie Blackburn, Daniel Buys, Caitlin Kubisch, Byron Schipp, Joshua Scott, Raevin Sherwood, Jed Simcoe, Rose Thiele, Will Vogan, Miriam Warda
Band: Mark Theodorakakis, Sharlette Bourke, Byron Schipp, Raevin Sherwood, Sophie Blackburn
Stage Manager: Jenna Wright
Assistant Stage Manager: Anna Martin
Lighting Designer and Operator: Maxine Tucker-Kelman
Set/Costume Designer: Lili Miles and Ace Fraser
Sound Designer: Sharlette Bourke
This new production sees third-year Performance and Theatre students take on Müller’s enigmatic text—not to solve it, but to live inside it. Through deep exploration with physical and vocal experimentation, the cast has forged a unique theatrical language for their version of HAMLETMACHINE.
The creative and technical team have constructed a raw, immersive scenographic world - cardboard, video, sound and light - a stage built from the debris of our times.
Written by: Heiner Müller (transl. Carl Weber)
Director: Linda Luke
Cast: Everhart Coster, Angel Duggan, Lilli Grahame Dillane, Brittney Jones, Jasmin Moller, Monica Newsome, Lana Page, April Rodgers, Alexandria Walker
Production and Stage Manager: Callum Haddow
Sound Design: Chase Coussens
Lighting and Video Design: Tibee Leung
Set Design: Lucia McAlister
SwitchBox Live is a showcase of an eclectic assortment of original works by 2nd year Bachelor of Creative Arts Music students at UOW. The concert features six ensembles performing original compositions, developed collaboratively through workshops and studio classes. In addition, several students will present solo and duo performances. So, sit back, relax and tune in to SwitchBox Live!
Featuring 2nd year Music students: Hayden Bach, Jamal Baquayee, Michael Bowley, Liam Brown, Benjamin Chin, Jai Cole, Journie Cotejo, Matilda Dickson, Emilio Donebus, Maddilyn Ferrier, Sally Gyngell, Jacquelyn House, Lewis Kerr, Hamish Laverack, Charlotte Mercieca, Jack Payne, Matisse Pearce, Frederik Pinder, Bridget Raccanello, Romana Rasekhi, Patrick Shelton Agar, Callum Spillane, Daniella Stefanoski, Isaac Sybell, Nathan Tewi, Melody Tough, Ethan Tudor, and Thomas Wilcox-Symons.
A pedestal stands proud in the centre of the stage. Above it sits a loaded gun. It will go off.
Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ (1895) and ‘The Cherry Orchard’ (1903) are set to collide and intersect as they share one stage in Chekhov’s Gun, an adaptation by Tim Maddock (2025). Amidst the idyllic scenery of their estates in rural New South Wales, and grappling with a rapidly and irreversibly changing social order, two families will be united and divided over money, fame, sex and power as they cling desperately to a way of life no longer within their grasp.
Written by: Anton Chekhov. Adapted By Tim Maddock
Director: Tim Maddock
Assistant Director: Sophie Brunner
Performed by: 2nd and 3rd Year Students from the Bachelor of Performance and Theatre
The 2025 Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition proudly presents the culmination of hard work and creativity by UOW Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts, Visual Arts and Design) and Bachelor of Arts (Photography) students. This exhibition provides a glimpse into the wide range of creative perspectives used to address personal and global issues. It incorporates diverse media such as painting, drawing, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, photography and installation, all developed throughout their final year of studio research.
As our students prepare to step into the real world, this exhibition holds immense significance. It marks their transition from undergraduate studies to the practical application of their acquired skills, conceptual insights, and technical expertise.
Image credit: Boni Cairncross. About the image: Chip is a queer Ni-Vanuatu artist living and working on unceded Dharawal country. Their current work draws on their cultural heritage and explores intersections of gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality. Their work aims to contribute to Pasifika representation in contemporary visual art.