What's On At Goodwood Theatre & Studios
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Actually Acting Youth Theatre
The Kid Who Couldn't Stop Drawing & How to get Away with a Murder Mystery
Friday October 3rd at 6pm
Saturday October 4th at 1pm and 4pm
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​​The Kid Who Couldn't Stop Drawing
This is the story of...well...a kid who couldn't stop drawing. No matter who tries to stop them (parents, teachers or fellow students), nothing stands between them and their pencil and pad.
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How to get away with a Murder Mystery
Five mysterious colour-coded guests. A mansion. A murder. Can the killer get away with it? And how will the sleuths bring them to justice?
Edwin Harris-Faull Exhibition
Songs in Birds
9 October to 9 November
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As the winner of the 2021 Dawn Slade-Faull Award, Edwin’s work explores a view into the boundaries between flora and fauna, using ceramic sculpture to create organic, hybrid forms. Edwin’s work is informed by his experience of deafness and cochlear implants. It draws on his love of horticulture and his experiences in the horticultural industry, as a work experience participant at the City Of Burnside Biodiversity Nursery.
Using eyes and ears as a recurring motif, the works Edwin produces explore his “interest in the connection and communication between life forms”. The scale of the pieces positions them as forms akin to real creatures which we are all familiar with both domestically and in the wild. By giving his newly evolved creatures such expressive facial features and demeanour, he encourages the viewer to be drawn into their world.
(Photo & Video credit: Randi Asra Dahnial)
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Hot Sauce Burlesque
Terror of Tease Showcase
Friday 10 & Saturday 11 October at 7.30pm
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In shadows deep, where secrets gleam, a burlesque terror, a waking dream. With feathered fans and a wicked smile, HOTTIES tease and taunt for a little while.
Halloween's chill in the air does creep, as promises made are hard to keep. A dance of fright, a playful art, the terror of tease, a beating heart.
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Halloween is upon us and the lights from Goodwood Theatre shine a ghoulish haze across the stage.
Horrendously sexy burlesque students from Hot Sauce Burlesque elicit terrifying tease - and will make all your twisted fantasies come true.
Prize for best dressed!
General Admission Only.
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(Adult Only - 18+)​
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Theatre Republic
Future:Present
17 & 18 October at 7.30pm
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FUTURE:PRESENT is back! Theatre Republic’s fast-response experimental theatre event returns to the Goodwood Theatre for its third iteration.
Four South Australian playwrights each have just four days to write a new short play in response to an urgent contemporary issue. A team of four directors and four actors then have four days to rehearse all four new works, before they are performed before live audiences on one exciting weekend.
This year’s theme is FAMILY: We all have a family. But how do we define family now? Is it something we’re born into, or something we choose? Does family support us or does it destroy us? How is the idea of family changing, and who gets to decide what it means?
GET READY FOR YOUR FAMILY PORTRAIT.
FUTURE:PRESENT is made possible with project funding from CreateSA, and support from Goodwood Theatre and Studios, and State Theatre Company South Australia.​​
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Peachy Keen Productions
Fake Fiancé Real Friends
22 - 25 October, 8.30pm
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Join us on the night of Fin and Quinn’s very real engagement party, as they celebrate their very fake relationship.
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Fin and Quinn have been besties since primary school. A perfect couple, according to everyone that’s not Fin and Quinn. It is now 10 years since graduating high school and they’re still faking their relationship, a lavender loveship crashing through the milky way of millennial misfortune. Quinn is unable to confide in her beloved Italian grandfather, Nonno, that she loves the ladies, men and gentlethems. And Fin’s in love with the ruse that’s kept his mum, Judith, chill on the ‘what are you doing with your life?’ freight train she’s been driving.
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Laugh along as they navigate queer love, friendship, betrayal and the hardship of being a millennial in a collapsing economic system. ​​​​​
Deus Ex Femina
The Damage is Done
24 - 26 October 2025, 7pm​
The Damage is Done is a gripping and intimate one-person performance that delves into queerness, sisterhood, and immigrant family dynamics. At its heart is Isadora, a young queer woman growing up with her sister, Kristina ‘Kris,’ in a tight-knit Italian-Australian family. When a devastating secret about Kris surfaces, Isadora makes the bold decision to come out, thinking nothing could be more scandalous. She’s wrong.
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Through sharp wit, emotional vulnerability, and powerful storytelling, The Damage is Done lays bare the tangled web of identity, love, shame, and the complex truths we inherit and resist.
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Deus Ex Femina will be hosting this work-in-development showing during their 2025 Goodwood Theatre & Studio’s Residency, titled ‘Audentes Fortuna luvat‘ (Fortune Favours the Bold).
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Image by Jamois Photography
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Flying Penguin in association
with Goodwood Theatre & Studios
for State Theatre SA (Stateside Program)
American Song
24 October to 2 November 2025​
Multi-award-winning Flying Penguin Productions, in association with The Goodwood Theatre and Studios and as part of the State Theatre Company of South Australia 2025 Stateside Program, will present the South Australian premiere of American Song by celebrated playwright Joanna Murray-Smith this October.
A profound tour-de-force for one actor, Renato Musolino, the play has been praised for its powerful examination of contemporary issues through deeply personal storytelling. American Song confronts audiences with experiences that challenge perceptions of the world and examines who we've become as individuals and as a society.
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TICKETS ARE SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES! Only a handful of tickets so you better get in quick for this not to be missed production as part of State Theatre South Australia's Stateside Season.
Deus Ex Femina
State Theatre SA (Stateside Program)
Scenes with Girls
3 - 13 December 2025​
Scenes with Girls is a love story, but not the kind you might expect. Tosh and Lou, 20-something best friends and housemates, are inseparably devoted to each other. Together, they navigate a world filled with romantic ideals and sexual expectations, all while remaining fiercely determined to carve out their own path-even if it means stumbling along the way and sometimes hurting themselves and others in the process.
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Unfiltered, brazenly funny and often uncomfortably flawed, Battye has written a delightfully sharp study of millennial sexual politics and all-encompassing female friendships. Broad City meets Fleabag, with hints of a much grittier Sex and the City, Scenes with Girls will particularly resonate with those still navigating the messy realities of sexual exploration and the complexities of sharehouse life.
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