The Show of the Year

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Thursday 11 December
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Location

Athenaeum Theatre

188 Collins Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

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It’s back, by popular demand! Join us for a fresh instalment of our new annual tradition: The Show of the Year.

With a stellar line-up of talent, we’ll hold a mirror to the highlights, lowlights, shocks and surprises of 2014, in storytelling and song.

Planes disappeared and plummeted from the sky. Australia became the first country in the world to repeal a carbon tax. Adam Goodes was Australian of the Year, and Peter Cosgrove became Governor General. We lost Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Japan’s Antarctic whaling program was ruled unscientific. Clive Palmer teamed up with Al Gore. Delta’s bad dancing went viral, and Justin Bieber and Orlando Bloom had a punch-up. Ian Thorpe came out. Perennial bachelor George Clooney married international human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin.

We marked 100 years since World War I started, and US-Russia relations reached a post-Cold War low. 276 girls and women were abducted from a school in Nigeria. Fighting re-ignited in Gaza. The Ebola virus erupted in west Africa, and the Heartbleed bug threatened internet security. Germany won the World Cup, and Brazil was resoundingly trashed. And it was the UN International Year of Farming and Crystallography.

Host-with-the-most Casey Bennetto will be joined by some of Australia’s favourite entertainers and writers, including Josh Earl, Hannah Kent, Helen Razer, Crikey’s Bernard Keane, Gillian Cosgriff, Karl Kruszelnicki, Zahra Newman, Zoe Daniel, Die Roten Punkte, Lior, Omar Musa and Monica Weightman.

Sit back, relax and enjoy the show – delivered in slices of song, stories and slam poetry – as we farewell the year in high style.