The Show of the Year 2015

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Wednesday 09 December
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Location

Athenaeum Theatre

188 Collins Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

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Time moves quickly, doesn’t it? Before you know what’s happening, you wake up in a new year – and while you collect yourself, the year just past dims quickly into shadow.

But wait, not so fast!

This December, a Wheeler Centre tradition returns to unravel and revel in the delights and lowlights, majesties and travesties of 2015. Follow sugar-tongued songbird Casey Bennetto and a bevy of the nation’s most charmed and charming entertainers and writers – Santilla Chingaipe, The Listies, Marc Fennell, Penny Wong, First Dog on the Moon, Nicholas J. Johnson, Thomas Keneally, Toby Halligan, Jane Caro, Shellie Morris, Clare Wright, Tina Del Twist and Sami Shah – as they farewell the year in style ... one month at a time.

In 2013, there was Sammy J’s hilarious musical welcome to our future king (thanks Kate and Wills), and ‘Marngrook’ – Maxine Beneba Clarke’s probing, poignant meditation on race in football. Last year, we dodged Die Roten Punkte’s giant floating balloons (in celebration of Germany’s World Cup victory), heard passionate calls for justice from Zoe Daniel and Hannah Kent, and farewelled political giant Gough Whitlam with Monica Weightman’s rousing performance of ‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’. What will 2015’s big stories be?

If you only see one show this year, let it be the Show of the Year, as our guests tell it like it was in five-minute bursts of song, story and slam poetry. It'll be richly funny, it'll be poignant, and everything in between.