Gasworks is already programming its 2008 Midsumma @ Gasworks season.  If you are interested in being involved, please contact Ren e: hrenwick@gasworks.org.au or t: 8606 4203

2007 FESTIVAL ARCHIVE

Gasworks celebrates Midsumma by becoming a hub of bent activity exploding with performance, art, words and cocktails. 

Theatre Program

Music Program

Studio Theatre Program

Comedy, Cabaret and Cocktails Program

Visual Arts Program

Theatre Program
Car Maintenance, eXpolosives and Love by Donna Jackson
Enter the sensual world of lubricated nipples, throbbing eight-cylinder engines and ultra buffed duco for an explosive night of theatre, glam rock, acrobatics and automotive lust with acclaimed performer Donna Jackson.
24 January to 10 February. Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Sunday at 4pm
$27.50/$22.50. Preview 24 January $17.50, Tuesdays and groups of ten $22.50

Happy Chaps
Devanesen Productions presents a 45 minute cabaret homage to musical theatre’s ‘Happy Chaps’. No, not bottomless leather pants; but the characters, composers and themes of shows that critique and commend the gay lifestyle. Following their award winning sell out seasons of Broadway musicals Rent and The Wild Party at Gasworks in 2006, Devanesen Productions returns for this humorous, haughty and heartfelt pocket sized look into the musical closet.
Saturday 27 January, Friday 2 and Saturday 3 February at 9pm

$15. 

Music Program
She’s Queer Folk
A live music concert showcasing some of Australia’s most talented women in folk, roots and rock including Multi-award-winning (ex-Tiddas) Lou Bennett & the Sweet Cheeks, and llegendary songstress Judy Small
Saturday 20 January at 8pm
$20/$15. 

She’s Queer 2
Stories of love, journeys and the land are passionately explored in a concert featuring the dynamic singer/songwriters Michelle Parsons, Milk the Duo and Liz Stringer
Sunday 28 January at 7.30pm
$20$15

Studio Theatre Program
The Deconstruction
A woman’s exploration of her own identity through the stories held in her body is explored through movement and projected image in this solo dance piece by Deborah Robertson..
30 January to 3 February at 6.30pm
$18.50/$14.50

The Paris End with Lola-on-Collins
She’s sassy. She’s sexy. She’s a self-proclaimed diva. Join Lola on-Collins as she shares the torturous tale of being the woman who everybody wants. Sung in the style of Bassey and with the tongue-in-cheek fashion you’ve come to expect from writer/performer Rachel Forgasz (My Life as a Dyke).
7 February to 10 February at 9.15pm
$14.50/$10.50

Comedy, Cabaret and Cocktails Program
Variety Shirley Style
Perennial Midsumma favourite funny girl Shirl dishes up an hour of salacious songs, sinful dancing and show stopping stand-up.
Friday 2 February at 10.15pm

Please note that FRIDAY 26 JANUARY'S SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Studio Theatre.  $10/$5

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Tranzlezbian Gendermash
A premier spoken word event, Gendermash is a deliberately controversial, positive, and sexed up journey starring Gender creators, morphers, questioners and revellers. Including Rap, ControVerse, Stories, Songs. Queer Porn, Juicy Secrets, GenderRevellers. Bent, Funny, Sad, Sweet, Opinionated, Short & Snappy!
Saturdays 27 January and 3 February at 10.15pm
Gasworks Theatre.  $10/$5

Sing Along to the Sound of Bent Musicals
Wilkommen, Bienvenue… Welcome to a return season of Gasworks’ musical theatre live karaoke piano bar… with a bent spin. We’re calling all Friends of Dorothy to build up every (angry) inch of courage, and come rain on our parade. Sing your own bent musicals accompanied by our pianist. BYO sheet music, or choose from our selection when you get here!
Friday 9 February at 10.15pm
Gasworks Theatre.  $10/$5

Dude Where's My Girlfriend?
Everything Jules Wilkinson knows she learnt from television… which is probably why she’s one lesbian short of a happy couple. Warning: this show may use pop culture in a way not intended by the manufacturer and contains random facts about lesbian sex.
Saturday 10 February at 10.15pm
Gasworks Theatre.  $10/$5

Visual Arts Program
Over and Out
Over and Out is a new community-based visual arts project that provides an opportunity for gay and lesbian residents and workers in the City of Port Phillip to photographically document queer lives in their community.
20 January to 11 February. 9am to 5pm daily and during performances

Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery

Youth Exhibition
A photographic exhibition explores the lives of non-straight young people through their own eyes.
20 January to 11 February. 9am to 5pm daily and during performances.

Foyer