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Cautionary Tales for Children

Format

Live Performance (Stage Show)

Audiences

Recommended age 8+

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A Cabaret So Sickly, It’s Sweet…

 

A lyrical, satirical cabaret, which may make you lose your head entirely!

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Meet our dysfunctional musical troupe of four, who have travelled to our stage via a time machine. They’re on a mission to teach today’s rascally kids a thing or two about the importance of being well-behaved and are armed with Hilaire Belloc’s poems about wayward children and the outlandish fates that befall them.

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Created for audiences aged 8+, Cautionary Tales for Children is proof that learning lessons about good behaviour can be rather absurd and utterly hilarious!

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Cautionary Tales for Children premiered at the Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne in 2012.

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It was re-mounted in 2016 in a new version starring Virginia Gaye and directed by Jolyon James, enjoying a sold-out season at the Sydney Opera House.

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Arena Theatre respectfully acknowledges the Dja Dja Wurrung people, and the Taungurung Peoples of the Kulin Nation, the first peoples of country on which Arena Theatre stands. We pay our respects to all of Bendigo's First Peoples, and to their ancestors and elders. Indigenous sovereignty has never been ceded and we acknowledge that we continue to make art on what always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.

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Arena Theatre Company is supported

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Arena Theatre Company is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

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