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  Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

  Opens Thursday 12 January Closes Saturday 18 February

  For sixteen summers, Roo and Barney have spent their long layoff from the cane-cutting season down in Melbourne having a high old time with two Carlton barmaids, Olive and Nancy. But back for their seventeenth summer, the blokes find that Nancy got married and Olive has roped in a friend, Pearl, to take her place.
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  Tribes

  Opens Saturday 4 February Closes Wednesday 14 March

  Around this family’s table, conversation is a no-holds-barred struggle for attention. Father, mother, brother and sister fling opinions, arguments and insults around and no one pays much attention to the damage it might cause. And no one pays much attention to Billy, the youngest son, watching it all in silence, not hearing a word but getting the message.
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  The Seed

  Opens Friday 17 February Closes Wednesday 4 April

  Thirty years is a long time to stay away, so Danny Maloney is nervous about facing his formidable father Brian again. Danny is a Vietnam vet; Brian is Fighting Irish, a supporter of the IRA. History scarred them both, but their open wounds are all personal.
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  Red

  Opens Thursday 22 March Closes Saturday 5 May

  In 1958, abstract expressionist Mark Rothko began painting his vast canvasses for the exclusive Four Seasons restaurant. It will be the culmination of his art: five sublime expanses of red.  Yet how can such an austere vision survive the admiring questions of his new assistant?
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  Australia Day

  Opens Saturday 21 April Closes Saturday 26 May

  When Captain Phillip raised the flag at Sydney Cove on that January day in 1788, he couldn’t know that he was instituting the most hallowed date on the Australian calendar: solemnised in speeches, citizenship ceremonies and sorry business; celebrated in sausage sizzles and piss-ups; evoked in historical re-creations and cultural confusion.
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  The Heretic

  Opens Saturday 12 May Closes Saturday 23 June

  Dr Diane Cassell is a serious scientist who likes the facts to speak for themselves. When her data contradict a key doctrine of global warming theory, her university puts pressure on her to conform. Yet she can do no other except speak her truth.
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  National Interest

  Opens Wednesday 6 June Closes Saturday 21 July

  For Mrs Stewart, a Coronial Inquiry seems too little, too late. In 1975, her son Tony was a young sound recordist for an Australian news crew in Balibo, East Timor. His murder, with those of his colleagues, at the hands of the Indonesian military had been officially covered up, but everyone knows the truth. What’s the point of an inquiry now when memories are fading?
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  Queen Lear

  Opens Saturday 7 July Closes Saturday 18 August

  Abdicating her power, Lear holds a contest for her daughters with a portion of her empire as a prize. When one child refuses to play the game, the tragedy that ensues will lead Lear from power to powerlessness, from reason to madness and, ultimately, from blindness to insight.
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  His Girl Friday

  Opens Saturday 11 August Closes Saturday 15 September

  Ace reporter Hildy Johnson has had enough of the sleaze of the Chicago newspaper game. At midnight, she’s catching the train east where she’ll marry her fiancé, a handsome schlub with piles of dough. And if her ex-husband and editor Walter Burns thinks she’s going to change her mind, he’s got another thing coming
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  Top Girls

  Opens Saturday 25 August Closes Saturday 29 September

  Marlene is out to celebrate her big promotion at work. It’s a just reward for years of dedicated service and hard work. And if she’s had to make sacrifices along the way, then they’ve all been worth it.
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  Elling

  Opens Saturday 27 October Closes Saturday 8 December

  It’s a scary world out there and Elling would rather have nothing to do with it. His mother used to take care of everything, until she died, leaving him middle-aged and institutionalised. Now Social Services want him to learn some life-skills.
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  Music

  Opens Friday 9 November Closes Saturday 22 December

  A troubled marriage, an estranged brother, a disloyal friend – Jack has made a botch of all the important relationships in his life. Yet, almost without realising it, those who once laughed with him and loved him – and might love him still – are tying up the loose ends of a ragged life.