HAWKE the Film of the Play: 12 December

Name: HAWKE the Film of the Play: 12 December
Start: 2025-12-12T16:00:00+1100
End: 2025-12-12T17:20:00+1100
Location: “Cinema 6” Dendy Cinemas Canberra

Fri, 12 Dec, 4pm - 5:20pm AEDT

“Cinema 6” Dendy Cinemas Canberra

Canberra ACT, Australia

Lexi Sekuless Productions

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Event description

SCREENING: HAWKE

if you don't see it, you're a bum.

After a successful run at Chapel Off Chapel in Melbourne, HAWKE - a film of this stage play - will screen in Canberra at Dendy “Cinema 6”, Level 2, North Quarter of the Canberra Centre, at 4:00 pm on Friday 12 December.

Merryl Streep showed us the whole Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Peter Houghton shows us the complete Bob Hawke.

The Producer is generously donating all proceeds (after the hire of the Cinema) from ticket sales to The Mill Theatre at Dairy Road, supporting its exceptional work with Canberra’s actors, singers, and directors.

Please note that all tickets must be booked through this site and no tickets are available to purchase onsite at Dendy.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Australia’s prime minister Hawke, won four consecutive elections and gained the highest popularity rating of any prime minister since the introduction of public opinion polls.

His enormous success was however founded on a monstrous act.

After his death in 2019, Hawke meets his two wives, and a bishop with an even darker past. In just 80-minutes their eternal fate will be sealed in either Heaven or in Hell.

Starring some of Australia’s best actors, Peter Houghton as Hawke, Ana Mitsikas (first wife), Chelsea Plumley (second wife) and Mike Bishop (the bishop), plus original music and songs by cellist David Pereira performed by Dr Edward Neeman (piano) and Zachary Connor (cello).

Written by P. Kauffman and Denny Lawrence.

CONTAINS

This performance is suitable for ages 16+
Coarse language
References to violence & sex

To view the program click HERE

TICKETS

$25 Early Bird Tickets available now until midday 26 November.

$39 General Admission available until 2 hours before the screening. No tickets are available in person and only online bookings are possible.

LOCATION

Dendy “Cinema 6”

Level 2, North quarter of Canberra Centre

148 Bunda St, Canberra ACT 2601

REVIEWS

“The singing and songs were immaculate. The performances rock solid. What sticks in my mind is the situation of Hazel and Blanche together in this situation both loving their Hawkes, grudgingly realising that fact in each other and facing the dilemma of the burden of being his potential judges for all time.”

Review by Ian Scott Film Actor October 2025.

“A world-first production explores the life of Bob Hawke in song and drama, blending political history with myth, emotion, and a unique Greek baptism hymn."

Review by Fotis Kapetopoulos in Neas Kosmos October 2025.

Image by Darren James from the Chapel Off Chapel Production

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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About the Mill Theatre at Dairy Road & Lexi Sekuless Productions

The Mill Theatre at Dairy Road is Canberra’s newest theatre, an intimate 67 seat greybox studio at the Dairy Road precinct. This venue opened in November 2022 and was built by the Molonglo Group with the technical fit out by Elite Event Technology. The technical fit out is what turned a cool room into a theatre and Elite Event Technology is the ongoing and major partner. In 2024, Willard Public Affairs joined the Mill Theatre team as Principal Sponsor. It is the first private enterprise theatre of its kind in the ACT and is run by Lexi Sekuless Productions. The Theatre is an ambitious venture committed to a professional theatre practice and growth of the professional theatre industry in the ACT. Here you can expect quality, professionalism and an experience like nothing you can get on your laptop at home.

About Dairy Road

Dairy Road is a neighbourhood slowly developing on a 14-hectare site in Canberra’s East Lake. It sits next to Canberra’s industrial suburb of Fyshwick and the human-made nature reserve, the Jerrabomberra Wetlands. Currently the site is made up of warehouses, some office buildings and vehicle yards and has become home to printers, brewers, distillers, roasters, startups, indoor recreation, health providers and commercial producers. A number of gardens and pockets of open public spaces have replaced asphalt and concrete.

Dairy Road is being developed by Molonglo, with a long-term vision for an interconnected and diverse neighbourhood that emerges over the next 10 years. A productive refuge where many often-separated parts work together as one ecosystem. Here, light industry, working, living, recreation, retail and entertainment will be undertaken in a restored landscape.

The Players

Attached to the theatre is an ensemble of professional Canberra creatives called the Dairy Road Players. They are a mix of Canberra creatives, along with several interstate Canberra lovers, committed to a professional practice for the ACT theatre industry. They work together at regular drop-ins, with parts in productions offered directly to Players. This is not a cosy club. Creatives who share the same values are welcome to join by attending the drop-ins.

There may not be a huge number of professional theatre makers in the ACT (and many keep moving out of town!) but those who are here should be celebrated and promoted. This is not about being better than any others. It is not about vertical comparisons. It is about the positive exploration of technique, and the positive promotion and horizontal growth of the industry in Canberra. There is room for all of us.

Drop-ins and capacity development

No one is actually interested in five minutes in the room with sweat running down your back and a snooty casting director enjoying having power over you. Traditional auditions are flawed. A major characteristic of the new Theatre is that we do things differently. The drop-ins, for example, act as a replacement process for our productions. They enable an open door policy and also multiple chances to get it wonderfully wrong.

Support and soft infrastructure via the shadow-emerge-mentoree process is another way we hope to grow the industry through new and different approaches. Key productions, for example, have a call out for new directors to shadow the experienced director. This will be followed by a chance to then direct under your mentor.

Every element of the Theatre from casting to play selections is tailored towards breaking new ground for Canberra creatives, and for their audiences.