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Welcoming the incredible Hazem Shammas to the RUINS ensemble!
Hazem steps into the role of Joe, Amelia's father. We're so thrilled to be working with Haz and to have his craft, experience and expertise in the room.
Hazem is a Palestinian Australian actor, renowned for his exceptional work in theatre and screen. He most recently played the title role in Bell Shakespeare's Coriolanus (2025), which earned him a Green Room Award nomination for Best Actor. On screen, he won a Logie for his role in Safe Harbour and most recently appeared in the political thriller The Correspondent. He's also part of the Marrugeku team as a producer.
Joe is in good hands. Welcome, Haz. We're so thrilled to be working with you ❤️🇵🇸🇱🇧

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Back at it on RUINS أطلال. 🏛️

Working across time zones isn’t always easy, but travelling feeds the work too.

Maddy has just come from walking the ruins of Ephesus, where two huge amphitheatres still hold their shape and one last column of a temple stands for a god since fallen. Our show is set among the ruins of Baalbek and there’s nothing like standing in a place that once buzzed with life to feel how close another time can sit.

Reminders of the show are everywhere!

More soon. 🌿

PHIVE, 5 Parramatta Square 2 to 5 December 7pm nightly, plus an 11am show on Thursday 3 December Tickets via the link in bio. ❤️

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If you missed RUINS أطلال last year, you’re in luck. We’re back!

We are so thrilled to be presenting RUINS as part of Heartland Festival at National Theatre of Parramatta @ntofp

Homeland is the heart of this work and bringing it to Western Sydney feels like a true homecoming.

📍 PHIVE, 5 Parramatta Square 🗓 2 to 5 December 🕖 7pm nightly, plus an 11am show on Thursday 3 December
Tickets via the link in bio. We can’t wait to share it with you. ♥️

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In 2009 I travelled to Lebanon for the first time and saw the ruins at Baalbek. An idea started to form...
RUINS أطلال - PHIVE Parramatta, 2–5 December. Part of Heartland Festival.
Q&A with the cast after the Thursday 11am and Saturday evening performances. Ticket link in bio.
Love to see you there ❤️

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RUINS returns - and this time, it's coming to Parramatta

Mirrors sit at the heart of RUINS. They're the portal to the underworld, a place we reckon with who we really are. As Cocteau wrote "each day in the mirror I watch death at work." It's fitting then, that this is also the job of the artist, to hold a mirror up to the world.

We will not look away from the ruins of Gaza. We cannot look away from the ruins of Lebanon. So we return to this work and hold the mirror up again and again and again.

Tell your friends. Tell your families. This show is from our hearts to yours. Thank you @ntofp for giving us a platform for this special work.

PHIVE, Parramatta
2-5 December
As part of @ntofp's Heartland Festival

Booking link in bio

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Baby has been showered! Thanks to our beautiful village who came out, made cakes, played the ridiculous games, and brought excellent vibes and gifts. So lucky to be bringing our little one into such an incredible community 💜

Thankyou @rhapsodypictures for the 📸

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Total pleasure facilitating our workshop Standing Strong Together: The Foundations of Ensemble for this group of wonderful drama teachers! Thanks for having us @drama.nsw, loved being part of this amazing line-up of workshops and speakers!
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#clockfirecreativelab #dramansw #dramanswconference #strongertogether #jaqueslecoq

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Last weekend we had the pleasure of diving into the mythic with this incredible bunch of humans. As so many of us felt, it is so freeing to shake off the business of theatre and go back to the why. To play, explore, fail, succeed and find a sense of togetherness was pure magic. Thanks to our beautiful participants, we truly loved being on the floor with you ❤️ ♥️ ❤️
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#intothemythic #clockfiretheatre #clockfirecreativelab #theatre #theatreworkshops

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⏳ Only a couple of spots left for ✨Into the Mythic: Story and Ritual in Theatre✨

And with just 3 days to go until we begin, we can’t wait to welcome everyone into the room this Saturday for two days of myth, storytelling, physical exploration and ensemble practice.

Our work lives in the space where the ordinary becomes mythic, where a threshold becomes a transformation, a season becomes a character and a gesture carries the weight of something timeless. That’s what we’ll be making together in this intensive.

If you’ve been thinking about joining us, now’s the time to jump in.

🗓 16 & 17 May
⏰ 10:00am – 5:00pm
📍 Readymade Works, Ultimo

Last remaining places available via the link in bio. See you on Saturday ✨

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⚡ 9 DAYS to go. LIMITED SPOTS

✨ Into the Mythic, Story & Ritual in Theatre ✨
A two-day intensive for theatre-makers, performers & creatives ready to explore myth, physicality and ensemble storytelling. Where the ordinary becomes extraordinary.

📆 16 & 17 May
⏰ 10am – 5pm
📍 Readymade Works, Ultimo

Spots are filling fast. 🔗 Link in bio.

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When did you last give yourself two full days to go deep with your work?

‘Into the Mythic’ is coming up soon and it’s an invitation to do exactly that.

Over two days we’ll move through myth, ritual, and physicality together, uncovering the stories you truly want to tell and finding new ways to tell them. Through ensemble work, guided devising and embodied practice, you’ll explore how the mythological can unlock something alive and timeless in your own creative voice.

This is for theatre-makers, actors, directors, writers, artists, anyone ready to expand their creative language and dive deeper into the art of storytelling.

📆 16 & 17 May | 10am – 5pm
📍 Readymade Works, Ultimo
🎟️ $360 | Payment plans available

Spots are limited so get in quick!
Link in bio to book.

#IntoTheMythic #ClockfireTheatre #TheatreIntensive #PhysicalTheatre #Devising

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