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A momentous week for the Picture House

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This week is a particularly momentous one for the Brunswick Picture House.

In 2015, on a clear autumn’s night, a group of cabaret producers and performers visiting Bruns for the night wandered out for a slightly drunken stroll and stumbled across an unloved theatre with a handwritten FOR SALE sign taped to the front door. Discovering that the theatre had been closed for 30 years, the producers of international, award-winning smash hits La Clique, La Soirée and Club Swizzle had an immediate life-changing epiphany, and after much blood, sweat and tears, the Brunswick Picture House was born, opening on Good Friday 2016.

Fast forward this week to Good Friday 2026, and you’ll find the Brunswick Picture House celebrating its tenth birthday! Understanding that Easter plans for many have suddenly been left in disarray, if you’re looking for some distraction, drop in to the Picture House as they bring back another run of the one that started it all back then: the Cheeky Cabaret, which helped launch the venue as a cultural destination for visitors Australia-wide and beyond.

Cheeky is an irreverent, saucy and highly mischievous mash of circus, vaudeville, comedy, new burlesque and everything in between, with its tongue placed firmly in cheek.

Running from this Thursday until 19 April, it’s the perfect show to bring a gang for a big night out, with group discounts and ‘posh’ table seating available.

Looking ahead, April is packed with gems ranging from: Shrek-inspired comedy burlesque Swamplesque on Sunday, 26 April; to mind-blowing magic for all ages with Aiden Schofield on Wednesday, 15 April; a conversation with the philosopher A.C. Grayling, on Wednesday, 22 April; the return of the riveting, ribald Amelia Jane Hunter on Thursday, April 23; and good old-fashioned, all-ages circus fun with Lil’ Cheeky on Sunday, 12 April.

Tickets for all shows at brunswickpicturehouse.com.

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