In 2026 all tickets for students booked in groups through schools for the weekday matinees listed in the Education & Learning Program are $20 per ticket.

One (1) x free teacher / carer complimentary ticket will be allocated per 10 students . Additional teachers / carers charged at $20 per person.

Terms and Conditions: 

• Bookings will only be accepted by submitting the online booking form or by fillinf in a hard copy of the booking form and returning it to the Box Office. Box Office will email you confirmation of your booking after it has been processed. 
• To ensure that as many students and schools can attend as possible, bookings for groups larger than 50 in the Studio Theatre are not guaranteed and Box Office will be in touch to discuss your booking. 
• We will make every effort to accommodate additional students on the day; however, this is not guaranteed.
• 21 days prior to a performance, the Box Office will contact you to confirm the number of students and teachers/carers that will be attending.
• Once your numbers are confirmed you will be invoiced for 50% of the booking, which is non-refundable. Bookings will not be confirmed until this deposit has been paid.
• Your final invoice will be sent after the performance based on actual numbers that attended*
• Any cancellations made within a week of, and including on the performance date must be paid in full based on the confirmed numbers.
• The final invoice will be calculated based on actual numbers attending and minus the 50% deposit, allowing a variance of up to 10 fewer students than the number confirmed two weeks prior. For example, if a school confirms 50 students attending and 55 attend, your school will be invoiced for 55 students. However, if only 35 students attend, your school will be invoiced for 40 students.

Assistive Hearing equipment can be booked and collected, free of charge, from the Box Office. There are a limited number of these units and bookings are essential. Please contact our Box Office to discuss your needs

Tiny but mighty. Meet mother nature’s microscopic miracles.

Step into a world where the tiniest creatures hold the biggest secrets. Found in virtually every environment on Earth – from your couch cushions to the deep sea –tardigrades are the ultimate endurance artists. These remarkable eight-legged creatures have the uncanny ability to survive the most extreme conditions, even the vacuum of space. Their incredible feats have earned these microscopic animals a cult following and the affectionate nickname "moss piglets."

Moss Piglet takes young audiences on an unforgettable journey. They’ll travel from a lava-filled volcano to the moon’s shadowy craters, a science lab petri dish to an Arctic icy tundra. Using the physical wonders of puppetry, live video and green screen magic, you’ll shrink down to experience hidden wonders teeming just beyond the edges of perception. The tardigrade's story is 600 million years in the making, an epic science tale told on the tiniest of scales. Moss Piglet proves that even the smallest beings can possess the most extraordinary power.

Recommended for grades: 1-4 

Curriculum alignment: EYLF Outcome 2, EYLF Outcome 4, EYLF Outcome 5, Science, Sustainability

Duration:  45 mins (no interval) + up to 10 mins Q&A

Patron advice: Contains theatrical haze, flashing lights and loud noises.  

Can you find the green sheep?

We know there’s the up sheep and the down sheep, the band sheep and the clown sheep, the sun sheep and the rain sheep, but there’s still one question on everybody’s lips: where is the green sheep? 

Mem Fox and Judy Horacek’s illustrated children’s book, Where is the Green Sheep?, has enchanted kids the world over. Now 20 years old, the book has become a right of passage for a generation of kids, selling over 2.5 million copies. For Monkey Baa’s remarkable live staging, the Sydney company worked directly with Horacek, bringing her beloved illustrations to life using a mixture of live puppetry and on-screen animations. 

Sheep come shooting out of cannons, whizz down slides and get up to all manner of hijinks as the audience tracks down the elusive green sheep. Using their impeccable timing and physicality, Monkey Baa’s cast reintroduce parents and kids to the boisterous flock of sheep, a chance to experience Fox and Horacek’s colour-filled world in a way they’ve never seen before.

Recommended for grades: K-4 

Curriculum alignment: EYLF Outcome 2, EYLF Outcome 3, EYLF Outcome 4

Duration:  45 mins (no interval) + up to 10 mins Q&A

Patron advice: Smoke and haze effects

Boys being boys.

St Imperium College’s all-boys team think they’ve got the Grand Finale of the Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament in the bag. It’s the most important night of the academic year and the private school lads believe they’re about to intellectually own their sister school. The topic up for debate: "feminism has failed women."

But as the boys are locked in a class for their one-hour prep time, inflated egos, hormones and nascent masculinity create a pressure cooker environment, leading to a chaotic turn of events.

Played by a female and non-binary cast in drag, this uproarious satire exposes the insecurity, privilege, entitlement and misogyny that runs rife in Australia’s private boys schools. With graduates over-represented amongst the nation's powerbrokers and politicians, the award-winning Trophy Boys makes the case for an urgent change to the way in which the Australian education system is serving its young men, women and non-binary students.

Trophy Boys, opened in June 2025 at the off-Broadway MCC Theatre in New York and had a twice-extended run and was directed by Tony Award winner Danya Taymor.

Recommended for grades: 9-12 

Curriculum alignment: English, The Arts, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability

Duration:  75 mins (no interval) + 20 mins Q&A

Patron Advice: Recommended for ages 15+
Contains strong language, low level violence, homophobic and misogynistic slurs, sexually explicit content including references to sexual assault, harassment and underage sex, and discussions of image-based abuse.
Contains flashing lights and amplified sound effects.

Every rose has its thorns.

The Prices are a typical Australian family. Bob and Fran have worked hard to raise their four kids with strong working class ethics even as their circumstances have improved. Honesty, hard work, respect and family values are the lessons handed down in the Price household. With the kids growing up, Bob should have more time to tend to his precious roses, but over the course of a year, a series of family revelations shakes the Price home to its foundations.

Tasmanian Theatre Company and Mudlark Theatre’s Things I Know To Be True is a tender portrait of the fragility and strength of familial bonds. As Bob’s garden changes with the seasons each Price faces personal upheaval. Buried truths emerge and identities are questioned as the family searches for the source of their love for one another.

The script from celebrated playwright Andrew Bovell (Lantana) has been given a new local lens by director Ivano Del Pio and an ensemble of Tasmania’s finest actors. Things I Know To Be True finds a family at an intergenerational intersection where heartbreak and hope collide. 

Recommended for grades: 9-12 

Curriculum alignment: English, The Arts, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability

Duration:  140 mins (20 min interval) + 20 mins Q&A

Patron advice: Recommended for ages 15+
Strong language and sexual references

Some seeds need support to grow.

What would you risk for a packet of Mi Goreng? Lachlan's out on bail from his youth detention centre but he’s hungry, too. His life’s about to change in less time than it takes to cook a packet of instant noodles.

Saplings tells the story of four vulnerable young people who come face to face with Australia’s youth justice system. Yani just wants to have some fun at the Easter Show and Lachlan wants his noodles; Shanika misses her mum and Kai’s feeling lost and isolated by the world he inhabits. Hilarious and heartbreaking, Sapling’s sees four talented young actors take on multiple roles in this poetic, personal, and unexpected production that will leave you asking who’s really to blame

To create Saplings, playwright Hannah Belanszky (Yuwaalaray) and director Abbie-lee Lewis (Kalkadoon) met with young people in a series of workshops designed to give voice to those who have lived experience of the youth justice system. Soundtracked by original music from talented young artists, Saplings is raw, impassioned theatre. It asks how young people are meant to grow in a system that is designed to cut them down.
 

Recommended for grades: 9-12 

Curriculum alignment: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding, Personal and Social Capability, HASS, The Arts, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

Duration: 80 mins (no interval) + 20 mins Q&A

Patron advice: Recommended for ages 15+
Coarse language, smoke and haze effects and loud noise.
References to First Nations peoples who are deceased.

Shakespeare's most haunting thriller.

Following a bloody battle, Macbeth and his comrade Banquo are met by three Weird Sisters who prophesy Macbeth will one day be king.

Unable to shake the thought, Macbeth tells his wife, Lady Macbeth. Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, posterity and certainty, they commit a murder and set in motion the unravelling of their sanity. With blood on their hands, they face the dire consequences of their despicable actions.

A terrifying portrayal of moral collapse, Peter Evans’ Macbeth, with Anthony Taufa in the title role, will take you on an intense journey into the dark heart of humanity.

Recommended for grades: 8-12 

Curriculum alignment: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding, English, The Arts

Duration: 2 hours 20 mins (including interval) + 20 mins Q&A

Patron advice: Recommended for ages 14+
Teachers are advised to familiarise students with the plot before attending.
Please be advised that Shakespeare’s original play contains depictions of violence, murder, sexual references and suicide.

One child. One camera. One truth.

Bub is an 11-year-old with a camera and her family is in crisis. Obsessed with documentary filmmaking, she turns her lens on the breakdown of her parents’ relationship, staging dramatised re-enactments to make sense of the chaos.

In each performance of POV, two adult actors – who have never seen the script before – join a young performer on stage. As Bub directs them to re-enact scenes from her personal life, the cast navigates tough questions about parenting, mental health and the way we communicate with kids. The story unfolds in real-time as they discover the answers alongside the audience; and Bub gets to the bottom of her mum’s erratic behavior. While the two adults fear corrupting the innocence of their child, Bub is determined to learn the truth.

As re:group’s next iteration in its series of live cinema experiences, following Coil (Mona Foma, 2022), POV, is an urgent, live documentary. It blurs the lines between personal history and performance to explore intergenerational connection and the agency of young people.

Mudlark Theatre will cast the state-wide tour of POV with incredible Tasmanian talent.

Recommended for grades: 9-12 

Curriculum alignment: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Personal and Social capability, English, The Arts

Duration: 75 mins (no interval) + 20 mins Q&A

Patron advice: 
Recomended for ages 15+ 
Flashing lights
Discussions of mental illness, Bipolar Affective Disorder and themes of suicide

Entrance to the Theatre
Lift access is available from the main entrance on level one of The Hedberg building to all Theatre Royal and Studio Theatre foyers.

Wheelchair Seating
The Theatre Royal and Studio Theatre have dedicated seating options for wheelchair users and their guests.

There are accessible seating options for the Theatre Royal available in the Stalls and Dress Circle. The Studio Theatre has seating options in the Stalls.

In order to ensure the best possible experience, please contact the Box Office on 03 6146 3300 to discuss the best option to suit your needs.

Bathrooms at the Theatre
There are accessible bathrooms available on all levels of The Hedberg.

Guide, Hearing and Assistance Dogs
The Theatre Royal welcomes guests accompanied by guide, hearing or assistance dogs.

Assisted Hearing Service
The Theatre Royal and the Studio Theatre are equipped with an Assistive Hearing System. This system can aid patrons with all levels of hearing impairment.

The Assistive Hearing System offers amplified sound through dedicated headphones or by using a hearing loop that interacts with hearing aid devices.

Assistive Hearing equipment can be booked and collected, free of charge, from the Box Office. There are a limited number of these units and bookings are essential.

Please contact our Box Office to discuss your needs.

Thank you for selecting the show/s you'd like to book for 2026.

By pressing the submit button your booking will be forwarded to our Box Office staff for processing and they will email you your booking confirmation.

When you arrive for the performance, you will be asked to confirm your final numbers.

An invoice will be sent to your school for final payment within 14 days of the performance, based on actual numbers attending, allowing a variance of up to 10 fewer students than the number confirmed two weeks prior.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Theatre Royal.