Name: Works and Days
Start: 2026-03-05
End: 2026-03-08
Location: Dunstan Playhouse

When

05 Mar - 08 Mar

Where

Dunstan Playhouse

Access

Venue & access info here

Tickets

Adult

A Res $109 | B Res $99

Festival Friends

A Res $93 | B Res $84

Concession*

A Res $87 | B Res $80

Under 40**

A Res $40 | B Res $40

Full-time student^

A Res $55 | B Res $50

Transaction fees apply
* Pensioner, Health Care Card holder, MEAA/Actors’ Equity member. NOTE: Commonwealth Senior Health and Seniors Cards are ineligible for concession
** Limited capacity, ID required
^ ID required

Times

Thu 5 Mar 7:30pm
Fri 6 Mar 7:30pm
Sat 7 Mar 5pm
Sun 8 Mar 3pm

Duration

1hr 30mins, no interval

Warnings

Contains nudity, smoking on stage, sexual references and depictions of violence and blood.

FC Bergman’s Works and Days is a groundbreaking physical theatre masterpiece

This remarkable theatrical event from Belgium’s FC Bergman (The Sheep Song, 2023) unfolds like a living painting, its pastoral imagery evoking the rhythms and battles of nature and the arc of human progress.

Inspired by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s original verse Works and Days, eight highly physical performers embody the rituals of toil, tradition and transformation, without a single word spoken.

FC Bergman plough up the stage itself, dismantling the very ground beneath them to exhume a future. A steam engine descends to become a fiery altar, and the new age of AI stalks the perimeter.

An array of breathtaking images to an ecstatic live music score, Works and Days is a physical poem that speaks to collective strength, the complexities of change and the uncontainable force of nature.

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