Martha and Me is an exploration of friendship, using material by Ferdinand Bruckner, Frank Wedekind and Georg Buechner. The piece will tour internationally extensively in a double bill with before she knew me.
Creatives: Krystal Hollis, Joachim Matschoss and Georgina McKay.
Read MoreThis exploration of power, politics and love is currently in development.
Creatives: Ben Jamieson, Georgina McKay, Joachim Matschoss, Huw Jennings and Verity Wood.
Read MoreThis theatre piece is in development. It deals with issues like mental health, family, memory and life choices. This solo will tour nationally and internationally as a companion piece to martha and me.
Creatives: Georgina McKay, Krystal Hollis, Joachim Matschoss.
Read MoreMerry wanderers of the night has been developed in 2023/24 by the ensemble using works of Shakespeare and having a kind of freefall play with it. Music played a big part. Ben Jamieson and Joachim Matschoss co-directed. Nikki Green was responsible for movement, Estrella Jurado for costume design and the ensemble collectively for space, properties and sound.
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Cast: Talya Callahan, Elsa Caruso, Vasi Samudra Devi, Nikki Green, Tom Hoskins, Huw Jennings, Amalia Krueger, Georgina McKay, Oscar O’Brien, Jess Robinson, Giacinta Squires, Verity Wood.
Read MoreIn 2025 Fractured Love, a new theatre piece devised by the 2024/25-ensemble, El Kiley, Amalia Krueger, Stevie McKeon and Joachim Matschoss, will tour nationally and internationally.
This new theatre piece has some of Shakespeare’s much-loved heroines at its centre, Juliet, Ophelia and Helena. It deals with love, gender and identity. It is comic at heart and deals in a playful manner with Shakespeare’s motifs and characters. It features original music and songs based on Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Read MoreDie Spur des Verschwindens (Traces of Vanishing) is a co-production between Jahrmarkttheater Bostelwiebeck, BackYardTheatreEnsemble, Wheels Berlin and Ruess and Vetter.
It is a journey through time right into the heart of 2023. The show will be open air in the middle of 2023 in Northern Germany.
Creatives: Kristina Brons, Konstantin Buchholz, Martin Greif, Anja Imig, Oleksandr Kryvosheiev, Joachim Matschoss, Thomas Matschoss, Kathrin Matzak, Emily O Connor, India Roth, Adeline Rüss, Antje Schiffers, Neele Schmidt, Anna Sinkemat, David Sinkemat, Uwe Sinkemat, Andrii Vanieiev, Anniek Vetter, Markus Voigt, Lisa Pauline Wagner, Rhian Wilson.
Read MoreIt’s not your fault that you’re my weakness is a new theatre piece in development. It tells the story of three women in a derelict apartment block.
Creatives: Jeni Bezuidenhout, Stevie McKeon, Joachim Matschoss, Rod Primrose, Rhian Wilson, Verity Wood.
Read MoreThe Problem is the Ending is a new theatre-piece. It opened in Melbourne in late 2023. Three characters are imprisoned in a theatre or are they ghosts? Luigi Pirandello’s parameter of the world of the stage being a prison comes to mind as we watch a writer, an actor, and a spectator wrestle to create a story, find meaning to their lives.
The piece toured extensively in 2024 to Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Tanzania, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Romania, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong and Portugal.
Creatives: Florensia Andarini, Talya Callahan, Isabel Knight, Joachim Matschoss
Read MoreThis new theatre-piece has been developed in a residency in regional Victoria. The piece premiered in regional Victoria and was presented at the Butterfly Club in Melbourne in December 2022. It toured extensively in 2023. Lucy and Emma are best friends. They are also actors dreaming of the big break.
Creatives: Breanna Milliken, Emma Snow, Verity Wood, Amy Smith, Joachim Matschoss.
Read MoreThis new play is based on true events and has been created on a partially verbatim basis. It is currently in development. A season at La Mama HQ occurred from January 17 to 25, 2023.
Creatives: Isabel Knight, Breanna Milliken, Sasha Leong, Giacinta Squires, Amalia Krueger, Michelle Eddington, Philip Roberts, Verity Wood, Nikki Green, Ben Jamieson, Shane Grant, Isabella Anderson, Florensia Andarini, Joachim Matschoss.
Read MoreThe piece looks at the journey that is acting school. The passion - the egos - the drama. It features music and songs by Robert Downie and Tom Pitts. This piece is currently in development.
Writers: Rhian Wilson, Joachim Matschoss and Megan Mitchell
Creatives: Breanna Milliken, Megan Mitchell, Katie Ferraro, Michael Brandt, Talya callahan, Carlo Hengstler, Briannah Borg, Casey Bohan, Verity Wood, Huw Jennings, Jonathan Kuch, Rhian Wilson, Bianca Conry.
Read MoreThis piece is inspired by characters from Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’. It explores the issues of family, trust, love and how for you would go to get head. The piece is currently in development and workshopping.
Read MoreThe Twelfth of Love combines Shakespearean sources such as Twelfth Night, King Lear, As You Like It, Timon of Athens as well Chekovían motifs from notably Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard and Short Stories into a new piece of theatre. The piece was shown in the middle of 2022 at the Abbotsford Convent..
Creatives: Samantha Martin, Capri Walsh, Emma Snow, Amalia Krueger, Breanna Milliken, Briannah Borg, Bridget Sweeney, Verity Wood, Joachim Matschoss.
Read MoreSMITH STREET is a new play, part verbatim, part fiction, set in and around one of Melbourne's iconic pockets. Thirteen actors shared 30+ characters in this play that spans many years (1850 to today). The piece had been presented in a non-theatrical space with a non-defined audience space.
Creatives: Delta Brooks, Rebekah Carton, Megan Mitchell, Sophia Riozzi, Olivia Brewer, Giacinta Squires, Rosa Leonardi, Verity Wood, Ben Jamieson, Tom Richards, Huw Jennings, Lochie Laffin Vines, Abul Ali, Carlo Hengstler, Shamita Sivabalan, Emma Stewart, Robert Downie, Tom Stewart, Ollie Cox, Michelle Eddington, Joachim Matschoss.
Soul of a street
BYTE’s new play ‘Smith Street’ is an eclectic immersive theatre ensemble piece of Melbourne, its history, with Smith St as its central character. The audience is brought into a room filled with a cacophony of characters, animals and ghosts that make up the soul of Smith Street in all its light and shadows. The piece features fifty characters, animals, ghosts, those in the sunlight and those in the shadows. The promenade staging in the Abbotsford Convent Oratory creates an immersive theatre experience not seen in Melbourne since Jean-Pierre Mignon’s ANT (Australian Nouveau Theatre) of the 1980’s. The audience’s senses are caressed by the sights, sounds and stories of the faces in the street from the soulful Syrian woman outside the Coles to the troubadours in the street to the school kids weaponizing exclusion and abuse from the touchpad of mobile phones. The looped spiral narrative is bound by the ever-present presence and commentary of Abigail (Delta Brooks), the ghost of a 19th century woman whose horrific tale of abuse moved every eye in the space to tears in the climax to the two-hour traffic on the stage. Tales of abuse and shame are balanced like the child portraits sketched by the Syrian refugee with stories of grace, poetry, humour and dignity. This symmetry is balanced by Joachim Matschoss’ direction of almost twenty creatives from ensemble actors to musicians to movement directors and costume, set and graphic designers. This is a rich five course meal that fills the palate while also adding its BYTE.
Dr. Mark Eckersley
Read MoreHannah and her brother Freddie are expecting their mother to join them for dinner and to introduce her to Freddie’s girlfriend, Georgie. At some point, Hannah’s partner Melanie arrives and the evening becomes unsettling for all involved. This new play is now in development.
Read MoreThis new theatre piece by Joachim Matschoss and Music by Robert Downie features three female characters, a writer, an actor and an audience member. They are trying to solve existential riddles and the big problems of all time. The piece could be described as an existential farce with some songs. The piece premiered in Melbourne in late 2020.
Creatives: Actors Delta Brooks, Rebekah Carton, Monica Reid and Michelle Eddington. Designer Victoria Nyguen, Composer Robert Downie and writer and director Joachim Matschoss.
Read MoreThis new play deals with love, loss and healing. Performed in February 2022 at the Missing Person’s Arts Space.
Creatives: Capri Walsh, Alyssa Kale, Verity Wood, Darcy Gilkinson, Joachim Matschoss, Indiana Jennings, Shamita Sivabalan, Shannon Stevens.
On a Bridge North from Here by Joachim Matschoss, performed by BYTE Company immerses the audience in the complex world of relationships showing how even those who are gone can still have a hold on the living. The play centres on Rachel and the power that her relationship with the effervescent Erin still has on her life long after Erin has died. Rachel floats in a world where the past and present embrace one another and she is unable to re-anchor her life even when Bec opens her arms and heart to her. This is a play about love, loss and hope which echoes the poetic lyricism of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
Dr. Mark Eckersley
Read MoreBy Joachim Matschoss – coming in 2019/2020
The Deep Freeze Option is a new theatre piece devised by the 2020 ensemble and Joachim Matschoss with music by Ross Brooks. The piece is set in the future in a country not unlike our own. Four characters emerge in a netherworld surrounded by water. The Deep Freeze Option will be shown on a bare stage with an ensemble of four actors/singers. This is a piece of theatre that includes original songs and puppetry. It is part comic, moving and thought-provoking. The production will premiere in Melbourne/Australia, before touring in late February and March 2020 to Thailand, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Ireland and the Netherlands.
Cast: Delta Brooks, Georgia Eyers, Tatiana Kotsimbos and Seon Williams
Video: Ariani Adam
Composer: Ross Brooks
Writer/Director: Joachim Matschoss
Read MoreNovember/December 2019 at the Abbotsford Convent and the Delatite Hotel, Mansfield.
Kenny is an ordinary Australian, a very valued member of ‘Team Australia’. He works in the construction industry and lives a quiet life with his partner, Primary School Teacher Sheryl. One day a politician appears on the building site where Kenny is working and one moment to another things will change forever. Kenny might even become the new Prime Minister of Australia. Ordinary Australians is a political comedy that doesn’t hold back.
Cast: Nathan Bocskay, Emma Stewart, Anna Lyons, Ben Jamieson, Anton Kuom, Delta Brooks and Seon Williams.
Music: Tom Hoskins
Production Assistance: Rebekah Carton, Konstantina Samartzis
Writer/Director: Joachim Matschoss
Read MoreAdapted by Joachim Matschoss and the ensemble from the works on Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekov
Touring nationally and internationally in 2021/22
This new theatre piece looks at the four heroines of the classical theatrical canon, Nora (from Ibsen’s ‘Doll’s House’, Julie from Strindberg’s ‘Miss Julie’, Hedda from Ibsen’s ‘Hedda Gabler’ and Nina from Chekov’s ‘Seagull’, meet and talk about their dreams, desires and everything in between. Apart from the original plays, the adaptation uses letters between Ibsen and Strindberg, Chekov’s diaries, short stories and other secondary literature to create a vibrant new theatre-piece.
Creatives: Bianca Conry, Amalia Krueger, Joachim Matschoss, Rhian Wilson and Verity Wood.
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