Independent. Sassy. Not afraid of lycra. Cab Sav presents the most innovative and entertaining performance makers from the Cab Sav Collective, and kicks off the inaugural issue of Ampersand Magazine. Featuring Zoe Coombs Marr, Janie Gibson, Eddie Sharp, Adam Jasper Smith, post and those twisted milkshake girls, Brown Council.

This triple treat triple bill is an all-sorts tasty sampler of three new works by three different collectives. From ping-pong emails to poached eggs to strange travellers in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, this is 90 minutes you’ll be hard-pressed forgetting!

I laughed so hard I almost wet myself; stop making me laugh it hurts; was it funny funny ha ha or just funny? What makes good comedy and how do you write or create it? Comedic artists talk about their experiences and tricks of the trade when it comes to making people laugh.

A Masquerade Cabaret Ball to be relished with EYES WIDE OPEN. Get your freak on, frock up and rock out as we kick on from our 10th birthday party. Big bands, intimate perfomances, and some amazing special guests. Stamp, stomp, glide and roll into the night with complete anonymity.

Where did all the radicals go? Have the voices of the young and the restless been polarised and suppressed by subscriber culture? Or are audiences afraid of hopping off the good foot and being confronted by a bad thing? Young theatre practitioners examine censorship and content in today’s Australian theatre.

That's right, double digits baby! NYWF turns 10 and to celebrate, we're launching our 10th Anniversary Anthology Herding Kites, showcasing new books and performances from festival favourites and giving away zine showbags. We're also getting all teary-eyed, busting out the baby photos and showering you with free champagne!

PNATTMBTC is an experimental reworking of The Wizard of Oz as a solo dance work, refracted through the lens of the American ‘Hearts and Minds’ campaign. Using live video, cutting-edge choreography and an evocative soundscape, it explores the search for security, and the consequences of decisions made out of fear and isolation.

Whether you have a script to burn or a concept to peddle, come share your creative wares with a roomful of like-minded makers from across Australia. Here be a safe space for theatre makers and performance artists to discuss your work, swap strategies, hook up collaborations and connect with the rest of the country.

Amy Hill, JJ De Ceglie, Ben Dynan and Aaron Mannion bring new works to share and be shared by one and all. Come hear some new material and offer your bodies as sounding boards. If you have new writing or performance material you'd like to try out, email amy.nywf@gmail.com.

Experience a sense of radical intimacy in this one-on-one endurance performance by Sarah-Jane Norman. Built around a classic Kurt Weill ballad and performed under conditions of physical duress, it explores the darker reaches of sexual destruction and bitter abandonment,  Be ready for tenderness, disquiet, confinement, and perhaps something close to love.

The band is ready. The tables are set. Be seated for an intimate dinner for two, times two, times two, times two. Grab a table early for the explosive result of Crack’s Cracked Cracking Laboratory, a deliciously surreal collaboration between a host of the nation's most daring and demented theatre darlings.

The band is ready. The tables are set. Only one thing is missing: you. Performers of every shape and odour descend upon Newcastle for a glittering three-day orgy of junkyard theatre. Whether you're a solo showpony or fully-fledged company, come and help create a national performance clusterfuck. blind.dragonfly@gmail.com.

A durational performance exploring unlawful detention. The audience is invited to participate in a series of actions which culminate in an intense one-on-one encounter with the artist. You Have the Body journeys through intrigue, foreboding and isolation. It is a confrontation with silence; an ambivalent exchange of trust and power.