What does it feel like to actually lock someone up? Who should have the right? Using the techniques of revolutionary Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal, Forum Theatre thrusts you into a world of 21st Century detention where you control the action. Places limited, arrive early to register.

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!

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.

Calling all writers, musos, stand-up comics and bag pipe kings. Got something new and hot to share with the rest of the world? The Matinee Open Mic sessions are your chance to show us what you're made of. Be bold. Be daring. Grab that mic and do what you will.

Calling all writers, musos, stand-up comics and bag pipe kings. Got something new and hot to share with the rest of the world? The Matinee Open Mic sessions are your chance to show us what you're made of. Be bold. Be daring. Grab that mic and do what you will.

Spoken word scenestars converge and combust in a two-part national showcase highlighting the brightest and the boldest of the Australian SW set. Part one features a lively lineup of favourites old and new and the launch of the NYWF 10th Anniversary Spoken Word Compilation.

It has begun! TINA 08 kicks off in style as NYWF, Electrofringe, Critical Animals and Sound Summit present a rapid-fire taste of things to come. Grab some cool-aide, strap yourself in and let us take up you into the collective madness that is TINA 08.

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.

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 Anti-Social Social Club resides in the outside lawn at the Festival club. Grab a deck chair and kick back. Friday: fresh new works from songwriters and acoustic artists. Saturday: the Redneck Lounge, where fun activities include recovering from Friday, Country n' Western, and poetry stubby holders.

Valerie the Palaeontologist is a humorous collection of fragments, figments and obsessions exploring palaeontology, natural history and violent romantic obsessive love. It's also an exploration of how cartoons become objects of nostalgia. And a play.

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.