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This is the Way the World Ends

2025

About This is the Way the World Ends

This is the Way the World Ends is a series of thematically connected short plays, songs, character monologues and interludes. The common through line is that a lack of empathy, a lack of meaning, and of love and of connectedness is one of the great challenges for 21st Century humanity (and the planet we live on).

4th & 6th April 2025

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  • Venue: Ballarat Mechanics Institute - Humffray Room
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Playwright: Barry Kay
  • Director: Louise Permezel
  • Running Time: 100 Minutes

Performances

  • Friday 4 Apr 7:00pm
  • Sunday 6 Apr 2:00pm

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Show Dates and Tickets

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About the Director

Louise Permezel

Louise is currently studying a Masters of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing at the University of Melbourne. This follows both a career in education and theatre. Prior to teaching in Ballarat, Louise worked as the Artistic Director of several professional theatre companies including Zootango Theatre Company, Murray River Performing Group and Crosswinds. She has also directed with Melbourne Theatre Company for their education program and lectured part-time at the Victorian College of the Arts. Louise has also worked as a dramaturg with various organisations supporting the development of new theatre.

Playwright

Barry Kay

Barry is a graduate from the Victorian College of Arts, Drama School where he majored in acting from 1986-1988. Since then he has worked as a professional actor, playwright, director, voice-over artist, singer and teacher. From 1998 until 2023 he worked at Sovereign Hill, specialising in costumed historical interpretation and museum theatre. His role at Sovereign Hill included researching, writing, directing and performing in a range of theatre events, from street theatre, to melodrama, to naturalism, to pantomime and more. He was the first president of IMTAL (the International Museum Theatre Alliance) for the Asia-Pacific region from 2011-12.

Cast

Robert Reid

They/Them

Locksmith

Ruby Penhall

She/Her

Evelyn

Kaine Hansen

He/Him

Adam

Kate Suter

She/Her

Mrs. Splane, Marg, Kitty, Phyllis, Robyn, Mittens, Mary

Emil Freund

He/Him

Mr. Splane, Telegram Man, Greg, Guy Grinner, Butch, Damon, Aldo, Peter

Linda Borner

Any

Ruth, Janet, Karen, Marie, Diana, Etta, Paula

Andreas Litras

He/Him

Bradford, Rex, Geno, Mars, Sundance, Prophet, Neighbour, Doug