The Lark

From the same creative team behind the award-winning one-woman-show, 'Mother' (2016), beloved star of stage and screen, Noni Hazlehurst returns in the acclaimed new work 'The Lark', a powerful, moving meditation on life, death and change, showing at Riverside Live at PHIVE from 16th to 27th September.

Rose Grey is saying her final goodbye to The Lark, a small inner-city pub in Melbourne. It’s been closed for six months and will be demolished as the suburb gentrifies. But for Rose, now in her seventies, this derelict building is her whole life.

She’s lived here since she was a child, finally taking over from her father as he grew old. Her memories, both bitter and sweet, bind her to The Lark. Trapped in the past, she fears that The Lark might hold her forever in suspension. Now she wants to escape from this cycle of endless return and wrench herself free.

With rave reviews on its 2025 world premiere in Melbourne, audiences won’t want to miss this powerful new work by one of Australia’s finest actors.