Giant Dwarf | Cleveland Street Theatre

Chaser Team Reopen Cleveland Street Theatre as Giant Dwarf

A new home for all those oddball comedy and performance nights we love.

The team behind The Chaser newspaper and TV shows has decided that they want to fail in yet another artistic venture they know nothing about.

Taking its name from the team's TV production company, Giant Dwarf is a new event space located in the 199 Cleveland St Theatre, which from 1983 to 2007 was the home of the Performance Space.

As well as TV production for the team's projects like Media Circus, The Checkout and The Hamster Wheel, Giant Dwarf will host a regular series of live nights including; Story Club, Erotic Fan Fiction & The Chaser's Empty Vessel

The theatre is located at 199 Cleveland Street, opposite Prince Alfred Park, next to central station.

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Chaser Team Reopen Cleveland Street Theatre as Giant Dwarf

The main aim for the theatre has always been to extend the vision of the production company - to create an inspiring environment for new talent to develop skills and produce original and engaging content,"says the venue general manager and Giant Dwarf program director Nikita Agzarian. "In doing this we hope we can create a vibrant space that offers a point of difference in live performance to the Sydney audience.

Formerly the home of Performance Space (now based out of Carriageworks), Cleveland Street Theatre was first established in the early '80s as a venue by and for emerging artists. The space was seen to encourage contemporary performance makers in Sydney and challenge conventional notions of theatre. Performers did things like turning off all the lights and leaving the audience to fend for themselves in the dark and eventually discover they were locked in. (That one didn't go down so well; read more here.)

We are located at 199 Cleveland Street in Redfern, but the entrance isn't exactly the easiest to spot. At first you'll need to look for our red mailbox and from there you'll see a narrow walkway between our neighboring buildings that will lead you to our entrance. If you look up you'll see a silver sign lit up that has our logo and name on it above our doorway. That's us! (Don't be deceived by the steps out the front of the office block next to us. That's not us.)

The Giant Dwarf theatre can be accessed by wheelchairs, but unfortunately our bathrooms are not currently wheelchair accessible.

Street parking is the go around here, as we don't have any parking. If you'd like to avoid the hunt for a bay, public transport is a good choice as both Central and Redfern train stations are within a 10 minute walk of the theatre.