GIFT GUIDE : Mother's Day

From Elizabethan times until now, nothing can match the cross-generational appeal of Shakespeare. In Complete Works, each of Shakespeare’s plays are re-told with zest using everyday objects. Check out the Session Details to find out which night mum’s favourite is playing. Presented with UMAC.

In this adaptation from Peruvian theatre company Teatro La Plaza, a neurodiverse cast give “to be or not to be?” a new, life-affirming perspective. It’s a dazzling mash-up that melds film with live performance and turns the age-old question of Hamlet’s madness back in on itself. Presented with UMAC.

A live docu-drama from re: group that crackles with wit and energy. Enter the mind’s eye of Bub, an 11-year-old girl who’s obsessed with documentary filmmaking. In the aftermath of a family breakdown, she turns to dramatised re-enactment to try to figure out what happened. Each night two new unrehearsed actors play the parents, while Bub directs the action. Presented with Arts Centre Melbourne.

Flinders Street Station's upper levels become a holey new world with Swingers, a playable art exhibition featuring nine mini golf holes and any number of untold obstacles. Inspired by mini golf's surprisingly rebellious beginnings, each hole is created by an adventurous female artist. Featuring Miranda July, Kaylene Whiskey, Nabilah Nordin, Saeborg, Natasha Tontey, Delaine Le Bas, BKTHERULA, Soda Jerk and Pat Brassington. Perfect mothers and kids of all ages.

Stephanie Lake Company’s latest creation sees twelve dancers collide with driving rhythms and the stirring sound of a children’s choir in a new dance epic that chronicles a life.

A live-wire journey through the words and music of the Divinyls’ Chrissy Amphlett—the rebel-queen of Australian rock. An invincible spirit and stage persona that's inspiration to mothers everywhere. Presented by UMAC and Jacaranda Productions.

Karin McCracken is someone you want by your side on that walk down lonely street to the Heartbreak Hotel. The Wellington-based company EBKM’s newest work is a look at what heartbreak does to our bodies and minds. It’s a room with a view, that lets us in with pitch-perfect sketches, vulnerable slices of memoir and plenty of philosophical wit. Presented with Arts Centre Melbourne.

Ned Collette, Leah Senior, and Michael Beach make dreamt up the New Rampant Optimism Roadshow. A rollicking revue-style show that brings some shoot-from-the-hip levity to the often intense but dark songwriter show experience.

Take mum out to the Yarra Valley, on the rolling hills of Wurundjeri country. TarraWarra Museum of Art is hosting its highly anticipated Tarrawarra Biennial 2025. Twenty-three artists share regenerative knowledge and transcultural connections to land, object and memory.