Stage adaptations of an Edwardian period romance, a tale of a mongrel dog thief, and a cult outback thriller headline the 2026 season of two of Australia’s most important independent theatre companies in a year in which they have been thrown together as housemates.

Griffin Theatre Company and Belvoir St Theatre are children of Darlinghurst’s Nimrod Theatre – Griffin lives in The Stables, home of the Nimrod company which moved to bigger premises on Belvoir Street during the 1970s.

Now homeless while The Stables is rebuilt , Griffin is renting Belvoir’s downstairs theatre for 2026 after spending this year couch-surfing at Belvoir, Old Fitz, Seymour Centre and the Sydney Theatre Company.

“We did a show there [at Belvoir] this year, Michelle Lim Davidson’s Koreaboo , and it was great,

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