Malthouse Theatre, formerly known as Playbox, is a company dedicated to the development, production and promotion of contemporary Australian Theatre. Malthouse Theatre’s task in theatre is to engage broadly and investigate profoundly what it is to be alive, to be human, to be Australian and to be a citizen of the world.

Malthouse Theatre is dedicated to building on Playbox Theatre’s three decades of leadership in the nation’s cultural and imaginative life through recognising, and being alive to, the changing dynamics of theatre and theatre practice in contest with the contemporary imagination.