Australia’s oldest continuously running professional theatre company, Queensland-based La Boite, has announced an eclectic season of four new productions for 2022. First formed in 1925, next year marks the company’s 97th season.

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“It’s deeply important that Season 2022 sits in a place of optimism,” said La Boite CEO and Executive Director Zohar Spatz. “For audiences, I want to welcome them back into our theatre to escape into a world. Each of these shows we are presenting offer them an escape into friendship, into love, into hope.”

 The season begins in March with Jasmine Lee-Jones’ biting two-hander Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner. First seen at Darlinghurst Theatre Company in 2021, Lee-Jones’ political and provocative play tracks one young woman’s spiral into anger towards the world’s self-titled “youngest self-made billionaire”, taking aim at the murky world of social media and its effect real-life relationships.

In May, Darren Yap will direct Jason Robert Brown’s 2001 musical The Last Five Years. Written for a cast of...