Heartbreak Hotel

Heartbreak Hotel offers a holistic and humorous exploration of how heartbreak affects our minds and bodies, in an exhilarating new performance blending vulnerable memoir, famous novels, and scientific texts.

This one is for the young hearts, the old hearts, and the broken hearts. Heartbreak Hotel invites audiences into a world of love, loss, and everything in between. Join Karin McCracken as she navigates the highs and lows of heartbreak, with Simon Leary embodying the ex-loves and best friends along the way. Packed with lo-fi covers of classic breakup songs, bad Tinder dates, and tentative fresh starts, this show is as funny as it is heartfelt.

In an exhilarating new performance blending vulnerable memoir, famous novels, and scientific texts, Heartbreak Hotel offers a holistic and humorous exploration of how heartbreak affects our minds and bodies. Created by Eleanor Bishop and Karin McCracken, winners of the 2022 Bruce Mason Award, this work is generous, reflective, and full of wit.

You’ll want to cry. You’ll want to laugh. And you’ll leave reminded of the value of feeling deeply — the good, the bad, and the heartbreakingly beautiful.

Auslan Interpreted Performance – Sat 22 Aug, 2:00pm

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Reviews

"Heartbreak Hotel is one of the best productions I’ve seen this year. It’s a tender-hearted exemplar of what can be accomplished when creative stagecraft meets authentic, measured storytelling" ★★★★★ — Time Out Melbourne
"Slickly staged and sharply written…. as funny as it is wistful" ★★★★ — The Stage UK
"An utterly devoted exploration…Go if you have been heartbroken, go if you haven’t (yet), just go, go, go!" ★★★★★ — Everything Theatre London
"A true tearjerker." "Alongside its penetrating insights, it’s the show’s compassion and acceptance of human need and fragility that linger long in the memory" ★★★★ — The Arts Desk UK