In Claire Christian's new play Lysa and the Freeborn Dames, gay first-year uni student Lysa King wages war on her home town's entrenched misogyny, Lars Von Trier's brutal film Melancholia is adapted for the stage, directed by Matthew Lutton, regional singers join the stars of Opera Queensland in Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse, and passions smoulder and fists fly in the stage musical adaptation of John Waters' Cry-Baby.