Back to Back Theatre Returns with Ganesh Versus the Third Reich in Melbourne

Key facts

• Ganesh Versus the Third Reich is being restaged by Back to Back Theatre Company at UMAC Theatre in Melbourne.
• The play runs for only three performances.
• It is the first Melbourne staging since the 2011 Melbourne Festival, where it won the Melbourne Festival Age Critics' Award.
• The play won the Edinburgh International Festival Herald Angel Critics' Award in 2012.
• Back to Back Theatre won the International Ibsen Award in 2022, the only Australian theatre company to do so.
• The company won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre at the Venice Biennale in 2024.
• The play was devised by an ensemble of Back to Back actors with artistic director Bruce Gladwin.
• Performers include Simon Laherty, Scott Price, Tamika Simpson, Brian Tilley, and David Woods.
• The play features a play-within-a-play structure about Ganesh traveling to Nazi Germany to reclaim the swastika.
• The play runs until 19 June 2026 at UMAC, University of Melbourne.