Delivered in partnership with the Sydney Fringe Festival in 2025, Parramatta’s Lit!, a festival within a festival, is an exciting program celebrating the writers, poets, zinemakers, playwrights, publishers, bookclubs, booksellers and literary organisations of Parramatta.
A high-energy playwriting experience where playwrights write in different venues across Parramatta, generating scenes, sketches and short plays in a few hours.
A sweet selection of fresh voices from our award-winning programs. Bite-sized brilliance from the next generation of writers. Poetry. Songs. Stories. All flavour. No filler.
A play reading of something new:
Presented by Nautanki Theatre, “Orko” is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello by Saurabh Bhattacharya.
Jules is grieving. After a mental breakdown, she flees to Byron Bay to start a garden.
Two sisters will have to learn to face the lies they tell to others, and the lies they tell to themselves – as their worlds unravel around them.
In Blacktown, Maryam Zahid dared to organise a women-only night.
Riverside Theatres acknowledges the Dharug people who are the traditional custodians of the land of Parramatta. We pay our respects to the elders past and present of the Dharug nation and extends that respect to other Aboriginal people visiting this site.