Pamela Rabe Theatre Stage Plays
Pamela Rabe is a prolific contributor to theatrical life in her adopted country in acting and directing, across a wide range of genres – musicals, comedy and drama. With the works of Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekhov, Brecht, Noel Coward, Patrick White and David Mamet forming just a part of her theatrical CV, she has played leading roles on the Australian stage in some of the greatest stage plays of our time. She is a long-standing collaborator with the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company. Pamela was once described by Melbourne theatre critic Alison Croggon as having the sort of presence that “makes shy people swallow hard and lesser mortals involuntarily bow”.
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Year | Title | Role | Director |
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2025 | Rebecca | Mrs Danvers | Anne-Louise Sarks |
2025 | Happy Days | Winnie | Nick Schlieper & Pamela Rabe |
2024 | August: Osage County | Eamon Flack | |
2024 | Seventeen | Jess | Matt Edgerton |
2023 | The Confessions | Alexander Zeldin | |
2021 | Monsters | -CANCELED | Matthew Lutton |
2021 | The Cherry Orchard | Madame Ranevskaya | Eamon Flack |
2021 | The Last Season | Summer | Danielle Micich |
2020 | Summerfolk (How Good is Australia) | -CANCELED | Eamon Flack |
2019 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Mama | Kip Williams |
2018 | The Dance of Death | Alice | Judy Davies |
2018 | The Children | Hazel | Sarah Goodes |
2017 | The Testament of Mary | Mary | Anne-Luise Sarks |
2017 | My Fair Lady | Mrs. Higgins | Julie Andrews |
2017 | Ghosts | Helene Alving | Eamon Flack |
2015 | Footfalls | May | Georgie Brookman |
2014 | The Glass Menagerie | Amanda | Eamon Flack |
2013 | The Cherry Orchard | Andreyevna Ranevsky | Simon Stone |
2012 | His Girl Friday | Hildy | Aidan Fennessy |
2012 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | The Marquise | Sam Strong |
2011 | Grey Gardens | Edith B. Beale | Roger Hodgman |
2011 | The Burlesque Hour | Inanna | |
2011 | Hamlet | Gertrude | Simon Phillips |
2010 | Do Not Go Gentle | Bowers | Julian Meyrick |
2010 | Boston Marriage | Anna | Aidan Fennessy |
2009 | God of Carnage | Veronique Vallon | Peter Evans |
2009 | The War of The Roses | Rey Richard III | Benedict Andrews |
2008 | The Vagina Monologues | ||
2008 | The Serpents Teeth – Soldiers | Catherine Pavic | Tim Maddock |
2008 | Gallipoli | Nigel Jamieson | |
2007 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Hippolyta/ Titania | Edward Dick |
2007 | Tales From The Vienna Woods | ||
2007 | The Art of War | Crystal | Annabel Arden |
2007 | Season at Sarsparilla | Nola Boyle | Benedict Andrews |
2006 | Le Bourgeois Gentleman | Pierre Mignon | |
2006 | The Lost Echo | Juno/Salmacis/Agave | Barrie Kosky |
2006 | Mother Courage and her Children | Courage | Robyn Nevin |
2006 | The Cherry Orchard | Carlotta | Howard Davies |
2005 | Berggasse 19 | Susie Dee | |
2005 | Woman Bomb | The Woman | Jenny Kemp |
2004 | Things We Do For Love | Barbara Trapes | Aidan Fennessy |
2004 | Dinner | Paige | Julian Meyrick |
2003/04 | Blithe Spirit | Elvira | Roger Hodgman |
2003 | Holy Day | Nora | Ariette Taylor |
2001 | The Wizard of Oz | Miss Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West | Nancye Hayes |
2001 | Salt | Meg | Jennifer Hagan |
2000 | A Room of One’s Own | Virginia | Micheline Chevrier |
2000 | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | Maureen | Garry Hynes |
2000 | The Apple Cart | Orinthia | Richard Greenblatt |
1999 | The Little Cherry Orchard | Elena | Anatoly Frusin |
1999 | Mame | Vera Charles | Roger Hodgman |
1998 | The Misanthrope | Ellen | Simon Phillips |
1997/98 | A Little Night Music | Countess Charlotte Malcolm | Roger Hodgman |
1998 | Misalliance | Lina | Christopher Newton |
1997 | Private Lives | Amanda | Roger Hodgman |
1996 | The Rover | Angelica Bianca | Roger Hodgman |
1995 | Three Tall Women | C | Wayne Harrison |
1995 | The Stronger | Miss Y | Jim Sharman |
1995 | Miss Julie | Miss Julie | Jim Sharman |
1994 | A Room One’s Own | Virginia Woolf | Lois Ellis |
1994 | Cosi | Ruth | Nadia Tass |
1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Beatrice | Roger Hodgman |
1992 | Lost in Yonkers | Bella | Philip Cusack |
1992 | Much Ado About Nothing | Beatrice | Wayne Harrison |
1991 | The Wizard of Oz | Almira Gultch/Wicked Witch of the West | Philip Cusack |
1991 | The Marriage of Figaro | Marelline | Jean-Pierre Mignon |
1991 | The Taming of the Shrew | Katherina | Roger Hodgman |
1990 | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Josie | Janis Balodis |
1990 | Three Sisters | Olga | Richard Wherrett |
1990 | The Heidi Chronicles | Heidi | Roger Hodgman |
1990 | The Secret Rapture | Marion French | Richard Wherrett |
1989 | The Ham Funeral | Girl | Neil Armfield |
1989 | The Cherry Orchard | Varya | Roger Hodgman |
1989 | The Rover | Angelica | Gale Edwards |
1989 | Little Murders | Patsy | Simon Phillips |
1988 | Separation | Sarah | Paul Thompson |
1988 | As You Like It | Rosalind | Roger Hodgman |
1988 | Tristram Shandy-Gent | Various | Simon Phillips |
1987 | Gertrude Stein And A Companion | Alice B Toklas | Sonia Fraser |
1987 | Cho Cho San | Mama San/ Kate Pinkerton | Geoff Hooke |
1986 | A Servant Of Two Masters | Beatrice | Roger Hodgman |
1986 | Heartbreak House | Ellie Dunn | Roger Hodgman |
1986 | The Marriage of Bette & Boo | Emily | Nancy Black |
1985 | The White Devil | Vittoria | Kim Durban |
1985 | Blue Window | Libby | Murray Copland |
1985 | Too Young For Ghosts | Roger Hodgman | |
1984/85 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Helena | Roger Hodgman |
1985 | Visions | Juana | Roger Hodgman |
1984 | The Curse of the Werewolf | Ingeborg | John Sumner |
1984 | Medea | Third Woman of Corinth | Robert Whitehead |
1984 | Top Girls | Pope Joan/Nell/Jeanine | Roger Hodgman |
1983 | The Maid’s Tragedy | Aspatia | Barry Kyle |
1983/84 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Margot | Ray Lawler |
1983 | The Winter’s Tale | Emilia | John Sumner |
1982 | See How They Run | Ida | Roger Hodgman |
1982 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Helena | Keith Digby |
1982 | See How They Run | Lady Montague | Roger Hodgman |
1981/82 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Fleur-de-Lys | Roger Hodgman |
1981 | Wings | Nurse | Roger Hodgman |
1981 | The Notebook of Trigorin | Cook/understudy for Marsha | Roger Hodgman |
1980/81 | The Man Who Came To Dinner | Mrs Dexter | Christopher Newton |
1980 | The Red Devil Battery Sign | Helena | Charles Siegel |
1979 | All’s Well That Ends Well | Helen | Charles Siegel |
1978 | The Bacchae | Theban Women | Donald Soule |