“SOMETIMES theatre needs to be more than simple,” says director Joe Woodward, whose production of the subversive Scottish play “The Mask of Lucy Raven’s Eyes” will run as a live streaming event at 8pm in Smith’s Alternative, Civic, on March 1 as part of his “Without a Voice” series. Bookings to shadowhousepits.com.au

IN a new project called “19 by 19”, counter-tenor Tobias Cole is aiming to get choirs into all 19 public high schools by 2019. Meanwhile, his youth choir Vocal Fry is presenting an interactive vocal workshop/concert, “The Sing! Song”, at the High Court, 1.30pm, on Sunday, March 1. It’s free but bookings are essential to hcourt.gov.au/about/concerts

THE Jugiong Writers’ Festival springs into action on March 6-7 with a celebration of reading and writing. There’ll be the Small Schools’ Day and Kids’ Zone activities for children and students under the age of 14, author talks, writing workshops, manuscript assessments, poetry readings, stalls and music. Author and former deputy PM Tim Fischer will open the event at 11am, Saturday, March 7 and Canberra author/journo Paul Daley will be in the line-up, details at jugiongwritersfestival.com

ANU School of Music jazz graduate and pianist Tate Sheridan is appearing in “Jazz in Concert” at The Gods as leader of a new trio with Thomas Botting (double bass) and Tim Firth (drums). The Gods Café/Bar is in the ANU Arts Centre and bookings are essential to 6248 5538. Light meals available at 6pm and “non-eating” seats for music at 7.30pm are available.

ON March 6 and 7 Shortis and Simpson mark the recent release of the cabinet documents of 1988 and 1989 by the National Archives in “Out of the Cabinet”, taking a satirical look at those years, when new Parliament House was opened, the Berlin Wall fell and Bob Hawke cried on national TV. At the Archives, 6.30pm and 8.30pm, March 6 and 7, bookings to premier.ticketek.com.au

THE Front Gallery is hosting a series of black and white photographs by Liam Denny until March 9. A relative newcomer to Canberra, Denny has taken time to travel around the city’s surrounding countryside to capture the richness and diversity that he finds, “even when the uniform monotony of the Hume Highway might tempt us to think otherwise”.