In 2008, Stork Hotel’s owners sold the building, so Stork Theatre took flight and found an exciting new home on the road. Through 2009 to 2011 we landed at Alliance Française de Melbourne, St Kilda.

Helen sought to popularise the ideas of some brilliant women of history. Stork engaged Professor Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Monash University) to write ground-breaking plays about the poet Sappho and the scientist Hypatia, who bookended the classical world. Helen collaborated with Assoc Professor Judith Armstrong to develop and stage a play about feminist author Simone de Beauvoir.

In 2013 Stork staged THE PENELOPIAD, by Margaret Atwood at La Mama Courthouse in Carlton. This was the Australian premiere of Atwood’s new play.

Helen collaborated with classicist Dr Heather Sebo (Latrobe University) to regularly stage Digging Homer. These literary excavation events featured actors and experts such as Melbourne’s most acerbic cultural critic Peter Craven, who delivered seminars on Homer for the general audiences who attended.

In 2016, Stork’s MELBOURNE HOMER FEST  featured The Talk, The Tour, The Play and Homer for Kids. Our HOMER LITERARY TOUR: IN ODYSSEUS’ FOOTSTEPS (across Turkey and Greece) saw 20 Stork devotees follow Odysseus  across the Mediterranean.

In 2018, support from Stork’s membership base enabled Helen to stage a world-first HOMER’S ODYSSEY: 12 HOUR ADVENTURE MARATHON at the MPavillion (Queen Victoria Gardens). Starring Sigrid Thornton, Uncle Jack Charles and 22 other reader performers, over 1000 people attended this free event throughout the day.

In 2019, we staged TREE OF MAN, a performance reading of Patrick White’s epic and brilliant novel.

In March 2021, we returned to Fairfield Amphitheatre with our 8-hour performance reading of HOMER’S ILIAD: THE SIEGE OF TROY, with 8 starring actors and performers.