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Cover1:2 If you’re going to tell people the truth, you’d better make them laugh. otherwise they’ll kill you.

George Bernard Shaw 2 2012 Season

BURIED city I’m YOUR MAN Thyestes BABYTEETH EVERY BREATH FOOD STRANGE INTERLUDE OLD MAN DEATH OF A SALESMAN CONVERSATION PIECE PRIVATE LIVES MEDEA BEAUTIFUL ONE DAY don’t take your love to town The theatre is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed.

John Steinbeck

4 Contents

Ralph’s Message 6 CARRIAGEWORKS Thyestes 10 Upstairs Buried City 12 Babyteeth 14 Every Breath 16 Strange Interlude 18 Death of a Salesman 20 Conversation Piece 22 Private Lives 24 Beautiful One Day 26 Downstairs I’m Your Man 30 Food 32 Old Man 34 Medea 36 Don’t Take Your Love to Town 38 Sunday Forum 40 Subscribe 41 Belvoir Loyalty Program & 30-Down Club 43 How to Book 44 Prizes for Early Subscribers 46 Single Tickets 47 General Information 48 Thank You 52 2012 Season Calendar 54 Subscription Booking Form Dear Friends,

When I sat down to write a note for our shows virtually sold out to subscribers season book at this time last year, I really before they went on sale to the general had no idea what lay ahead of us. To tell public, and others just after they had the truth we were making it up as we opened. Hopefully you’ll all like our 2012 went along – programming the season Season just as much. If so, buying a by gut instinct, bluffing our way through. subscription may be the only way to Now, as I write, we have just passed guarantee that you’ll get a chance to the halfway point in that first season. see our shows. Already six shows have come and gone, So, to 2012. We’ve kept our recipe and two more are currently playing. I intact: a mix of new plays by exciting cannot tell you how pleasurable it is to local playwrights and classic plays see a production come to life, to watch re-imagined by the best and most something that began as an idea in the original directors we could find. I’m mind of a playwright or a director be excited about each and every one played out by living breathing people on of the 14 projects. Programming a one of our stages. season is a ruthless process: we gather But it is also sad; theatre is the most ideas and dreams from dozens of the ephemeral of art forms, and those country’s finest theatre-makers and then six shows are now just memories begin the painful process of culling that living in the minds of those of us who list down to fit into the time and space were lucky enough to see them. I’ll that we have in the year. Some beautiful never forget Ewen Leslie’s devastating ideas end up on the cutting room realisation that Hedvig is not his natural floor, but what remains, the season we daughter in Simon Stone’s beautiful The present to you here in this book, are the Wild Duck. Or Emily Barclay’s breakfast most thrilling, the most original, and the of vodka and cornflakes in Benedict most exciting projects that we could Andrews’ The Seagull. Or Robyn find. All bundled up into a delicious Nevin’s extraordinary embodiment of season, just for your dining pleasure. Ana in Lally Katz’s touching and original See you at the theatre, I hope. Neighbourhood Watch. But unlike a great film or a beautiful painting there Ralph Myers is no way of revisiting those moments. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR They were the fleeting confluence of those particular actors on that particular PS. I must add one thank you: led by stage saying those particular lines at my partner-in-crime General Manager that particular time. Like life, theatre Brenna Hobson is the most dedicated, must be enjoyed in the moment, passionate and hardworking team because there is no going back. imaginable. You may not see them on I’m enormously pleased that audiences stage, but what you do see certainly have responded so enthusiastically to would never happen without them. the 2011 Season so far. Several of our Thanks, team.

66 RA LP H 7 8 upstairs Thyestes 15 january – 19 february at CARRIAGEWORKS

It is the most infamous of all the ancients groundbreaking – gentle, disturbing, – the story of the deposed king whose funny, beautiful and chilling in 90 minutes. sons were slaughtered and served to Sydney Festival and Belvoir head to him by his brother in a feast. CarriageWorks with this dangerously smart excavation of our ancient urges The Hayloft Project stunned audiences towards love and destruction. with this brilliant re-imagining at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre in 2010. Thyestes contains nudity, strong sexual Their starting point: THESE MYTHS ARE themes, violent references and very REAL. The action of the show, much like coarse language. It is not recommended our lives, takes place in the banalities and for people under 18. ordinarinesses between atrocities. A masterpiece of writing, a triumph Featuring three extraordinary of staging, and a sublime act of performances, the result is truly performance. The Age

Co-Written & Directed by SIMON STONE after SENECA Co-Writers THOMAS HENNING, CHRIS RYAN, MARK WINTER Set & Costume Designer CLAUDE MARCOS Composer & Sound Designer STEFAN GREGORY Lighting Designer GOVIN RUBEN Dramaturg ANNE-LOUISE SARKS With THOMAS HENNING, CHRIS RYAN, MARK WINTER Presented by Belvoir and Sydney Festival in association with CarriageWorks. Originally created by The Hayloft Project. A Malthouse Melbourne Commission.

This production will be staged at CarriageWorks, not Belvoir St Theatre.

1010 MARK BURIED city 6 JANUARY – 5 FEBRUARY

Belvoir and the acclaimed Urban make new lives on old land. Director Theatre Projects (UTP) have joined Alicia Talbot’s investigation of real-time forces for this big-picture show about a action and filmic panorama continues city and society redefining itself. in this special collaboration between Belvoir and Bankstown-based UTP. Late one night in the gutted façade of The work is being made in consultation a building primed for redevelopment, with the Construction, Forestry, Mining a group of security workers, labourers, and Energy Union (CFMEU) and their and a local teenager find themselves Retired Members Association, African haunting the same territory. One by one Women Australia Inc and Gadigal they rule a line in the sand, and by dawn Information Service Aboriginal Corporation. they’re set for a showdown over who builds the future and who gets to own it. The troubadour of Redfern-Waterloo Perry Keyes makes his theatrical debut Buried City is an ambitious new work in this surprising show about the about ever-changing cities like, well, kindness of strangers and the brutality Sydney – where waves of immigrants of old friends.

By Raimondo Cortese Original Concept & Director Alicia Talbot Set Designer Mirabelle Wouters Singer-Songwriter Perry Keyes Sound Designer Paul Prestipino Choreographer Kathy Cogill UTP Executive Producer Michelle Kotevski Community Liaison Annie Winter Co-Devisors & Performers Valerie Berry, Perry Keyes, Colin Moody, Effie Nkrumah, Hazem Shammas, Meyne Wyatt A co-production with Urban Theatre Projects and Sydney Festival. This work was first developed through a commission from Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada.

1212 PERRY BABYTEETH 11 february – 18 march

Time for a comedy – a mad, gorgeous, the humdrum world around us and bittersweet comedy about how good it sees something radically alive. Dogs, is not to be dead yet. Paganini, figs, an eight-year-old Vietnamese violin prodigy, morphine, A group of more or less ordinary clear skies and a Latvian immigrant are Sydneysiders go about their lives: Anna amongst the magnificent conflagration makes toast, Henry dresses for work, of ingredients which make up this Milla catches the train to school, Moses wonderful, funny play. Written specially deals drugs – that kind of thing. But for Belvoir, its theme is what Rita calls hovering above this unholy parade of the violent sweetness of life. life is the sobering fact that Milla will die before her 17th birthday. Eamon Flack (The End, As You Like It) directs a play of unexpected brilliance Rita Kalnejais is a young playwright about that very old and almost of uncommon genius. She looks at forgotten quality of life: grace.

By RITA KALNEJAIS Director EAMON FLACK Set Designer ROBERT COUSINS Costume Designer alice babidge Lighting Designer NIKLAS PAJANTI With EAMON FARREN, GREG STONE

1414 EAMON EVERY BREATH 24 MARCH – 29 APRIL

No-one would doubt that Benedict guard, Chris. He spends long hours, Andrews has a vivid imagination. As day and night, by the pool, watching. a director he has taken some of our One by one, in their private universes most revered classics and turned them of plate glass and good food, each on their heads. The Seagull, Measure family member is drawn to Chris. for Measure, Who’s Afraid of Virginia A dangerous game of fantasy and Woolf? and Sydney Theatre Company’s privilege begins. The War of the Roses and The Season Every Breath is an extraordinary debut at Sarsparilla thrilled and scandalised written by a theatre-maker at the top of audiences with their audacity, clarity and his game. Darkly funny, sweetly eerie, theatrical chutzpah. Now Andrews has and strangely familiar, this is about what turned his hand to playwriting. happens when prosperity gives us the A family under threat – from what, we licence to see the world as we want don’t know – hires a young security to see it.

Written & Directed by benedict andrews Set & Costume Designer ALICE BABIDGE With ELOISE MIGNON, DYLAN YOUNG

1616 ELOISE STRANGE INTERLUDE 5 may – 17 june

Three decades before he wrote Long marriage with Sam Evans, then begins Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill a 15-year affair with his best friend wrote a sprawling and adventurous Ned Darrell. One of the few modern masterpiece the likes of which plays to interweave soliloquy and Broadway had never seen. Almost a dialogue, Strange Interlude offers a century later, there is still no other play touching insight into the minutiae of like Strange Interlude. our daily worries, joys and hopes, set against the vast backdrop of life’s Twenty-year-old Nina Leeds has lost irreversible decisions. the love of her life in the war. Overcome with grief, she quits university, falls out Emily Barclay (The Seagull, That Face, with her father and moves away from Gethsemane) takes on one of the great home. What follows is a breathtaking female roles of twentieth-century drama. journey through 25 years in Nina’s life, In the vein of his 2011 rewrite of Ibsen’s as she pursues a series of sexual flings The Wild Duck, wunderkind Simon to console herself, eventually settles Stone creates a contemporary version down in a comfortable but unexciting of this truly amazing Pulitzer Prize winner.

Written & Directed by SIMON STONE after EUGENE O’NEILL Set Designer ROBERT COUSINS Composer & Sound Designer STEFAN GREGORY With EMILY BARCLAY, PATRICK BRAMMALL, MItchell butel

1818 EMILY DEATH OF A SALESMAN 23 JUNE – 12 AUGUST

Will you take that phoney dream and Arguably the greatest play of the burn it before something happens? twentieth century, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is about a man refusing Willy Loman is feeling his age. He to let go of the false dreams we were and his wife Linda are struggling to all once promised. make their mortgage repayments. The company he works for is branching Returning to our corner stage after an out in new directions and it looks like absence of 30 years, Colin Friels tackles he’s about to be left behind. When his the role of a lifetime in Simon Stone’s university drop-out son, Biff, moves take on this timeless masterpiece. back home after years of drifting, old tensions rise to the surface.

By ARTHUR MILLER Director SIMON STONE Set Designer RALPH MYERS Costume Designer ALICE BABIDGE Composer & Sound Designer STEFAN GREGORY With COLIN FRIELS, GENEVIEVE LEMON

2020 COLIN CONVERSATION PIECE 25 august – 23 SEPTember

In every show we strive to be will form the basis of the rather breathtakingly original. Choreographer surprising performance that follows. Lucy Guerin’s new show for Belvoir It sounds like it shouldn’t work. But in takes this to an extreme by striving to the hands of Guerin and her remarkable be breathtakingly original every night. cast it does. The project began as a A group of actors and dancers meet on simple experiment: what happens when stage and begin the show with a short you put three dancers and three actors conversation about… Well, we don’t together in a room? The result is both a know yet. Each night it will be a different mesmerising cultural encounter conversation – just an ordinary pre- between two art forms, and a kind of show chat like you might have x-ray of the surprising hugeness that yourselves – and this short conversation lies beneath our daily chitchat.

Choreographer & Director LUCY GUERIN With ALISON BELL, MEGAN HOLLOWAY, ALISDAIR MACINDOE, RENNIE McDOUGALL, HARRIET RITCHIE, MATTHEW WHITTET A co-production with Lucy Guerin Inc.

2222 MEGAN PRIVATE LIVES 29 September – 11 November

AMANDA: Darling, I believe you’re To the same hotel. Elyot and Amanda talking nonsense. are about to find out all over again why they got divorced in the first place. ELYOT: So is everyone else in the long run. Let’s be superficial and pity the poor The censors did their best to ban the Philosophers. Let’s blow trumpets and play when Coward wrote it in 1930 squeakers, and enjoy the party as much (as a vehicle for himself) and it has been as we can, like very small, quite idiotic refusing to behave for 80 years now. school-children. Let’s savour the delight of Its wit is definitive, its plotting almost the moment. Come and kiss me, darling, perfect, and its critique of modernity before your body rots, and worms pop in dazzling. The great theatrical adventurer and out of your eye sockets. Ralph Myers finally gives himself a directing gig and his task is almost Amanda has just married Victor and gone ridiculously pleasurable: to direct Toby on her honeymoon. Elyot has just married Schmitz in Private Lives. Sybil and gone on his honeymoon.

By NOËL COWARD Director & Set Designer RALPH MYERS Lighting Designer DAMIEN COOPER Composer & Sound Designer STEFAN GREGORY With TOBY SCHMITZ

2424 TOTOBYBY BEAUTIFUL ONE DAY 17 NOVEMBER – 23 DECEMBER

Palm Island. An Aboriginal man is sweep of the island’s history. It seeks arrested, allegedly for insulting a police to grasp the ordinariness of brutality, officer. Within 90 minutes, he lies charting the course of repression, dead on the watchhouse floor, his liver resistance and racism but also the cleaved in two. The community protests, astonishing resilience of the people who the police station is torched. A Senior call Palm Island home. Sergeant stands trial for manslaughter Melbourne’s Ilbijerri Theatre Company but is acquitted. Questions are raised (Jack Charles v The Crown) is a about manipulation of evidence and a champion of Indigenous storytelling. court suppression order. A protestor, version 1.0 (The Bougainville Photoplay jailed for inciting a riot, is out on parole Project, A Certain Maritime Incident) on condition that he speaks to no-one. have turned tough, patient enquiry into Beautiful One Day is a theatrical an artform. Together with Belvoir they documentary made by a group of have set each other the task of trying to Australians (black and white) seeking to understand the horror of circumstance interpret these events against the full that we all find ourselves in.

Created by PAUL DWYER, EAMON FLACK, RACHAEL MAZA LONG, DAVID WILLIAMS Supported by The Balnaves Foundation. A co-production with Ilbijerri Theatre Company and version 1.0.

2626 RACHAEL 28 DOWNstairs I’m YOUR MAN 12 JANUARY – 5 FEBRUARY

The more you sweat, the less you bleed. glory, of a better life, where everyone wants to be special and only one thing is For 18 months theatre-maker Roslyn certain – that no matter how high you fly Oades and her trusty tape recorder you will eventually lose. I’m Your Man is followed a determined, young no ordinary slice-of-life. The actors wear boxer from Bankstown through his earpieces and take their lines directly preparations for a world-title fight. I’m from the ringsides, gyms and dressing Your Man is the story of who she and rooms of Oades’ recordings. This is her tape recorder met along the way: fuelled-up, high-stakes, real-deal theatre. past legends, up-and-comers and failed contenders whose lives have been I’m Your Man is the third of a trilogy irreversibly changed by the fight game. by Oades about acts of bravery and the psychology of respect. Behind the This Sydney Festival, Downstairs Belvoir thrilling, brutal sport lies a compelling tale turns boxing gym: place of dreams, of of courage and its cost.

Creator & Director ROSLYN OADES Sound Designer BOB SCOTT Lighting Designer NEIL SIMPSON Movement Director LEE WILSON Dramaturg RAIMONDO CORTESE Project Manager TIM CARROLL With MOHAMMED AHMAD, BILLY MAC, KATIA MOLINO, JUSTIN ROSNIAK, JOHN SHRIMPTON A co-production with Sydney Festival in association with BYDS.

3030 MMOHAMMEDOHAMMAD FOOD 26 april – 20 may

A country highway. A greasy takeaway Steve Rodgers is a theatrical marvel joint. Two sisters. One of them left, one who writes and acts with equal aplomb. stayed behind. One chose chaos, the Their work meets here within the other control. One chose sex, the other classic architecture of great drama: – food. Enter Hakan Leventoglu, aka feuding sisters, a charming man and Hassan the Beautiful. the possibility of transformation. Kate Champion is riding the wave of a The sisters battle it out, trying to make decade of brilliant work across theatre, sense of who they were, who they opera and dance, notably with her are and whether they can ever allow celebrated company Force Majeure. each other to be something else.

By STEVE RODGERS Directors KATE CHAMPION & STEVE RODGERS With FAYSSAL BAZZI, kate box, EMMA JACKSON A co-production with Force Majeure.

3232 KATE OLD MAN 7 JUNE – 1 JULY

Daniel wakes up. Something is missing. Anthea Williams is an exciting young The phone is not working, and the kids’ director who has been forging a career toys are not in their usual spot under the at the Bush Theatre in London. television. In fact, his wife and children You might know Matt’s touch of theatre seem to have disappeared. magic from his performance as nine-year- Old Man is Matt Whittet’s extraordinary old Thomas in The Book of Everything. play about fathers and sons, love and loss, Well, he writes just as wonderfully. His play kindness and Newtown. It is a beautiful Silver won the 2010 Parsons Award. He and shockingly simple tale in two parts, has a mad talent for being totally honest which asks if it is possible to wake up one in the most unexpected ways, and it is day and make good-enough better. on full display in this gentle, discomforting play about adults growing up.

By MATTHEW WHITTET Director ANTHEA WILLIAMS Composer & Sound Designer STEFAN GREGORY With GILLIAN JONES, BEN WINSPEAR

3434 BEN MEDEA

11 october – 25 NOVEMBER

Two young children on a stage play most famous family breakdowns. It is games to distract themselves. Off-stage to Euripides’ Medea what Rosencrantz and unheard their parents are having and Guildenstern Are Dead is to Hamlet: a very famous showdown. At some a behind-the-scenes look at the lives inevitable moment in the next hour the that minor characters live before the children will be drawn away from their plot takes over. games and into their parents’ bitter Artistic Director of Melbourne’s argument. From there they will enter acclaimed The Hayloft Project, mythology as the most tragic siblings Anne-Louise is a canny and formidable of all time. theatrical mind. Her Medea is a smart, Made specially for the Downstairs sharp and bittersweet look at the fine line Theatre, Anne-Louise Sarks’ refocusing that divides regular life and all-out tragedy. of Medea is an examination of the collateral damage of one of history’s

Written & Directed by ANNE-LOUISE SARKS after EURIPIDES Set & Costume Designer MEL PAGE Composer & Sound Designer STEFAN GREGORY

This production will play Thursday to Sunday only.

3636 JASPER don’t take your love to town 29 NOVEMBER – 23 DECEMBER

You can think of me as Ruby Wagtail Leah Purcell directs this one-woman Big Noise Anderson Rangi Ando Heifer show which attempts something a Andy Langford. little bit glorious: to relive Ruby’s big and soulful 70-something years in Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Don’t Take an evening. Don’t Take Your Love to Your Love to Town is one of Australia’s Town is about a lot of things – love, great and abiding books. Everything childhood, struggle, humour, family, and nothing happens – from the small work – but most of all it is a homage to the absolute, from the simple to the to Black Australia’s extraordinary spirit diabolical. Spanning most of the last of endurance. century, from Coonabarabran to Surry Hills, it is the chronicle of a life. And Ruby’s is one hell of a life.

Created by EAMON FLACK & LEAH PURCELL Director LEAH PURCELL Based on the book Don’t Take Your Love to Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi Supported by The Balnaves Foundation.

3838 LEAH Sunday Forum

The bigger picture, the story behind and continue the discussion informally the show, the who’s who and the with us in the foyer afterwards. what’s what – Sunday Forum is the Sunday Forums are free, and you new window into our work. There’ll be don’t need to have seen the show a Sunday Forum for every Upstairs yet to be involved. Each topic will be show in 2012, at 3pm on the second firmed up once the show opens; to last Sunday of the season. Join us check our website or call Box Office in the theatre and we’ll have a panel of for updated information. special guests – performers, creatives, commentators, reviewers, pundits – for See you there! a discussion on the show and how it Bookings are essential and are available fits into the world at large. four weeks before each forum. You’ll have a chance to ask your Book: www.belvoir.com.au/sundayforum burning questions during the forum, or call Box Office on 02 9699 3444.

Buried City Every Breath Conversation Piece Sunday 29 January Sunday 22 April Sunday 16 September Thyestes Strange Interlude Private Lives Sunday 12 February Sunday 10 June Sunday 4 November at CarriageWorks Death of a Salesman Beautiful One Day Babyteeth Sunday 5 August Sunday 16 December Sunday 11 March

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‡ Booking fees may apply. * seniors prices are available with an eligible Seniors Card. † Concession prices are available to unemployed, pensioners and full-time students. If you are a senior, eligible for concession or want to join the 30-Down Club you must send photocopied proof with your booking form. § Seniors single tickets not available on Friday or Saturday evenings. II Student Rush available Tuesday 6.30pm and 7pm and Saturday 2pm and 2.15pm performances, from 10am on the day subject to availability.

4747 General Information

Belvoir St Theatre Ticket prices 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills NSW 2010 2012 subscription prices are on p44 and Box Office 02 9699 3444 single ticket prices are on p47 of this Administration 02 9698 3344 season book. Fax 02 9319 3165 Swearing, nudity and other bits [email protected] Some of our productions at Belvoir in belvoir.com.au 2012 may contain strong language, Box Office hours* nudity, violence, strobe lighting, haze or Monday 9.30am – 6pm other things you may find confronting Tuesday 9.30am – 6.30pm or uncomfortable. If you are concerned Wednesday to Saturday 9.30am – 8pm about any of these please ask our Box Sunday 2.30pm – 5pm Office staff about content when booking. Phone bookings close one hour prior to Location & transport performance times. Belvoir St Theatre is in Surry Hills, a five- Please note these hours may change minute walk from Central Station. Buses during non-performance periods and on travel along Chalmers and Elizabeth public holidays. Streets. For public transport information, call the Transport Infoline on 131 500 or * Belvoir has two Box Office locations: at visit www.131500.com.au Belvoir St Theatre (25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills) and at our administration warehouse (18 Belvoir St, Surry Hills). The Box Office is open at either one of these locations depending on the time and day. Please check via phone or website. FOVEAUX ST Performance times Upstairs Theatre CHALMERS ST Tuesday 6.30pm Wednesday* to Friday 8pm WATERLOO ST

Saturday 2pm & 8pm RILEY ST DEVONSHIRE ST Sunday 5pm ELIZABETH ST Downstairs Theatre

BELVOIR ST CROWN ST Tuesday 7pm ADMINISTRATION Wednesday* to Friday 8.15pm BELVOIR ST BELVOIR ST Saturday 2.15pm & 8.15pm THEATRE Sunday 5.15pm RILEY ST Medea WILTON ST CLEVELAND ST Thursday & Friday 7pm Saturday 4pm & 7pm Sunday 5.15pm *Also Wednesday 2pm matinees for some plays.

4848 Parking Captioned performances There is NO onsite parking, and limited This year we have three captioned timed parking (one- and two-hour) is matinee performances: available on the streets around the theatre. Babyteeth CarriageWorks 2pm Saturday 3 March Please note that our production Death of a Salesman of Thyestes will be staged at 2pm Saturday 14 July CarriageWorks, not Belvoir St Private Lives Theatre. CarriageWorks is located 2pm Saturday 20 October at 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh. The nearest train stations are Redfern Food & drink and Macdonaldtown. For more Silver Spoon Caterers provide delicious parking and transport information visit meals from 90 minutes prior to each carriageworks.com.au performance at Belvoir St Theatre. Wraps, rolls and ice-creams are also Accessibility available before the performance and At Belvoir St Theatre there is lift access during interval. And you can enjoy a to the foyer and theatre, a hearing loop drink at the Hal Bar in the foyer. in both theatres and this year we have scheduled three captioned performances Home before dark (see below). If you have specific If you like to be home before dark there accessibility or seating requirements, are performances on Saturdays at 2pm please do not hesitate to contact our and 2.15pm. There are also Wednesday Box Office on 02 9699 3444. matinees for some plays. If you want to see a show and be home before dinner there are shows at 6.30pm and 7pm on Tuesdays, and 5pm and 5.15pm on Sundays.

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jeAlOus stern At Optus, we know our role in theatre. OK, so Optus may not be the world’s finest thespians. But we do know how to make theatre possible for everyone, through our special collaboration with Belvoir. Our unique ‘Charitable Tickets’ and ‘Unwaged Performance Programs’ offer free tickets to those who rarely have the opportunity to enjoy the theatre.

201490_OPT11094_Belvoir.indd 1 18/08/10 5:20 PM The Balnaves Foundation

Supporting the presentation of Beautiful One Day and Don’t Take Your Love to Town in 2012.

The Balnaves Foundation is funding Belvoir has a long history of working Belvoir’s Indigenous theatre program with Indigenous directors, designers from 2011 to 2013. Each year, the and actors, and of portraying unique Foundation provides the financial Indigenous stories. Under Artistic underpinning for Belvoir to present two Director Ralph Myers, we have renewed Indigenous works, one in each of the our commitment to presenting significant Upstairs and Downstairs Theatres. A Indigenous works and engaging range of access programs are attached Indigenous artists at Belvoir in both our to both productions, including an Upstairs and Downstairs Theatres. unwaged performance and schools Belvoir extends our warmest thanks matinees. to The Balnaves Foundation for its The Balnaves Foundation is a private ongoing support. philanthropic organisation that was established in 2006 by Neil Balnaves to provide support to charitable enterprises across Australia. It supports eligible organisations that aim to create a better Australia through education, medicine and the arts with a focus on young people, the disadvantaged and Indigenous communities. In 2011, The Balnaves Foundation supported the presentation of Jack Charles v The Crown and Windmill Baby.

51 Thanks To Our Sponsors

Corporate Partner

IT Projects Partner Supporters

Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir Major Sponsors supported by The Balnaves Foundation

Besen Family Foundation Coca-Cola Australia Foundation Enid Irwin Charitable Trust managed by Perpetual Gandevia Foundation The Greatorex Foundation Associate Sponsors Media Tree Teen Spirit Charitable Foundation managed by Perpetual

BOUTIQUE STUDIO Thomas Creative ACCOMMODATION Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation

Event Sponsors

Government Partners

One Earth Foods Silver Spoon Caterers

For more information on partnership opportunities please contact our Development Manager Katy Wood on 02 8396 6224 or email [email protected]

5252 Thank You

Corporate Partner Our production partners

Bankstown Youth Development Service, CarriageWorks, Force Majeure, the hayloft project, Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Lucy Guerin Inc, Sydney Festival, Urban Theatre Projects, version 1.0.

Supporters

Bankstown Youth Development Service, Force Majeure, Sydney Festival, Urban Theatre Projects and version 1.0 are supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts NSW. Ilbijerri Theatre Company and Lucy Guerin Inc are supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria.

The 2012 season book and launch would not have been possible without the valued contribution of: Mohammed Ahmad, Emily Barclay, And also, Art Gallery of NSW, Kate Box, Michael Corridore, Natalie Berkelouw Books, Coopers, Events Dives, Eamon Farren, Colin Friels, and Stays in the Vines, EYE, The Megan Holloway, Perry Keyes, Justine Monthly, Museum of Contemporary Lewis, Rachael Maza Long, Catherine Art, Musica Viva, One Earth Foods, McClements, Eloise Mignon, Leah Opera Australia, Palace Cinemas, Purcell, Toby Schmitz, Greg Stone, Seymour Centre, Sydney Festival, Jasper Whittet, Matthew Whittet, Ben Wine iQ. Winspear and Mark Winter.

And the wonderful Belvoir marketing team and Alphabet Studio.

Government Partners Design Alphabet Studio Printer immij Photography Michael Corridore Mailing House COJO Styling Mel Page The paper used in this book is Hair & make-up Claire Thomson derived from forests promoting and Desiree Wise sustainable management.

53 2012 Season Calendar

Upstairs Theatre

JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

APRIL MAY JUNE S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 29 30 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 30 1 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 30 31 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

Buried City CarriageWorks Babyteeth Every Breath JANUARY FEBRUARY Strange Interlude S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Death of a Salesman 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Conversation Piece 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Private Lives 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Beautiful One Day 29 30 31 26 27 28 29

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5454 2012 Season Calendar

Downstairs Theatre

CarriageWorks I’m Your Man Food Preview/ 30-Down Unwaged Performance, 2pm Old Man Medea Opening Night Captioned Performance Don’t Take Your Love to Town Sunday Forum Wednesday 2pm Matinee

55 25 Belvoir Street Edited by Robert Cousins. Foreword by David Marr.

This stunning new book, full of essays, memories and vivid photographs, celebrates a quarter of a century of theatre at Belvoir. Including a collection of essays by Robert Cousins, Ralph Myers, Benedict Andrews, Neil Armfield, Robert McFarlane, Rhoda Roberts, James Waites, Alan John and Rita Kalnejais, 25 Belvoir Street traces the social and political background from which Belvoir emerged and looks at the way the building itself has found a way into our imaginations. From its first mercurial Pick up a copy now from decade when it teetered on the edge of oblivion on the Belvoir Box Office more than one occasion, through to the appointment RRP $77 or only $67 if you of Neil Armfield as Artistic Director, and beyond become a 2012 subscriber. to a new generation of theatre-makers headed For a mailed copy, add by Ralph Myers, this book provides an extraordinary $20 for postage & handling and intimate record of a company that has been (within Australia). described simply as the “heart and soul of Australian Also available at theatre”. selected bookstores.

5656 25 Belvoir Street

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