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1 SEASON 2016 3 A message from Andrew Upton 5 Top benefits of a Season Ticket 10 Insight Events
THE PLAYS 14 The Golden Age 16 The Secret River 18 Arcadia 20 Machu Picchu 22 Golem 24 King Charles III 26 Hay Fever 28 Disgraced 30 All My Sons 32 The Hanging 34 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 36 Power Plays 38 A Flea in Her Ear 40 Speed-the-Plow
SPECIAL OFFERS 44 Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark 46 The Wharf Revue 2016
HOW TO BOOK AND USEFUL INFO 50 How to book 51 Key dates 52 A guide to your perfect Season Ticket 54 Ticket prices 56 Venues and access 57 Make the most of your Season Ticket 58 The Theatre Bar at the End of The Wharf 59 Walsh Bay Kitchen 60 STC and the community 61 Philanthropy 62 Thank you 64 Contact details
2 1 A MESSAGE FROM OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
It’s that time of year again, and here I am doing a lot of things I feel I have done before, but for the last time. This is my last program for the company, which fills me with a curious mixture of sadness and excitement.
It is inevitable that I want to stop and reflect. The thing I have been most aware of at Sydney Theatre Company has been continuity. I walk the long walk down The Wharf every day and, sometimes, I remember my mother and father walking us all up here the first time. I remember walking up here with girlfriends, waiting at the end for university friends. I remember my first day of rehearsals for Cyrano de Bergerac… twice. How many times did I walk up here with my wonderful wife and sometime Co-Artistic Director? I seem to be perpetually running after my children up and down here. It is a fabulous company, perfectly poetically situated for its real purpose – a point of departure. Deep water. Safe harbour. The beginning of a journey. The circle of coming and going and old and new… We have a massive program of new work by Continuity plus reinvention. This is the paradox some of the most exciting contemporary that energises theatre. It is the reason plays are Australian playwrights, we explore our published. Literary merit notwithstanding, cultural history and how the narratives of past plays are published so people can mount and present intertwine, we will talk about race, productions of them, reinvent them, find new and politics, and sex and power. Lots of sex. life in them, make connections to them and And comedy! Because what’s life without sex through them to the past and on into the future. and comedy? Recurring reinvention of story, of space, of the ideas that hold us together and tear us apart.
Whilst this is my last season, it is also someone else’s first and, for you, it is the next. So, what is Andrew Upton coming up in 2016? Artistic Director
2 3 THE TOP BENEFITS OF A SEASON TICKET A Season Ticket is made up of 6 to 14 shows, and gives Season Ticket Holders access to great savings and many excellent benefits throughout the year.
BEST VALUE FOR MONEY BEST AVAILABLE SEATS Your Season Ticket saves you up to Access the best available seats to all shows. 22% on single ticket prices. Adult Many of our shows sell packages start from $372, seniors out, so a Season Ticket “I love the build-up of anticipation from $345, concession and under 30s from $312. guarantees your seats prior to seeing the show. I love See all the ticket prices in detail on pg 54–55. to the most exciting the fact that some plays make me theatre events of 2016. cry, some make me wistful. Some even make me fall in love. I’m EXCLUSIVE RENEWAL PERIOD UNTIL 6 OCT always challenged, rethinking my ST 1 Existing Season Ticket Holders get first choice on all shows during an boundaries and learning about exclusive renewal period from 8 Sep to 6 Oct. perception.” EMMA JOHNSON SEASON TICKET HOLDER NEW SEASON TICKETS ON SALE LOTS OF EXCLUSIVE FROM 13 OCT REWARDS Season Tickets for new Season Ticket Holders Your Season Ticket Holder go on sale online from Tue 13 Oct. If you’re Benefits Card unlocks booking with the paper form, send it to us discounts on wine, cinemas, as soon as possible. We’ll process in order of hotels, parking, cultural outings and more. receipt from 13 Oct. We also send a monthly enewsletter and a selection of exclusive freebies, special offers and invitations throughout the year. Visit sydneytheatre.com.au/benefits
A PLAN FOR GOOD TIMES AHEAD Your Season Ticket ensures your diary is organised with plenty of great outings to look forward to. Quality time with family and friends is one of the top reasons for which you’ve told us you love your Season Ticket.
4 5 MORE REASONS TO BOOK YOUR SEASON TICKET
PURCHASE ALL PLAYS PAY IN INSTALMENTS AND GET A FREE TICKET 14 Spread the cost of your Season Ticket across Book all 14 plays in our main four instalments. Choose the deferred season before 30 Nov, and get a payment option online or on your booking free ticket so you can introduce a friend to a form before 31 Dec. Some conditions apply, show of your choice. see booking form and website.
PRE-SALE PERIOD ON UNLIMITED FREE SPECIAL OFFERS EXCHANGES Season Ticket Holders can purchase We understand your plans discounted tickets for Hamlet: Prince of may change. You can swap Skidmark and The Wharf Revue months to another date of the same show fee-free, before they go on sale to the public. See subject to availability. Some conditions apply. pg 44–47 for details about these plays.
NO EXTRA FEES LOWER PRICES ALL YEAR There are no transaction fees on any Season Ticket Holders can access discounted Season Ticket booking. tickets throughout the year. Share the savings and purchase extra single tickets for family and friends at a discounted price – great for gifts!
BOOK BY 30 NOV AND WIN Purchase your Season Ticket before 30 Nov and you could win a luxury experience. First Prize: Runner up: “What can be better than being able • A two night stay at Pier One Sydney • An iKOU gift hamper of indulgent body Harbour, with breakfast included. products and natural candles. to have first pick of the best seats, • Travel in Audi style from your home or • Enjoy a pre-theatre meal with a $100 at the best price, for the best shows, office to Pier One. gift certificate for Walsh Bay Kitchen, that best suit our taste and schedule. • A $200 gift certificate for dinner and the exciting new restaurant and bar on Love it.” drinks at The Theatre Bar at the End of Hickson Road at Roslyn Packer Theatre. the Wharf. MARGARET GOODWIN Thanks to our sponsors Pier One Sydney Harbour, Audi, Fresh Catering and iKOU. See page 64 for terms and conditions. SEASON TICKET HOLDER
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LOYALTY BENEFITS Our family of Season Ticket Holders is the lifeblood of Sydney Theatre Company.
All Season Ticket Holders get a Benefits Card (see pg 5) and other bonuses throughout the year. We recognise the loyalty of those who renew and return with tiered benefits for Season Ticket Holders who have been with us for three or more consecutive years.
Better still, we continue rewarding you for life. Once you’ve earned Star status (3–10 yrs) or Legend status (11+ yrs), you have access to those benefits every year that you are a Season Ticket Holder, even if you take a year or two off.* STARS LEGENDS People who have been a Season Ticket Holder People who have been a Season Ticket Holder for 3–10 years receive the following: for 11 or more years receive the benefits for our Stars, plus the following: The Theatre Bar at the End of the Wharf A free glass of selected wine with any main Exclusive access to best available seats course purchased. We have reserved an exclusive allocation of best available seats during the priority Walsh Bay Kitchen renewal window for you to access as a thank Pre-book any main meal and get a you for your loyalty.** complimentary white peach Bellini on arrival. Including pre-theatre specials (see pg 59 for Adina Apartment Hotels how to book). Receive a 10% discount from our accommodation partner Adina Apartment Sydney Festival Hotels, plus the choice of a bottle of wine, Take advantage of three exclusive ticket offers late check-out or room upgrade. from Sydney Festival, which you’ll hear about after its program is announced. The Theatre Bar at the End of the Wharf A free cheese platter for two with any wine “I was an early subscriber to STC purchase after a show. and have very happy memories. Walsh Bay Kitchen My two friends and I are all in our ** The priority renewal window, exclusive seating allocation, Pre-book any main meal and get a 80s now. We still get a thrill when and benefits are available to current Season Ticket Holders complimentary white peach Bellini and only and valid for the season to which you are subscribed. we arrive at the theatre and will ** Bookings are processed in order of receipt. Renew early to amuse-bouche on arrival. Including pre- continue to for a long time to come.” avoid disappointment. theatre specials (see pg 59 for how to book). VALERIE STERN For full terms and conditions of the Season Ticket Holder Benefits Card, and Stars and Legends SEASON TICKET HOLDER program visit sydneytheatre.com.au/benefits
8 9 GET CLOSER AT OUR INSIGHT EVENTS
LUNCH WITH THE ARTISTS DISCOVER NEW TALENT AT Lunch with artists, support STC and hear an ROUGH DRAFTS exclusive talk with cast and creatives at Pier Rough Drafts are week-long creative Group Lunch events. Hosted by Pier Group developments for emerging and established co-founder and patron Anne Schofieldam and artists, with a free public showing on the held at The Wharf, funds raised support the Friday evening (best followed by drinks at the AUDI NIGHT WITH THE ACTORS MATINEE CLUB immediate and evolving needs of STC. $75pp bar). They offer a fascinating glimpse into the for a two course meal and glass of wine. To Quiz the actors! Purchase Matinee Club is a friendly social occasion making of exciting and diverse new works. book, call Box Office on (02) 9250 1777. tickets to an Audi Night with taking place one hour prior to selected mid-week Details of Rough Draft showings are released the Actors performance and matinees. Guests enjoy a talk from one of the through the year in our enewsletter and on stay after the show for an key creatives over complimentary morning tea. 2016 Pier Group Lunches: social media. enlightening and entertaining Indicate on your booking form if you would Hay Fever Mon 7 Mar 12–2pm Q & A with the cast. Dates are like to attend, and details will be sent via email. All My Sons Mon 2 May 12–2pm on the play pages and website. 2016 Matinee Club dates: A Midsummer Mon 8 Aug 12–2pm Night’s Dream PRE-SEASON BRIEFINGS The Golden Age Wed 27 Jan 12–1pm Our Pre-season Briefings are lively Speed-the-Plow Mon 10 Oct 12–2pm conversations between cast, creatives and the King Charles III Wed 13 Apr 12–1pm audience. Held during rehearsals, they are a All My Sons Wed 22 Jun 12–1pm On behalf of The Pier Group, Anne Schofield fun and interactive way to find out about the The Hanging Wed 10 Aug 12–1pm also hosts The Wharf Revue Gala each year. In creative process before seeing the show. Tickets 2016, it will be held on Tue 18 Oct. Book for the Find out more about our Insight Events are free, but must be booked in advance – Speed-the-Plow Wed 16 Nov 12–1pm Gala on your paper booking form as part of at sydneytheatre.com.au/insightevents reminders are included in our enewsletter. your Special Offer selection, or call Box Office.
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Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Kip Williams Designer David Fleischer THE GOLDEN AGE BY LOUIS NOWRA Composer & Sound Designer Max Lyandvert Dramaturg Paige Rattray Our own heart of darkness With Rarriwuy Hick In 1939, a lost tribe of Europeans was discovered in the Tasmanian Remy Hii wilderness. They were a band of outcasts who had escaped the torture Brandon McClelland of convict life, scratching out an existence at the forgotten edge of the Sarah Peirse Anthony Taufa island, alone for almost a century. Ursula Yovich Inspired by this true story, writer Louis Nowra (Cosi, Radiance) penned INSIGHT EVENTS The Golden Age – an extraordinary play that blends historical fact, Pre-season Briefing Australian folklore and poetic language to create a post-colonial myth Mon 11 Jan 6.15pm for our times. Nowra’s outcasts have developed a culture and dialect all Wharf 1 Theatre of their own, but their bodies are failing them and their very existence is in danger. Brought back into the fold of Australian society, what fate Matinee Club awaits this band of exiles? Wed 27 Jan 12pm The Golden Age premiered in Melbourne in 1985, with a Sydney Audi Night with production the following year directed by Neil Armfield. Three decades the Actors later, Resident Director Kip Williams (Suddenly Last Summer) brings Mon 1 Feb and it to Wharf 1 Theatre with a brilliant ensemble cast, including Mon 8 Feb post-show Sarah Peirse (Switzerland), Ursula Yovich (Love and Information) and Brandon McClelland (The Present). In their hands, this profound and emotionally-charged Australian classic makes its way out of the wilderness and back into the spotlight.
“How can I go back after all I’ve seen?” Francis
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14 JAN – 20 FEB WHARF 1 THEATRE
1HR 50MINS WARNING: #STCGOLDENAGE (NO INTERVAL) VIOLENCE, NUDITY
14 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY AND ALLENS PRESENT Neil Armfield Artistic Associate Stephen Page THE SECRET RIVER BY KATE GRENVILLE Set Designer AN ADAPTATION FOR THE STAGE BY ANDREW BOVELL Stephen Curtis Costume Designer Tess Schofield Lighting Designer Mark Howett The return of a landmark production Composer Iain Grandage A sold out hit in 2013, The Secret River is a stirring adaptation of Sound Designer Kate Grenville’s award-winning novel. In 2016, it returns for an Steve Francis encore season. With Nathaniel Dean Directed by Neil Armfield,The Secret River is a story of two families Trevor Jamieson divided by culture and land. William Thornhill arrives in New South Ningali Lawford-Wolf Wales a convict from the slums of London. His family’s new home offers Matthew Sunderland him something he hadn’t dare dream of: a place to call his own. On the banks of the Hawkesbury River, he plants a crop and lays claim to the INSIGHT EVENTS soil in which it grows. Pre-season Briefing Mon 18 Jan 6.15pm But the Hawkesbury is already home to another family. A family from Roslyn Packer Theatre the Dharug people, whose existence depends on that land. As Thornhill’s attachment to the land deepens, he is driven to a terrible decision that will Audi Night with haunt him for the rest of his life. the Actors Mon 15 Feb post-show Winner of six Helpmann Awards, including Best Play, Best Direction and Best New Australian Work, The Secret River was heralded as “a stunning, shattering piece of theatre that goes to the heart of our history” (The Sunday Telegraph). Don’t miss out.
“Astonishingly beautiful to look at, languid in its storytelling and deeply affecting… Essential viewing.” 62 Sun Herald
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative, managed by the Commissioning Patrons: Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian David Gonski ac & Orli Wargonoam , International Arts Festivals Inc., Sydney Festival, Perth International Arts Festival and Catriona & Simon Mordant am The Centenary of Canberra. PRESENTING SPONSOR 1 FEB – 20 FEB ROSLYN PACKER THEATRE
WARNING: 2HRS 50MINS STRONG LANGUAGE, #STCSECRETRIVER (INCLUDING INTERVAL) VIOLENCE
16 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Richard Cottrell Set Designer ARCADIA Michael Scott-Mitchell BY TOM STOPPARD Costume Designer Julie Lynch Lighting Designer Damien Cooper
With Fall in love with chaos Blazey Best Ryan Corr Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is recognised as one of the 20th century’s great Andrea Demetriades plays. In his matchless style, he brings together comedy, science, Jonathan Elsom suspense and romantic entanglements. And all in the one room. Georgia Flood Julian Garner Glenn Hazeldine In a stately home in the British countryside, two intertwined narratives, Josh McConville two hundred years apart, are playing out. In April 1809, bright young Michael Sheasby Thomasina and her tutor Septimus are inventing chaos theory a century Justin Smith too early – or perhaps they are simply falling in love? Two hundred years later, two scholars, hooked on the past’s unsolved mysteries, try to piece INSIGHT EVENTS the truth together from the puzzling fragments that remain. Pre-season Briefing Tue 2 Feb 6.15pm Through it all, Stoppard’s writing effortlessly evokes the unknowability Wharf 1 Theatre of the past and the many casual moments that determine our fate. Directed by Richard Cottrell, whose production of Stoppard’sTravesties Audi Night with was a hit in 2009, Arcadia brings back to STC the delightful talents of the Actors Ryan Corr (Sex with Strangers), Blazey Best (Travesties), Mon 22 Feb and Andrea Demetriades (Arms and the Man), Glenn Hazeldine (After Dinner) Mon 7 Mar post-show and Josh McConville (Noises Off) in a play that will entrance, stimulate and illuminate.
“I have never left a play more convinced that I had just witnessed a masterpiece.” The Daily Telegraph, UK
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8 FEB – 2 APR DRAMA THEATRE, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
2HRS 45MINS #STCARCADIA (INCLUDING INTERVAL)
18 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Geordie Brookman A SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY AND Designer STATE THEATRE COMPANY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA PRODUCTION Jonathon Oxlade Composer MACHU PICCHU Alan John BY SUE SMITH With WORLD PREMIERE Elena Carapetis Darren Gilshenan Finding hope amidst the ruins Annabel Matheson Lisa McCune Lisa McCune is back at STC for the first time in almost a decade in this moving new play. From acclaimed Australian writer Sue Smith INSIGHT EVENTS (Kryptonite, ABC TV’s Mabo and Brides of Christ), Machu Picchu explores Pre-season Briefing love, loyalty and healing – both physical and spiritual – in a delicate but Mon 29 Feb 6.15pm unflinching way. Wharf 2 Theatre
Audi Night with McCune plays Gabby, a woman who has everything she could want – a the Actors successful career, a loving husband, a brilliant daughter and the best of Mon 14 Mar and friends. But still, something is missing. When a terrible accident leaves Mon 28 Mar post-show her husband paralysed, she has to confront secrets and desires that have lain dormant for years. The question is, what will stand the test of time?
State Theatre Company of South Australia’s Artistic Director Geordie Brookman, who directed Smith’s Kryptonite in 2014, returns to bring to life this deeply affecting world premiere.
“Do you think this is the most perfect moment of our lives?” Gabby
This project is supported by the Australian Writers’ Foundation, with the generous support of Kim Williams am. 3 MAR – 9 APR
ASSOCIATE SPONSOR WHARF 1 THEATRE
1HR 30MINS WARNING: #STCMACHUPICCHU (NO INTERVAL) STRONG LANGUAGE
20 Director & Writer SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Suzanne Andrade A 1927, SALZBURG FESTIVAL, THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE PARIS & YOUNG VIC Film, Animation & CO-PRODUCTION Design Paul Barritt GOLEM Music CREATED BY 1927 Lillian Henley Associate Director & Design Esme Appleton Man and machine in imperfect harmony Sound Designer Laurence Owen Hailed as “groundbreaking with strokes of genius” (The Daily Telegraph, Costume Designer UK), British theatre company 1927 has developed a cult following with Sarah Munro its unique brand of theatre-making – marrying cutting-edge technical With wizardry with a distinctly vintage aesthetic. Like a giant graphic novel Esme Appleton come to life, Golem is a visual feast that integrates live actors, original Will Close music and mesmerisingly detailed handmade animations. Lillian Henley Rose Robinson Office worker Robert and his musician sister Annie were raised by their Shamira Turner grandmother on a steady diet of knitting, whittling, Beethoven and Voices anarchy. When Robert buys a Golem – an obedient, efficient man- Suzanne Andrade machine – life becomes a little more convenient, but also a lot more Ben Whitehead complicated. Taking inspiration from the folkloric figure of the same name, Golem rethinks the myth to ask one of the great questions of the INSIGHT EVENTS modern age – do we control technology, or does it control us? Pre-season Briefing Mon 14 Mar 6.15pm After celebrated seasons across Europe, Golem comes to STC for a short Wharf 2 Theatre but enchanting run. Take a step through the looking glass with this dark and fantastical tale. Audi Night with the Actors Mon 21 Mar post-show “This funny, unsettling and unforgettable satire is a Frankenstein for the 21st century. Alive with irony, imagination and humanity.” The Times
16 MAR – 26 MAR
TICKETS ROSLYN PACKER THEATRE $40/$45
1HR 30MINS RECOMMENDED #STCGOLEM (NO INTERVAL) FOR AGES 12+
22 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY AND ADSHEL PRESENT
Rupert Goold THE ALMEIDA THEATRE PRODUCTION with Whitney Mosery Designer Tom Scutt KING CHARLES III Composer BY MIKE BARTLETT
Jocelyn Pook AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Lighting Designer Jon Clark Sound Designer The Queen is dead. Long live the King? Paul Arditti Sometime in the not too distant future, Prince Charles finally ascends Cast includes the throne. And he quickly makes up for lost time. Robert Powell
INSIGHT EVENTS Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play and lauded by Pre-season Briefing critics and audiences alike, Mike Bartlett’s ingenious writing in Tue 29 Mar 6.15pm King Charles III predicts the future in the vivid language and verse of a Wharf 2 Theatre Shakespearean history play. This is an epic writ now.
Audi Night with Confronting the contradictions of a modern monarchy with wisdom the Actors and plentiful wit, the play reveals the people beneath the crowns, Mon 4 Apr and the unwritten rules of our democracies and the moral conscience of Mon 18 Apr post-show our leaders.
Matinee Club Directed by Almeida Theatre Artistic Director Rupert Goold, Wed 13 Apr 12pm this production comes to STC for an exclusive Australian season following its West End and Broadway runs. Audacious, provocative and insightful, this is drama with both a glint in the eye and a stiff upper lip.
“Bold, brilliant and unstoppably entertaining. Theatre doesn’t get much better than this.” The Times, UK
Co-produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Stuart Thompson Productions, Tulchin Bartner Productions, Charles Diamond and the Almeida Theatre in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre and by arrangement with Lee Dean. 31 MAR – 30 APR
PRESENTING SPONSOR ROSLYN PACKER THEATRE WARNING: 2HRS 45MINS INFREQUENT STRONG #STCKINGCHARLES (INCLUDING INTERVAL) LANGUAGE
24 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Imara Savage Designer Alicia Clements HAY FEVER BY NOËL COWARD Lighting Designer Trent Suidgeest
With Briallen Clarke Tom Conroy Ignorance is bliss Alan Dukes Harriet Dyer Deliciously funny comedies were Noël Coward’s forte. In Hay Fever, Genevieve Lemon he delivered a sure-fire hit full of secret seductions, misjudged Tony Llewellyn-Jones meetings and wicked revelations wrapped around a portrait of a very Josh McConville theatrical family. Heather Mitchell
Helen Thomson The Blisses love intrigue, love arguing and really love a spotlight. Led INSIGHT EVENTS by Heather Mitchell as Judith Bliss, the prima donna to end all prima Pier Group Lunch donnas, they are everything a respectable British family ought not to Mon 7 Mar 12pm be – unconventional, uncensored and unapologetic. When each of them decides to invite a guest to their rural retreat, the unassuming visitors Pre-season Briefing face a living melodrama from which there seems to be no escape. Mon 4 Apr 6.15pm Wharf 2 Theatre Having had us in hysterics with After Dinner in 2015, director Imara Savage and designer Alicia Clements reunite to give us a 1920s country Audi Night with weekend like no other. With an exceptional cast, including Harriet Dyer the Actors (Travelling North), Tony Llewellyn-Jones (Amigos) and Helen Thomson Mon 2 May and (After Dinner), Hay Fever promises to be a thoroughly enjoyable and Mon 16 May post-show seductively comic affair.
Richard: “They’re strange people, aren’t they?” Myra: “I think ‘strange’ is putting it mildly.”
11 APR – 21 MAY DRAMA THEATRE, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
2HRS #STCHAYFEVER (INCLUDING INTERVAL)
26 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Sarah Goodes Designer Renée Mulder DISGRACED BY AYAD AKHTAR Lighting Designer Damien Cooper AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Composer & Sound Designer Steve Francis It’s a question of faith With Paula Arundell New York. Today. Corporate lawyer Amir Kapoor (Sachin Joab) is happy, Glenn Hazeldine in love, and about to land the biggest promotion of his life. But beneath Sachin Joab all the trappings, success has come at a price. Shiv Palekar Sophie Ross When Amir and his artist wife, Emily, host an intimate dinner party INSIGHT EVENTS at their Upper East Side apartment, what starts out as a friendly Pre-season Briefing conversation soon escalates into something far more damaging. Mon 11 Apr 6.15pm Wharf 2 Theatre In dialogue that bristles with wit and complexity, Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play puts contemporary attitudes toward Audi Night with religion under the microscope. The result is a fiercely intelligent and the Actors sensationally entertaining drama that reveals the prejudices and Mon 9 May and compromises of modern Western culture. Mon 30 May post-show Guided by Resident Director Sarah Goodes (Switzerland), Disgraced is a complex and fearless production that will leave you breathless and keep you talking long after.
“Terrific, turbulent drama.” The New York Times
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16 APR – 4 JUN WHARF 1 THEATRE
1HR 30MINS WARNING: #STCDISGRACED (NO INTERVAL) STRONG LANGUAGE
28 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY AND UBS PRESENT Kip Williams Designer ALL MY SONS Alice Babidge BY ARTHUR MILLER Lighting Designer Nick Schlieper
With John Howard Robyn Nevin Are there sins too big to be forgiven?
INSIGHT EVENTS John Howard makes his long-awaited return to the STC stage in Pier Group Lunch Arthur Miller’s powerful classic. Joining him is Robyn Nevin. Together, Mon 2 May 12pm they will bring to life one of the great dramatic marriages. Pre-season Briefing Mon 23 May 6.15pm The Kellers look like a mid-century American success story. He runs the Wharf 2 Theatre business, she runs the home, and their son will inherit it all. But there is something rotten in the Keller household and secrets have a way of Audi Night with getting out. the Actors
Mon 20 Jun and All My Sons was Miller’s first major success. A compelling portrait of Mon 4 Jul post-show flawed characters and capital’s corruption of the American Dream, the play mapped out the artistic territory he would return to in his later Matinee Club plays, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. Today, its politics and its Wed 22 Jun 12pm impact remain as acute and devastating as ever.
Resident Director Kip Williams (Macbeth, Love and Information) brings his precise sense of the poetic to a play forged by a master craftsman, in which every word and every action has a consequence.
“You’re no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.” Chris Keller
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PRESENTING SPONSOR 4 JUN – 9 JUL a b ROSLYN PACKER THEATRE
2HRS 20MINS #STCALLMYSONS (INCLUDING INTERVAL)
30 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Sarah Goodes Designer THE HANGING Elizabeth Gadsby BY ANGELA BETZIEN Lighting Designer Nicholas Rayment WORLD PREMIERE
With Luke Carroll Ashleigh Cummings Young, beautiful and fatal Genevieve Lemon Two private school girls are missing in Melbourne’s hinterland. The INSIGHT EVENTS clock is ticking, the search is on. The one clue is 15-year-old Vivienne. Pre-season Briefing Beguiling, quick-witted, provocative, she won’t give up her secrets easily. Mon 18 Jul 6.15pm What exactly will the police uncover? Wharf 2 Theatre
Audi Night with Award-winning playwright Angela Betzien (an STC Patrick White the Actors Playwrights’ Fellow) has created a tense, tantalising crime thriller that Mon 8 Aug and reveals the mysterious underbelly of a privileged world. Mon 29 Aug post-show Drawing on Australia’s lasting fascination with the way our vast country Matinee Club can swallow people whole, The Hanging is an original work that twists the Wed 10 Aug 12pm familiar into something entirely novel. Resident Director Sarah Goodes (Switzerland) has assembled a superb cast, with Luke Carroll (Battle of Waterloo), Ashleigh Cummings (Channel Ten’s Puberty Blues) and Genevieve Lemon (Noises Off) to play the trio of characters at the heart of this riveting new play.
“I hear the girls whispering in the corridors.” Corrossi
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28 JUL – 10 SEP
TICKETS WHARF 1 THEATRE $40/$45
1HR 30MINS WARNING: #STCHANGING (NO INTERVAL) INFREQUENT STRONG LANGUAGE
32 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Kip Williams Lighting Designer Damien Cooper A MIDSUMMER With NIGHT’S DREAM Robert Collins BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Honey Debelle Brandon McClelland Josh McConville Love makes fools of us all
INSIGHT EVENTS On the hottest night of the year, young lovers Hermia and Lysander run Pier Group Lunch away from the rules of the city and into the freedom of the forest. Close Mon 8 Aug 12pm on their heels are Helena and Demetrius. Demetrius is chasing Hermia, Pre-season Briefing Helena is chasing Demetrius, no one is chasing Helena… yet. Mon 5 Sep 6.15pm Wharf 2 Theatre Into a forest of rough magic they go, but this is no fairytale. Helpmann Award-winning Resident Director Kip Williams (Suddenly Last Summer) Audi Night with continues his bold interpretations of Shakespeare’s great plays with the Actors A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This production will reclaim the text’s Mon 26 Sep and deep heart, revealing a comedy as complex and detailed as any tragedy. Mon 10 Oct post-show Along for the ride are Josh McConville (After Dinner), who brings his comedic know-how to the boisterous Bottom, and the exciting new talents of Robert Collins (Disney’s The Lion King) and Honey Debelle (ABC TV’s ANZAC Girls) making their STC debuts as two corners of the fabulously convoluted love quadrangle.
See you in the forest.
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” Helena
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12 SEP – 22 OCT DRAMA THEATRE, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
2HRS 30MINS WARNING: #STCMIDSUMMER (INCLUDING INTERVAL) NUDITY
34 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Paige Rattray Designer David Fleischer POWER PLAYS FIVE NEW SHORT PLAYS BY MELISSA BUBNIC, MICHELE LEE, NAKKIAH LUI, Lighting Designer HANNIE RAYSON AND DEBRA THOMAS Ross Graham Composer & Sound WORLD PREMIERE Designer Steve Toulmin Five writers, five actors, one theme With Anthony Gee Power Plays is a theatrical tasting menu of some of Australia’s finest Michelle Lim Davidson writers. Their mission: to each write a satirical 20-minute play on the Steve Rodgers theme of power. The result: 100 minutes of hilarious theatre. Ursula Yovich
INSIGHT EVENTS Melissa Bubnic, Michele Lee, Nakkiah Lui, Hannie Rayson and Debra Pre-season Briefing Thomas are our five chosen writers. Some are STC veterans, some are Mon 12 Sep 6.15pm making their debut. All of them have a wealth of smarts, a knack for the Wharf 2 Theatre political and a gift for the comedic. How they use their talents to tackle the theme is up to them.
Conducting the potential mayhem safely onto the stage is our 2015 Richard Wherrett Fellow, director Paige Rattray (Boys will be boys). With her are a superb group of creatives – David Fleischer (Love and Information), Ross Graham (Boys will be boys) and Steve Toulmin (Little Mercy) – who will create the set, costumes, light and sound for these five exciting new works.
“These five brilliant playwrights each have a distinct voice, plenty to say and a talent for turning out cracking comic dialogue.” Polly Rowe, STC Literary Manager
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17 SEP – 15 OCT TICKETS WHARF 2 THEATRE $27/$30
2HRS WARNING: #STCPOWERPLAYS (INCLUDING INTERVAL) STRONG LANGUAGE
36 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Simon Phillips Designer A FLEA IN HER EAR Gabriela Tylesova BY GEORGES FEYDEAU Lighting Designer IN A NEW ADAPTATION BY ANDREW UPTON Nick Schlieper WORLD PREMIERE With Helen Christinson Sean O’Shea Come for the sex, stay for the farce David Woods In the Paris of the early 1900s, playwright Georges Feydeau was INSIGHT EVENTS a promiscuous, cocaine-snorting figurehead of the hedonistic Pre-season Briefing counterculture. He was also the consummate humorist of the Belle Mon 24 Oct 6.15pm Wharf 2 Theatre Époque – A Flea in Her Ear, his key work, has remained in the repertoire of theatre companies around the world since its premiere in 1907. Audi Night with the Actors In a test of her husband’s fidelity, Raymonde Chandebise lures him to a Mon 7 Nov and notoriously seedy hotel. From there, everything falls apart. A Flea in Her Mon 28 Nov post-show Ear is an outrageously funny comedy constructed with the technical precision and beauty of a Swiss watch.
Farce can be a misunderstood genre, but this production has two of Australia’s finest theatre-makers at the helm. Andrew Upton’s unerring ear for the comic and the colloquial meets its perfect match in the deft hands of director Simon Phillips (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead). Working together for the first time, and alongside visionary designer Gabriela Tylesova, these theatre heavyweights bring the sophistication, wit and detail required to make a flawless farce an absolute pleasure.
Let the fun begin.
“Why does this bed revolve?” Romain
31 OCT – 17 DEC DRAMA THEATRE, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
2HRS 20MINS WARNING: #STCFLEA (INCLUDING INTERVAL) STRONG LANGUAGE
38 Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY AND Andrew Upton COLONIAL FIRST STATE GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT PRESENT Designer David Fleischer SPEED-THE-PLOW Lighting Designer BY DAVID MAMET Nick Schlieper Sound David Gilfillan
With Making art is a ruthless business Rose Byrne Lachy Hulme David Mamet’s extraordinary writing brings the luminous Rose Byrne back to the Australian stage. Mamet writes dialogue so distinct – fast, INSIGHT EVENTS funny, exacting, inspired – that it is a genre unto itself. From Glengarry Pier Group Lunch Glen Ross to Oleanna, he has given morally questionable characters the Mon 10 Oct 12pm linguistic dexterity to enthral us, offend us and hoodwink us all at the Pre-season Briefing same time. Mon 31 Oct 6.15pm Wharf 2 Theatre In Speed-the-Plow, Mamet’s attention is squarely on a world he knows all too well – show business. Studio executives Bobby Gould and Charlie Matinee Club Fox came up together in Hollywood’s dog-eat-dog world. Today, Bobby Wed 16 Nov 12pm is one step ahead and has the authority to green light a project of his choosing. Just this morning, Charlie has landed a surefire blockbuster Audi Night with with a star attached. With millions of dollars on the line, every move is a the Actors gamble. The wildcard in this deck is a temporary secretary called Karen, Mon 21 Nov and an outsider with ideas of her own. Mon 5 Dec post-show Joining Byrne onstage is Lachy Hulme (Channel Ten’s Offspring) with our very own Andrew Upton to direct. Together, they will bring Mamet’s Faustian dilemma thrillingly to life.
“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it’s full of surprises, and you’re constantly getting f***ed.” Charlie Fox
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PRESENTING SPONSOR 8 NOV – 10 DEC ROSLYN PACKER THEATRE
1HR 35MINS WARNING: #STCSPEEDTHEPLOW (NO INTERVAL) STRONG LANGUAGE
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Season Ticket Holders have exclusive access and discounted tickets for these two extra shows that are guaranteed to have high demand. Tickets will be snapped up quickly, so get the best available seats before they go on sale to the public. Co-creators SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Declan Greene & The Listies THE TRAGEDY OF Director Declan Greene HAMLET: PRINCE OF Designer Renée Mulder SKIDMARK With A BADAPTATION OF THE BARD Richard Higgins BY THE LISTIES Matt Kelly WORLD PREMIERE
Shakespeare plus ninjas. And zombies.
Can you make an hour-long version of Hamlet for kids? We’re about to find out.
Cult kids outfit The Listies produce hilarious, irreverent, interactive shows for children and their adults, shattering the fourth wall and then gluing it back together with fart jokes. Here, they team up with Declan Greene from Sisters Grimm (Calpurnia Descending, Little Mercy) to take on the most serious and revered play in the Western canon. We’re betting against the Bard.
Hamlet is full of things that kids love: ghosts, castles, skulls, sword fights, blood, guts and gruesome deaths. This show adds in bonus pillow fights, vomit, pirates, ninjas, ninja pirates, aliens, ninja pirate aliens, zombies and probably a bunch of other irresponsibly anachronistic stuff.
The only thing we can be sure of is that everyone dies at the end – including the audience.
“Nobody else does comedy for kids this brilliantly, but what’s more astounding is that adults have just as much fun. The Listies occupy a dimension all of their own.” Sydney Morning Herald
16 JUN – 17 JUL
TICKETS WHARF 1 THEATRE $22/$30
1HR RECOMMENDED #STCHAMLET (NO INTERVAL) FOR AGES 5+
44 Musical Director SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS Phillip Scott Lighting Designer THE WHARF REVUE 2016 Matthew Marshall WRITTEN AND CREATED BY JONATHAN BIGGINS, DREW FORSYTHE AND PHILLIP SCOTT With Jonathan Biggins Drew Forsythe Phillip Scott They sing, they dance, they wear funny hats INSIGHT EVENTS Pier Group Paul Keating once said that politicians come in three varieties: straight The Wharf Revue Gala men, fixers and maddies. Well, you can be sure all of them will be Tue 18 Oct 8pm knocked down a peg or two when The Wharf Revue comes rolling back Audi Night with into town. the Actors Mon 31 Oct and From the inimitable minds of Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Mon 14 Nov post-show Phillip Scott comes another instalment of what has become a true Sydney institution. From the movers to the shakers, from the winners to the losers, the stage will be filled with a year’s worth of foolishness.
And if there’s one thing that a federal election year brings, it’s a smorgasbord of satirical goodies. There’ll be minor party pies, red meat, blue cheese and don’t forget your greens. But most of all, there’ll be laughter. And lots of it.
“What’s so brilliant… is how the material constantly falls between sharp, incisive satire and deliriously cheap gags.” The Daily Review
ASSOCIATE SPONSOR 19 OCT – 23 DEC WHARF 1 THEATRE
1HR 30MINS #STCWHARFREVUE (NO INTERVAL)
46 HOW TO BOOK GATHER THESE DETAILS TO BOOK ONLINE OR COMPLETE A PAPER BOOKING FORM.
Your Season Ticket play choices Your Special Offer choices Date preferences How many program vouchers you’d like Contact information for you and your companions Payment details Proof of concession if applicable Special access requirements if needed HOW TO BOOK YOUR KEY DATES FOR SEASON TICKET YOUR DIARY Once you’ve chosen your plays and explored further SEP THU 3 information about the season on our website, complete 2016 Season announced. your booking online, or send your form by post. TUE 8 ST Priority booking window opens for renewing Season Ticket Holders. 1 As mail bookings are processed in order of receipt, new Season Ticket Holders are welcome to send their form in early to secure their place in the processing queue. WED 30 BOOK ONLINE BOOK BY POST Are you mailing your booking form? We recommend getting it in the post now Fill in your Season Ticket booking form, The quickest way to book is online. You can so we’re sure to receive it by Tue 6 Oct. select your plays and seats and add your mailed in your pack or downloadable at companion’s details. sydneytheatre.com.au/2016 and post it to our Box Office. TUE 6 The method of choice for nearly half of our OCT Season Ticket Holders, our online booking Sydney Theatre Company Priority booking window ends for renewing Season Ticket Holders. system is swift, secure, convenient and 2016 Season Tickets confirmed on the spot. Reply Paid 85302 TUE 13 Strawberry Hills Season Tickets go on sale to everyone. Go to sydneytheatre.com.au/2016 to NSW 2012 get started. Please note: We will no longer be accepting MON 30 You have up to 1 hour to complete your online Season Ticket bookings via email. We have NOV Single tickets go on sale for The Golden Age, The Secret River, Arcadia, Machu booking, so have all your information to hand introduced new payment security processes as Picchu, Golem, King Charles III, Hay Fever, Disgraced. before starting. a preventative measure because your security Book all 14 plays in our season by 30 Nov and receive a free ticket as a thank you. is important to us. This is to ensure best Book by 30 Nov and go into the draw to win a luxury experience. See pg 7 for details. practice and the highest possible customer service standards for you. THU 31 DEC Deadline for purchasing a Season Ticket using the instalment payment option. TIPS! See the booking form for details. Make sure you include If you’re using the paper booking email addresses for form, send it in as soon as possible. yourself and your We process paper bookings in FEB ’16 MON 8 companions, otherwise you’ll order of receipt. Renewals are Single tickets go on sale for All My Sons, Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark, The Hanging, miss out on important customer service processed first, and new Season Tickets are A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Power Plays, The Wharf Revue, A Flea in Her Ear. information as well as a bunch of Season processed from Tue 13 Oct. Ticket Holder benefits. MON 22 Single tickets go on sale for Speed-the-Plow.
50 51 THE GOLDEN AGE A GUIDE TO YOUR PERFECT PG 14 THE SECRET RIVER PG 16
SEASON TICKET ARCADIA PG 18 If you’re spoilt for choice, here is a handy guide to help you MACHU PICCHU select a perfect combination of plays that appeal to you and PG 20 your companions. Choose 6 to 14 plays to create your ideal GOLEM Season Ticket, and then add 1 or 2 of the Special Offer plays. PG 22
KING CHARLES III PG 24
HAY FEVER Rollicking farces, sharp satires and PG 26 THE FUNNY quick-witted comedies that will suit many and varied tastes. DISGRACED PG 28 The brilliance of these plays has been THE AWARD recognised with a raft of awards. ALL MY SONS WINNERS PG 30 THE HANGING PG 32 Fresh new works from Australian and THE NEW international writers, seen for the first time on our stages. A MIDSUMMER WORKS NIGHT’S DREAM PG 34 If you love a good post-show debrief, POWER PLAYS PG 36 THE GREAT these diverse plays will each spark lively conversation. DEBATE A FLEA IN HER EAR PG 38 These plays with no interval give you SHORT more time for a post-theatre yarn. SPEED-THE-PLOW ‘N’ SWEET PG 40 HAMLET: PRINCE OF SKIDMARK A selection of plays with lots of appeal PG 44 BRING THE as a night out for younger audiences. THE WHARF REVUE TEENS PG 46
52 53 TICKET PRICES Season Ticket Holders save up to 22% on single ticket prices. EXTRA SINGLE TICKET PRICES We figure that you enjoy sharing theatre as much as we do. We offer these discounted prices to Due to popular demand and limited capacity we charge a flat Season Ticket Holders so you can spread the love. Purchase extra single tickets for friends and rate for Saturday evenings and preview performances. introduce new people to the STC experience.
Preview Sat Adult Seniors Concession Under 30 Evening Cardholder King Charles III $79 $106 $98 $88 $76 $76 The Secret River $79 $106 $98 $88 $76 $76 SEASON TICKET PRICES Speed-the-Plow $79 $106 $98 $88 $76 $76 A Flea in Her Ear $73 $96 $93 $83 $71 $71 All My Sons Preview Sat Adult Seniors Concession Under 30 $73 $96 $93 $83 $71 $71 Evening Cardholder Arcadia $73 $96 $93 $83 $71 $71 King Charles III $71 $96 $89 $80 $69 $69 Disgraced $73 $96 $93 $83 $71 $71 The Secret River $71 $96 $89 $80 $69 $69 The Golden Age $73 $96 $93 $83 $71 $71 Speed-the-Plow $71 $96 $89 $80 $69 $69 Hay Fever $73 $96 $93 $83 $71 $71 A Flea in Her Ear $66 $87 $84 $75 $64 $64 Machu Picchu $73 $96 $93 $83 $71 $71 All My Sons $66 $87 $84 $75 $64 $64 A Midsummer Night’s Dream $73 $96 $93 $83 $71 $71 Arcadia $66 $87 $84 $75 $64 $64 Golem $44 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 Disgraced $66 $87 $84 $75 $64 $64 The Hanging $44 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 The Golden Age $66 $87 $84 $75 $64 $64 Power Plays $30 $33 $33 $33 $33 $33 Hay Fever $66 $87 $84 $75 $64 $64 Machu Picchu $66 $87 $84 $75 $64 $64 A Midsummer Night’s Dream $66 $87 $84 $75 $64 $64 Golem $40 $45 $45 $45 $45 $45 The Hanging $40 $45 $45 $45 $45 $45 Power Plays $27 $30 $30 $30 $30 $30
Book your group theatre Access and special seating Concessions SPECIAL OFFERS outing easily requirements You can purchase a You can book online for If you have access or special concession if you are an Take advantage of these exclusive discount offers for Season Ticket Holders and get the best groups of up to 10 people. seating requirements, please Australian full-time student, available seats before tickets go on sale to the public. If you’re booking for more post your booking form to an Australian Pensioner or if than 10, contact Box Office us. We will specially select you receive unemployment Preview Sat Adult Seniors Concession Under 30 or download a large group tickets to suit your needs, as benefits. Proof of concession Evening Cardholder booking form from the these seats are unable to be must be provided at the time Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark $22 $30 $30 $30 $30 $30 website. booked online. of booking. The Wharf Revue $53 $60 $60 $53 $48 $46
54 55 VENUES AND ACCESS MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR OUR THEATRES ACCESSIBILITY AT STC SEASON TICKET AND OUR LOCAL GUIDE STC caters for a wide range of access and Our shows are presented across four special seating requirements including: audio harbourside theatres. described performances, hearing enhancement “I love reading about the work of Australia’s writers and and headsets, captioned performances, Auslan directors and performers. Understanding the provenance of Wharf 1 and Wharf 2 Theatres interpreted performances and wheelchair Sydney Theatre Company access. Guide dogs are welcome. the play, the production and the company has significantly Pier 4, The Wharf enhanced our theatre experience.” SUE GEORGE, SEASON TICKET HOLDER Hickson Road If you have access or special requirements, Walsh Bay please post your booking form. We will select tickets to suit your needs, as these seats are unable to be booked online. Please specify your SAVE ON PROGRAMS MAGAZINE Roslyn Packer Theatre requirements at the time of booking. Packed with articles, essays, photographs, full Our online magazine takes you into the world (formerly Sydney Theatre) background information on the key creatives, of STC and beyond. Read and watch interviews 22 Hickson Road Audio Described Performances and the latest STC news, our programs aim to with actors, directors, designers, playwrights, Walsh Bay For blind and vision impaired patrons, we will deepen your enjoyment of our plays. composers and STC staff members. Explore the have audio described performances of Arcadia, themes and inspirations for our productions, Hay Fever, All My Sons, A Midsummer Night’s Pre-purchase program vouchers with your our trove of archival material, image galleries Dream, A Flea in Her Ear and Speed-the-Plow. Season Ticket for $8 each, or pick one up for $10 and much more. Drama Theatre, in venue. Programs are available during the Visit sydneytheatre.com.au/magazine Sydney Opera House Captioned Performances run of a play, and will be available for all our Bennelong Point We will offer captioned performances of 2016 shows, except Golem, Power Plays and The The Secret River, Arcadia, King Charles III, Hay Wharf Revue. Fever, All My Sons, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Flea in Her Ear and Speed-the-Plow. For information on parking, public transport and food and beverage options visit our website. Auslan Interpreted Performances sydneytheatre.com.au/yourvisit We will offer Auslan interpreted performances DON’T MISS OUT ON of All My Sons, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ALL THE EXTRAS For walking tours and other points of interest, A Flea in Her Ear and Speed-the-Plow. If you check out our guide to the local area. We have require Auslan interpreted performances and The monthly Season Ticket Holder curated a selection of our favourite things in are attending all on offer, you are entitled enewsletter features special offers and Walsh Bay, The Rocks and Circular Quay for to Season Ticket discounts. Complete your exclusive behind-the-scenes content. your convenience, and to assist you to have the booking form with the plays and dates as best possible visit to STC. marked on the calendar. You can also expect extra surprises and sydneytheatre.com.au/localguide benefits throughout the year, like priority Dates for all access shows are on the 2016 booking offers, discounts, invitations to Calendar and at sydneytheatre.com.au/access, events and more. where you will also find more information. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate Ensure you include your email address on to contact us so we can ensure your comfort your booking form, or visit and enjoyment. (02) 9250 1777 sydneytheatre.com.au/enews to sign up. [email protected]
56 57 A stylish, cosy new restaurant and bar on Hickson Road at Roslyn Packer Theatre. Enjoy an innovative menu prepared with creative flair, an impressive wine list and a bespoke range of speciality sherries and digestives.
One of the best places in Sydney to soak up sweeping harbour Book your two or three course pre-theatre meal views. Drop by pre or post-show on 02 9250 1990 or for a drink, delicious share plates, The Theatre Bar at the End of the sydneytheatre.com.au/walshbaykitchen and specials inspired by Wharf is for you, come join us. sydneytheatre.com.au/thebar See website for opening hours and details. STC productions. STC AND THE COMMUNITY WELCOME TO THE FAMILY
SUPPORTING ARTISTS Did you know that ticket sales cover 67% of STC’s annual AND DEVELOPING NEW WORK Sydney Theatre Company has a proud heritage budget? This means we need to raise the 33% difference each as a creative hub and incubator for Australian year to continue to work with the best artists and support our theatre and theatre-makers. Each year we offer a range of programs, awards, fellowships and industry and community. residencies that contribute to developing, supporting and producing new works by % Australian artists. 2% 3.5 % $5,001– $10,001+ 4 $10k Our current Resident Directors, Sarah Goodes 3% $1,001–$5k and Kip Williams, direct main stage shows $501– $1k As a donor, you sit as well as playing key roles in the day-to-day artistic life of the Company. 6% at the very heart of what we $251–$500 do, helping to raise over $2 million We also support and celebrate playwrights each year in vital support of Australian and new writing with the Patrick White theatre, its actors, writers, directors, Playwrights’ Award and Fellowship. The designers and technicians. Award goes to an unproduced new Australian 10% play. In 2015, Debra Thomas won the award $101– for her play The Man’s Bitch. The Fellowship $250 supports established Australian playwrights STC EDUCATION 51% and includes a commission to write a new Our Education program offers students and JOIN US of donors Add a gift to your Season Ticket on your in 2014 play. Kate Mulvany is our current Patrick teachers meaningful and engaging learning gave White Playwrights’ Fellow. The Hanging is experiences through a selection of high- booking form, or donate online at $2–$50 an STC commission from previous Fellow, quality theatre, extensive digital resources sydneytheatre.com.au/donate Angela Betzien. and discounted tickets. We also offer a range Thank you! of unique learning opportunities for both % STC develops new plays through our teachers and students, including School 21 of donors commissioning program. In 2016, Machu Drama™, our teacher professional learning in 2014 gave Picchu, Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark, The Hanging, program for primary school teachers. $51–$100 Power Plays and the adaptations of The Secret River and A Flea in Her Ear are all STC Find out more or request a dedicated education commissions. brochure at sydneytheatre.com.au/stced
For more info see sydneytheatre.com.au/ informationforartists EVERY GIFT COUNTS In 2014, 72% of donations were of $100 or less. While larger contributions work to keep our budget healthy, every gift helps to sustain the theatre company we love. Where do you fit in? For more information contact the Foundation: 02 9250 1715 [email protected]
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Capital Renewal Program We gratefully acknowledge the leadership gifts for the initial phase of STC’s Capital Renewal Program. Sydney Theatre Company celebrates the support of our valued partners.
David & Claire Paradice W & A Johnson Family Foundation Major Sponsors
STC Life Patrons 2015 Major Donors STC would like to acknowledge the following $100,000 and above Government Support individuals and foundations who have demonstrated Frances Allan and Ian Narev, Crown Resorts Foundation, John & Frances Ingham , W & A Johnson Family Foundation, Mark & Anne their deep and enduring engagement with STC. Their Lazberger, Danita R. Lowes & David M. Fite, The Neilson Foundation, Gretel Packer, Packer Family Foundation, David length of association and level of financial support Sydney Theatre Company is supported by the Sydney Theatre Company is assisted by the Australian and Claire Paradice, Upton Blanchett Family NSW Government through Arts NSW Government through the Australia Council, its arts has helped build the theatre company we are today. funding and advisory body
Anonymous $50,000 - $99,999 Mr Giorgio Armani Petre Foundation, Kim Williams am & Catherine Dovey Presenting Sponsors The Caledonia Foundation Crown Resorts Foundation $25,000 - $49,999 Ian and Min Darling Anonymous, Anita & Luca Belgiorno-Nettis Foundation, Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation The Caledonia Foundation, Michael Carapiet & Helen Carapiet, Davies Julie and Stephen Fitzgerald Family Foundation, Prudence MacLeod, The Raymond E Purves a b David Gonski ac and Orli Wargon oam Foundation, The late Mr Geoffrey Francis Scharer, John and Frances Ingham Mr Andrew Stuart, Sydney Theatre Company Pier Group, W & A Johnson Family Foundation Will & Jane Vicars, Carla Zampatti ac Minderoo Foundation Associate Sponsors Catriona and Simon Mordant am Ilse and Cameron O’Reilly $15,000 - $24,999 Origin Foundation Anonymous, Ms Jillian Broadbent ao, Robert Cameron ao & Gretel Packer Paula Cameron, Mr Robert Hansen & Dr Annabelle Farnsworth, Roslyn Packer ao Michael and Eleonora Triguboff Packer Family Foundation Premium Season Sponsors David and Claire Paradice Chairman’s Council The Pier Group (Chair Anne Schofield am) Mr Neil Balnaves ao, Catherine and Phillip Brenner, Michael Carapiet Shi Family Foundation & Helen Carapiet, Mr and Mrs Robin and Judy Crawford, Rowena Andrew Stuart Sydney Theatre Sponsor Danziger am & Ken Coles am, Ian & Min Darling, Julie and Stephen Upton Blanchett Family Fitzgerald, David Gonski ac and Orli Wargon oam, John M Green Carla Zampatti ac & Jenny Green, Mark & Anne Lazberger, MacKenzie Family, Andrew Season Sponsors Messenger, Catriona & Simon Mordant am, David & Claire Paradice, STC Foundation Robert Purves am & Bronwyn Darlington, Ian & Kelly Saines, Helen Silver ao & Harrison Young, Geoff Summerhayes, Mr Fred Street am Chair Ann Johnson Trustees Lucinda Aboud, Anita Belgiorno-Nettis, & Mrs Dorothy Street, TAG Family Foundation, The Hon Malcolm Cate Blanchett, Mandy Foley, Nick Greiner ac, Judi Hausmann, Turnbull mp and Lucy Hughes Turnbull ao, Peter and Susan Young Frances Ingham, Justin Miller, Peter Miller, Gretel Packer, Matthew Playfair Corporate Sponsors $10,000 - $14,999 Anonymous (2), Robert Albert ao & Libby Albert, COzero Flick Anticimex Pest Control & Hygiene iKOU Tourism & Transport Forum Ruth Armytage am, John and Julie Connolly, Edward Federman, Ross Littlewood & Alexandra Curtain, Maple-Brown Charitable Foundation Ltd, Ms Rebel Penfold-Russell oam, Robert Purves am, Throughout the brochure this symbol Dick & Pip Smith, Lynne Watkins and Nicholas Harding, Sarah Whyte For further information please contact denotes productions that need the Donations to STC are recognised for 12 months from the date of donation. Mary Stollery, Corporate Partnerships Manager on (02) 9250 1704. support of our donor family in 2016. This listing is current as at 14 July 2015.
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Box Office Sydney Theatre Company Ltd Sydney Theatre Company A company limited by guarantee The Wharf and incorporated in New South Wales. Pier 4 Hickson Road abn 87 001 667 983 Walsh Bay NSW 2000 Australia Telephone (612) 9250 1777 Artistic Director Facsimile (612) 9247 3584 Andrew Upton Toll-Free 1800 467 993 (non-metro NSW) [email protected] Executive Director sydneytheatre.com.au Patrick McIntyre
Administration STC Board PO Box 777 David Gonski ac (Chair) Millers Point NSW 2000 Australia The Hon. Bruce Baird am Telephone (612) 9250 1700 Jonathan Biggins Toni Cody Brochure credits John Connolly Design concept by Collider Ann Johnson Designed by Hon Boey and Christine Messinesi Mark Lazberger Photography styled by Renée Mulder and Patrick McIntyre Elizabeth Gadsby Justin Miller Photography by James Green Ian Narev Golem photograph by Bernhard Mueller Gretel Packer King Charles III image courtesy of Almeida Theatre Daniel Petre ao Speed-the-Plow photograph by Rebecca Lorrimer Andrew Upton Other photography by Brett Boardman (pg 8), Peter Young am Grant Sparkes-Carroll (pg 2, 11, 65), Daniel Boud (pg 56) WE LOVE HEARING Printed by Special T ABOUT YOUR STC ADVENTURES AND SHARING OURS. Details in this brochure are correct at time of publication. Sydney Season Ticket Competition Theatre Company reserves the right to add, withdraw or substitute For all prize details and full terms and conditions, please visit artists and to vary the program and prices. Full terms and sydneytheatre.com.au/competition Find out more about our plays, explore conditions of sale available at our website. The competition is open until 5pm, 30 November 2015. You must have booked and paid for a Sydney Theatre Company 2016 Season behind the scenes snaps and share yours. Please note that from time to time our productions may include Ticket before 5pm, 30 November 2015 and be at least 18 years of age smoke effects, smoking on stage, strobe effects, nudity, strong to enter. All 2016 Season Ticket Holders at 5pm, 30 November 2015 language and loud sound effects and music. Where we have will automatically be entered into the draw. Total maximum prize information about the production, we have included warnings value is $3,540. The prizes are not transferable or redeemable for #STC2016 on each production page. At the time of performance we will also cash or other goods or services. The prize will be drawn at 9am, provide notice in the foyers of our theatres and on our website. 2 December 2015 at the Sydney Theatre Company, The Wharf, @sydneytheatreco Pier 4 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay NSW 2000, (02) 9250 1700. The winners will be notified on 3 December 2015 by phone or email. NSW Permit number LTPS/15/05931. Sydney Theatre Company is a member of AMPAG
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