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1 2021 Season 2021 SEASON 1 SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY 2021 SEASON 2 3 SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY 2021 SEASON Your night starts here. The walkway, familiar, stretches out before you. The glittering water. A glimpse of the bridge. The buzz of friends in The Bar. The dark of the theatre. A sense of anticipation. A new world on stage. Welcome back to theatre. Welcome back to The Wharf. 4 5 SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY 2021 SEASON “It feels wonderful to be home again” ‘Act 2’ of our 2021 Season is the first to Shakespeare’s ferocious study of power and be launched since our move home to corruption, Julius Caesar, will be presented The Wharf and, as such, we’ve planned a in the round – an exciting new format for celebration of the full gamut of what theatre The Wharf. I’m also thrilled that my new is capable of – a tribute to the artform adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, that brings us all together. This season is which premiered in 2020, will be returning also our first chance to tell stories in our for an encore season. newly renovated and flexible theatre spaces and my team and I have carefully curated Continuing our tradition of bringing you a series of shows that will showcase this the best new international writing, Bess historic building’s new capabilities. Wohl’s Grand Horizons and The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell Our commitment to contemporary and Gordon Farrell, are big, hilarious and Australian plays and the development of thought-provoking plays that will provide Australian theatre-makers is a central focus everyone, regardless of age and stage, a of the Company. This year I am overjoyed dazzling night at the theatre. to bring you recent works by two of the country’s most visionary writers: White Pearl Rounding out this wild ride is a show for by our Patrick White Fellow Anchuli Felicia our youngest theatre-goers, from Shake King, which we premiered in Australia & Stir Theatre Co, a musical adaptation with The National Theatre of Parramatta of Roald Dahl’s tale of heroism and revolt in 2019 and Triple X by Glace Chase, Fantastic Mr Fox. which previewed to standing ovations at This year you’ll experience The Wharf as Queensland Theatre before succumbing to you’ve never seen it before, and a whole new the closures of 2020. It also brings me great world of creative possibilities. But more joy to announce the long-awaited premiere importantly, it feels wonderful to be home of The Dismissal, a hilarious brand new again in a new but familiar place with a Australian musical that will bring 1975’s blank slate to start dreaming up the future Constitutional Crisis to vivid life. of the Company. We have a number of classics, works that With this in mind, I would like to formally continue to resonate across the decades invite you to join us in building that future and centuries, beginning with Wesley and to continuing this year of wonderful Enoch and Deborah Mailman’s landmark theatre. of Australian theatre The 7 Stages of Grieving. Led by Zahra Newman and Bert La Bonté, Lorraine Hansberry’s American masterwork A Raisin in the Sun will have its first Australian mainstage production, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman will star legendary actor Wayne Blair and 6 5 2020 SEASON The 7 Stages of Grieving BY WESLEY ENOCH AND DEBORAH MAILMAN DIRECTED BY SHARI SEBBENS Designer A testament to love, family and resilience Elizabeth Gadsby Lighting & AV Designer The 7 Stages of Grieving is a vibrant and insightful account of Verity Hampson Composer & what it means to be an Aboriginal woman in contemporary Sound Designer Australia. On its premiere in 1995 it became an early triumph Steve Francis for Deborah Mailman and Wesley Enoch, and a beloved classic of Assistant Director Australian theatre. Ian Michael A woman stands alone on stage. Over one gripping hour, she With Elaine Crombie traces seven phases of Aboriginal history – Dreaming, Invasion, Genocide, Protection, Assimilation, Self-Determination, INSIGHT EVENTS and Reconciliation. Mailman and Enoch’s script is a potent Pre-season Briefing expression of strength and survival, as well as humour and joy. Mon 17 May 6.15pm It’s an ode to the power of storytelling. Wharf 2 Theatre Resident Director Shari Sebbens makes her STC directorial debut Night with the Artists with this moving and vital work. Helpmann Award-winner Mon 31 May and Mon 7 Jun post-show Elaine Crombie tackles this tour de force performance with her distinctive warmth and vivacity. Matinee Club Wed 2 Jun 12pm In an exciting update, brand new scenes have been added with Neilson Family Gallery Enoch and Mailman to offer a contemporary perspective on what has changed in the 26 years since the play first opened, and how far we still have to go. The 7 Stages of Grieving’s generosity of spirit is set to be embraced by a whole new generation. 21 MAY – 19 JUN WHARF 1 THEATRE APPROX. DURATION 1 hr no interval Vaile. Rene Photo: Elaine Crombie. 6 7 2020 SEASON Grand Horizons BY BESS WOHL DIRECTED BY JESSICA ARTHUR AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Designer Parents are people too Renée Mulder Lighting Designer Nancy and Bill are calling it quits. After 50 years of ‘married Verity Hampson Composer & bliss’, Nancy wants to take a last chance at living her best life. Sound Designer And Bill? Well, Bill’s OK with it. The couple’s adult children, Ben Clemence Williams and Brian, are definitely not OK with it. Who said elderly parents Assistant Director have a right to branch out and try new things? Megan Wilding Stage legends John Bell and Linda Cropper (returning to the With John Bell STC stage for the first time in 11 years) lead an exceptional cast Linda Cropper including James Majoos, Zindzi Okenyo (The Golden Age) and James Majoos Guy Simon (Playing Beatie Bow) in a story that shows us that Johnny Nasser working out what you really want is a lifelong process. Zindzi Okenyo Guy Simon This brand new family comedy straight from pre-lockdown Broadway takes a brilliantly comedic – and ultimately moving – INSIGHT EVENTS Pier Group Lunch look at romance and intergenerational divides in the era of self- Mon 10 May 12.30pm expression, alternative family models and... sexting. The Theatre Bar at the End of the Wharf In the hands of Resident Director Jessica Arthur (Wonnangatta, Banging Denmark), Bess Wohl’s laugh-out-loud comedy will Pre-season Briefing ponder the joys and frustrations of family, marriage, intimacy Mon 24 May 6.15pm Wharf 2 Theatre and risking it all in the search of genuine happiness. Night with the Artists Mon 21 Jun and Mon 28 Jun post-show Zindzi Okenyo, Linda Cropper, John Bell and Guy Simon. John Bell and Guy Simon. Cropper, Linda Zindzi Okenyo, Ridler. Justin Vaile, Rene Photo: ASSOCIATE PARTNER 7 JUN – 3 JUL ROSLYN PACKER THEATRE PRODUCTION PATRON APPROX. DURATION CONTENT The Donor Syndicate 2 hrs 20 mins Infrequent strong language including interval Mia Wasikowska 8 9 2020 SEASON Tr i p l e X BY GLACE CHASE DIRECTED BY PAIGE RATTRAY WORLD PREMIERE Designer Twenty-first century love Renée Mulder Lighting Designer Scotty is living the dream. A successful Wall Street banker, he has Ben Hughes Composer & just bought a Tribeca loft for a cool three million and is about to Sound Designer marry his beautiful and loaded girlfriend Kymberley. But Scotty Kelly Ryall has a secret that will outrage both his conservative mother Deb Intimacy & Fight Director and progressive sister Claire: his ongoing affair with charismatic Nigel Poulton trans drag performer Dexie. This is a hysterically funny and With wildly provocative love story. Glace Chase Josh McConville NYC-based, two-time Griffin Award-winner Glace Chase is both Christen O’Leary the writer and star of Triple X, a deep dive into the unknowable Contessa Treffone contours of attraction. Sydney Theatre Company’s Associate Elijah Williams Director Paige Rattray (The Beauty Queen of Leenane) helms a INSIGHT EVENTS brilliant ensemble cast of Josh McConville (Cloud Nine), Christen Pre-season Briefing O’Leary, Contessa Treffone (The Harp in the South) and Elijah Mon 28 Jun 6.15pm Williams. Wharf 2 Theatre Recently announced as a finalist for the prestigious international Night with the Artists Mon 12 Jul and playwriting award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, this tender Mon 19 Jul post-show and brilliantly comic look at social taboos and love out of bounds is not to be missed. CO-PRODUCER 1 JUL – 14 AUG WHARF 1 THEATRE APPROX. DURATION CONTENT 2 hrs 30 mins Adult themes, frequent strong language, including interval sexual references and sex scenes Josh McConville and Glace Chase. Photo: Rene Vaile. Rene Photo: and Glace Chase. Josh McConville Mia Wasikowska 10 11 White Pearl BY ANCHULI FELICIA KING DIRECTED BY PRISCILLA JACKMAN Designer There’s no such thing as bad publicity... Jeremy Allen Lighting Designer A “blisteringly funny satire” (Time Out) by one of Australia’s Damien Cooper Composer & most exciting young playwrights, White Pearl returns to STC Sound Designer after its sold-out 2019 Australian premiere with The National Michael Toisuta Theatre of Parramatta and acclaimed productions in London Composer & Associate and Washington D.C. Sound Designer Me-Lee Hay Things are heating up in the oh-so-cool Singapore headquarters Projection Designer Anchuli Felicia King of Clearday™, an upstart player in the Asian skincare game. Dramaturg Sales of their new range – ‘White Pearl’ skin-whitening cream Courtney Stewart – are going through the roof, and the ambitious team of young women have their eyes to the sky.
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