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Season Embargoed to 8Pm Friday 14 September 2012 We Are Excited to Announce Belvoir’S 2013 Season 2013 season Embargoed to 8pm Friday 14 September 2012 We are excited to announce Belvoir’s 2013 Season. It’s about growing up, or not. About taking chances and attempting to right wrongs. It’s about finding your place in a messy, chaotic world. Ralph Myers kicks off the year with Peter Pan, a work for adults and children alike with a team of fabulous clowns and headed by the funny/dangerous Meyne Wyatt as the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Next up is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the Tenessee Williams classic directed by Simon Stone and heralding the long overdue return of Jacqueline McKenzie, who long-term Belvoir audiences will remember for her ethereal Ophelia back in 1994. Speaking of Hamlet, we thought it was time to tackle that great play again, this time Simon Stone directs Toby Schmitz in the title role. Audiences loved Anthea William’s moving production of Old Man in the Downstairs Theatre this year; in 2013 she’s moving Upstairs directing Forget Me Not by Tom Holloway. This will be followed by both parts of Angels in America. It’s a piece of such breadth and ambition that it commands two nights in the theatre and we’re thrilled to have Eamon Flack to direct. Adena Jacobs is a young director of great talent from Melbourne. Her company staged a stunning adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona last year and we loved it so much we had to bring it to Sydney to show you. Leticia Caceres and Brendan Cowell are a formidable director/actor team (The Dark Room, 2011). They are teaming up with Simon Stone as writer to bring us a brand new take on Miss Julie. Our year in the Upstairs Theatre finishes up with another collaboration with our friends at ILBIJERRI Theatre Company. Corranderrk is a story that is both inspirational and heartbreaking; Isaac Drandic directs. The Downstairs Theatre will once again play host to some of the best new Australian writing around. We are thrilled that two of our associate playwrights will have new works showing in the space. They are This Heaven by Nakkiah Lui, directed by Griffin’s new Artistic Director Lee Lewis, and Small and Tired, written and directed by Kit Brookman. Both are significant talents that you’ll be seeing more of. If you’ve ever heard Lally Katz speaking about her work you’ve probably wanted to see her on stage as a performer! That’s just what we’ve done in Things I Want to Tell You In Person. Ros Horin has spent the last 18 months with an extraordinary group of African women who now call Australia home. Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe is their story. The year finishes up Downstairs withYirra Yarkin’s Kyle Morrison directing The Cake Man, one of the classics of early Indigenous playwriting and still brimming with life. Upstairs Peter Pan Everybody knows Peter Pan. He’s the boy who hasn’t 5 January – 10 February grown up in 113 years. But one night not long ago we sat Upstairs down and read J. M. Barrie’s original play and we found By J.M. Barrie ourselves in the presence of something far stranger, Director Ralph Myers far wilder and far more brilliant than Disney ever let us Set Designer Robert Cousins believe. Costume Designer Alice Babidge This is the story of a strange boy who comes through the Lighting Designer Damien Cooper window of an ordinary family and takes the children on Composer & Sound Designer an adventure to the bush. Well, to Neverland. It is also Stefan Gregory a mad festival of bedtime and storytime, of uncatchable Dramaturg Tommy Murphy girls who have a thing for you and Lost Boys who don’t have a thing for you, of rip tides, pirates, ticking crocs, With growing up, going home, mothers, fathers, dogs, dreams, Charlie Garber and that mad pirate fiend and great big grown-up Captain Geraldine Hakewill Hook! Meyne Wyatt John Leary It also happens to be more or less impossible to stage Meyne Wyatt at Belvoir, which is precisely why Ralph Myers is putting it on. For how better to un-grow Dan Wyllie up than attempt something that really shouldn’t be attempted? To top it all off, a cast of the country’s most ridiculous actors are along for the ride. Meyne Wyatt knocked our socks off earlier this year in Buried City and we can’t wait to see what he does with the cheeky boy who wouldn’t grow up. Dan Wyllie will bring something altogether new to Captain Hook and John Leary and Charlie Garber will be joined by more of Sydney’s naughtiest theatre-makers as Lost Boys, mermaids and crocodiles. Parents, bring your children. Children, bring your parents. Grandparents, bring everyone! For more information contact publicist Elly Michelle Clough [email protected] | 02 8396 6242 | 0407 163 921 CORPORATE PARTNER 2013 season Embargoed to 8pm Friday 14 September 2012 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof BRICK: But how in hell on earth do you 16 February – 7 April imagine that you’re going to have a child by a Upstairs man that can’t stand you? By Tennessee Williams MARGARET: That’s a problem that I will have Director Simon Stone to work out. Set Designer Robert Cousins Tennessee Williams is one of the giants of Costume Designer Alice Babidge twentieth-century drama and Cat on a Hot Lighting Designer Damien Cooper Tin Roof is his Lear. One era is ending, how Composer & Sound Designer does the next begin? It’s a portrait of two Stefan Gregory generations. One doesn’t want to die, and the other one feels crowded out, confused, and With desperate to inherit whatever it can get before Ewen Leslie it’s too late. Jacqueline McKenzie Big Daddy is a magnate. His son Brick is a closeted ex-footballer with a drinking problem. Brick’s wife Maggie is a second-rung society girl measuring her success against all the other families and the number of babies they have. Big Daddy is dying and somehow or other Maggie and Brick have to conceive the Jacqueline McKenzie next generation… Simon Stone’s Death of a Salesman was the standout hit of Belvoir’s 2012 Season. He continues his brilliant what-now exploration of the American classics with Tennessee Williams’ magnificent family showdown. The great Jacqui McKenzie (Hamlet) returns to Belvoir alongside the great Ewen Leslie (The Wild Duck). Forget Me Not Gerry is almost 60, and he is going to meet 20 April – 19 May his mother for the first time since he was Upstairs three. His daughter Sally has had it up to By Tom Holloway here with him and his problems. The old Director Anthea Williams lady lives somewhere in the UK. Liverpool, according to the records. So Gerry is going With to Liverpool to find out what made him who Colin Moody he is. Tom Holloway’s (Love Me Tender) gem of a A co-commission Everyman and play started life as a conversation between Playhouse Theatres Belvoir and Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse Theatres. Holloway’s task was to tell the story of the 3000-odd English children who, between 1945 and 1968, were told they were orphans and sent to Australia on a promise of warmth, fresh air, abundant food and boundless opportunity. Instead they arrived to deprived institutions where neglect and abuse were the norm. Holloway hasn’t told this story from its outset Colin Moody half a century ago; he sets it here and now. He has written a series of raw, often achingly beautiful conversations between members of a scattered family. Drawing the whole thing together is Gerry’s extraordinary, precarious bid to finally learn what it means to love and belong to a family. Belvoir’s own Anthea Williams (Old Man) directs this exquisite portrait of a man on a journey to meet the mother he never knew. For more information contact publicist Elly Michelle Clough [email protected] | 02 8396 6242 | 0407 163 921 CORPORATE PARTNER 2013 season Embargoed to 8pm Friday 14 September 2012 Angels in America: It ranks as nothing less than one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. New York Observer A Gay Fantasia on How long does it take for a play to become a classic? National Themes Actually, Angels in America is not one play but two. Millennium Approaches and Perestroika 28 May – 14 July were the closing statements of last century – an epic double-comedy of love and hate, Upstairs heaven and earth, past and future. Now, a generation after the play first appeared, a black By Tony Kushner President who supports gay marriage is about to go up against a Mormon Republican for the Director Eamon Flack White House, and Angels in America is the perfect guide to the essential questions of our Set Designer Michael Hankin times. Exactly what are the forces that drive the manic history of this new millennium? What Lighting Designer Niklas Pajanti does it really mean to live in a free society? What does it mean to live in a good society? Composer Alan John Eamon Flack (As You Like It, Babyteeth) directs a stellar cast in the newest classic in the canon. With Paula Arundell Mitchell Butel Part One: Millennium Luke Mullins Robyn Nevin Approaches Ashley Zukerman It could be one of those great New York Jewish jokes. It is 1985, Prior Walter is HIV positive, his Jewish boyfriend leaves him for a straight Mormon, and then he gets a hospital visit from an angel who says it is up to him to save humanity.
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