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Belvoir Annual Report 2013 Belvoir Annual Report 2013 A Contents This Is Our Company 02 Core Values, Principles and Mission 03 Chair’s Report 04 Artistic Director’s Report 07 Executive Director’s Report 08 2013 Season and Tours 10 Co-producers’ Seasons 31 Education 33 Artistic and Programming 36 Marketing 38 Development 40 Donors 42 Board and Staff 44 Financial Statements 48 Key Performance Indicators 50 Directors’ Report 52 Directors’ Meetings 56 Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income 57 Statement of Financial Position 58 Statements of Changes in Equity and Cash Flows 59 Notes to the Financial Statements 60 Directors’ Declaration 68 Auditor’s Report 69 Partners, Sponsors and Supporters 70 B Meyne Wyatt & Geraldine Hakewill in Peter Pan. Photo: Brett Boardman. This Is Our Company Core Values and Principles One building. • Belief in the primacy of the Six hundred people. artistic process Thousands of stories. • Clarity and playfulness in When the theatre in an old tomato sauce Belvoir’s position as one of Australia’s most storytelling factory at 25 Belvoir Street was threatened innovative and acclaimed theatre companies • A sense of community within with redevelopment in 1984, more than 600 has been determined by such landmark people – passionate lovers and makers of productions as The Wild Duck, The Diary of the theatrical environment theatre – formed a syndicate to buy the build- a Madman, The Blind Giant is Dancing, The • Responsiveness to current ing and save it. Book of Everything, Cloudstreet, Measure for Measure, Keating!, Parramatta Girls, Exit the social and political issues It was an act of love, to theatre and to our city. King, The Alchemist, Hamlet, Waiting for Go- • Equality, ethical standards Thirty years later, Belvoir is still going strong dot, The Sapphires, Who’s Afraid of Virginia and shared ownership – producing fresh, dynamic and challenging Woolf?, Stuff Happens and Medea. work here in Surry Hills. Belvoir has nurtured of artistic and company We love playing at our home in Surry Hills but the finest theatrical talents in this country – achievements our work also goes further afield to regional actors, writers, directors, designers and arts Australia, other capital cities and to overseas workers. We fill our two beautiful theatres • Development of our festivals and venues. Australian artists are year-round with performances that are performers, artists and staff fantastic cultural ambassadors and we are visionary, bold and risky. pleased to play our part. We believe in the Both the Upstairs and Downstairs stages intrinsic value of theatre and in its power to have nurtured the talents of many renowned change our society for the better. Australian artists: actors including Geoffrey Belvoir receives government support for its Rush, Cate Blanchett, Toby Schmitz, Robyn activities from the federal government through Mission Nevin, Deb Mailman and Richard Roxburgh; the Major Performing Arts Board of the writers such as Tommy Murphy, Rita Kalne- Australia Council and the state government To produce theatrical works jais, Lally Katz and Kate Mulvany; directors through Arts NSW. including Simon Stone, Anne-Louise Sarks, from a shared vision that Benedict Andrews, Wesley Enoch, Rachael question and affirm our culture, Maza and former Belvoir Artistic Director extend and develop our artists, Neil Armfield. and provide audiences with experiences of imaginative Acknowledgement daring and emotional depth. We show our respect and acknowledge the Traditional owners of the land on which Belvoir St Theatre is built: the Gadigal tribe of the Eora Nation. We pay respect to their Ancestors and Elders past, present and future. 02 Irma Woods & Luke Carroll in The Cake Man. Photo: Heidrun Löhr. Chair’s Report Andrew Cameron 2013 was another was received by Jada Alberts; her new play, Awards ambitious year for Brothers Wreck, is slated for the Upstairs Belvoir. Again this Theatre in 2014. Belvoir garnered five industry awards 2013 Green Room Awards year we presented 14 in 2013. Dance – Concept and Realisation The Hive, our group of young, enthusiastic productions in total Conversation Piece supporters, continued to gather momentum, 2013 Helpmann Awards – nine in the Upstairs (Belvoir/Lucy Guerin Inc) and this year it presented Lally Katz’s Stories Best Actor in a Leading Role Theatre and five in the I Want to Tell You in Person. The Hive’s Colin Friels (Death of a Salesman) Theatre – Direction Downstairs Theatre. collaboration with Playwriting Australia has Neil Armfield (The Book of Everything) We presented our most 2013 Sydney Theatre Awards yielded some exciting outcomes. Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a (Belvoir/Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of ambitious production to Image – presented by Melbourne During the year we made one new Mainstage Production date – the two parts of Theatre Company) Angels in America – to great acclaim. Many appointment to the Board. Well-known and Susan Prior (Small and Tired) of our shows sold out. A couple moved to highly regarded actor Mitchell Butel joined Theatre – Ensemble the Theatre Royal, following sell-out runs the Board to take the place of Peter Carroll. Cast of The Book of Everything at Belvoir. We continued our program of Peter was a Belvoir Board member for many (Belvoir/Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of supporting Indigenous theatre, in both years and provided quiet, considered and Image – presented by Melbourne performance and playwriting, and undertook valued advice. Thank you, Peter. We believe Theatre Company) an ambitious touring program to New York it is important to have two artists, including and Europe. an actor, on the Board. I would also like to thank all the hardworking members of the Unfortunately, our artistic successes have not Belvoir Board for their commitment, skill and been reflected in the bottom line. In 2013, financial support. in our most ambitious year, we endured an almost ‘perfect storm’ of things going wrong None of what we achieved in 2013 would behind the scenes. We understand precisely have been possible without the outstanding what went wrong, and have taken action to Belvoir team and the leadership of our make sure that this does not happen again. Executive Director, Brenna Hobson. Brenna I am pleased that the loss was not caused has worked tirelessly and with great skill by any problems with our revenue line. We to strengthen the company internally and sold more tickets in 2013 than ever before. broaden Belvoir’s activities and profile in We are fortunate that Belvoir has substantial the community. Brenna’s skill and expertise retained earnings, so we can absorb the loss have been recently recognised with her on this occasion. appointment to the Sydney Opera House Trust. We were delighted to be able to present productions using funds from the Creative Finally, without the artistic leadership provided Development Fund and the Chair’s Group. by Ralph Myers and all the talented creatives These are two of our valued supporter who have worked at Belvoir during 2013 we groups that raise funds for Belvoir projects would not have the many productions that and productions, and both ensure that we have sustained, intrigued and delighted us can extend our reach and ambition. We are this year. They have played to great acclaim grateful for this support. in our beloved Belvoir St Theatre, around Australia and overseas. On behalf of the We are also extremely grateful to The Board, I thank and congratulate them. Balnaves Foundation for their ongoing commitment to Belvoir towards the staging Andrew of Indigenous productions. In 2013 the Foundation supported Coranderrk and The Cake Man. The second annual Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright’s Award Jada Alberts receives The Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright’s Award from Neil Balnaves. 04 Photo: Tom Cramond. Artistic Director’s Report Ralph Myers Theatre is an – Travis Cardona’s turn as the defiant, blind ephemeral thing. I’m Ducky in Nakkiah Lui’s brilliant and angry often reminded (usually play This Heaven. when trying to explain – The wonderful Ewen Leslie pulling a third my job to taxi drivers) bottle of Echo Spring Whiskey out of his of how strange it is to trousers in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Pure dedicate so much of comedy. your existence to the creation of something – Lally Katz slow-dancing with a seven-foot that we know must bear to Lana Del Ray in Stories I Want to have such a tragically Tell You in Person. And how she could short lifespan, and that will, almost by make us feel genuinely sad while doing definition, be just a flicker before our eyes. something so palpably absurd. In the end, all that we have for the trouble – Colin Moody as Gerry in Tom Holloway’s of making or watching theatre are our heart-wrenching Forget Me Not. He was memories. And memories are, famously, incandescent with sadness and rage. It unreliable. But thinking back over the 2013 was almost too hard to watch at times. Season as I sit down to write this, I’m struck – The slow realisation by the audience that by how many great moments – how many the tiny bearded rabbi in the first moments reliably great memories – come flooding of Eamon Flack’s wonderful rendering of Susan Prior & Tom Conroy in Small and Tired. Photo: Brett Boardman. back. I was, most certainly, moved and Angels in America was in fact Robyn Nevin changed by the theatre we made together as in a beard. Some people never figured out a company over the year. it was her, and wondered why that terrific I’ve come to realise that theatre is a little man never came out for the curtain compact between all of us, the audience call! and the actors and the ushers and the stage – The infectious exuberance and energy of managers – everyone in that room together – the women in The Baulkham Hills African to make those memories, to make moments Ladies Troupe as they told their almost that change us in some way.
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