2014 I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Oscar Wilde From the Artistic Director 5 Upstairs Oedipus Schmoedipus 8 2014 Once in Royal David’s City 10 The Philadelphia Story 12 Brother’s Wreck 14 Hedda Gabler 16 Season Nora 18 The Glass Menagerie 20 A Christmas Carol 22 20 Questions 24 Downstairs Cain and Abel 28 Oedipus Rex 30 Is This Thing On? 32 Cinderella 34 The Business End This Is Our Company 38 Why You Should Subscribe 39 Loyalty Program & 30-Down Club 43 How to Book 44 Sunday Forum 46 General Information (Box Office hours, performance times) 47 Thank You 52 2014 Season Calendars 54 Subscription Booking Form Hello friends,

So, here it is: our 2014 season And that’s not even mentioning book. It’s a ripper of a season the actors, the designers... so I think. many great people. What I’m excited about is how different they Browse away. But before you do, all are. That’s one of the great joys some introductions: you should of being an artistic director and meet our two new Resident curating a season. Juxtaposing Directors, Adena Jacobs and tragedy with comedy, the intimate Anne-Louise Sarks. We’ve stolen with the epic, the gentle with the them both from Melbourne (so rough and tumble. many good people come from Melbourne). We scoured the That is, in fact, the point. There is country for the two brightest and more than one way to skin a cat. most exciting young directors There is no right way to make we could find. And what do you theatre, any more than there is know? They were right under our a right way to paint a painting or noses, just south of the border. write a love song. Everyone does I’m so glad they’ve agreed to it their own way. It strikes me that come onboard. audiences – much like customers at a delicatessen – don’t care Anyone who saw Sarks’ terrific who made the sausage (or Medea or Jacobs’ fantastic indeed how), provided it tastes Persona here at Belvoir will good. In my limited experience know they are both enormously with sausages (and theatre) it’s talented. They join Associate vastly preferable to not know Director Eamon Flack (Angels in what goes in. America) and Literary Manager and all-rounder Anthea Williams So, if you’re going to skin a cat (Forget Me Not) to round out and make it into a sausage, make what has to be the hottest team sure you get great artists to do it. of theatre-makers this side of The Right? Something like that! Globe. Plus, we’ve invited a swag The stage is set for a thrilling of freelance artists into the tent to year of theatrical delight. Now all weave their magic: from Simon you have to do is choose which Stone to , Michael shows to see. My tip? The lot! Gow, Jada Alberts, Kit Brookman, Matthew Whittet to collectives See you at the theatre. The Rabble and post. It’s A HELL X OF A LINE-UP. Ralph

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6 7 9 January – 2 February UPSTAIRS By post after Aeschylus, Dramaturg With Zoë Coombs Marr Anon, Artaud, Behn, Brecht, Anne-Louise Sarks Mish Grigor Büchner, Chekhov, Coward, Composer & A co-production with post Fo, Genet, Havel, Ibsen, Sound Designer presented in association Marlowe, Molière, O’Neill, James Brown with Festival Plautus, Racine, Seneca, Shakespeare, Shaw, Sophocles, Strindberg, Wedekind, Wilde et al Oedipus Schmoedipus Welcome to 2014! First Fed up with white men staging up, a democratic theatrical the deaths of white men in plays extravaganza two-and-a-half- written by white men, the white thousand years in the making. ladies from post have pirated Take several hundred of the the theatrical canon and turned greatest plays of all time, pick over the juiciest stuff to seven out the death scenes, mix them hundred – that’s right, seven together (in a cunning and clever hundred! – collaborators. way) and then – well that’s a Death: it belongs to everyone! surprise… Want to be involved? Oedipus Schmoedipus is a Oedipus Schmoedipus will be great big festival of shuffling-off- looking for lots and lots and the-mortal-coil from Australia’s lots of volunteers – no skill level silliest/smartest theatre bunch: whatsoever required! Email post. Their work is joyful [email protected] to and dark, stupid and smart, register your interest. down-home and OTT. Oedipus Schmoedipus is their bid for theatre history – either to join it, or wreck it.

8 Mish Grigor 8 February – 23 March Upstairs By Michael Gow Set & Lighting Designer With Helen Buday Director Eamon Flack Nick Schlieper Brendan Cowell Costume Designer Harry Greenwood Mel Page Gillian Jones Composer Alan John Lech Mackiewicz

Once in Royal David’s City

Fierce and eloquent, playful, of New South Wales; his task is big-thinking, tender, furious – to turn bewilderment into clarity Michael Gow’s new play is an before it is too late. astonishing act of theatrical Once in Royal David’s City is big invention. and small at once, tumbling from Will Drummond is bewildered. the fifties to the present, from All the old certainties are coming West Berlin to Byron Bay, from apart. His parents are suddenly brief encounters to the cycles old, theatre is not what it used of history. It is about mothers to be, people around him are and sons, lost innocence, losing their minds and losing omnipresent death. It is about faith, the world is shrinking, and rage. It is about the brilliant what does it even mean to live possibilities of theatre. in a society any more? Then, It is beautiful. suddenly, Will finds himself sitting by his mother’s bedside in a Eamon Flack (Angels in America) hospital room on the north coast directs.

10 Brendan Cowell 27 March – 18 May Upstairs Created by Simon Stone With Zahra Newman based on the play by Philip Barry A co-production with Director Simon Stone Malthouse Theatre Set Designer Ralph Myers Lighting Designer Paul Jackson

The Philadelphia Story

Tracy Samantha Lord Haven The Philadelphia Story is a is rich and smart and famous first-class screwball-type and she is getting married to midsummer night’s pre-marital George Kittredge. freakout comedy. Its dialogue simmers with winks and nods C.K. Dexter Haven is her ex- and verbal parries, its characters husband and he has invited are fabulous, its plot is a lesson himself to the wedding. Macaulay in the craft, and the cast and Conner is the journalist C.K. creatives of this production are Dexter Haven has brought with going to have a ball. Join them. him to document the nuptial lead-up. As it’s a comedy you can Simon Stone and co turn be sure it ends with a wedding… a radical new lens on this but who will Tracy Samantha Lord effervescent Hollywood classic Haven marry? about love and celebrity and love and f**king up in public and love and excess... with some extra love thrown in for good measure.

12 Zahra Newman 24 May – 22 June UPSTAIRS By Jada Alberts Indigenous Theatre at Director Leah Purcell Belvoir supported by With Cramer Cain The Balnaves Foundation Hunter Page-Lochard Bjorn Stewart

Brother’s Wreck This beautiful little play is Indigenous artists who have about life. looked to each other as much as they have to their elders, and her It begins with a death: on a play emerges from the gathering hot morning under a house in voices of this new generation. Darwin, Ruben wakes to find his cousin Joe hanging from the Leah Purcell directs this very rafters. The play that follows tells alert, very human play about the story of how Ruben’s family, how many other people it takes little by little, brings Ruben back for each of us to live. from the edge. Balnaves Award-winner Jada Alberts has been a quiet, steady presence around the country for a good few years now – acting, writing, making. She is one of a growing group of young

14 Rarriwuy Hick 28 June – 3 August uPstairs Adapted from the play Lighting Designer by Henrik Ibsen Danny Pettingill Director Adena Jacobs Composer Kelly Ryall Set Designer With Ash Flanders Dayna Morrissey

Hedda Gabler After the Broadway premiere Belvoir’s new Resident Director of Hedda Gabler in 1902, one Adena Jacobs has an uncanny reviewer wrote of its extraordinary ability to uncover the torrents heroine: ‘Degenerate, selfish, of instinct that run beneath the morbid, cruel, bitter, jealous, routines of modern living. Ash something of a visionary, Flanders is a man who has something of a lunatic.’ made an artform out of playing tragic heroines. Hedda Gabler is trapped inside a conventional life: she married Their Hedda Gabler will be the scholar George Tesman. a primal close-up of Ibsen’s But money is short, Tesman’s electrifying marriage tragedy. old rival Ejlert Lövborg has turned up again, Judge Brack is visiting with alarming regularity, and Hedda Gabler’s volcanic boredom is reaching its limits. So begins a dangerous game of finding purpose in a purposeless existence.

16 Ash Flanders17 9 August – 14 September Upstairs By Kit Brookman and Set Designer Composer Kelly Ryall Anne-Louise Sarks Marg Horwell With Blazey Best after A Doll’s House by Costume Designer Henrik Ibsen Mel Page Director Anne-Louise Sarks Lighting Designer Paul Jackson

Nora Nora Helmer is one of those Sarks makes theatre from iconic fictional characters who theatre. Her stunning reworking has taken on a life of her own. of Medea at Belvoir in 2012 In 1879, at the end of Henrik swept up awards everywhere Ibsen’s new play A Doll’s House, and set a new standard for she did the unthinkable: she rethinking classics. Now Sarks walked out the front door of begins her tenure as Resident the house she lived in with her Director with a show about husband and children, slammed power and freedom. the door behind her, and left. In 2014, Nora’s dilemma remains the same: how much will a woman put up with and why? And what is the alternative? Kit Brookman and Anne-Louise Sarks’ update of Ibsen’s resounding play sets Nora’s story here and now, beginning with Ibsen’s tale and then following Nora out the door and into the new life we all suppose is possible for a tough-minded woman in these equitable modern times…

18 Blazey Best 20 September – 2 November Upstairs

By Tennessee Williams Lighting Designer With Luke Mullins Director Eamon Flack Damien Cooper Pamela Rabe Composer & Sound Designer Stefan Gregory

The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams invented a Amanda Wingfield is a single new kind of theatre with The mother. Her son Tom works Glass Menagerie. It introduced in a warehouse, her daughter the first in a line of legendary Laura is studying to become a Williams women – towering secretary. The three of them live dreamers fighting for their lives in a small apartment pent up – and its formal inventiveness with fantasies and urges and paved the way for the great rage and wounded tenderness. American dream plays like Death It is not a magnificent existence, of a Salesman and Angels in but each of them has one true America. It is also a scathing idea for a better life. Enter the self-portrait of the young Gentleman Caller… Tennessee: homosexual, poet, Eamon Flack directs Luke liar, truth-teller. Mullins (Angels in America) and the great Pamela Rabe.

20 Luke Mullins 8 November – 24 December Upstairs By Charles Dickens Set Designer With Peter Carroll Director Anne-Louise Sarks Michael Hankin Robert Menzies Costume Designer Kath Tonkin Mel Page Composer & Sound Designer Stefan Gregory

A Christmas Carol I have endeavoured in this A Christmas Carol is one of the Ghostly little book to raise the all-time most wonderful stories of Ghost of an Idea which shall not redemption and awakening. All put my readers out of humour of us are Scrooge in some way: with themselves, with each other, holding on to things. Given the with the season, or with me. May chance to step back from our it haunt their houses pleasantly, lives we would see how much is and no one wish to lay it. meaningless and inconsequential. Their faithful Friend and Servant, This show is about having a C. D. 1843. second chance. It is about how precious the life we have left is. The most famous miser of all It is about finding joy in those misers – and there are a lot of around us. Joy! misers out there! – is Ebenezer Scrooge. Caught in the great Anne-Louise Sarks and a cast of grind for money, he forgets marvels stage Charles Dickens’ to live a shared life – until one supreme book of kindness. Christmas night when something utterly, famously un-money happens to the old bastard…

22 Robert Menzies mondays only 7 April – 11 August Upstairs

Hosted by Wesley Enoch Indigenous Theatre at Featuring the very best Belvoir supported by Indigenous artists The Balnaves Foundation

Special Event 20 Questions Every blackfella has a story. 20 Questions is a cabaret and a talkshow rolled into one. It works like this: each night a new mystery guest from the exemplary roll-call of Indigenous performers is asked 20 questions. The questions are the same every night, but the answers will be very different. The idea is that out of this simple set-up comes a big, rich modern dreaming of story and song – and a better understanding of how much more there is still to tell. That great professional asker-of- good-questions Wesley Enoch hosts an extraordinary line-up of guests including Jada Alberts, Lisa Maza, Rachael Maza, David Page, Leah Purcell, Miranda Tapsell and . Because this show only plays on Mondays, tickets are extremely limited. If you really want to see this show (and you will) get your subscription in early!

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26 27 15 May – 8 June downstairs

Created by Kate Davis Set & Costume With Dana Miltins & Emma Valente Designer Mary Helen Sassman Director Emma Valente Kate Davis A co-production with Lighting & The Rabble Sound Designer Emma Valente

Cain and Abel And while they were in the field Their method is basically to take Cain attacked his brother Abel a big idea, lock themselves in and killed him. a room, and make a piece of Genesis 4 theatre. The big idea here is the tale from Genesis and its many The biblical story of Cain and iterations – Milton and Byron, Abel is the story of the first act Baudelaire and Baby Jane. of violence – an act that ricocheted across millennia and After the knock-out success divided civilisations. It is the of Orlando and The Story of O genesis of a vision of history as in Melbourne, Cain and Abel man on man, brother on brother, is the next installment in The blood on the earth. Rabble’s assault on the great stories of Western civilisation. Cain and Abel is a show about violence and reinventing history, made by women. Melbourne theatre-makers The Rabble are a law unto themselves, and it’s thrilling to see.

28 Mary Helen Sassman 21 August – 14 September downstairs Director Adena Jacobs

Oedipus Rex This is a very new version of a very old play. Why do generations of artists feel compelled to retell old stories again and again, like that of King Oedipus and his unfortunate parents? A plague has stricken the city. King Oedipus vows to take action. And so, most innocently, he enters a nightmarish quest for the truth – one which unleashes the most monstrous and shocking undercurrents of his own identity. Oedipus Rex is a raw dream of the past and the future. It is a visionary, brutal and mystifying account of what it means to be human. It gets right to the heart of our most primal longings and fears. In the intimacy of the Downstairs Theatre, Adena Jacobs casts a wildly modern eye over theatre’s most complex, ancient myth.

30 2 October – 26 October Downstairs By Zoë Coombs Marr Director Kit Brookman

Is This Thing On? Brianna is a stand-up comedian. from five Briannas at different This is her life: an unfortunate ages, performed by five name, a boring childhood, slow foolhardy actresses. It is funny. self-realisation, a late coming- And it is not funny. It is about out. Drink. Standing in smelly being funny when funny is all rooms with strange men who you have. all tell the same jokes. Vomiting Is This Thing On? is a kind of on stage. Carrying on anyway. Don Quixote for the female Is there a reason? Probably not. comic – a magnificent and Just a way of coping with your stupid quest for one shining own mediocrity. Whose life is moment of specialness which this anyway? may have already happened. Zoë Coombs Marr’s brilliant new play is a portrait of a life in a comedy routine. Well, five overlapping comedy routines,

32 Zoë Coombs Marr33 13 November – 7 December Downstairs By Matthew Whittet Original Concept by Anthea Williams Director Anthea Williams With Matthew Whittet

Cinderella What happens when two nervous jerks play out one of the great tales of all time? The theatrically invincible Matt Whittet (The Book of Everything) joins forces with director Anthea Williams (Forget Me Not, Old Man) for a rather grown-up, though sometimes infantile, race to the bottom of human dignity in the pursuit of love. Like the original, this is a story about how ugly ugly people can be, and how ugly beautiful people can be too. And it is the story of how love can be found in the strangest places. Two marvellous clowns play every role in a marvellous tale of love and transformation. PS. When a man and a woman do finally fall in love, children may result. But they should not be brought to this particular show.

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42 43 Let us do all the work Please check How to Book If you are subscribing to all 13 plays OR Please double check you’ve fully 9 plays Upstairs OR 4 plays Downstairs, completed all sections of your booking Your Subscription you can just choose your preferred day form. This is really important. of the week and we’ll do all the work How to submit your form for you. We’ll pick the dates but you are Don’t forget to include proof if you free to change them if you need to. It’s are purchasing senior, concession or that easy. Online at belvoir.com.au – use our Were you a subscriber in 2013? 30-Down subscriptions. If you want to choose fewer plays but are online booking form for a fast and easy Use the personalised booking form sent Online – carefully complete all the still flexible with dates, let us know your electronic subscription. There’s also a with your 2014 season book and we’ll relevant fields in the online subscription preferred day, eg “any Saturday at 2pm”, PDF version of the form on the website, process your form more quickly and form, double check your details, and we’ll choose the dates and give you which you can download. track your Loyalty Program status. then submit. You’ll receive an email the best available seats. Again, you are confirmation. Or complete the booking form free to change the dates if you need to. at the back of this book, then mail, Mail your completed hard copy form fax or drop it back to our Box Office. Previews & opening nights and cheque (payable to Belvoir) or credit You can scan and email your form to The first two or three dates of each card details to: [email protected]. season are preview performances that 2014 Season – Belvoir you are welcome to book into (please 18 Belvoir St Choose your package check performance times as these can Surry Hills NSW 2010 vary). Opening nights are always by UPSTAIRS THEATRE invitation only and cannot be booked as Fax your completed form (with credit part of your subscription. Please check card details) to: 02 9698 3688. Plays Full price Seniors* Concession† 30-Down dates on the calendars on pp54-56. Drop your form in with payment during (Save up to $ 160) (Save up to $ 115) (Save up to $ 115) (Save up to $ 133) Box Office hours (p47 for opening times). Special assistance 9 $ 452 $ 407 $ 317 $ 299 If you have any special seating, audio And just before you finish… 8 $ 436 $ 382 $ 306 $ 282 or accessibility requests, or if you are Gift certificates 7 $ 408 $ 359 $ 289 $ 261 interested in our captioned or audio- described performances, please attach A Belvoir subscription is a lovely gift idea 6 $ 371 $ 329 $ 266 $ 236 a note to your booking form. We’ll do all – any of our packages will warm the 5 $ 310 $ 278 $ 230 $ 209 that we can to accommodate you. See heart of your loved ones! A 30-Down p48 for more accessibility information. subscription is a really great way to DOWNSTAIRS THEATRE give a young person the life-changing How we process your booking form experience of regularly attending live Plays Full price Seniors* Concession† 30-Down All subscription renewals received before theatre. Give our Box Office staff a call (Save $ 22) (Save $ 18) (Save $ 17) (Save $ 27) 6pm Tuesday 24 September 2013 on 02 9699 3444 for info on how to will be processed first, after which purchase gift certificates. 4 $ 170 $ 150 $ 135 $ 125 all forms will be processed strictly in order of receipt. It takes 4–6 weeks for Philanthropy is a great thing subscriptions to be processed. The price you pay covers only 39% of THE LOT – All 13 Plays the true cost of your seat. An optional Seat availability tax-deductible donation can be made Plays Full price Seniors* Concession† 30-Down We always seat our patrons in the very on your booking form. With your support (Save $ 238) (Save $ 171) (Save $ 161) (Save $ 207) best available seats; the seats you we can continue to create the kind 13 $ 566 $ 519 $ 423 $ 377 are allocated in the Upstairs Theatre of theatre that you love and that has depend on when we receive your inspired audiences across the world! subscription, the popularity of the * Seniors prices are available with an eligible Australian Government-issued production and the day of the week. Also, we urge you to support the Actors’ Seniors card. We’re also limited by the size of our Benevolent Fund charity by donating an additional 50 cents per ticket when you † Concession prices are available with a full-time student card, all Centrelink theatre, but rest assured we always fill out your booking form. Please visit Pensioner concession cards and Veterans’ Affairs cards. give you the best possible seats. The seating plan for the Upstairs Theatre is actorsbenevolentfund.org.au for more To claim any concessions or to join the 30-Down Club you must send on our website. information. proof with your booking form.

44 45 Sunday Forum General Information

Good theatre makes you feel. It can Tweet while you listen (or follow Belvoir St Theatre Please note: 20 Questions will play in also make you think. Sometimes online) using #sundayforum 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills NSW 2010 the Upstairs Theatre on Mondays from you’re left thinking about it well after Subscriptions 02 8396 6290 7 April to 11 August. Oedipus Schmoedipus you’ve left the theatre. You want to Box Office 02 9699 3444 3pm, 2 February Home before dark know more; about the play, its ideas, Box Office fax 02 9698 3688 If you like to be home before dark there its history or how it came about. Administration 02 9698 3344 Once in Royal David’s City are performances on Saturdays at 2pm Admin fax 02 9319 3165 If so then our Sunday Forums are 3pm, 23 March and 2.15pm. There are also Wednesday [email protected] for you. matinees for Oedipus Schmoedipus. If The Philadelphia Story belvoir.com.au you want to see a show and be home We hold a forum for each of our 3pm, 18 May Box Office hours earlier in the evening there are shows Upstairs performances. Each is Brother’s Wreck Monday 9.30am – 6pm at 6.30pm and 7pm on Tuesdays, and different and tackles a specific 3pm, 22 June Tuesday 9.30am – 6.30pm 5pm and 5.15pm on Sundays. aspect of the production. It might Wednesday to Saturday 9.30am – 8pm be a lecture, a discussion or a Hedda Gabler Sunday 2.30pm – 5pm Previews & opening nights demonstration. One might take a look 3pm, 3 August Previews are bookable but opening at the broader social context of a play. Please note these hours may change nights are not! Please see more Nora Another might focus on how a show during non-performance periods and on information on p45. was created. After the forum you 3pm, 14 September public holidays. Phone bookings close have a chance to ask questions of the one hour prior to performance times. Location and transport The Glass Menagerie Belvoir St Theatre is in Surry Hills, a panellists, meet your fellow audience We have two Box Office locations: 3pm, 2 November five-minute walk from Central Station. members and continue the discussion at Belvoir St Theatre (25 Belvoir St) Buses travel along Chalmers and informally with us in the foyer. A Christmas Carol and at our administration warehouse Elizabeth Streets. For public transport 3pm, 21 December (18 Belvoir St). The Box Office is Sunday Forums are free. It’s best information, call the Transport Infoline open at either one of these locations to see the show before you come on 131 500 or visit 131500.com.au. because we’re bound to spoil the depending on the time and day – ending! Check our website or call please check via phone or website, Parking Box Office to find out who will appear and there are also signs at the front There is NO onsite parking, and limited on each panel and what the topic of door of both buildings. timed parking is available on the streets discussion will be. around the theatre. We encourage you Performance times to use public transport. See you there! Upstairs Theatre Tuesday 6.30pm central Wednesday* to Friday 8pm station Although tickets are free, bookings are Saturday** 2pm & 8pm essential and are open several weeks Sunday 5pm^ before each forum. Book online at belvoir.com.au/sundayforum or call Downstairs Theatre belvoir Box Office on 02 9699 3444. Tuesday 7pm admin clisdell st Wednesday to Friday 8.15pm

Saturday 2.15pm & 8.15pm belvoir st Sunday 5.15pm theatre goodlet st *Also Wednesday 4pm matinees for Oedipus Schmoedipus. **All Saturday matinees for Oedipus Schmoedipus will play at 4pm. ^Sunday previews play at 6.30pm. 46 47 General Information

Eating and drinking accessibility or seating requirements, Tickets (non-subscription) please do not hesitate to contact our Silver Spoon Caterers provide delicious General release tickets for each show go on sale at Belvoir throughout the year as Box Office on 02 9699 3444. Further pre-theatre meals from 90 minutes prior the shows approach. On-sale dates are on each production’s page on our website: information about all our accessibility to each performance (except matinees belvoir.com.au. The grid below shows the non-subscription ticket prices. and Sundays) at Belvoir St Theatre. services can be found on our website at Wraps and ice-creams are also available belvoir.com.au/access. Remember: if you are a subscriber, you are entitled to purchase additional tickets at a discounted price for all Belvoir performances, so you can bring along family and during the interval. Come early and Audio-described (AD) and friends. And when tickets go on general sale for shows throughout the year, as a enjoy your food with a drink from the captioned (CAP) performances subscriber you can purchase them one week before non-subscribers. Hal Bar. See our website for menus All are on Saturdays at 2pm. and wine lists. Belvoir also has several Once in Royal David’s City restaurant partners in Surry Hills who UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS we recommend for pre- and post-show AD 8 March / CAP 15 March Full Price $ 68 $ 48 drinks and dining. Hedda Gabler Visit our website for dining information: CAP 19 July / AD 26 July Subscriber Discounted Rate $ 62 $ 45 belvoir.com.au/foodanddrink. The Glass Menagerie Seniors*/Industry/Groups (10 or more) $ 58 $ 42 CAP 25 October Unwaged performances Concession†/Wednesday Matinee Groups $ 48 $ 38 We invite unwaged members of the A Christmas Carol (10 or more) community to attend a free-of-charge AD 29 November / CAP 20 December 2pm Thursday matinee performance of Previews $ 48 $ 38 each Upstairs production in our season. Programs Student RushII $ 35 $ 25 Patrons must hold an eligible Pensioner, You can buy programs at Belvoir from Health Care Card, Veterans’ Affairs the Box Office, the Hal Bar or you can Card, MEAA or Equity Card to claim pre-order your programs when you * Seniors prices are available with an eligible Australian Government-issued Seniors card. a complimentary ticket. Seniors and subscribe and save. Did you know that Seniors Health Cards are not valid. Visit some of our programs come with the † Concession prices are available with a full-time student card, all Centrelink our Box Office in person from 12 noon full script included (Upstairs new works Pensioner concession cards and Veterans’ Affairs cards. on the day of the performance – see the and adaptations) and our Downstairs II Student Rush available Tuesday 6.30pm and 7pm and Saturday 2pm, 2.15pm calendar on pp54–55 for dates. Full programs are free? All programs come and 4pm performances, from 10am on the day subject to availability. info can be found on our website at with biographies, headshots, rehearsal belvoir.com.au/unwagedprogram. photos, writer and director notes To claim any concessions you must provide proof. and some contain extra articles and Note: The unwaged performance of Please note: transaction fees may apply and prices may be subject other content. Back issues for recent Oedipus Schmoedipus will be at 4pm. to change. Ticket prices may also vary when our productions play at productions are also available online at other venues. Accessibility belvoir.com.au/programs. We cater for a range of accessibility Swearing, nudity and needs. Belvoir St Theatre has lift access to the foyer and theatre, and a hearing other bits loop in the Upstairs Theatre (E–J rows, Some of our productions may contain centre). In conjunction with Vision strong language, nudity, violence, Australia we provide audio-described smoking, strobe lighting, haze or other performances. For hearing impaired things you may find confronting or patrons we provide a mobile device uncomfortable. If you are concerned captioned service, generously funded about any of these please ask our Box by City of Sydney. If you have specific Office staff about content when booking.

48 49 The Balnaves Foundation Support Belvoir

Supporting the presentation of Brother’s Wreck and 20 Questions in 2014.

The Balnaves Foundation is a private In addition, 2014 represents the third Did you know that the average philanthropic organisation that was year of the annual Balnaves Foundation price of a ticket to a Belvoir show established in 2006 by Neil Balnaves Indigenous Playwright’s Award – a covers only 39% of the true cost AO to provide support to charitable $20,000 award comprising $7,500 prize of your seat? To help us make up enterprises across Australia. It supports money and a $12,500 commission for the difference and ensure we can eligible organisations that aim to create a new play. consistently deliver top-notch theatre, a better Australia through education, we rely on a dedicated group of Belvoir has a long history of working medicine and the arts with a focus on individuals – our donors. with Indigenous artists including writers, young people, the disadvantaged and Their support allows us to facilitate directors, designers and actors, and of Indigenous communities. our community access programs, portraying unique Indigenous stories. nurture emerging artists and create The Balnaves Foundation has been Under Artistic Director Ralph Myers we the kind of theatre that inspires funding Belvoir’s Indigenous theatre continue our commitment to presenting audiences both here in Australia and program since 2011. Each year the significant Indigenous works and around the world. Foundation provides the financial engaging Indigenous artists at Belvoir underpinning for Belvoir to present in both our Upstairs and Downstairs Our donors enjoy the deepest two Indigenous works. A range of Theatres. possible relationship with Belvoir, access programs is attached to the our artists and our work. To find out Belvoir extends our warmest thanks productions, including an unwaged how you can become one, and the to The Balnaves Foundation for its different ways you can support all performance and schools matinees. ongoing support. that we do, get in touch with our Showing its commitment to Indigenous Development team on 02 8396 6209 work at Belvoir, The Balnaves or [email protected]. Foundation has supported our productions of Jack Charles vs The Crown, Windmill Baby, Beautiful One Day, Don’t Take Your Love to Town, The Cake Man and Coranderrk. In 2014 the Foundation will support Brother’s Wreck and 20 Questions.

50 51 Thanks to Our Sponsors Thank You

Our production partners

Malthouse Theatre, post, Sydney Festival, THE RABBLE.

IT Partner Media Partners Supporters

Indigenous Theatre at Major Sponsors Belvoir supported by The Balnaves Foundation Oedipus Schmoedipus is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, and by the NSW Government through Arts NSW. It has been developed in the CultureLAB with the assistance of Arts Victoria and the City of Melbourne through Arts House. Oedipus Andrew Cameron Family Schmoedipus was developed and presented at the World Theatre Festival 2013, Foundation Brisbane Powerhouse. post is supported by Managing and Producing Services Besen Family Foundation (MAPS for Artists) NSW – a joint initiative of the Australia Council, the Australian Coca-Cola Australia Government’s arts funding and advisory body, and the NSW Government through Foundation Arts NSW. MAPS NSW is managed by Performing Lines. Copyright Agency Cultural Fund The Glass Menagerie is presented by special arrangement with The University of Gandevia Foundation the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Associate Sponsors Goldman Sachs The Greatorex Foundation The 2014 season book and launch would not have been possible without Street Promotions Australia the valued contribution of: Teen Spirit Charitable Emily Barclay, Blazey Best, Zoë Coombs Marr, Brendan Cowell, Wesley Enoch, BOUTIQUE ACCOMMODATION Foundation Ash Flanders, Harry Greenwood, Mish Grigor, Rarriwuy Hick, Marty Jamieson, Thomas Creative Robert Menzies, Luke Mullins, Zahra Newman, Pamela Rabe, Mary Helen Sassman, Bjorn Stewart, Matthew Whittet. Event Sponsors Art Gallery of NSW, Berkelouw Books, Bishop Sessa, Cellarmasters, Tom Cramond, Dendy Cinemas, Brooke Farah and The Kitchen, Griffin Theatre Government Partners Company, Love Supreme, Museum of Contemporary Art, Opera Australia, Pacific Magazines, Picket Studio, Stays in the Vines, Sydney Festival, Sydney Film Festival, The Devonshire, The Monthly magazine, Vini. Special thank you to the talented and ever-patient Alphabet Studio and the Belvoir Marketing team.

Silver Spoon Caterers Design Alphabet Studio Printer & mailing house immij Photography Gary Heery Hair & make-up Naomi McFadden, The paper used in this book is Nadine Monley, Kylie O’Toole derived from forests promoting For more information on partnership opportunities please contact sustainable management. our Development team on 02 9698 3344 or [email protected]

52 53 2014 Season Calendar Upstairs Theatre JANUARY AUGUST M T W T F S S M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Nora 9 aug – 14 sep Oedipus Schmoedipus 9 JAN – 2 FEB 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Previews (bookable) 9, 10, 12 August Previews (bookable) 9, 10 January 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Opening night (invitation only) 11 Januar y 27 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Opening night (invitation only) 13 August Wednesday matinees (4pm) 15, 22 January Unwaged performance 11 September FEBRUARY SEPTEMBER Unwaged performance (4pm) 30 January Sunday Forum 14 September M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Sunday Forum 2 February 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Once in Royal David’s City 8 FEB – 23 mar 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Previews (bookable) 8, 9, 11 February 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 The Glass Menagerie 20 sep – 2 nov Opening night (invitation only) 12 February 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Previews (bookable) 20, 21, 23 September Audio-described performance 8 March Opening night (invitation only) 24 September MARCH OCTOBER Captioned performance 15 March Unwaged performance 2 October M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Captioned performance 25 October Unwaged performance 20 March 31 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 Sunday Forum 2 November Sunday Forum 23 March 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 27 28 29 30 31 The Philadelphia Story 27 mar – 18 may Previews (bookable) 27, 28, 29 March APRIL NOVEMBER Opening night (invitation only) 30 March M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Unwaged performance 24 April 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Sunday Forum 18 May 8 nov – 24 Dec 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 A Christmas Carol 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Previews (bookable) 8, 9, 11 November 28 29 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Opening night (invitation only) 12 November Audio-described performance 29 November MAY deceMBER Unwaged performance 18 December M T W T F S S M T W T F S S Captioned performance 20 December 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sunday Forum 21 December 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Brother’s Wreck 24 may – 22 jun 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 31 Previews (bookable) 24, 25, 27 May Opening night (invitation only) 28 May JUNE Unwaged performance 19 June M T W T F S S Sunday Forum 22 June 30 1 20 Questions 7 APR – 11 aug (Mondays only) 6.30pm 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 april july 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 7 April, 14 April, 28 April 7 July, 14 July, 21 July, 28 July 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Hedda Gabler 28 jun – 3 aug may august 5 May, 12 May, 26 May 11 August Previews (bookable) 28, 29 June, 1 July JULY Opening night (invitation only) 2 July M T W T F S S JUNE 2 June, 9 June, 16 June, 30 June Unwaged performance 10 July 1 2 3 4 5 6 Captioned performance 19 July 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Audio-described performance 26 July 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Sunday Forum 3 August 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 54 55 2014 Season Calendar Downstairs Theatre MAY M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Cain and Abel 15 may – 8 jun 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Previews (bookable) 15, 16 May 26 27 28 29 30 31 Opening night (invitation only) 17 May JUNE M T W T F S S 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

AUGUST M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Oedipus Rex 21 AUG – 14 SEP 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Previews (bookable) 21, 22 August Opening night (invitation only) 23 August SEPTEMBER M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

OCTOBER M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 Is This Thing On? 2–26 oct 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Previews (bookable) 2, 3 October 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Opening night (invitation only) 4 October 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

NOVEMBER M T W T F S S 1 2 18 & 25 Belvoir St 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Surry Hills NSW 2010 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Australia Cinderella 13 nov – 7 Dec 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Previews (bookable) 13, 14 November 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Administration +61(2) 9698 3344 Opening night (invitation only) 15 November Subscriptions +61(2) 8396 6290 deceMBER Box Office+61(2) 9699 3444 M T W T F S S +61(2) 9319 3165 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Fax 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Email [email protected] 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Web belvoir.com.au 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Cover Rarriwuy Hick Photographer Gary Heery 29 30 31 56 D