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Oedipus Schmoedipus 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 Leah Purcell, 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 5 Upstairs 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 Sydney 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 Lisa Flanagan Rarriwuy Hick 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.
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