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1 2020 Season 2020 SEASON 2020 1 2020 SEASON STC acknowledges the Gadigal and Bidjigal peoples of the Eora nation who are the traditional custodians of the land on which the company gathers. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and we extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with whom we work and with whom we share stories. 1 2020 A year of evenings with friends and close encounters with the country’s most exciting actors. A year of revelations in the dark, and lingering conversations after the show. A year of enthralling stories; of dressing up (or dressing down) and going out; of feeling things, in real time, surrounded by people who are feeling them too. A year of seeing the world through new eyes and walking back into the night, feeling connected to the world outside. Here is your 2020 season. Here is your theatre company. 2 3 SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY 2020 SEASON “A year delving into memory and reflecting our city as it is today.” They say our personal memory of history only Jessica Arthur, has Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair extends as far back as our grandparents. That playing two bushmen in the 1910s. The play looks this is why humanity repeats its mistakes. But unsparingly at the conjoined myths of Australian theatre holds its memory in text – reminding us masculinity and mateship. It’s poetic, riveting and of what we might otherwise forget. In 2020, we masterful language. For The 7 Stages of Grieving by put this to the test by reflecting on the past Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, actor and through the lens of the present. What does the Richard Wherrett Fellow Shari Sebbens (Black is middle of the twentieth century tell us about the New White) steps up to direct. The play is an our world today? What did we know then that Australian classic, but it’s also one of the plays we have since forgotten? What hasn’t changed? from STC’s history that I vividly remember seeing How have we grown? as a teenager – it was inspiring, with a knock-out emotional punch, and it tells a story of our country We start in post-war London with Terence that remains desperately current. Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, directed by Paige Rattray, our Associate Director. Marta Dusseldorp In Home, I’m Darling, we return to our mid-century joins us in the central role, a married woman theme, with a play that quite literally looks back whose longing for true passion has pushed her at the 1950s housewife through a contemporary beyond the bounds of polite society. It’s a story lens. In Fun Home, a woman looks back at her life of love, of longing, and of feeling like an outsider to unpick her relationship with her father and her even in your own home. And while polite society sexuality. And, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, I’ll be may have expanded its boundaries, the play is still directing Eryn Jean Norvill in a radical adaptation startlingly revelatory. of Oscar Wilde’s novel, laying bare our current obsessions with image, youth, and perception. We end the year in 1950s Brooklyn. Playwright Meanwhile, in The Writer and Triple X, we tackle Arthur Miller has given us some of the great tragic familiar mid-century themes around creative heroes of modern theatre, but none are quite as struggle and family secrets but with decidedly complex or poignant as Eddie Carbone in A View contemporary voices telling their stories. from the Bridge. It’s a herculean role and we will be blessed with one of the best stage actors on the All this and much more. It’s a year brimming planet, Bobby Cannavale, starring alongside his with fantastic writing, electric performances and real-life partner, Rose Byrne. I’m really looking beautiful designs – all we need now, is you. I hope forward to directing this one – fireworks feels like you’ll join us for this great year of theatre. an understatement for this tale of family, betrayal and misplaced desire. Between those two mid-century bookends, we also Kip Williams delve into our own country’s memory with two Artistic Director plays in particular. Angus Cerini’s Wonnangatta, directed by our newly promoted Resident Director 4 5 2020 SEASON The Deep Blue Sea BY TERENCE RATTIGAN DIRECTED BY PAIGE RATTRAY Designer A rarely seen masterpiece David Fleischer Lighting Designer It’s 1952 in post-Blitz London and Hester Collyer’s life is in turmoil. She has Nick Schlieper gambled everything – her home, her status, her marriage to a High Court judge – to pursue a life with the dashing RAF fighter pilot Freddie, and she With has lost. Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea Fayssal Bazzi suddenly looks very inviting. But Hester is determined to forge her own Charmaine Bingwa path in a repressive age. Paul Capsis Marta Dusseldorp Terence Rattigan was one of the great stage and screen writers of the Brandon McClelland twentieth century and The Deep Blue Sea one of his master works. In Hester, he has created one of the most striking heroines of his era: strong-willed, INSIGHT EVENTS unconventional and complex. Pre-season Briefing Tue 28 Jan 6.45pm After an almost decade-long absence from the STC stage, Marta Dusseldorp Richard Wherrett Studio returns as Hester. She’s joined by Fayssal Bazzi (Mary Stuart) as the feckless Freddie, Brandon McClelland (Saint Joan), Charmaine Bingwa and iconic Night with the Artists performer Paul Capsis. Mon 17 Feb and Mon 24 Feb post-show Helmed by Associate Director Paige Rattray, The Deep Blue Sea is a beautiful, humanist drama about loss, longing, and having the courage to want more. Matinee Club Wed 26 Feb 12pm “To live without hope can mean to live without despair.” DR MILLER 4 FEB – 7 MAR | ROSLYN PACKER THEATRE PRODUCTION PATRON APPROX. DURATION CONTENT Rebel Penfold-Russell 2hrs 20mins Suicide and including interval adult themes Marta Dusseldorp 6 7 2020 SEASON No Pay? No Way! BY DARIO FO IN A NEW ADAPTATION BY MARIEKE HARDY DIRECTED BY SARAH GILES WORLD PREMIERE Designer When the going gets tough, the tough get shoplifting Charles Davis Lighting Designer Prices are out of control – and so is Antonia. Riled by the rising cost Paul Jackson of living, she agitates a riot in the local supermarket with an army of unruly housewives, leaving the place gutted. What follows is a wild and With unpredictable caper, as Antonia and her friend Margherita attempt to Glenn Hazeldine outsmart the police, hoodwink their husbands, and ‘liberate’ more loot. Rahel Romahn This is high-wire farce. Helen Thomson Aaron Tsindos No Pay? No Way! (sometimes known as Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!) was written Catherine Van-Davies by Italian father of farce and Nobel laureate Dario Fo in 1974 and its ever- resonant themes of rising corporate greed, wage stagnation and the thrills INSIGHT EVENTS of sticking it to the man have seen it staged around the world ever since. Pre-season Briefing Mon 3 Feb 6.45pm Sydney Theatre Company’s whip-smart new adaptation comes from the Richard Wherrett Studio pen of Marieke Hardy, one of ABC TV’s great comic forces, and features the incomparable talents of Helen Thomson (Mary Stuart) as Antonia. Night with the Artists Brought to life by director Sarah Giles (Accidental Death of an Anarchist) Mon 2 Mar and with a cast of Catherine Van-Davies (Going Down), Glenn Hazeldine Mon 9 Mar post-show (Così), Rahel Romahn (Lord of the Flies) and Aaron Tsindos (Muriel’s Wedding the Musical), No Pay? No Way! is an irreverent and hilarious comedy with a glint in its eye. “I didn’t nick it. I liberated it.” ANTONIA ASSOCIATE PARTNER n-Davies 10 FEB – 20 MAR | DRAMA THEATRE, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE ă 1 APR – 4 APR | RIVERSIDE THEATRES, PARRAMATTA PRODUCTION PATRON APPROX. DURATION CONTENT PARRAMATTA SEASON Anita & Luca 2hrs 20mins Sexual references and Co-presented with Belgiorno-Nettis Foundation including interval frequent strong language Riverside Theatres Helen Thomson and Catherine V Catherine and Thomson Helen Mia Wasikowska 8 9 2020 SEASON Home, I’m Darling BY LAURA WADE DIRECTED BY JESSICA ARTHUR Lighting Designer Everything new is old again Verity Hampson Composer & Judy is a picture-perfect ‘50s housewife. She spends her days making Sound Designer the perfect devilled eggs, mixing the perfect Screwdrivers and being the James Brown perfect homemaker to her husband Johnny. They’re totally happy with their pastel-hued life. The only problem is, it’s not the 1950s, it’s now, and With their dream world is about to come crashing down in hilarious style. Andrea Demetriades Anthony Taufa Fresh from winning the 2019 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, Home, I’m Darling is full of big laughs, big skirts and big questions. How can we INSIGHT EVENTS cope with the pressures of modern life? What do we lose in the present Pier Group Lunch with when we pine for the past? And can you get stains out of a shirt with just the Artists lemon juice and baking soda? Mon 2 Mar 12pm Helmed by Resident Director Jessica Arthur (Lethal Indifference) and Pre-season Briefing featuring Andrea Demetriades (Arms and the Man) and Anthony Taufa Mon 30 Mar 6.45pm (How to Rule the World), this witty, highly-original and thought-provoking Richard Wherrett Studio comedy takes a look at the complexity of women’s choices and the dangers of nostalgia through distinctly rose-coloured glasses.
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