2014 School Book
A
I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don’t tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth. Tennessee Williams
2014 For Schools
2
From the Artistic Director
5
Once in Royal David’s City The Philadelphia Story Cain and Abel Brothers Wreck Hedda Gabler Nora Oedipus Rex The Glass Menagerie Is This Thing On? A Christmas Carol Cinderella
6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26
Schools Performances Support for Teachers Evening Performances Sunday Forum Workshops Backstage Tours Resources for HSC Drama Getting Involved with Belvoir Professional Development for Teachers Booking Form Getting to Belvoir Supporters
28 28 29 30 31 32 32 33 34 36 39 40
3
4
Hello friends,
The first time I remember going to the theatre was to see A Doll’s House here at Belvoir. I remember funny, particular things a child would be struck by. The colour of the wooden set. The intense looks the actors gave each other. The long silences. As we left the theatre, all the way home, I peppered my mother with questions about it. I’ve never forgotten the thrill of sitting in that room as the lights went down and waiting for it to begin. That was 1989, I was 10. Twenty-four years later we’re doing A Doll’s House again. This time it’s called Nora. And hopefully, in the audience there’ll be other kids, wide-eyed like I was, and some of them might get hooked, like I did. Alongside Nora are ten wildly different but equally thrilling shows. Imagine your first theatre experience is a beautiful new tale like Brothers Wreck or a mind-exploding version of an old one like Cain and Abel. Think of your younger self delighting in the midsummer madness of The Philadelphia Story or being struck by the sheer intensity of Hedda’s fateful decision. You could take them back to the Greeks with Oedipus Rex. Or let them encounter The Glass Menagerie for the very first time.
Or witness the birth of a new Australian classic in Once in Royal David’s City. This is a season which skirts beautifully around the epic and the domestic, grappling with what it means to be a human being in this complex world. We have classics, mashed up classics and plays destined to be classics. For students creating their own theatre, we offer inspiration ways to break open old forms and revel in the chaos that follows. New Resident Directors, Adena Jacobs and Anne-Louise Sarks are both brilliant at this. We’ve invited freelance artists in to weave their magic. It’s A HELL OF A LINE-UP. And that’s without mentioning the actors, the designers.... I’m excited about how different they all are. That’s the joy of being an artistic director and curating a season. Juxtaposing tragedy with comedy, the intimate with the epic, the gentle with the rough and tumble. The stage is set for a thrilling year of theatrical delight. Now all you have to do is choose which shows to bring your students to see. My hot tip? The lot! X Ralph 5
8 FEBRUARY – 23 MARCH UPSTAIRS By Michael Gow Director Eamon Flack
Set & Lighting Designer Nick Schlieper Costume Designer Mel Page Composer Alan John
With Helen Buday Brendan Cowell Harry Greenwood Gillian Jones Lech Mackiewicz
Once in Royal David’s City Fiercely eloquent, deftly inventive – Michael Gow’s new play transports audiences between now and the 1950s, from West Berlin to Byron Bay, past brief encounters through the relentless cycles of history. Will Drummond is bewildered. His father has had a stroke and can’t form words but his mother calls it a lingering cold. People around him seem to be losing faith. His directing is going awry. He can’t understand why. One Christmas eve he finds himself by his mother’s bedside in a hospital on the New South Wales north coast: his task, to
turn bewilderment into clarity in a race against time. What do you do when alienation is apparent in your own life and certainties slip away even as you clutch at them? Teach Brecht of course. Once in Royal David’s City puts everything most tender and personal in an epic context – making us laugh in outrage at the way things are. Encourage your students (as Will does the students he teaches) to say ‘yay Brecht’ by bringing them to see this insightful whirlwind of a piece of theatre.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11:30AM Wed 19 February, Wed 26 February, Thu 6 March, Wed 12 March SUGGESTED FOR YRS 10–12 HSC Drama: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice HSC Drama: Brecht 6
Brendan Cowell 7
27 MARCH – 18 MAY UPSTAIRS Created by Simon Stone based on the play by Philip Barry Director Simon Stone Set Designer Ralph Myers Lighting Designer Paul Jackson
With Zahra Newman Gareth Davies A co-production with Malthouse Theatre
The Philadelphia Story ‘With the rich and famous, always a little patience’. So says journalist Macaulay Conner in the hectic lead-up to Tracy Samantha Lord Haven’s society wedding. Tracy is having her second go at marriage, to self-made man George Kittredge. Ex-husband C.K. Dexter Haven has turned up uninvited. Worse, he has brought Macaulay and photographer Elizabeth Imbrie along to do a tabloid exclusive on the nuptials.
begin falling in love. But just who will Tracy marry tomorrow? The Philadelphia Story reminds us the time to make up your mind about people is never! Simon Stone reframes this screwball comedy about a woman who finds love in spite of, or maybe due to, her shortcomings. Sparklingly plotted, astute on the challenge of celebrity, your students will love this glorious Hollywood classic for right now.
One midsummer night, swimming in champagne, this smart set SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11:30AM Wed 2 April, Thu 1 May, Wed 7 May, Wed 14 May SUGGESTED FOR YRS 10–12 HSC Drama: Individual Project: Performance 8
Zahra Newman
15 MAY – 8 JUNE DOWNSTAIRS Created by Kate Davis & Emma Valente Director Emma Valente
Set & Costume Designer Kate Davis Lighting & Sound Designer Emma Valente
With Dana Miltins Mary Helen Sassman A co-production with THE RABBLE
Cain and Abel And while they were in the field Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Genesis 4 Cain and Abel is a show about violence and reinventing history, envisioned by women. The biblical story of Cain and Abel is the story of the first act of violence – an act that has divided civilisations. It is the beginning of history as man against man, brother versus brother, blood spilling onto the earth. Four female theatre makers reimagine this original act of sibling violence. In the traditions of feminist performance art, THE RABBLE take a no-holds barred approach
to staging a brutal onslaught on the founding stories of Western civilisation. The result is highly theatrical, irreverent and often anarchically funny. Their method is to take a big idea, lock themselves in a room, and make a piece of theatre. Here their inspiration is the tale from Genesis and its many iterations – Milton and Byron, Baudelaire and Baby Jane. Deeply visual, sometimes surreal or hypnotic, occasionally postmodern – students are unlikely to have experienced theatre this thrillingly brash or visceral before now.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 12 NOON Wed 21 May, Thu 29 May SUGGESTED FOR YRS 11–12 HSC Drama: Group Performance HSC English (Advanced): Comparative Study of Texts and Contexts: Exploring Connections 10
Mary Helen Sassman
24 MAY – 22 JUNE UPSTAIRS By Jada Alberts Director Leah Purcell With Cramer Cain Lisa Flanagan Rarriwuy Hick Hunter Page-Lochard Bjorn Stewart
Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir supported by The Balnaves Foundation
Brothers Wreck In this extraordinary play about life and how to live it, there is a death to be got through first. One hot morning in Darwin, 22-year-old Ruben wakes up to find his cousin Joe has hanged himself from the rafters. Ruben can’t deal. Not right then and not for a good long while after. The play that follows tells the story of how Ruben’s family, little by little, brings Ruben back from the edge. Written by Balnaves Awardwinner Jada Alberts (known to students from her performance in This Heaven) and directed
by Leah Purcell (Don’t Take Your Love To Town) - this is a remarkable work of Indigenous naturalism. It doesn’t shy away from gently asking the big questions. Especially about how our wellbeing is bound up in the wellbeing of those we’re closest to. How many other people does it take for each of us to live? This deeply compassionate look at one young man’s struggle to let go of loss and get on with living will resonate with thoughtful students.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11.30AM Wed 4 June, Thu 12 June SUGGESTED FOR YRS 10–12 HSC Drama: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice HSC English (Standard): Area of Study: Belonging 12
Rarriwuy Hick 13
28 JUNE – 3 AUGUST UPSTAIRS Adapted from the play by Henrik Ibsen Director Adena Jacobs
Lighting Designer Danny Pettingill Composer Kelly Ryall
Set Designer Dayna Morrissey
With Ash Flanders
Hedda Gabler Hedda Gabler is an extraordinary woman trapped inside a conventional life. She is someone who has never neatly fitted inside the spaces provided for her. By casting Ash Flanders as Ibsen’s tragic heroine, Adena Jacobs exposes the unnaturalness of the roles Hedda is expected to play. Everyone insists that Hedda should be extremely happy. Finally married to scholar George Tesman, home from honeymoon and installed into the very house she once named as the only one she could live in, with every comfort that the newlyweds can ill afford. Pregnant without
wanting to be, Hedda is stifled by expectations that she not just endure but enjoy her confinement. To add to the simmering mess, Tesman’s old rival Ejlert Lövborg has turned up again. Neighbour Judge Brack is visiting with alarming regularity, and Hedda Gabler’s volcanic boredom is set to explode. So begins a dangerous game of manufacturing purpose in a compromised and purposeless existence. Resident Director Adena Jacobs’ work has an uncanny ability to excavate the hidden drives behind our unexamined patterns of behaviour.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11.30AM Thu 17 July, Wed 23 July, Wed 30 July SUGGESTED FOR YRS 11–12 HSC Drama: Tragedy HSC English (Extension): Language and Values: Language and Gender 14
15 Ash Flanders 15
9 AUGUST – 14 SEPTEMBER UPSTAIRS By Kit Brookman and Anne-Louise Sarks after A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Director Anne-Louise Sarks
Set Designer Marg Horwell Costume Designer Mel Page Lighting Designer Paul Jackson
Composer Kelly Ryall With Blazey Best
Nora It’s all very well to walk out the door slamming it behind you, as Ibsen’s Nora Helmer did in 1879; declaring yourself at long last liberated from A Doll’s House. But what happens after that triumphant moment? How much exactly does it cost a woman to leave her child, family and husband to choose her self? Kit Brookman and Anne-Louise Sarks’ revisioning of Nora’s iconic story overlaps with Ibsen’s revolutionary play but takes an audience beyond the moment of leaving and follows Nora through into the complications that doubtless, surely, follow her choice.
In 2014 Nora’s dilemma is still going: just how much will a woman put up with and why? And what are her alternatives to putting up with a situation that makes her diminutive? Anne-Louise Sarks makes classics reverberate and resound in a new way. In 2012 her Medea stunned students and teachers alike. This production will provide a strong framework for students to hone their critical skills by contemplating texts comparatively across time. Sarks brings her unique vision to this deeply felt play about how to work out your own freedom and become comfortable with your own power.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11.30AM Wed 20 August, Thu 28 August, Wed 3 September SUGGESTED FOR YRS 10–12 HSC English (Advanced): Critical Study of Texts HSC English (Advanced): Comparative Study of Texts and Contexts: Texts in Time 16
Blazey Best
21 AUGUST – 14 SEPTEMBER DOWNSTAIRS Director Adena Jacobs
Oedipus Rex History is being caught in a nightmare and doomed to repeat it. How can we ever get our own lives free of the giant mesh of our parents’ lives and the myths we are forced to exist against and within? Oedipus Rex is as much an exploration of the nature of tragedy itself as it is a new version of an ancient play. An outcast finds he belongs somewhere – an outsider ends up becoming king. In a city suffering from a terrible plague, the leader of the land, King Oedipus, vows to track
down its origin. But the source of the disease is far closer than he suspects. In unraveling the riddle he will discover the horror of his own tangled origins. Students will be able to experience this modern restaging of this most complex and primal tragedy inside the four small walls of the Downstairs Theatre. Adena Jacobs turns her poetic eye for shaping resonant images from the raw materials of our oldest stories to illuminate their impact on our modern psyches.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 12 NOON Thu 28 August, Wed 3 September, Wed 10 September SUGGESTED FOR YRS 10–12 HSC Drama: Tragedy HSC English (Standard): Area of Study: Discovery 18
20 SEPTEMBER – 2 NOVEMBER UPSTAIRS By Tennessee Williams Director Eamon Flack
Lighting Designer Damien Cooper Composer & Sound Designer Stefan Gregory
With Luke Mullins Pamela Rabe
The Glass Menagerie Barely needing an introduction to teachers, The Glass Menagerie is astonishing and mesmeric, truth disguised as dreamy illusion. It was the forerunner to a new sort of theatre: autobiographical, nostalgic, depicting difficulties of everyday existence – how to step beyond the known towards the real. Tom, a self-portrait of Tennessee, is a writer forced to work in a warehouse. His mother, Amanda Wingfield, is a faded Southern beauty – a towering dreamer fighting for all their lives. Hating work, Tom vanishes ‘to go to the
movies’ and stays up late writing. Gentle sister Laura does not find it nearly so easy to escape. They live in a small apartment thick with fantasies, rage and aggrieved tenderness. It is on her daughter that the full force of Amanda’s ambition descends. Tom must bring home a fellow from work so his sister at last will have a Gentleman Caller to rival her mother’s legendary string of beaus. Eamon Flack (Angels in America) directs Luke Mullins as Tom in this faithful version of a muchloved classic.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11.30AM Thu 9 October, Wed 15 October, Wed 22 October, Wed 29 October SUGGESTED FOR YRS 9–12 HSC Drama: Individual Project: Performance HSC English (Standard): Texts and Society: Exploring Transitions 20
Luke Mullins 21
2 OCTOBER – 26 OCTOBER DOWNSTAIRS By Zoë Coombs Marr Directors Kit Brookman & Zoë Coombs Marr
Is This Thing On? Ladies and gentlemen let us introduce your host: Brianna.
routine at five different stages of self-realisation.
Brianna is a stand-up comedian. Her childhood was boring, it took her a long time to realise she was gay and along the way there were some average stand-up gigs in rooms that smelt of booze and vomit. Some of the vomit was hers. Carrying on anyway. Is there a reason? Probably not. Just a way of coping with your own angst. Whose life is this anyway?
Zoë Coombs Marr’s brilliant new play is about using hilarity as a way to endure the discomfort and ambivalence of life.
Not just one but five actresses play Brianna,18 to middle-aged, portraying life as a comedy
Is This Thing On? is about how young we are when we decide who we are and then later embark on the gradual process of admitting to ourselves that this may not be strictly true. Join Brianna on a magnificent quest for one shining moment of specialness which may have already happened.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 12 NOON Wed 15 October, Wed 22 October SUGGESTED FOR YRS 11–12 HSC Drama: Individual Project: Performance HSC English (Standard): Texts and Society: Exploring Transitions 22
23 Zoë Coombs Marr 23
8 NOVEMBER – 24 DECEMBER UPSTAIRS By Charles Dickens Director Anne-Louise Sarks
Set Designer Michael Hankin Costume Designer Mel Page Composer & Sound Designer Stefan Gregory
With Peter Carroll Robert Menzies Kath Tonkin
A Christmas Carol “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol This tale starts in the deep dark cold. Ebenezer Scrooge (Robert Menzies) is forced to look back on his whole life and is left sputtering and speechless, unable to comprehend how he became the person he is. Hoarding wealth, caught in the grind for money, he forgets to share his life with anybody, until one Christmas night the past catches up with him.
Not even the most committed miser can withstand the epiphany he encounters. Let your students experience this celebration of transformation, the second chance inherent in the idea of Christmas and the ability to let go of things and seize hold of joy! There may be snow, and a few ghosts thrown in for good measure. A Christmas Carol is one of the all-time most wonderful stories of redemption and awakening. This is a gorgeously theatrical way to round off the school year, with Dickens’ ode to the power of kindness.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11.30AM Wed 19 November, Thu 27 November, Wed 3 December SUGGESTED FOR YRS 7–12 HSC Drama: Individual Project: Performance HSC English (Standard): Area of Study: Discovery 24
Robert Menzies 25
13 NOVEMBER – 7 DECEMBER DOWNSTAIRS By Matthew Whittet Original Concept by Anthea Williams Director Anthea Williams With Matthew Whittet
Cinderella Imagine two unlikely (and rather nervous) clowns playing out every role in this, the romantic fable with the single greatest hold on our collective imagination. Just how much human dignity can we abandon on the race to finding storybook love? With director Anthea Williams (Forget Me Not) the gorgeous and remarkable Matt Whittet (The Book of Everything) takes a brave and princely step into some truly awkward terrain, exploring the inner ugliness underlying our obsession with beauty.
Just as in the original, this Cinderella reminds us that love can be discovered in some wholly unexpected places. And it reveals the potential for magical transformation that can be found not just in some of us but in all of us. A fairytale that turns itself inside out and upside down in search of a real, recognisable, heartbreaking adult version of true love. PS. Although being a teenager is largely about falling in love, the ugliness that may ensue alongside the beauty and transformation is best kept for older teenagers.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 12 NOON Wed 19 November, Thu 27 November SUGGESTED FOR YRS 10–12 HSC Drama: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice HSC Drama: Individual Project: Scriptwriting 26
Matthew Whittet 27
Schools Performances
Need Help Bringing Your Students to Belvoir?
• Tickets to school matinee performances are $22
Priority Schools Program Belvoir offers students and teachers from Priority Schools the opportunity to attend our schools performances free of charge. For an application form contact Jane May, Education Manager, on 02 8396 6222 or email jane@belvoir.com.au
• One teacher goes free for every 10 students booked • Schools performances are held on Wednesdays and Thursdays at Belvoir St Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills • Upstairs Theatre: 11.30am start • Downstairs Theatre: 12 noon start • Question and Answer session with cast lasting 20 minutes after each schools performance • Bookings need to be made via our booking form. See page 36 Running times and production content We want teachers to be as well informed as possible about our productions. Accurate information about productions including running time and specific content is available closer to the performance date, once rehearsals have begun. We put together a comprehensive What to Expect document for you providing details about the length and nature of the production, including any strong language or sexual references. What to Expect is available on our website once each production has opened. Contact us on 02 8396 6241 with any questions or concerns about production content Bookings – see page 36 28
Ticket and Travel Subsidies for Regional Schools We offer limited ticket and travel subsidies to government schools in regional NSW. For an application form contact Cathy Hunt, Education Resources and Regional Access , on 02 8396 6241 or email cathy@belvoir.com.au Places in these programs are limited – be quick! Info for Teachers Risk guidance information for teachers bringing students to Belvoir is available on the Education pages of our website. Online Resources Belvoir has a range of resources available on the Education pages of our website to extend students’ experience of attending our current productions. belvoir.com.au My students responded really well to the production and the content... making quite profound statements about performance techniques and how they emotionally engaged with the characters and relationships on stage. Teacher, Chester Hill High School
Evening Performances
How do I bring my students to a performance other than a schools performance?
How do I book to bring my students to just one evening performance?
Subscribe. The surest way to book your students into a general public performance of a particular production is to subscribe.
Check our website for the specific date tickets for each individual production go on sale. These dates are staggered throughout the year; it may not be possible to book immediately for the production of your choice.
• Schools can purchase subscription packages for students to evening or Saturday matinee performances • Subscribing gives schools the chance to book for popular productions now, rather than waiting until tickets go on sale • Subscribing is cheaper than buying tickets for individual evening performances • Schools performances at 11.30am and 12 noon remain our cheapest option for schools. • For more information about subscribing to evening performances email schoolbookings@belvoir.com.au or subscribe online at belvoir.com.au
The safest way to secure tickets before they go on general sale is to bring students to a schools performance or take out a subscription package. If in doubt contact our Box Office 02 9699 3444 or email education@belvoir.com.au Once tickets are on sale, teachers can book by calling our Box Office or by emailing schoolbookings@belvoir.com.au
NB. We do not invoice schools for evening performance subscriptions. Payment must accompany your booking form.
For the chance to win tickets to Belvoir productions and to learn more about other opportunities for you and your students, join our Education email bulletin list. Email education@belvoir.com.au to join.
29
Sunday Forum
Towards the end of the season of each of our Upstairs productions, there is a panel discussion on the show. Each is different and tackles a specific aspect of the production. It might be a lecture, a discussion or a demonstration. One might take a look at the broader social context of the play. Another might focus on how a show was created. Panel guests may include performers, designers, directors, commentators, reviewers or academics. These free Sunday Forums are a great resource for HSC Drama students and teachers. You don’t need to have seen the show to benefit. Tweet while you listen (or follow online) using #sundayforum 2014 Sunday Forum Dates Once in Royal David’s City 3pm, 23 March The Philadelphia Story 3pm, 18 May Brothers Wreck 3pm, 22 June Hedda Gabler 3pm, 3 August Nora 3pm, 14 September The Glass Menagerie 3pm, 2 November A Christmas Carol 3pm, 21 December
30
Sunday Forums are held in the Upstairs Theatre at 3pm. Bookings are essential and are open several weeks before each forum. Book online at belvoir.com.au/sundayforum or call Box Office on 02 9699 3444.
Programs You can buy programs at Belvoir from the Box Office. Some programs come with the full script included (Upstairs new works and adaptations) and our Downstairs programs are free. All programs come with biographies, headshots, rehearsal photographs, writer and director notes and some contain extra articles and other content. Back issues for some productions are also available online on our website.
Workshops
Did you know we run workshops for students and teachers at Belvoir and at schools? Professional theatre practitioners lead two-hour workshops in their field of expertise including performance, directing, designing and playwriting. When On a date that suits you (subject to the availability of our artists) Where At your school or at our theatre Cost $340 for up to 30 students in Sydney We can come to your school in regional NSW. Email education@belvoir.com.au to find out how. Student workshops include: • Brecht & Political Theatre Shannon Murphy • Costume Design Jo Briscoe, Imogen Ross • Creating Performance through Improvisation Michael Pigott • Directing for Students Michael Pigott
Are you planning a trip to OnSTAGE? During OnSTAGE week in February 2014, we can arrange workshops by request at our theatre and warehouse on Belvoir St, Surry Hills. Workshops available include Group Devising and Performing Monologues. To request a workshop or to find out more contact Cathy Hunt, Education Resources and Regional Access on 02 8396 6241 or email cathy@belvoir.com.au.
Even better than I expected. Just loved how involved and engaged my students were. It was wonderful! Thank you! Teacher, Cabramatta High School – about Performing Monologues
• Group Devising Shannon Murphy, Michael Pigott, Anna Houston, Mish Grigor • Lighting and Lighting Design Stephen Hawker • Performing Monologues Belinda Bromilow, Nathan Lovejoy, Sara West • Playwriting Tommy Murphy, Tahli Corin • Set Design Katja Handt, Michael Hankin, Imogen Ross 31
Backstage Tours
Resources for HSC Drama
Did you know schools can take a free backstage tour of the behind the scenes areas of Belvoir St Theatre?
You and your students can access resources from past productions on the education pages of our website to spark ideas and assist with HSC Drama studies.
Students hear about the history of the company, visit dressing rooms, glimpse props and costumes and get an actor’s eye view of the stage. Tours run for 30 minutes to an hour, are free of charge and available Monday to Friday, except when the theatres are in use. By arrangement we can also run technical tours – great for VET Entertainment Industry students focused on production. Technical tours run for two hours and cost $15 per student, with teachers free of charge. They are available Monday to Friday depending on the availability of the technician. All backstage and technical tours can be booked by contacting education@belvoir.com.au or calling 02 8396 6241.
Thank you for being so welcoming and generous with my wide-eyed darlings, they really enjoyed the tour. I’m so glad you were able to show them around - it was a highlight of our trip. Teacher, Southern Cross School
32
Students doing their Individual Projects can download set and lighting plans, view photographs of model boxes, look at costume renderings, find examples of marketing collateral, read and watch interviews online and see promotional trailers. Students and teachers can request sample packs of postcards and programs to be posted or collected. Students can arrange to visit the theatre when considering a Director’s Portfolio or Design IP for the Belvoir stage. On site at Belvoir we also have photographs and archival recordings of past productions including Stolen, Run Rabbit Run, The Laramie Project, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Parramatta Girls, Aftershocks and Buried Child. Small groups and individual students can arrange to view these recordings Monday to Friday at our administration warehouse during business hours, including during the school holidays, subject to availability. Email education@belvoir.com.au to book. belvoir.com.au/education
Getting Involved With Belvoir
Work Experience Year 10 students can get a taste of what it’s like to work at Belvoir. Watch actors in rehearsal, help out behind the scenes and get a sense of the myriad of administrative tasks involved in running a professional theatre company.
Student Rush Student Rush tickets are available Tuesday 6.30pm and 7pm and Saturday 2pm & 2.15pm performances, from 10am on the day subject to availability. Students should come to the Box Office in person to book or call 02 9699 3444.
We encourage students from schools across NSW to apply. Applications for our 2014 work experience program open in October 2013.
Student Rush tickets are $35 Upstairs, $25 Downstairs.
Download the application form from belvoir.com.au/workexperience Applications should be sent by post to: Belvoir Education 18 Belvoir St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/BelvoirSt And follow our Education news by searching #BelvoirED Find us on Facebook search for Belvoir St Theatre Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Apply early to avoid disappointment – places fill very quickly. Work Placement During busy bump-in weeks, students studying the VET Entertainment Industry Course have the opportunity to work with Belvoir’s production team in the theatre. These work placement weeks are very popular and places fill up quickly.
Thanks for the opportunity to bring the boys in. It’s made them start thinking visually about their designs which is exactly where I need them to be. Teacher, St Aloysius’ College
For more information email education@belvoir.com.au
33
Professional Development for Teachers
Teaching Set Design Saturday 22 February 2014
Teaching Group Devising Saturday 8 March 2014
Go through the process of designing a set from the first reading of a script all the way through to opening night.
Discover dynamic teaching strategies for plunging students into productive, creative states.
Explore the tools of a set designer including 3D shape and texture. Gain experience in using floor plans, working with scale and actually develop a design concept for a model box.
Learn practical ways to guide your students to develop a strong devising process of their own. Participate in activities which will give you an experiential understanding of the devising process that you can take back to the classroom.
Designer Katja Handt answers all your questions. When Saturday 22 February 2014 Time 10am – 4pm Where Belvoir Rehearsal Room, 18 Belvoir St, Surry Hills Cost $140 per person – includes workshop and resource material, lunch and morning tea
It not only gave me a greater understanding of the process, but also made me much more confident with my practical skills. Teacher, John Edmondson High School
I learnt SO much… very good as it was hands on! Teacher, Muirfield High School
Michael offers specific suggestions to address challenges you are facing with your current students. This workshop culminates in the presentation of a short devised piece, created using the techniques you have explored during the workshop. When Saturday 8 March 2014 Time 10am – 4pm Where Belvoir Rehearsal Room, 18 Belvoir St, Surry Hills Cost $140 per person – includes workshop and resource material, lunch and morning tea
It was exactly what I needed to boost my confidence in teaching group performances. Teacher, Evans High School
It showed me some excellent physical, as well as compositional, techniques to use in devising performance. Teacher, St Johns Park High School
34
Teaching Costume Design Saturday 15 March 2014 Participate in an intensive on the principles of theatrical design with a focus on designing costumes for theatre. Imogen Ross unpicks the elements of costume design, outlining the designer’s role throughout the production process, from the first reading of the script for design concepts, right through to opening. Learn the specific tools of line, colour and texture. This workshop equips you with a variety of practical activities and approaches to teaching Costume Design in the drama classroom.
Join our email bulletin for teachers by emailing education@belvoir.com.au to receive information about other Professional Development workshops for teachers throughout the year.
Thank you, it was worth the 600km trip! Teacher, Uralla Central School
When Saturday 15 March 2014 Time 10am – 4pm Where Belvoir Rehearsal Room, 18 Belvoir St, Surry Hills Cost $140 per person – includes workshop and resource material, lunch and morning tea
Very inspiring, good class size, great presenter; enthusiastic with a great vocabulary. Teacher, Moruya High School
Imogen was passionate and spoke about the implementation in the industry but made it easily transferable to the classroom. Teacher, Smith’s Hill High School
35
Schools Performance Bookings
Schools Performance Tickets $22 • One supervising teacher goes free for every 10 students booked • Additional teachers $22 Booking your tickets • Complete the booking form, then scan and email to schoolbookings@belvoir.com.au OR fax OR post it to the Belvoir Box Office (bookings must be made via the booking form) • Once we receive your booking form we’ll invoice you for a 50% deposit (this deposit is non-refundable) • Full payment is required at least 30 days prior to the performance or the booking may be cancelled • Cheques should be made payable to Belvoir Schools performance subscriptions Schools can book a series of plays for their students by choosing a Schools Performance Package (minimum 4 plays). 7 Plays
$121
$17.30 a play
6 Plays
$110
$18.30 a play
5 Plays
$97
$19.40 a play
4 Plays
$82
$20.50 a play
PLUS 1 supervising teacher per 10 students goes FREE! Contacting Belvoir Box Office Phone 02 9699 3444 Fax 02 9698 3688 Post Belvoir Box Office 18 Belvoir St Surry Hills NSW 2010 Email schoolbookings@belvoir.com.au
36
Box Office hours Monday 9.30am – 6pm Tuesday 9.30am – 6.30pm Wednesday to Saturday 9.30am – 8pm Sunday 2.30pm – 5pm Please note these hours may change during non-performance periods and on public holidays. Phone bookings close one hour prior to performance times. Belvoir has two Box Office locations: at Belvoir St Theatre (25 Belvoir St) and at our administration warehouse (18 Belvoir St). The Box Office is open at either one of these locations depending on the time and day – please check via phone or website, and there are also signs at the front door of both buildings. Schools Performance Times Performances in the Upstairs Theatre start at 11.30am and in the Downstairs Theatre at 12 noon on Wednesdays and Thursdays. We recommend you arrive at the theatre half an hour before the show to ensure your group is seated prior to the performance.
Belvoir St Theatre
Accessibility At Belvoir St Theatre there is lift access to the foyer and theatre and a hearing loop in the Upstairs Theatre. If you or your students have specific accessibility or seating requirements, please do not hesitate to contact our Box Office on 02 9699 3444. Further information about all our accessibility services can be found at belvoir.com.au/access. Getting to Belvoir St Theatre The theatre is located in Surry Hills, a five-minute walk from Central Station. Buses travel along Chalmers and Elizabeth Sts. For public transport information, call the Transport Infoline on 131 500 or visit 131500.com.au. central station
General Performance Times Upstairs Theatre Tuesday 6.30pm Wednesday to Friday 8pm Saturday 2pm & 8pm Sunday 5pm^ Downstairs Theatre Tuesday 7pm Wednesday to Friday 8.15pm Saturday 2.15pm & 8.15pm Sunday 5.15pm Sunday previews play at 6.30pm.
^
*Also Wednesday 4pm matinees for Oedipus Schmoedipus (January 2014) **All Saturday matinees for Oedipus Schmoedipus (January 2014) will play at 4pm.
belvoir admin
clisd ell s t
General Performance Tickets
belvoir st theatre
goodlet st
Parking at Belvoir St Theatre Please give your group plenty of time to park. There is NO onsite parking and limited timed parking is available on the streets around the theatre. Coaches can drop groups off outside the theatre and return to pick up at the end of the performance, however you may find it easier for the coach to stop at the bus stop on Elizabeth St at the bottom of Belvoir St.
Upstairs Theatre Students $48 Teachers* $58 Student Rush째 $35 Full price $68 Downstairs Theatre Students $38 Teachers* $42 Student Rush째 $25 Full price $48 *Teachers accompanying school groups only. 째Student Rush available Tuesday 6.30pm & 7pm and Saturday 2pm & 2.15pm performances, from 10am on the day, subject to availability
39
Supporters
Education Supporters
Coca-Cola Australia Foundation Gandevia Foundation The Greatorex Foundation Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir supported by The Balnaves Foundation
Teen Spirit Charitable Foundation through Perpetual
Production partners
Malthouse Theatre, THE RABBLE
The Glass Menagerie is presented by special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Government Partners
Printer & mailing house immij Design Alphabet Studio Photography Gary Heery Hair & make-up Naomi McFadden, The paper used in this book is derived from forests promoting Nadine Monley, Kylie O’Toole sustainable management. 40
18 & 25 Belvoir St Surry Hills NSW 2010 Australia Administration +61(2) 9698 3344 Box Office +61(2) 9699 3444 Fax +61(2) 9319 3165 Email mail@belvoir.com.au Web belvoir.com.au Jane May Education Manager T +61 (2) 8396 6222 E jane@belvoir.com.au
Cathy Hunt Education Resources & Regional Access T +61 (2) 8396 6241 E cathy@belvoir.com.au
Cover Rarriwuy Hick Photographer Gary Heery
D