School Book
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For Schools 2015
From the Artistic Director
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Radiance 6 Kill the Messenger 8 Elektra / Orestes 10 The Wizard of Oz 12 Samson 14 Mother Courage and Her Children 16 The Dog / The Cat 18 Seventeen 20 La Traviata 22 Ivanov 24 Mortido 26
Schools Performances 28 Evening Performances 29 Resources for Teachers and Students 30 Student Workshops 32 Work Experience 32 Professional Development for Teachers 34 Schools Performances Bookings 36 Keeping in Touch with Belvoir 36 Booking Form 37 Practical Information 39 Supporters 40
We need theatre. We need theatre. To reflect on ourselves – on what it is to be human and what it is to be part of a society. A mature culture needs places where this reflection happens, places we can return to, to see ourselves on stage. Theatre is one of the oldest art forms. The natural human desire to perform and to mimic one another, to frighten and be frightened, to cry, to laugh, to think, is something that we must have been doing from the very first moment that we developed language. It seems strangely paradoxical that theatre is both ancient and yet fleeting. Theatre only exists in the air between the audience and the performer, in those electric moments in which the play is taking place. Then it retreats immediately into memory. The sites we perform in and watch from, whether they’re carved into a hillside in Delphi or are in an old tomato sauce factory in Surry Hills, become special places in the collective memory of our culture. Belvoir St Theatre is one of those places, and I’ve been lucky enough to be a custodian of its two stages for five years. It’s a place of high emotion – joy, sadness, fear – and it’s a site that over the last 30 years has become very dear to this city.
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I was lucky enough to go to the theatre as a child both with my parents and with school. That’s where my addiction began. It was those people who dragged me along, my folks and teachers like my Year 5 and 6 teacher Mr Ross, who are responsible for my life-long love of performance. Those early experiences left an indelible mark on me. I still remember images and situations vividly, even if I didn’t entirely comprehend what was going on between the characters. This season is a corker. A lot of the work that we’ve done in these five years commissioning and developing new plays has borne fruit for 2015. We also have an Australian classic and newly re-imagined classic works from some of the finest directors in this country. So go on, come along! Bring a gang of your kids to some of our shows. And hopefully they’ll get hooked in the same way that I did all those years ago.
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Leah Purcell
3 JANUARY – 8 FEBRUARY UPSTAIRS By Louis Nowra Director Leah Purcell
Lighting Designer Damien Cooper
Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir supported by With Leah Purcell The Balnaves Foundation Set & Costume Designer Shari Sebbens Dale Ferguson Composer & Sound Designer Miranda Tapsell Brendan O’Brien Associate Sound Designer Steve Toulmin
Radiance Mae, Nona and Cressy gather at the old Queenslander in the tropics for their mum’s funeral. These three sisters are forces of nature, and they haven’t been in the same room for years. It isn’t long before the old house can’t contain the joy and pain of them all being together again…
Leah Purcell burst onto the national stage nearly two decades ago and is as full of fight and life as she ever was. What better idea than for this all-round theatre elder to direct herself in this mighty little classic, along with Shari Sebbens (The Sapphires) and Miranda Tapsell (Yibiyung, The Sapphires).
Radiance was first performed at Belvoir in 1993. Louis Nowra’s amazing work is almost Shakespearean in scope – a tempest of pent-up lust, rage, grief and foolery. After 22 years it is ready to be unleashed again.
The season reaches just far enough into February for us to hold one schools performance – don’t miss this opportunity to bring your students to a rarely-staged classic Australian play.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE 11:30AM Thu 5 February SUGGESTED FOR YRS 10–12 HSC Drama: Dramatic Traditions in Australia HSC English: Area of Study: Discovery 9
Nakkiah Lui
14 FEBRUARY – 8 MARCH UPSTAIRS By Nakkiah Lui Director Anthea Williams
Set Designer Ralph Myers
Dramaturg Jada Alberts
With Nakkiah Lui
Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir supported by The Balnaves Foundation
Kill the Messenger I wrote this for you. In 2011 Nakkiah Lui started writing a play based on a true story about a man in her home suburb of Mount Druitt. One day, in unbearable pain due to undiagnosed stomach cancer, he went to the local hospital where he was refused care. Then he went to a nearby park and hanged himself. The theme of the play: institutionalised racism. Then in 2012 Nakkiah’s grandmother fell through the floor of her public housing home and died. The floor was in a state of disrepair. Nakkiah stopped writing.
When she started writing again she found herself at the centre of the story. The resulting play is eloquent and straight-talking, a compelling and angry story about race, addiction, family and writing. Nakkiah Lui is a Gamilaroi/ Torres Strait Islander playwright, performer and lawyer. Students may remember her powerful debut play, This Heaven, in our Downstairs Theatre in 2013. Anthea Williams (Forget Me Not) directs Nakkiah Lui as herself in this game-changing rethink of what black theatre could be.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE 11:30AM Wed 25 February SUGGESTED FOR YRS 11–12 HSC Drama: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice HSC Drama: Scriptwriting HSC English: Area of Study: Discovery 11 Brendan Cowell
14 MARCH – 26 APRIL UPSTAIRS By Jada Alberts & Anne-Louise Sarks Director Anne-Louise Sarks
Set Designer Ralph Myers Costume Designer Mel Page
Composer & Sound Designer Stefan Gregory With Hunter Page-Lochard Katherine Tonkin
Elektra /Orestes The story of the House of Atreus is one of the greatest dramatic cycles ever conceived. At its heart is an unstoppable chain reaction. Each generation tries to solve the problems their parents made worse by trying to solve the problems their parents made worse… A decade ago, at the start of a great war, Clytemnestra’s husband, Agamemnon, sacrificed their daughter. On his victorious return Clytemnestra in turn slaughtered him. Now their son, Orestes, is in exile and their daughter, Elektra, stalks her mother’s palace looking for a way to achieve some semblance of justice.
Hunter Page-Lochard (Brothers Wreck) is the perfect contemporary Orestes, supported by a cast that will truly resemble the world we live in. Anne-Louise Sarks (Nora, Medea) has forged a remarkable series of shows by combining the full force of old tales with the uncanny familiarity of modern life. For Elektra / Orestes she teams up with playwright Jada Alberts (Brothers Wreck) to prove that everything old is new again.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11:30AM Wed 25 March, Wed 1 April, Thu 23 April SUGGESTED FOR YRS 11–12 HSC Drama: Tragedy 12
Hunter Page-Lochard
Emily Milledge
2 MAY – 31 MAY UPSTAIRS After L. Frank Baum Director Adena Jacobs
Set Designer Ralph Myers Costume Designer Kate Davis Lighting Designer Emma Valente
Composer & Sound Designer Max Lyandvert With Luisa Hastings Edge Emily Milledge Jane Montgomery Griffiths
The Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum’s original novel invented a new kind of story: in the aftermath of a natural disaster, a young girl finds herself alone in a foreign land seeking answers from an all-powerful but unseen wizard – who turns out to be a man behind a curtain.
This is Oz as we’ve never seen it before. Let your senior students contemplate this radical feminist take on one of our most beloved myths.
The Wizard of Oz is a tale of journey and discovery in a land of marvellous beauty. Students and teachers who saw Oedipus Rex in 2014 can expect director Adena Jacobs to turn her extraordinary capacity for creating stark and beautiful visual imagery to this reimagining of The Wizard of Oz.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE 11:30AM Wed 13 May SUGGESTED FOR YRS 11–12 HSC English: Area of Study: Discovery HSC English: Comparative Study of Texts and Context: Intertextual Connections 15 Rarriwuy Hick
7 MAY – 31 MAY DOWNSTAIRS By Julia-Rose Lewis Director Kristine Landon-Smith
With Ashleigh Cummings A co-production with La Boite Theatre Company
Samson This is Julia-Rose Lewis’ first play and her voice is striking. Samson is an Australian coming-of-age story set in a country town. Essie, Beth, Sid and Rabbit are growing up at the arse end of the arse end of the world. Boredom, decay and violence plague their lives. And grief: for the death of a friend. Grappling with their own existence and grasping hopelessly at the future, they find themselves imagining heaven and dreaming of hell.
Samson is brutal yet gentle, funny yet sad, young yet old. At its heart is the startling idea that the death of someone important can be the start of something excellent. Ashleigh Cummings (Puberty Blues) makes her Belvoir debut in this gem about discovering beauty in unlikely places.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 12 NOON Thu 14 May, Wed 20 May, Wed 27 May SUGGESTED FOR YRS 11–12 HSC Drama: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice HSC Drama: Playwriting HSC English: Area of Study: Discovery 16
Ashleigh Cummings
Robyn Nevin
6 JUNE – 26 JULY UPSTAIRS By Bertolt Brecht Translation Michael Gow Music Composition Stefan Gregory Director Eamon Flack
Set Designer Robert Cousins Lighting Designer Benjamin Cisterne
With Paula Arundell Robyn Nevin
Mother Courage and Her Children Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children really needs no introduction to teachers. Anna Fierling is a refugee. She has three children, a shop in a cart, and buckets of chutzpah. She buys and sells her way through a massive and pointless religious war – gulling, lying, charming, inveigling. Will those great capitalist qualities save her from the common fate?
Mother Courage and Her Children is a magnificent pageant of humanity in extremis. A 20th century colossus about a 17th century war is a vision of the 21st century – of globalisation, religion, violence, capitalism, love and pity. Eamon Flack (Once in Royal David’s City) directs Robyn Nevin in a Michael Gow translation of this epic play.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11:30AM Wed 17 June, Wed 24 June, Thu 16 July, Wed 22 July SUGGESTED FOR YRS 10–12 HSC Drama: Significant Plays of the 20th Century 19
18 JUNE – 12 JULY DOWNSTAIRS The Dog by Brendan Cowell The Cat by Lally Katz
Director & Designer Ralph Myers Composer & Sound Designer Stefan Gregory
With Brendan Cowell
The Dog / The Cat The Dog It could be called Two Men, One Woman, a Park and a Dog. Everyone knows that nothing breaks the ice like a cute dog. Brendan Cowell’s funny new play paints a not-so-flattering portrait of the tricky line between mateship and romance, and of the insatiable appetite of Jack Russell terriers for the most disgusting things they can find.
The Cat Owning a cat is not easy. Coowning a cat with your ex is less easy. Co-owning a smart-talking, irritable, meddling cat with your ex is comedy. Who better to tell this story than the incomparable Lally Katz (Stories I Want to Tell You in Person, Neighbourhood Watch)? There is no-one else who does charming, funny and unlikely quite like Katz. Your students will be in for a treat (and a bargain – two plays for the price of one!) when two of the hottest playwrights in Australian theatre turn their keen eyes to romantic comedy.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE 12 NOON Wed 24 June SUGGESTED FOR YRS 10–12 HSC Drama: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice HSC Drama: Scriptwriting HSC English: Area of Study: Discovery 20
Brendan Cowell
1 AUGUST – 13 SEPTEMBER UPSTAIRS By Matthew Whittet Director Anne-Louise Sarks
Set Designer Robert Cousins Costume Designer Mel Page Dramaturg Anthea Williams
With Peter Carroll Maggie Dence Judi Farr John Gaden Barry Otto
Seventeen It’s the last night of high school. A group of friends gather in a local playground to celebrate and watch the sun rise on their first day of adulthood. There’s drinking, singing, dancing, reminiscing, wondering … and maybe even a game of Truth or Dare. What makes this gathering of seventeen year olds different is that they are played by a roll call of Australia’s finest senior actors: Peter Carroll, Maggie Dence, Judi Farr, John Gaden, Barry Otto.
Written specially for these acting greats, Matthew Whittet’s beautiful new Australian play will resonate with students on the cusp of making the same journey into adulthood. Funny, wise and a little bit sad, Seventeen is about discovering how big and small life really is.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11:30AM Thu 27 August, Wed 2 September SUGGESTED FOR YRS 10–12 HSC Drama: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice HSC English: Area of Study: Discovery HSC English: Texts and Society: Exploring Transitions 22
Barry Otto
27 AUGUST – 20 SEPTEMBER DOWNSTAIRS By Sisters Grimm (Ash Flanders & Declan Greene) with the cast Director Declan Greene
Set & Costume Designer Marg Horwell Lighting Designer Matthew Marshall Composer & Sound Designer Steve Toulmin
Dramaturg Anne-Louise Sarks With Ash Flanders Betty Grumble A co-production with Sisters Grimm
La Traviata Melbourne theatre stars Sisters Grimm are everything nice, polite Australians fear: a pair of ‘loud, opinionated homosexualists’ (their words) who hold nothing sacred and whose moral compass is so far out it’s bang on. Declan Greene and Ash Flanders (Hedda Gabler) plunder the canon with one eye on mischief and the other on a necessary argument. Once the serial numbers are scratched off, their stolen goods are smelted into smart, anarchic comedies that question the world we live in.
Verdi’s famed Romantic opera La Traviata is the story of Violetta, a lovelorn courtesan who is doomed to choose either a life of disgrace with the pauper she loves, or a life of upscale servitude to a baron. This is not that opera. At least, not quite. This La Traviata is part opera, part protest, part drag show – a freewheeling satire that shadows Verdi’s plot via the sweatshops of Mumbai and the wastepaper basket of the Federal Minister for the Arts.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE 12 NOON Wed 9 September SUGGESTED FOR YRS 11–12 HSC Drama: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice HSC Drama: Group Performance 24
Ash Flanders
19 SEPTEMBER – 1 NOVEMBER UPSTAIRS By Anton Chekhov Director Eamon Flack
Set Designer Michael Hankin Costume Designer Mel Page Composer & Sound Designer Steve Toulmin
With Gareth Davies Ewen Leslie Yalin Ozucelik
Ivanov Nikolai Ivanov is going mad. His life used to be full of possibility but now he’s moneyless on an old farm with his mendicant uncle and his inexplicably happy if slightly criminal cousin. He’s in debt to his neighbours, he’s smitten by their daughter, and nothing much makes any sense to him anymore. Oh, and his wife is dying. Life’s all healthcare and making payments. There must be an alternative! Ivanov is a fantastic celebration of human magnificence and human ridiculousness – a great gathering
of hopeless, helpless, marvellous creatures in pursuit of a better life. This production, directed by Eamon Flack (Once in Royal David’s City, Angels in America) and featuring Ewen Leslie (Hamlet) with a brilliant ensemble of actors, is about Australia here and now: the small-mindedness, short-sightedness, idiocy and meanness of a society in dire need of a grand animating idea. The time for Anton Chekhov’s great black comedy has come.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11:30AM Thu 8 October, Wed 14 October, Thu 22 October, Wed 28 October SUGGESTED FOR YRS 10–12 HSC Drama: Black Comedy HSC English (Extension): Genre: Comedy 26
Ewen Leslie Luke Mullins
Colin Friels
7 NOVEMBER – 23 DECEMBER UPSTAIRS By Angela Betzien Director Leticia Cáceres
Lighting Designer Geoff Cobham Dramaturg Anthea Williams With Tom Conroy Colin Friels
A co-commission with Playwriting Australia A co-production with State Theatre Company of South Australia
Mortido Mortido is a crime drama, revenge tragedy and morality play rolled into one. In other words, a quintessential Sydney tale. It begins with a Mexican fable about death and ends in the Western suburbs. In between it takes in the public housing on Belvoir Street, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, quinoa, Nazi Germany, Qantas, Coca-Cola, a seventh birthday party, the Surry Hills police, the property market and a body in the harbour. How are these people, places, events and things connected? Cocaine.
Angela Betzien is a virtuoso playwright who writes a funny line as easily as she writes a thrilling plot and a furious social critique. Mortido is her most ambitious play so far, and a brilliant portrait of the emerald city: familiar, bizarre, glorious and mean. Colin Friels and director Leticia Cáceres (Miss Julie, The Dark Room) team up for this remarkable new play about crime, globalisation and the killer desire for a bigger house.
SCHOOLS PERFORMANCES 11:30AM Wed 18 November, Thu 26 November, Wed 2 December SUGGESTED FOR YRS 11–12 HSC Drama: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice HSC Drama: Scriptwriting HSC English: Representation and Text: Representing People and Politics 29
Schools Performances
Prices and Times
• Tickets to schools performances are $22 each • One teacher attends free for every 10 students booked • Schools performances are held on Wednesdays and Thursdays at Belvoir St Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010
Risk Guidance Information
Risk guidance information for teachers bringing students to Belvoir is available on the the Education page of our website: belvoir.com.au/education
Programs
• Question and Answer session with cast lasting 20 minutes after each schools performance
Each school attending a matinee performance receives a free program upon arrival. Some programs come with the full script included (Upstairs new works and adaptations). All programs come with biographies, headshots, rehearsal photographs, writer and director notes and some contain extra articles and other content.
• For detailed Booking Information and our 2015 Booking Form see pages 36 and 37
Need help bringing your students to Belvoir?
• Upstairs Theatre: 11.30am start • Downstairs Theatre: 12 noon start
What to Expect
We put together a comprehensive What to Expect document for teachers providing details about the length and nature of the production, including any strong language or sexual references. What to Expect is available on the relevant Schools Performances page of our website once each production has opened. Accurate information about productions including running times and specific content is only available closer to the production date, once rehearsals have begun. Contact Education on 02 8396 6241 with any questions or concerns about production content.
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Find out if your students are eligible for our ticket and travel subsidy programs. Email education@belvoir.com.au or call 02 8396 6222. Government schools eligible for Transitional Equity Funding in 2015 should apply for our ticket subsidy program via the application form on our website belvoir.com.au/education
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
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 on 02 9699 3444 or email education@belvoir.com.au
• Schools performances at 11.30am and 12 noon remain our cheapest option for schools
Once tickets are on sale, teachers can book by calling our Box Office or by emailing schoolbookings@belvoir.com.au
• For more information about subscribing to evening performances email schoolbookings@belvoir.com.au or subscribe online at belvoir.com.au
For general performance times and tickets as well as information about our Student Saver tickets see page 39.
NB. We do not invoice schools for evening performance subscriptions. Payment must accompany your booking form.
What Teachers Say
The experience was superlative.
They turned to me and said, ‘Miss, that was the BEST show we’ve ever seen, thank you so much for bringing us!’
…their exposure to such quality theatre changes their appreciation of drama. It makes my job easier. Thank you.
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Resources for Teachers and Students
Pre-Show Reading and Teaching Notes
We produce teaching notes for many of our Upstairs productions. Teaching notes or pre-show reading material will be emailed to you along with the corresponding What to Expect document after each show has opened. Teaching notes created from some past productions can be obtained by emailing education@belvoir.com.au
Archival Photographs and Recordings
On site we have photographs and archival recordings of past productions including Neighbourhood Watch, Stolen, Run Rabbit Run, The Laramie Project, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Parramatta Girls, Aftershocks, Death of a Salesman and Angels in America (Part One). Small groups and individual students can arrange to view these recordings Monday to Friday at our warehouse offices during business hours, including during the school holidays, subject to availability. Email education@belvoir.com.au to book.
Online Resources
You and your students can access resources from past productions on the Education pages of our website to spark ideas and assist with Drama studies. Students doing their HSC 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 32
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.
Back Issue Programs
Back issue programs for some productions are available to buy online via our website at belvoir.com.au/publications. Some programs come with the full script included (Upstairs new works and adaptations) and all programs come with biographies, headshots, rehearsal photographs, writer and director notes and some contain extra articles and other content. Programs for our Downstairs productions are available to view for free on the relevant production pages of our website.
Backstage Tours
Did you know schools can take a free backstage tour of the behind-thescenes areas of Belvoir St Theatre? 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 approximately 30 minutes, are free of charge and available Monday to Friday except when the theatres are in use. Email education@belvoir.com.au to book.
Sunday Forum
2015 Sunday Forum Dates
Did you know Belvoir holds in-depth forums connected to our productions?
Radiance 3pm, 8 February
On the closing day of each of our Upstairs productions, there is a panel discussion based on the show. Each is different. One might take a look at the broader social context of the play, another might focus on how a show was created. Panel guests can include performers, designers, directors, commentators, reviewers or academics.
Kill the Messenger 3pm, 8 March
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. Sunday Forums are held in the Upstairs Theatre at 3pm. Bookings are essential and are open several weeks before each forum. Book online belvoir.com.au/sundayforum or call Box Office on 02 9699 3444.
Elektra / Orestes 3pm, 26 April The Wizard of Oz 3pm, 31 May Mother Courage and Her Children 3pm, 26 July Seventeen 3pm, 13 September Ivanov 3pm, 1 November Mortido 3pm, 20 December
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Student Workshops and Work Experience Workshops
Belvoir runs a range of workshops for students to support work in the drama classroom. Belvoir workshops include: • Brecht & Political Theatre • Creating Performance through Improvisation • Costume Design • Directing • Group Devising • Performing Monologues • Playwriting • Set Design • Stage Management
In Sydney
Where: At your school or at Belvoir Duration: 2 hours Cost: $350 Student Numbers: Maximum 30 students per workshop When: On a date that suits you (subject to the availability of our artists) To book: Email education@belvoir.com.au
In Regional NSW
We can bring our workshops to your school in regional NSW. Email education@belvoir.com.au to find out how.
OnSTAGE Workshops at Belvoir
During the OnSTAGE week in February 2015, we can arrange workshops by request at our theatre and warehouse in Belvoir Street, Surry Hills. To request a workshop or to find out more contact Education on 02 8396 6241 or education@belvoir.com.au
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Year 10 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. We encourage students from schools across NSW to apply. Applications for our 2015 work experience program open in October 2014. 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 Apply early to avoid disappointment. Places fill quickly.
VET 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. For more information about how to apply email education@belvoir.com.au
What Students Say
It reminded me what I love about drama. The workshop showed us all techniques and exercises which can be used to conquer mental blocks, disagreements and ultimately enhance the production of devised pieces.
Now I know what I have to do for my HSC!
All of it was so informative and seeing real examples I could feel and touch was great. Most workshops are the same but this one was fun and had a bit of flair too, it was that great!
I really appreciated all your efforts to make it a memorable and interesting week!
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Professional Development for Teachers
Belvoir holds Professional Development workshops for teachers throughout the year. Join our email bulletin for teachers by emailing education@belvoir.com.au to receive up to date information about professional development opportunities.
Teaching Set Design
Go through the process of designing a set from the first reading of a script all the way through to opening night. 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. When Saturday 28 February 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.
Teaching Costume Design
Participate in an intensive on the principals of theatrical design with focus on designing costumes for the theatre and learn the specific tools of a costume designer: line, colour and texture. This workshop equips you with a variety of practical activities and approaches to teaching costume design in the drama classroom. When Saturday 7 March 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.
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Teaching Group Devising
Discover dynamic teaching strategies for plunging students into productive, creative states. Learn practical ways to guide your students to develop a strong devising process of their own. Participate in activities that will give you an experiential understanding of the devising process that you can take back to the classroom. When Saturday 14 March 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. Bookings for these Professional Development workshops can be made via the booking form on page 37.
What Teachers Say
Thanks for the experience – so many great ideas to help my students, very inspiring!
I now know how to approach the Individual Project but also feel more confident mentoring a Set Design IP.
Good activities, information pack and great presenter. It was very informative with great ideas to present in the classroom. It was so helpful in explaining the practical elements of set design for HSC students. Thanks Belvoir – another excellent workshop!
Fantastic and very creative and practical. It was well worth the money – bargain!
It exceeded my expectations. Everything was well structured and explained. The wealth of strategies was fantastic!
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Schools Performances Bookings
Schools Performances Tickets $22
• One supervising teacher attends 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 booking or the performance may be cancelled • Cheques should be made payable to Belvoir
Schools Performances Packages
Schools can book a series of plays for their students by choosing a Schools Performances Package (minimum 4 plays). 7 Plays $121 $17.30 per play 6 Plays $110 $18.30 per play 5 Plays $97 $19.40 per play 4 Plays $82 $20.50 per play PLUS One supervising teacher per 10 students attends FREE!
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Contacting the Belvoir Box Office By phone: 02 9699 3444 By fax: 02 9698 3688 By post: Belvoir Box Office 18 Belvoir Street Surry Hills NSW 2010
Schools Performances Times
Upstairs Theatre: 11:30am Downstairs Theatre: 12 noon
Schools Performances are on Wednesdays and Thursdays. We recommend you arrive at the theatre half an hour beforehand to ensure your group is seated prior to the performance. Please note latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.
Keep in Touch!
Subscribe to our email bulletin for teachers Email education@belvoir.com.au with your name, school and direct email address. Follow us on Twitter @belvoirst follow our Education news by searching #BelvoirED Find us on Facebook and Instagram /belvoirst
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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 here: 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 transportnsw.info.
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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 Street at the bottom of Belvoir Street.
General Performance Times Upstairs Theatre Tuesday 6.30pm Wednesday to Friday 8pm Saturday 2pm & 8pm Sunday 5pm^ ^
Sunday previews play at 6.30pm.
Downstairs Theatre Tuesday 7pm Wednesday to Friday 8.15pm Saturday 2.15pm & 8.15pm Sunday 5.15pm
General Performance Tickets
Upstairs Theatre Students $49 Teachers* $62 Student Saver+ $39 Full price $72
Downstairs Theatre Students $38 Teachers* $42 Student Saver+ $25 Full price $48 *Teachers accompanying school groups only. + Student Saver prices are available for Upstairs Theatre performances Tuesday 6.30pm, Thursday 8pm, Saturday 2pm and all previews. Also available for Downstairs Theatre performances Tuesday 7pm, Thursday 8.15pm and Saturday 2.15pm, subject to availability.
To claim any concessions you must provide proof. Please note: transaction fees may apply and prices may be subject to change. Please contact Box Office for up-to-date prices as each show goes on sale.
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Supporters
Education Supporters
Gandevia Foundation The Greatorex Foundation Teen Spirit Charitable Foundation Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir supported by The Balnaves Foundation
The Coca-Cola Foundation
Production partners
La Boite Theatre Company, Sisters Grimm, State Theatre Company of South Australia
Thank you also to Playwriting Australia.
Government Partners
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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 Jane May Education Manager T: 02 8396 6222 E: jane@belvoir.com.au
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Design Alphabet Studio Illustrations Julian Meagher (Julian Meagher is represented in Sydney by Olsen Irwin Gallery) Printer Special T Print
This book is crafted from Australianmade paper that is PEFC certified and manufactured in a facility with ISO 14001 EMS certification. 43
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