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2015 Season
From the Artistic Director It’s Been 30 Years
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UPSTAIRS Radiance 10 Kill the Messenger 12 Elektra / Orestes 14 The Wizard of Oz 16 Mother Courage and Her Children 18 Seventeen 20 Ivanov 22 Mortido 24 DOWNSTAIRS Blue Wizard 28 Samson 30 The Dog / The Cat 32 La Traviata 34 THE BUSINESS END Subscribe 36 Why You Should Subscribe 39 Prizes For Early Subscribers 41 Benefits 42 Loyalty Program & 30-Down Club 43 How to Book Your Subscription 44 Sunday Forum 46 General Information (including Box Office hours and performance times) 47 Thank You 52 2015 Season Calendars 54 Subscription Booking Form
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. Belvoir is of course more than a pair of wonderful stages. It is a great group of people. Every one of them is a true believer and passionate about making theatre, whether they’re selling 4
tickets, building sets, making season books, schmoozing donors, inspiring children, sewing costumes, rigging lights, booking flights, pouring drinks or writing plays. In my time as Artistic Director I have been so wonderfully supported by these people in realising my artistic ambitions. I have been enormously proud of the burst of creative energy that has accompanied my time here as Artistic Director. I feel a new generation of artists has really blossomed and that we’ll be seeing the fruits of that labour for many years to come on stages here and around the world. This is the last season I’ll curate as the Artistic Director of Belvoir. And I’ve saved the best till last. 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, sign up! I won’t say goodbye right now because there’s a whole year yet to play out, but I will say THANK YOU. You can’t make theatre without an audience, and our subscribers are the most incredibly brave and loyal group you could possibly hope to perform for.
Let’s do it one more time.
Ralph x
Ralph Myers
It’s Been 30 Years
2015 is a special year for us here at Belvoir. It marks 30 years since our first season in 1985 – and three decades of a joyous and terrifying roller-coaster ride on two humble stages in a theatre that started life as a tomato sauce factory. We owe the ride to a momentous act the year before that very first season; one that saved the building, our home known as Belvoir St Theatre. Over a single weekend in 1984 two ex-Nimrod workers Sue Hill and Chris Westwood managed to pull off what was, really, nothing short of a theatrical miracle. Their Pied Piper-esque feat of rallyingeveryone-they-knew-to-throw-in-athousand-bucks-each-to-save-thebuilding-from-being-redevelopedinto-just-another-piece-of-facelessinner-city-real-estate had an impact so great that it changed the nature 6
of theatre in Sydney forever. The unstoppable commitment of Sue, Chris and all those original shareholders to this building as a vital art space was quite simply an act of love for theatre, for theatremakers past and present, and for our city. And we’re still here. Thirty years later. David Marr sums it up so well in our book 25 Belvoir Street when he says: ‘Belvoir is so Sydney. It’s hard to see how time, place, money and talent could come together so perfectly anywhere but in this town to sustain a little company with no ideological axes to grind, one that’s highly theatrical but looks beyond theatre, worldly but childlike, chasing all its theatrical ambitions – black, white, foreign, gay, straight, feminine, masculine, new, old – with the same hope of giving delight.’
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We no longer have to fund each production by selling shares (though some days it still feels a bit like that!) and we’ve steadily grown year-onyear into a theatre company well loved and respected both around the country and around the globe.
After more than 10,000 nights in our theatre on two stages across more than 300 productions created by hundreds of writers, directors, actors and every other kind of theatre-maker there is, with countless lines of dialogue, tens of thousands of entrances and exits, hundreds of kisses, buckets of tears and about a zillion gallons of (mostly) fake blood, we’re still here doing it night after night.
Upstairs and Downstairs. Everyone remembers their favourite Belvoir moments; everyone who has walked through our front door in the last 30 years can tell you the bits they’ve loved and the bits they’ve loathed – the heated post-show debates into the wee hours at the bar attest to this. But it’s never dull. And we love it. And we often do it for love, not money. It is art, after all. Here’s to another 30 years. See you in the foyer!
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Leah Purcell
3 JANUARY – 8 FEBRUARY UPSTAIRS By Louis Nowra Director Leah Purcell
Lighting Designer Damien Cooper
Set & Costume Designer Dale Ferguson
With Leah Purcell Shari Sebbens Miranda Tapsell
Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir supported by The Balnaves Foundation
Radiance Louis Nowra’s Radiance is an exuberant black sabbath for three great Indigenous dames. It begins conventionally enough: Mae, Nona and Cressy gather at the old Queenslander in the tropics for Mum’s funeral. But these three sisters are forces of nature, and they haven’t been in the same room for years, and years. It isn’t long before that old house can’t contain the joy and pain of them all being together again… Radiance began its life at Belvoir in 1993. After 22 years, Nowra’s feat of playwriting – almost Shakespearean, a Tempest-like packet of lust, rage, grief and high-flying foolery – is ready to be unleashed again. Leah Purcell is the woman for the job. Purcell is a powerhouse. She 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? 11
Nakkiah Lui
14 FEBRUARY – 8 MARCH UPSTAIRS By Nakkiah Lui Director Anthea Williams
Set Designer Ralph Myers With Nakkiah Lui
Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir supported by The Balnaves Foundation
Kill the Messenger Kill the Messenger is a funny and shocking tell-all from a true maverick. In 2011 Gamilaroi/Torres Strait Islander playwright/law student/performer Nakkiah Lui started writing a play for Belvoir. It was 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 hung himself. The theme of the play: institutionalised racism.
Then in 2012 Nakkiah’s grandmother fell through the unmended floor of her public housing home and died. Nakkiah found herself at the centre of a story about... institutionalised racism. The resulting play lays it all out – her dodgy sex life, a dead man’s second chance, and a granddaughter’s sense of duty. Cunningly composed rage is one of theatre’s great modes. Kill the Messenger is an exemplary case in point. Anthea Williams (Forget Me Not) directs the incomparable Nakkiah Lui as herself in this game-changing rethink of what black theatre could be.
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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
Elektra /Orestes The story of the House of Atreus is one of the greatest cycles ever conceived by humankind – a diabolical sequence of brilliant dramatic premises. At its heart is an unstoppable chain reaction as each generation, one after the other, tries to solve the problems their parents made worse by trying to solve the problems their parents made worse… It is hard to say when it all began. For Clytemnestra the cause was this: her husband Agamemnon’s sacrifice of their daughter at the outset of a great war a decade ago. For Elektra and Orestes the cause was this: Clytemnestra’s vengeful slaughter of their father Agamemnon at the victorious close of this same great war. Now Orestes is in exile and Elektra, Hamlet-like, stalks her mother’s palace looking for a way to achieve some semblance of justice.
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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. Here she teams with playwright Jada Alberts (Brothers Wreck) to create twin shows in a single night. One whole turn of the bloody cycle of love, justice and revenge. Hunter Page-Lochard (Brothers Wreck) is the perfect contemporary Orestes, supported by a cast that will truly resemble the world we live in. This brilliant epic is proof that everything old is new again.
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 The Wizard of Oz is a parable of biblical proportions. 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 tale of power and discovery in a land of marvellous beauty has become as foundational in the contemporary imagination as Shakespeare or the Greeks. Adena Jacobs’ stark and sublime re-imagining is a theatrical poem about innocence, grief and the terror of growing up. Leave the kids at home for this radical feminist take on one of our most beloved myths. This is Oz as we’ve never seen it before… 17 Rarriwuy Hick
Robyn Nevin
6 JUNE – 26 JULY UPSTAIRS By Bertolt Brecht Director Eamon Flack
Set Designer Robert Cousins Lighting Designer Benjamin Cisterne
Sound Designer Stefan Gregory With Paula Arundell Robyn Nevin
Mother Courage and Her Children The great Robyn Nevin plays the great Mother Courage. At last. Mother Courage and Her Children is a magnificent pageant of humanity in extremis, full of celebration and bastardry in equal parts, and burning with love and disgust for the human species. Its author is the great smartarse of the dramatic canon – an entertainer, a liar, a communist and a libertine whose appetite for the exuberant variety of life is only surpassed by Shakespeare. Mother Courage is Brecht’s masterpiece.
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? Directed by Eamon Flack, who proved with his masterful production of Angels in America that the epic can be moving, this 20th century colossus about a 17th century war is a vision of the 21st century – of globalisation, religion, violence, capitalism, love and pity.
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1 AUGUST – 13 SEPTEMBER UPSTAIRS By Matthew Whittet Director Anne-Louise Sarks
Set Designer Robert Cousins Costume Designer Mel Page Dramaturg Anthea Williams
Seventeen You’re in for a treat. Matthew Whittet is the true original mind of Australian theatre – actor, writer, muse, inventor of marvels, scribe of human beauty and lover of oddity. Seventeen is the play he’s been getting ready to write for a long time. It’s about the cusp of adulthood, and it has been specially, like really specially, written for a rollcall of the country’s great senior actors. To be precise: Peter Carroll, Maggie Dence, Judi Farr, John Gaden, Barry Otto. The lot of them. These venerables play a group of teenagers (!) drinking, singing, dancing, gabbling, worrying and maybe even pashing (!!) their way through their last night of childhood and their first night of adulthood. Funny, immature, wise and a little bit but quite beautifully sad, Seventeen is about the size of life.
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With Peter Carroll Maggie Dence Judi Farr John Gaden Barry Otto
Barry Otto
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 The time for Anton Chekhov’s great black comedy has come. This festival of small-mindedness, short-sightedness, idiocy, meanness and the outside chance of salvation is ready for us now that the Age of Entitlement is finally over. 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 has the hots for their daughter, and nothing much makes any sense to him anymore. Oh, and his wife is dying. Life’s all healthcare and making payments. What’s the alternative? There must be an alternative. THERE MUST BE AN ALTERNATIVE! 22
Ivanov is one of those terrific celebrations of human magnificence and human ridiculousness that work so well on the Belvoir stage – a great gathering of hopeless, helpless, marvellous creatures in pursuit of a better life. Or at least a life with a bigger animating idea than, well, whatever it is that’s animating the country right now… Ewen Leslie leads a first-class ensemble of citizen-actors. Together with director Eamon Flack their task is to try to put Australia on stage. The thrilling question at hand: will it or will it not end in pointless selfdestruction and the loss of all we hold dear???
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.
their lives in leisure. And a water view would be nice. But for Jimmy and Monte to win, Grubbe has to lose. Same goes the other way.
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. The connective tissue? Cocaine.
Angela Betzien is a virtuoso playwright who writes a funny line as well 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.
Jimmy is a small-time dealer and Monte is a biggish-time distributor. Grubbe is a detective. They all want the same thing: to live out
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.
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Nick Coyle
19 FEBRUARY – 15 MARCH DOWNSTAIRS By Nick Coyle Dramaturg Adena Jacobs
Composer & Sound Designer Steve Toulmin
With Nick Coyle Presented in association with Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Blue Wizard The Future, Earth: An intergalactic gay wizard gets stranded on the side of a mountain where he casts spells and dances magic dances in an attempt to return to his home comet, OK? Nick Coyle is a comic genius. His aim, in his own words, is to make the gayest one-man show ever. Blue Wizard unites cheap spectacle, super camp theatre magic, song, puppetry, storytelling and highly original costume design – to tell the story of a gay alien who has to learn to live like an ordinary human being… Blue Wizard is a brilliant act of subversion dressed up to look like a queer bimbo in an electric blue wig. The result is hilarious, but it is also an oddly moving reflection on the growing sense that time is running out for the world as we know it, and if we don’t get our act together soon, well… let’s just say there’ll be no more jizz and diamonds, and what will we ever do then? 29
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 she has made something wondrous. On the one hand, Samson is an Australian coming-of-age story set in a country town. On the other hand, it is a completely disarming hodgepodge of unexpectedness and originality, of metaphysics and silliness, of religious faith and topless sunbathing. 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.
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Samson fizzes with truth; it 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, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) makes her Belvoir debut in this gem about discovering beauty in unlikely places.
Ashleigh Cummings
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 It is the question on everybody’s lips: Where are all the romantic comedies?! Tragedy? Bah! Pathos? Schmathos! We want ROMANCE! With COMEDY! We want ROMANTIC COMEDY! Well, here you have it. Not one but two. On the same night! Two interconnected tales of true love and stupidity from two of the hottest playwrights around. The Dog It could be called Two Men, One Woman, a Park and a Dog – and 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.
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The Cat Katz on cats: Owning a cat is not easy. Co-owning a cat with your ex is less easy. Co-owning a smart-talking, irritable, meddling cat with your ex is comedy. If this sounds to you like the kind of thing Lally Katz (Stories I Want to Tell You in Person, Neighbourhood Watch) should write, you’re right. There is no-one else who does charming, funny and unlikely quite like Katz.
Brendan Cowell
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 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
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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. By staging an epic Romantic opera in the smallest theatre in Sydney, Sisters Grimm are plunging into the ever-expanding gap between wealth and poverty. Violetta sacrificed her life to uphold her beliefs. Will the heroine of this tale?
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And If You Need Even More Reasons… Be at the front of the queue If you were a 2014 subscriber your 2015 renewal will be processed first, if you renew your subscription by 6pm Thursday 25 September 2014. Ticket offers and pre-sale period When you book your subscription you can purchase additional tickets at a discounted price to all Belvoir performances both Upstairs and Downstairs, to bring along family and friends. And when tickets go on general sale throughout the year, you can buy them one week before non-subscribers. The chance to win amazing prizes If you subscribe by 6pm Monday 3 November 2014 you could win one of a ton of excellent prizes. See p41 for full details. 30-Down Club If you’re aged 30 or under we’d love you to join the 30-Down Club. We give you heavily discounted tickets for preview performances. Get more info and prices on p43. Save on programs You can save on pre-purchased programs for shows in the Upstairs Theatre when you complete your subscription form. Program vouchers will be sent with your tickets.
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A free ticket If you were a subscriber in 2014 and we receive your 2015 subscription form for an Upstairs Theatre package of 7 plays or more before 6pm Monday 3 November 2014 we’ll give you one free ticket to a performance you are attending, so you can introduce someone new to Belvoir. Details on the form. Free ticket exchange If your plans change, not a problem. As long as our Box Office receives your original tickets 48 hours before your booked performance, we’ll exchange your tickets for another performance of the same play, at no cost. Please note: this applies to your first exchange for each play only and is subject to availability. Subsequent ticket exchanges may incur a fee. (Treasured subscribers are exempt from fees, see p43.) Free drinks If you’re joining Belvoir for the first time, we’d like to welcome you with a free drink – a voucher will be sent with your tickets. And if you are part of our Loyalty Program you’ll enjoy discounted drinks with every show – see p43 for details. Free mag – Interval In the middle of the year we’ll send you our little complimentary Belvoir magazine, chock full of company and program news, behind-the-scenes interviews with artists, news bites, rehearsal photos and lots more.
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If you’re aged 30 or under you’re on our radar and we have a subscriber group just for you. We want you to see as much theatre as possible, so we’ve created excellent packages and prices to get you along to preview performances in both the Upstairs and Downstairs Theatres.
To say thank you, we offer special treats to all of our Treasured, Devoted and Loyal subscribers. If you renew your subscription for 2015 you will receive a Belvoir 2015 Season key ring entitling you to a $1 discount on all your wine, beer and soft drink purchased at Belvoir St Theatre’s Hal Bar; and you can purchase our calico Belvoir bags for only $3 each. Plus if you introduce a friend to subscribe to Belvoir for the first time, we will give you a free copy of our beautiful coffee table book, 25 Belvoir Street (RRP $77). Throughout the year you will also receive invitations to these exclusive events: Treasured Subscribers (10+ consecutive years) Invitation to a Dendy Cinemas film screening, a chance to participate in a special Belvoir backstage tour, and a subscriber event associated with one of our 2015 highlight productions. Treasured subscribers are also entitled to unlimited fee-free ticket exchanges. Devoted Subscribers (7–9 consecutive years) Invitation to a Dendy Cinemas film screening and a chance to participate in a special Belvoir backstage tour.
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$366
$289
$261
6
$380
$332
$266
$236
5
$324
$288
$230
$209
DOWNSTAIRS THEATRE Plays 4
Full price
Seniors*
Concession†
30-Down
(Save $22)
(Save $18)
(Save $17)
(Save $27)
$170
$150
$135
$125
* Seniors prices are available with an eligible Australian Government-issued Seniors Card. † Concession prices are available with a full-time student card, all Centrelink Pensioner concession cards and Veterans’ Affairs Cards. To claim any concessions or to join the 30-Down Club you must send proof with your booking form. If you have previously supplied your Seniors or Veterans’ Affairs Card you don’t need to send it again. 44
Let us do all the work If you are subscribing to all 12 plays OR 8 plays Upstairs OR 4 plays Downstairs, you can just choose your preferred day of the week. We’ll pick the dates but you are free to change them if you need to. If you want to choose fewer plays but are still flexible with dates, let us know your preferred day, eg ‘any Saturday at 2pm’, and we’ll choose the dates and give you the best available seats. Again, you are free to change the dates if you need to. (Exchange conditions apply.) Previews & opening nights The first two or three dates of each season are preview performances that you are welcome to book into (please check performance times as these can vary). Opening nights are always by invitation only and cannot be booked as part of your subscription. Please check dates on the calendars on pp54–56. Special assistance If you have any special seating, audio or accessibility requests, or if you are interested in our captioned or audiodescribed performances, please attach a note to your booking form. We’ll do all that we can to accommodate you. See p48 for more accessibility information. How we process your booking form All subscription renewals received before 6pm Thursday 25 September 2014 will be processed first, after which all forms will be processed strictly in order of receipt. It takes 4–6 weeks for subscriptions to be processed. Seat availability We always seat our patrons in the very best available seats; the seats you are allocated depend on when we receive your subscription, the popularity of the production and the day of the week. We’re also limited by the size of our theatre, but rest assured we always give you the best possible seats. The seating plan for the Upstairs Theatre is on our website.
Submitting your form Fill in the online form available at belvoir.com.au/subscribe. Carefully complete all the relevant fields, double check, then submit. You’ll receive an email confirmation. Scan & email your completed hard copy form (with credit card details) to mail@belvoir.com.au or fax to 02 9698 3688. Mail your completed hard copy form and cheque (payable to Belvoir) or credit card details to: 2015 Season – Belvoir 18 Belvoir Street Surry Hills NSW 2010 Drop your form in with payment during Box Office hours (see p47 for opening times). Before you submit your subscription please double check you’ve fully completed all sections of your booking form. This is really important. Don’t forget to include proof if you are purchasing Senior, Concession or 30-Down subscriptions.
Wait, there’s more… Subscription gift certificates A Belvoir subscription makes a most excellent present. And if you have a young person in your life, the gift of regularly attending live theatre can really be a life-changing experience for them. Call our Box Office on 02 9699 3444 or buy online at belvoir.com.au/gifts. The rewards of giving are priceless Did you know the price you pay covers only 39% of the true cost of your seat? A tax-deductible donation can be made on your booking form, or donate securely online at belvoir.com.au/support. Thank you! Also, we urge you to support the Actors Benevolent Fund charity by donating an additional 50 cents per ticket when you fill out your form. Visit actorsbenevolentfund.org.au for info.
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Sunday Forum
Good theatre makes you feel. It can also make you think. Sometimes you’re left thinking about it well after you’ve left the theatre. You want to know more; about the play, its ideas, its history or how it came about. If so then our Sunday Forums are for you. We hold a forum for each of our Upstairs performances. 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 a play. Another might focus on how a show was created. After the forum you have a chance to ask questions of the panellists, meet your fellow audience members and continue the discussion informally with us in the foyer. Sunday Forums are free. It’s best to see the show before you come because we’re bound to spoil the ending! Check our website or call Box Office to find out who will appear on each panel and what the topic of discussion will be. See you there! Although tickets are free, 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. Tweet while you listen (or follow online) using #sundayforum
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Radiance 3pm, 8 February Kill the Messenger 3pm, 8 March 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
General Information
Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills NSW 2010 Subscriptions 02 8396 6290 Box Office 02 9699 3444 Box Office fax 02 9698 3688 Administration 02 9698 3344 Admin fax 02 9319 3165 mail@belvoir.com.au belvoir.com.au 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. We have two Box Office locations: Belvoir St Theatre (25 Belvoir St) and our administration warehouse (18 Belvoir St). The Box Office is open at either one of these locations depending on the day and time – please check via phone or website, and there are also signs at the front door of both buildings.
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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 Home before dark If you like to be home before dark there are performances on Saturdays at 2pm and 2.15pm. If you want to see a show and be home earlier in the evening there are shows at 6.30pm and 7pm on Tuesdays, and 5pm and 5.15pm on Sundays.
Previews & opening nights Previews are bookable but opening nights are not. Please see more information on p45.
Location and transport
Belvoir St Theatre is in Surry Hills, a five-minute walk from the Devonshire St exit of Central Station. Buses travel along Chalmers and Elizabeth Streets. For public transport information, call the Transport Infoline on 131 500 or visit transportnsw.info. Parking There is NO onsite parking, and limited timed parking is available on the streets around the theatre. We encourage you to use public transport.
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General Information
Eating and drinking
The Soup Stone is our resident caterer and provides delicious hot and cold meals from 90 minutes prior to each performance at Belvoir St Theatre, as well as during interval and post-show. So come early and enjoy a great meal with a drink from the Hal Bar. Belvoir also has several restaurant partners in Surry Hills who we recommend for pre- and post-show dining and drinks. Visit our website for our theatre menu and wine lists, plus links to our partners: belvoir.com.au/foodanddrink
Unwaged performances
We invite unwaged members of the community to attend a free-of-charge 2pm Thursday matinee performance of each Upstairs production in our season. Patrons must hold an eligible Pensioner, Health Care Card, Veterans’ Affairs Card, MEAA or Equity Card to claim a complimentary ticket. Seniors and Seniors Health Cards are not valid for these performances. Visit our Box Office in person from 12 noon on the day of the performance – see the calendar on pp54–55 for dates. Full info is available at belvoir.com.au/unwagedprogram
Accessibility
We cater for a range of accessibility needs. Belvoir St Theatre has lift access to the foyer and theatre, and a hearing loop in the Upstairs Theatre (E–J rows, centre). In conjunction with Vision Australia we provide audio-described performances. For hearing-impaired patrons we provide a mobile device captioned service, generously funded by City of Sydney. If you have specific accessibility or seating requirements, please contact our Box Office on 02 9699 3444. More info about all our accessibility services is at belvoir.com.au/access 48
Captioned (CAP) and audiodescribed (AD) performances All are on Saturdays at 2pm. Radiance CAP 24 January / AD 31 January Mother Courage and Her Children CAP 11 July Seventeen CAP 29 August / AD 5 September Mortido CAP 5 December / AD 12 December
Mobile phones
Please respect our actors and your fellow patrons by turning your mobile off completely before entering the theatre. Even vibrating phones on silent can be incredibly disturbing to everyone. Many thanks.
Programs
You can buy programs at Belvoir from the Box Office and the Hal Bar, or you can pre-order your programs when you subscribe and save. Did you know that some of our programs come with the full script included, and our Downstairs programs are free? All programs come with biographies, headshots, rehearsal photos, writer and director notes and other great content. Back issues are available online at belvoir.com.au/publications
Swearing, nudity and other bits
Some of our productions may contain strong language, nudity, violence, smoking, strobe lighting, haze or other things you may find confronting or uncomfortable. If you are concerned about any of these please ask our Box Office staff about content when booking.
Connect with us
Stay connected with us on a daily basis – we’re active on social media and would love you to be part of our online community. /belvoirst
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Tickets (non-subscription)
General release tickets for each show go on sale at Belvoir throughout the year as the shows approach. On-sale dates are on each production’s page on our website. The grid below shows the non-subscription ticket prices. Ticket prices can be dynamically adjusted, either up or down, based on real-time market demand, and without notice. Please contact Box Office for up-to-date prices as each show goes on sale. 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 friends. And when tickets go on general sale throughout the year, as a subscriber you can purchase them one week before non-subscribers.
UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS
Full Price
$72
$48
Subscriber Discounted Rate
$67
$45
Seniors*/Industry/Groups (10 or more)
$62
$42
Concession† $49 $38 Previews
$50
$38
II
$39
$25
Student Saver
* Seniors prices are available with an eligible Australian Government-issued Seniors Card. † Concession prices are available with a full-time student card, all Centrelink Pensioner concession cards and Veterans’ Affairs Cards. II 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.
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The Balnaves Foundation Supporting the presentation of Radiance and Kill the Messenger in 2015
The Balnaves Foundation is a private philanthropic organisation that was established in 2006 by Neil Balnaves AO to provide support to charitable enterprises across Australia. It supports eligible organisations that aim to create a better Australia through education, medicine and the arts with a focus on young people, the disadvantaged and Indigenous communities. The Balnaves Foundation has been funding Belvoir’s Indigenous theatre program since 2011. Each year the Foundation provides the financial underpinning for Belvoir to present two Indigenous works. A range of access programs is attached to the productions, including an unwaged performance and schools matinees. Showing its commitment to Indigenous work at Belvoir, The Balnaves 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, Coranderrk, 20 Questions and Brothers Wreck.
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In 2015 the Foundation will support Radiance and Kill the Messenger. In addition, 2015 represents the fourth year of the annual Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright’s Award – a $20,000 award comprising $7,500 prize money and a $12,500 commission for a new play. Belvoir has a long history of working with Indigenous artists including writers, directors, designers and actors, and of portraying unique Indigenous stories. Under Artistic Director Ralph Myers we continue our commitment to presenting significant Indigenous works and engaging Indigenous artists at Belvoir in both our Upstairs and Downstairs Theatres. Belvoir extends our warmest thanks to The Balnaves Foundation for its ongoing support.
Support Belvoir With a gift to our company
Over one weekend in 1984, two women, Chris Westwood and Sue Hill rallied their friends and acquaintances to donate $1,000 each to save our theatre from redevelopment. It worked! Belvoir simply would not be here today without this tenacious group of theatre-lovers, many of whom remain dedicated financial supporters of Belvoir.
If you have a great fundraising idea or simply want to find out how you can contribute, our Development team is always available. Get in touch on development@belvoir.com.au or 02 8396 6209. We look forward to having you join our family of Belvoir donors.
Because box office income covers only 39% of our operating costs, we still rely on donors to plug some of the gap. These days our donors ensure we can nurture artists, reach young people in remote communities, develop new Australian work and test out adventurous ideas. They believe that Belvoir’s work has been and continues to be of cultural significance. We warmly thank all our donors for their vote of confidence. We know that our subscribers believe deeply in what we do as well. And many of our subscribers are also donors. Over the past 30 years we have flourished because of these folk and, with your help, we can continue to thrive for another 30 years and beyond. Our subscription packages are heavily discounted to ensure our work remains accessible. Please consider including a donation when you complete your subscription form.
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Thanks to Our Sponsors IT Partner
Media Partners
Major Sponsors
Associate Sponsors
Key Supporter Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir supported by The Balnaves Foundation
BOUTIQUE ACCOMMODATION
Touring Fund
Mark Carnegie and Jessica Block
Event Sponsors
Government Partners
Youth & Education Supporter Supporters
Trusts & Foundations Copyright Agency Ltd Coca-Cola Australia Foundation Gandevia Foundation
The Greatorex Foundation Teen Spirit Charitable Foundation
Goldman Sachs Picket Studio Thomas Creative Time Out Australia
For information on partnership opportunities please contact our Development team on 02 9698 3344 or email development@belvoir.com.au
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Thank You Our production partners La Boite Theatre Company, Sisters Grimm, State Theatre Company of South Australia
Thank you also to Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Playwriting Australia.
Many thanks to all those who have contributed to the 2015 Season, the book and the launch: 121BC cantina & enoteca, Accor Hotels, Katrina Arent and Olsen Irwin Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, Australian Centre for Photography, Bishop Sessa, Brett Boardman, Cellarmasters, Brendan Cowell, Nick Coyle, Ashleigh Cummings, Dendy Cinemas, Dinosaur Designs, Ash Flanders, Colin Friels, Hive Catering & Honeycomb Restaurant, Hunter Valley Stays, Ewen Leslie, Love Supreme, Nakkiah Lui, Julian Meagher, Emily Milledge, MoVida, National Institute of Dramatic Art, Robyn Nevin, Opera Australia, Barry Otto, Hunter Page-Lochard, Ellis Parrinder, Leah Purcell, Sydney Festival, The Devonshire, Time Out, TITLE Store, Vini. Julian Meagher is represented in Sydney by Olsen Irwin Gallery. A special thank you to our design wonder team Alphabet Studio, and also Belvoir’s Marketing team. Belvoir is proud to be a member of the Australian Major Performing Arts Group (AMPAG)
Design Alphabet Studio Illustrations Julian Meagher 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.
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2015 Season Calendar Upstairs Theatre
Radiance
3 JAN – 8 FEB
Previews (bookable) 3, 4, 6 January Opening night (invitation only) 7 January Unwaged performance 22 January Captioned performance 24 January Audio-described performance 31 January Sunday Forum 8 February
Kill the Messenger 14 FEB – 8 MAR Previews (bookable) 14, 15, 17 February Opening night (invitation only) 18 February Unwaged performance 5 March Sunday Forum 8 March
Elektra / Orestes
14 MAR – 26 APR
Previews (bookable) 14, 15, 17 March Opening night (invitation only) 18 March Unwaged performance 9 April Sunday Forum 26 April
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The Wizard of Oz
2 MAY – 31 MAY
Previews (bookable) 2, 3, 5 May Opening night (invitation only) 6 May Unwaged performance 28 May Sunday Forum 31 May
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Mother Courage and Her Children
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Seventeen 1 AUG – 13 SEP Previews (bookable) 1, 2, 4 August Opening night (invitation only) 5 August Captioned performance 29 August Audio-described performance 5 September Unwaged performance 10 September Sunday Forum 13 September
Ivanov
19 SEP – 1 NOV
Previews (bookable) 19, 20, 22 September Opening night (invitation only) 23 September Unwaged performance 1 October Sunday Forum 1 November
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Mortido 7 NOV – 23 DEC Previews (bookable) 7, 8, 10 November Opening night (invitation only) 11 November Captioned performance 5 December Audio-described performance 12 December Unwaged performance 17 December Sunday Forum 20 December
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2015 Season Calendar Downstairs Theatre
Blue Wizard 19 FEB – 15 MAR Previews (bookable) 19, 20 February Opening night (invitation only) 21 February
Samson
7 MAY – 31 MAY
Previews (bookable) 7, 8 May Opening night (invitation only) 9 May
The Dog / The Cat 18 JUN – 12 JUL Previews (bookable) 18, 19 June Opening night (invitation only) 20 June
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La Traviata
27 AUG – 20 SEP
Previews (bookable) 27, 28 August Opening night (invitation only) 29 August
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