belvoir 2011
I divide all productions into two categories: those I like and those I don’t like. Anton Chekhov
2011 Season
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The Wild Duck Jack Charles v the Crown Cut The Business The Kiss The Seagull Neighbourhood Watch Windmill Baby Human Interest Story And They Called Him Mr Glamour Summer of the Seventeenth Doll The Dark Room As You Like It
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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted. Voltaire
Contents
Ralph’s Message
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Upstairs The Wild Duck 14 Jack Charles v the Crown 16 The Business 18 The Seagull 20 Neighbourhood Watch 22 Human Interest Story 24 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 26 As You Like It 28 Downstairs Cut The Kiss Windmill Baby And They Called Him Mr Glamour The Dark Room
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Subscribe 42 Sunday Forum 46 Belvoir Loyalty Program & 30-Down Club 48 Season Ticket Prices 49 How to Become a Season Ticket Holder 50 Venue Information 52 Belvoir Supporters 54 Belvoir Staff 60 Thank You 61 2011 Season Calendar 62 Season Ticket Booking Form 64
Hello,
My name is Ralph Myers, and as some of you may know, I am the new Artistic Director of Belvoir. This is the blueprint for our 2011 season. I love theatre. It offers something that no other art form provides; presence. No other medium offers real communion between the audience and the artists. This peculiar quality of theatre, its intensity and immediacy, give it a kind of power that is lost to most of everyday life. Something almost shamanistic, something of a séance’s invocation of a hidden, unseen dimension. It’s something that children can sometimes observe with more clarity than adults, and I can still recall how captivated I was by the strange and solemn goingson in Belvoir’s wonderful, dark space when I went to my first performance here at the age of 9. I have inherited a wonderful theatre space. It’s a magic room. Great theatres aren’t made, they evolve over time. The fabric of our building resonates with the energy of the performances that have taken place within it. The collective memory and
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expectations of our audience do more than lights ever could to illuminate the stage for each new production. Not all theatres work, but our beloved corner stage stands alone as a theatre that through good design, good fortune, and years of continual use by skilled artists has become a space where audiences anticipate great performance. But an empty building, no matter its history, is not a theatre. The curse of theatre, and its blessing, is that it must be continually reinvented, recreated anew each night. Great theatre is a conversation between performers and audience. It electrifies the air between viewers and those on stage. We are blessed with a building that simply doesn’t physically allow us to resort to spectacle and illusion. There is no hiding behind the proscenium arch or dazzling with tricks. There is nothing for us to fall back on other than thrilling performances by talented actors, bold stories told by
new playwrights, and classic stories radically retold by brilliant directors. Our theatre must be abstract and improvised, but not impoverished. We create whole worlds within the finite space we have. Shakespeare understood this perfectly: his stage was completely devoid of illusion, and basically empty. He relied upon the audience to use their imagination to complete the images being conjured onstage. Our as yet unnamed mascot (anyone?) is an attempt to embody this fact: it’s a horse, but it’s also a chair with a gumboot on it. You see it as you like it. Belvoir has always had, and will continue to have, a commitment to supporting Australian playwrights. Not for nationalistic or jingoistic reasons, but because we believe that the world on our stage should engage the world as it exists outside our walls. We reject the embarrassing assumption that plays from Broadway or the West End are better than the plays written here, and we
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reject the timidity of staging new plays that arrive polished from overseas. Rather, we strive to support and nourish our playwrights in ways that overseas practitioners have long taken for granted. A script left on the page is not a play. Every generation rediscovers itself in the classics. This season we have plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Gorky, Chekhov and Lawler. These works, staged here and now by us, become contemporary and become Australian. No-one who saw Neil Armfield’s legendary production of Hamlet in 1994 went away thinking about England – or Denmark, for that matter. You will notice that there are more shows in this book than previous years. We have made a philosophical decision to directly support emerging artists by producing works in the Downstairs Theatre, too. The works that we have commissioned have the explicit aim of fostering the next generation of directors and playwrights. We hope this season can grow each year.
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Audiences are not always aware of the enormous amount of work that goes on behind the scenes at a theatre company like ours. I am incredibly lucky to have joined a passionately dedicated collection of true believers lead by the wonderful General Manager Brenna Hobson. Together we have made some changes to the structure of the company. We have created the new role of Resident Director for the enormously talented Simon Stone. Eamon Flack will become Associate Director with a special mandate for developing new works. Composer and sound designer Stefan Gregory has been appointed as Associate Artist. And this year we will appoint an Associate Producer and a fulltime Literary Manager. We’ve had a great time putting this season together – we’ve read through avalanches of scripts, we’ve witnessed the breadth of Australian theatre, and we’ve talked with dozens of directors, playwrights, actors and designers about the work that they really want to make, and the ways that we, as a
company, can enable them to make it. From these, we’ve found 13 projects we’re really excited about presenting. They will be created by the most extraordinary line-up of directors: Neil Armfield, Benedict Andrews and Simon Stone are joined upstairs this year by Eamon Flack, Lucy Guerin, Rachael Maza Long and Cristabel Sved. A new generation of young directors – Leticia Cáceres, Susanna Dowling, Kylie Farmer, Sarah John, and Thomas Wright – will make new projects downstairs. Together we strive to provide for you theatre that goes beyond our expectation of what theatre can be. Theatre that provides us with an opportunity for self reflection and examination; theatre that makes us think and question our assumptions; theatre that brings us pleasure, even the pleasure of sadness, and reveals, however briefly, the face of the invisible, transcending everyday life. So join us next year. We’re not quite sure where we’re going yet – but we’re going to have a hell of a time getting there!
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This is a horse.
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UPSTAIRS
Upstairs
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12 February – 27 March
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Written & Directed by Simon Stone, after Henrik Ibsen
SET DESIGNER Ralph Myers
COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER Stefan Gregory
Eloise Mignon Toby Schmitz
The Wild Duck
Belvoir’s new Resident Director Simon Stone has been getting to know playwright Henrik Ibsen pretty well over the last few years. The great Norwegian’s plays have long been obscured by layers of dust and fusty preconceptions. Stone’s reworkings have uncovered a radical realist who may still be, a century after his death, the most thrilling dramatist ever of family life. This is a truly great play: Hjalmar Ekdal’s father was rich until scandal cast the family into poverty. Now he lives in a tiny flat with his father, his wife Gina, his daughter Hedvig and a duck. And there’s about to be a new member of the household. Gregers Werle is an idealist who has been living on a mountaintop for the last 15 years and he has just returned to town with a secret that could shatter the little world Hjalmar has built around himself. Ibsen’s plays are brutal and tender tragedies. At the core of his work is the idea that anything less than total honesty and an exhaustive conscience will sow the seeds for future tragedy – which makes Ibsen the ideal dramatist for contemporary Australia. Stone and a group of collaborators have been excavating his plays and gradually reconstructing them into searing new modern works. The process has already brought about The Only Child in the Downstairs Theatre in 2009. The Wild Duck is next.
EWEN & TOBY
WITH John Gaden Anita Hegh Ewen Leslie
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30 MARCH – 17 APRIL
BY Jack Charles & John Romeril
DIRECTOR Rachael Maza LONG
DRAMATURG John Romeril SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Emily Barrie
Jack Charles v the Crown From Stolen Generation to Koori Uncle Jack Charles is an Australian legend: veteran actor, theatre in the 70s, from film sets to Her Majesty’s prisons, Jack Koori elder, activist, cat-burglar and, until recently, heroin addict. Charles v the Crown runs the gamut of a life lived to its utmost. This is a show about his life – Charles’s unswerving optimism told by him. transforms this tale of addiction, Rachael Maza Long – Artistic crime and doing time into a kind Director of Melbourne’s Ilbijerri of vagabond’s progress – a map Theatre Company – has of the traps of dispossession reunited Charles with his longand a guide to reaching the age time collaborator playwright of grey-haired wisdom. John Romeril. Together they are This fleet-footed, light-fingered crafting a telling of Charles’s one-man show is a theatrical extraordinary story. delight and a celebration of Black Australia’s dogged refusal to give up on getting on.
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WITH Jack Charles
AN Ilbijerri Theatre Company Production Supported by the balnaves foundation
JACK
LIGHTING DESIGNER Danny Pettingill MUSICAL DIRECTOR Nigel MacLean VIDEO DESIGNER PETER WORLAND
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23 April – 29 May
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BASED ON Vassa Zheleznova by Maxim Gorky adapted BY Jonathan Gavin with Cristabel Sved
DIRECTOR Cristabel Sved
LIGHTING DESIGNER Verity Hampson
Composer & Sound Designer Max Lyandvert
WITH Russell Kiefel Sarah Peirse
In 1909 Maxim Gorky wrote Vassa Zheleznova, a savage comedy about a Russian family at war over money, entitlement and the march of progress. But Vassa Zheleznova also relates to one of the great Australian themes: how we hauled ourselves out of our working class past and set out on the road to a relaxed and comfortable future.
Our central character is a woman who grew up poor, clawed her way out, and built an empire in the outer suburbs. But her salad days in middle Australia are under threat. The world is accelerating into the future, her husband is on his last legs, and the kids smell blood. Now is the time for a spectacular generational showdown over who gets the prize.
Jonathan Gavin is one of Australian playwrighting’s bestkept secrets. The Business is his transplantation of Gorky’s wonderful monster into the engine room of modern Australia: the small business.
Following her charismatic turn in Gethsemane in 2009, Sarah Peirse returns to Belvoir to play the redoubtable matriarch of The Business. Cristabel Sved makes her directorial debut Upstairs with this gripping family battle which asks what all the hard work is for.
SARAH
The Business
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New forms, we need new forms. Act One. Chekhov described his play in a letter to a friend: “A comedy, three women’s parts, six men’s, four acts, a landscape (view of a lake); a great deal of conversation about literature, little action, five tons of love.” The Seagull is Chekhov’s extraordinary gathering of a group of bruised and incandescent dreamers who cannot, no matter how they try, get what they want. It’s also one of the masterpieces of theatre about theatre, an exploration of how telling stories and coining symbols interacts with life. By turns elevated and scrappy, gorgeous and mundane, The Seagull is a vision of humanity enduring in the presence of eternity. Benedict Andrews (Measure for Measure, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) has been delivering a series of brilliant investigations of the essential human questions in a career spanning Europe and Australia. All the while he’s been yearning to make his way back to this cornerstone writer. Now he’s gathering a brilliant ensemble of actors including the great actress Judy Davis as the great actress Arkadina, for Chekhov’s splendid telling of LIFE. 20
4 JUNE – 17 JULY
BY Anton Chekhov DIRECTOR Benedict Andrews
SET DESIGNER Ralph Myers
WITH Emily Barclay Gareth Davies JUDY DAVIS Maeve Dermody John Gaden
Maeve & John
The Seagull
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23 JULY – 28 AUGUST
BY Lally Katz DIRECTOR Simon Stone
COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER Stefan Gregory
Neighbourhood Watch
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And God said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour. He obviously hadn’t reckoned on Eva. Robyn Nevin is Eva: a battlehardened Hungarian-Australian veteran of the twentieth century. Catherine is her neighbour: twenty-something and waiting for a better world. The question is, will their unlikely friendship outlive the colossal forces of history, the inevitability of death, and a trip to the mall to see Mamma Mia? Neighbourhood Watch is a glorious new comedy about hope, death and pets. Lally Katz wrote it for the great Robyn Nevin. It’s a classic odd-couple story: opposites attract, and from each other they gain a new understanding. But as the domestic crises accumulate, Neighbourhood Watch takes on a sense of enormity in the midst of the ordinary that would make Patrick White proud. Katz is a true original and in Neighbourhood Watch her spirit of curiosity turns optimism into an artform. Nevin needs no introduction. Come July 2011, she’ll be donning Eva’s gold blouse and formidable hairdo for her longoverdue return to Belvoir. Simon Stone directs this epic which questions whether we really know what is out there in the ‘burbs’.
ROBYN & TROOPER
WITH Charlie Garber Heather Mitchell Robyn Nevin
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31 AUGUST – 18 SEPTEMBER
CHOREOGRAPHER Lucy Guerin SET DESIGNER Gideon Obarzanek REALISING DESIGNER Anna Cordingley
COSTUME DESIGNER Paula Levis LIGHTING DESIGNER Paul Jackson COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER Jethro Woodward
Human Interest Story Our world is saturated with news. Torrents of information transport us from battlefields to crime scenes, from celebrity homes to our own backyards. But how does this unending flow of information shape us? Lucy Guerin is one of Australia’s great choreographers. Like her contemporaries Kate Champion and Gideon Obarzanek, her work has often blurred the line between theatre and dance. This is not a play, but it is theatre.
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Through an explosive combination of imagery, gesture and sound, Human Interest Story explores the way we consume the news. With stunning inventiveness, Lucy Guerin confronts the impact of global catastrophe delivered daily to our homes. Guerin takes the media’s distortions of time and space and turns them into a visceral critique of the way we understand our world. Human Interest Story’s choreography of modern chaos brilliantly reveals through movement what cannot be said.
Special Newscast by Anton Enus
A Lucy Guerin Inc. and Malthouse melbourne production in association with Perth International Arts Festival
Harriet & Alisdair
WITH Stephanie Lake Alisdair Macindoe Talitha Maslin Harriet Ritchie Stuart Shugg Jessica Wong
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24 September – 13 November
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BY Ray Lawler DIRECTOR Neil Armfield
SET DESIGNER Ralph Myers COSTUME DESIGNER Tess Schofield
LIGHTING DESIGNER Damien Cooper Composer Alan John
WITH Robyn Nevin Yael Stone Helen Thomson Dan WylLie
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll After 17 years as Artistic Director here at Belvoir, Neil Armfield directs the play about how, after 17 years, all good things must come to an end. Every summer, Barney and Roo have come back from the Queensland canefields to the Carlton house they share with Nancy and Olive for their
annual season of leisure. This year though, Nancy’s gone and got married, and Pearl’s taking her place … Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is one of the pillars of our national theatre. With its premiere in 1955 Australian playwriting came of age. But The Doll is also about regeneration: about sloughing off the shell of habit and delusion and finding life anew. Three Australian greats – Neil, The Doll and the Victor mower – were all born in ’55. Here we bring (at least) two of them together for the first time! Helen & Dan
Everything changes. The only thing that stays the same, Is how we hate to change. Eddie Perfect, “My Sister Worked at Bunnings”
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19 November – 24 December
BY William Shakespeare DIRECTOR Eamon Flack
SET DESIGNER Alistair Watts COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER Stefan Gregory
As You
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WITH ALISON BELL Gareth Davies Charlie Garber Shelly Lauman
Like It
The Forest of Arden: Orlando loves Rosalind. Rosalind is disguised as a boy called Ganymede. Phebe loves Ganymede. Silvius loves Phebe. Rosalind loves Orlando back. Oliver is hunting Orlando. Celia loves Oliver. Celia is disguised as Aliena. The Duke is hunting Celia. The other Duke is hunting deer. Jaques loves the deer. Touchstone is freaked out by Jaques. Audrey loves Touchstone. Touchstone loves words … It turns out to be quite a hard play to describe. In the end there’s a wedding and they all go home. As You Like It is breadth of life as only Shakespeare knows how. This is the tale of a mixed bag of ordinary human beings on a tremendous voyage of discovery. At its heart is a heroically foolhardy attempt to begin society all over again, which makes this a perfect end to the first year of the new Belvoir. Eamon Flack’s triumphantly ridiculous A Midsummer Night’s Dream played in the Downstairs Theatre in 2009. He is assembling a company of Australia’s brightest, shiniest and funniest for an adventure into the realms of this magnificent comedy about the great graceful drift of life.
CHARLIE & SHELLY
LIGHTING DESIGNER Damien Cooper
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Downstairs
For the last twelve years the Downstairs Theatre has played host to independent companies producing work under the banner of B Sharp. This has created some truly great nights in the theatre and provided a valuable bridge between training institutions, the independent theatre world, and mainstage work. It has, however, always been a concern to us that the co-operative nature of the work has meant that those artists aren’t always paid. So for 2011 we’ve pooled our resources to ensure that we can continue the spirit of play and experimentation whilst ensuring that all artists are fully supported. We also have the support of The Balnaves Foundation, as our new Indigenous Presenting Partner, to assist us in this endeavour. In 2011 for the first time we are offering you the option to choose up to five Belvoir productions in the Downstairs Theatre as part of a Season Ticket package. Our first season is a cracker! We have sought out some of the most promising young directors and writers and asked them to come and try their hand in our fabulous little Downstairs Theatre. They’ve teamed up with some of the best emerging and established actors around to attack new works that are touching, confronting, razor sharp and relevant to us, here and now. So come along, and see the next generation of great theatreanimals in the making.
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A woman sits on a bus and talks to the strangers around her. Or is she at home talking to herself? Or is she in a theatre talking to us? Has she been through an ordeal, or is it a fantasy? Is she traumatised, or is she just messing with us? Duncan Graham’s Cut is a theatrical riddle which travels the precarious line between fantasy and reality, thought and action. Graham and director Sarah John are long time collaborators who have developed a series of bold new works. Cut is their next theatrical investigation, created over a number of years and finally brought to life by the fearless Anita Hegh. Possible confession, possible fantasy. Is she being stalked by a strange man? Or is she playing a cruel game with us? You decide.
Cut 7 AprIL – 1 May 32
BY Duncan Graham
DIRECTOR Sarah John
WITH Anita Hegh
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ANITA
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BY Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Peter Goldsworthy & Guy de Maupassant
DIRECTOR Susanna Dowling
What do Peter Goldsworthy, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin and Guy de Maupassant have in common? They’re all masters of the art of the short story, and they all wrote a story called The Kiss. Realising this, director Susanna Dowling had the inspired idea to put their four stories on stage, word for word. Maupassant looks at sexual power and the politics inherent in relations between women and men. Chopin deals with deception and the choice between love and money. Chekhov shows how the imagination can take a single moment of reality and build it into a fantasy that becomes more important than the original. And Goldsworthy takes a kiss and turns it into an aching portrayal of Australian teenage bravado gone horribly wrong. Eschewing the traditional hack-job of literary adaptation by using the complete text of each story, The Kiss steps out into a new form of theatrical storytelling.
WITH Danielle Cormack CATHERINE DAVIES
YALIN OZUCELIK STEVE ROdGERS
STEVE
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Windmill Baby
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BY David Milroy
DIRECTOR Kylie Farmer
David Milroy’s Windmill Baby is already an Australian classic. First performed in Perth in 2005 it has since played all over the world – but never in Sydney. Now, Kylie Farmer (last seen burning the floor in The Sapphires) makes her directorial debut with a new production Downstairs. Maymay has come back to the pastoral station she worked on as a domestic half a century ago. As she beavers away around the old washing line, she recalls the season of love and revenge which swept through and turned this dusty collection of bungalows into the scene of an achingly beautiful tragedy.
with Roxanne McDonald
Windmill Baby is the story of Black Australians in the service of White Australia. It’s also an ancient tale of unexpected love and sudden ruination. Milroy’s wily humour and Maymay’s magnificent forebearance make Windmill Baby an act of grace. It finds meaning in a useless act of violence, and carries the meaning on in spite of the blunting powers of time and the wilful failures of the national memory. And most wonderfully of all, Windmill Baby is that rare thing: a real love story.
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And They Called Him Mr Glamour
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BY Gareth Davies
DIRECTOR Thomas Wright
What the Black Lung does to stories, is almost as impolite as what it does to audiences. Alison Croggon, The Australian, 18.11.08 Gareth Davies is a lunatic who should be unleashed on theatre audiences as often as possible. Jimmy Dalton, Concrete Playground, 03.04.10 The Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm are a Melbourne anti-institution that have never appeared on stage in Sydney. Davies’s brilliant text And They Called Him Mr Glamour is a pathetically hilarious tale of a man, alone on stage, desperately seeking the audience’s attention. Davies is a true fool: intelligent, relentless, brave, and very, very funny. Mr Glamour is his one-man plea for self-respect, heroism and the right to be a hopeless idiot. The intrepid Thomas Wright (not to be confused with The Oresteia’s Tom Wright) makes his Belvoir directing debut. And They Called Him Mr Glamour is a black hole of self-loathing, dragnetting and paranoia.
WITH Gareth Davies
A co-production with The Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm
GARETH
Please come.
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The Dark Room A lonely motel somewhere in the post-intervention NT. Deep into the night, six lost souls play out a small, distant tragedy of lovesickness and social breakdown – only it’s not the same night. The Dark Room is Angela Betzien’s beautifully-formed thriller about the startling idea that, no matter how far apart we are in distance and time, we are all responsible for each other’s lives. Betzien and director Leticia Cáceres are the founders of Queensland company Real TV. Betzien has a natural understanding of the theatre’s unique ability to tell multiple stories simultaneously – stories of complexity and emotional rawness. Cáceres is a farreaching thinker about what can be achieved on stage by the simplest means possible. The Dark Room is a timely reflection on the conflict between what we ask of society and what it asks of us.
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BY Angela Betzien
DIRECTOR Leticia Cáceres
BRENDaN
WITH BRENDAN COWELL LEAH PURCELL
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Free Ticket Exchange If your plans change, we’ll change too! If your tickets arrive at the Box Office 48 hours before your booked performance, we’ll exchange them for another performance of the same play, free! Special Ticket Offers Season Ticket Holders can purchase discounted tickets to all Belvoir performances both Upstairs and Downstairs. Bring along family and friends or see for yourself what is showing in the Downstairs Theatre. Free Drinks If you’re joining Belvoir for the first time, we’d like to welcome you with a free drink. A drink voucher will be sent with your tickets. Belvoir Bugle Pore over interviews with artists, updates from Ralph and Brenna and get sneak previews of upcoming shows in our mid-year magazine. Prepaid Programs Pre-purchase programs when you complete your booking form and program vouchers will be sent with your tickets. You’ll save $1 per program for shows in the Upstairs Theatre!
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Wine iQ In 2011 Belvoir welcomes Wine iQ on board as an Event Sponsor. As a special offer to Belvoir 2011 Season Ticket Holders Wine iQ is offering $100 in free credit to spend on their first purchase of wine. Season Ticket Holders can claim their credit at www.wineiq.com/belvoir Throughout the year, Belvoir St Theatre’s Hal Bar will be serving wine from the following 13 winery partners.
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Win a Trip for Two to London Send your 2011 Season Ticket booking form before 6pm Friday 5 November and you could win a trip for two* to London, including two return economy class flights and tickets to a show you might have heard of … more news when we are allowed to tell.
You Could Also Win … A Weekend in the Hunter Valley Win a three night weekend (or midweek stay) for up to eight guests in one of Stays in the Vines’ unique country house properties in the heart of the Hunter Valley wine country. Prize includes gourmet local products, a private wine tasting and a three-course dinner cooked at the property by your personal chef from Motty’s Farm Cuisine. Sydney Festival 2011 Opening Night Tickets Four tickets to a Sydney Festival 2011 opening night performance of your choice. Free Movies at Palace Two tickets to the latest releases at Palace Cinemas throughout 2011 (25 double passes).
A Night at the Opera Two premium reserve tickets (or best available) to the opera of your choice in Opera Australia’s 2011 Sydney Winter Season. Art Gallery of NSW Membership An annual joint membership to the Art Gallery of New South Wales including free viewings, subscriptions, gallery discounts, member events and two tickets to their end of year exhibition “China’s First Emperor”. MCA Membership Dual membership to the Museum of Contemporary Art for one year including free entry to ticketed exhibitions, subscriptions and a range of discounts. NSW Permit Number LTPS/10/07582 * Accommodation not included, travel taken within 12 months and some restrictions apply.
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Sunday Forum The bigger picture, the story behind the show, the who’s who and the what’s what – Sunday Forum is our new window into our work. There’ll be a Sunday Forum for every Upstairs show in 2011, at 3pm on the second to last Sunday of the season. Join us in the theatre and we’ll have a panel of special guests – performers, creatives, commentators, reviewers, pundits – for a discussion on the show and how it fits into the world at large. Each Sunday Forum will have its own theme and focus. Ever wanted to know how Ray Lawler felt about the 1955 production of The Doll? Or how Chekhov can change your life? Maybe you would like to hear an Australian
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theatre legend talk about what it takes to make an Australian classic? Or meet the real people behind the characters from one of our plays? Sunday Forum will be a smorgasboard of bonus material. We’ll announce the lineup as the year unfolds. This is also a chance to get to know your fellow patrons and some of us. Each Sunday Forum will be hosted by Belvoir artists or staff, and there will be nibbles at the bar before the 5pm show. So come along, have a listen, throw in some questions, and continue the conversation at the bar afterwards. The Sunday Forum is free for 2011 Season Ticket Holders.
The Wild Duck Sunday 20 March
Neighbourhood Watch Sunday 21 August
Jack Charles v the Crown Sunday 10 April
Human Interest Story Sunday 11 September
The Business Sunday 22 May
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Sunday 6 November
The Seagull Sunday 10 July
As You Like It Sunday 18 December
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Belvoir Loyalty Program
30-Down Club
We recognise the special commitment shown by our Season Ticket Holders who have subscribed for four or more consecutive years.
Aged 30 or under? You can join our 30-Down Club and save! In 2011 we have two Season Ticket options available for our 30-Down Club members. You can choose to see preview performances of 8, 7, 6 or 5 plays in the Upstairs Theatre, 5 plays in the Downstairs Theatre on selected dates or combine the two into one bumper 2011 Season Ticket.
Treasured Season Ticket Holders 10+ Consecutive Years Devoted Season Ticket Holders 7 – 9 Consecutive Years Loyal Season Ticket Holders 4 – 6 Consecutive Years This support is the lifeblood of Belvoir. To say thank you, all Treasured, Devoted and Loyal Season Ticket Holders who renew will receive a Belvoir 2011 Season key-ring entitling them to $1 discount on all wine, beer and soft drink purchased at Belvoir St Theatre’s Hal Bar. Throughout the year they also receive invitations to exclusive Belvoir events, free and discounted tickets to other performances and screenings and other select offers.
With an Upstairs Theatre 30-Down Season Ticket you can see performances of 8 plays for only $186 – that’s just over $23 per show – or 5 in the Downstairs Theatre for just $100! That’s a small price to pay to see some of Australia’s most renowned actors, directors and designers in action. Upstairs Theatre 8 Plays
$186
$23.25 per show
7 Plays
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$24.28 per show
6 Plays
$158
$26.33 per show
5 Plays
$149
$29.80 per show
Downstairs Theatre 5 Plays $100
$20.00 per show
THE LOT 13 Plays $286
$22.00 per show
The 30-Down Club also makes a great gift. If you have children or grandchildren who are 30 or under, a 30-Down Club membership is a fantastic way to introduce them to the exhilarating experience of regularly attending live theatre.
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2011 Season Ticket Prices Belvoir 2011 Season Tickets UPSTAIRS THEATRE
8 Plays
Full Price
$328 $310 $287 $260
7 Plays
Seniors*
$274 $261 $236 $216
Concession†
$210 $205 $182 $159
30-Down Preview Package
$186
$170
6 Plays
$158
Add 5 plays in the Downstairs Theatre
5 Plays
$149 5 Plays
Full Price $170 Seniors* $145 Concession† $125 30-Down Package $100
Belvoir 2011 Single Ticket Prices‡ UPSTAIRS THEATRE Full Price
$59
Season Ticket Holder Discounted Rate
$54
Seniors*§ /Industry/Groups (10 or More)
$49
Concession†
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Previews $39 Student RushII $27 DOWNSTAIRS THEATRE
Season Ticket Holder Rate
Full Price
$42
$37
Seniors*§ /Industry/Groups (10 or More)
$36
$32
Concession†
$32
$28
Previews
$32 $28
* Seniors prices are available with an eligible Seniors Card. † Concession prices are available to unemployed, pensioners and full time students. If you are a senior, eligible for concession or want to join the 30-Down Club you must send photocopied proof with your booking form. ‡ Booking fees may apply. § Seniors single tickets not available on Friday or Saturday evenings. II Student Rush available Tuesday 6.30pm and Saturday 2pm performances, from 10am on the day subject to availability.
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How to Become a Season Ticket Holder
Book online – belvoir.com.au Or complete the world’s easiest booking form at the back of this book. Were You a Season Ticket Holder in 2010? Use the personalised booking form sent with your 2011 Season book and we’ll process your form more quickly and track your Loyalty Program status. Choose Your Package Choose to see 8, 7, 6 or 5 plays in the Upstairs Theatre and additionally you can choose 5 plays or single tickets in the Downstairs Theatre. If you are 30 or under select from an Upstairs or Downstairs Theatre package. Then nominate a convenient date and time. It’s that easy! Planning a Year Ahead is Difficult … You can choose a day and time that you’re generally free and we’ll do the rest. For example, write “any Saturday at 2pm” and we’ll give you the best available seats. Discounted Ticket Offers Take advantage of the great range of discounted ticket offers available to 2011 Season Ticket Holders.
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Special Assistance If you have any special seating, audio or accessibility requests, attach a note to your booking form. We’ll do all that we can to accommodate you. Can You Help? The price you pay covers only 48% of the true cost of your seat. An optional tax deductible donation can be made on your booking form. With your support we can continue to create the kind of theatre that you love and that has inspired audiences across the world! This year you can also choose to assist the Actors’ Benevolent Fund. Since 1944, the Actors’ Benevolent Fund of NSW has assisted performers and their families who suffer hardship through illness accident or age, many of whom are well known and have previously given their time to fundraise for other charities. This is their charity and we urge you to support it by donating an additional 20 cents on your ticket price when you fill out your booking form. A tax deductible donation can be made by visiting actorsbnevolentfund.org.au
How We Process Your Booking Form All renewals received before 6pm Friday 1 October will be processed first, after which all forms will be processed strictly in order of receipt. It takes 4 – 6 weeks for your booking to be processed. Renewing? The priority period closes 6pm Friday 1 October! Gift Certificates Looking for an innovative gift idea? Give our friendly Box Office staff a call on 02 9699 3444 for more information on purchasing a 2011 Season Ticket as a gift. A 30-Down Season Ticket is a great way to give a young person the life-changing experience of regularly attending live theatre.
Send Us Your Booking Form Don’t forget proof if you are purchasing senior, concession or 30-Down Season Tickets. Mail your completed form and cheque (payable to Company B Ltd) or credit card details to: Season 2011, Belvoir, 18 Belvoir Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010. Fax your completed form and credit card details to: 02 9698 3688 In Person drop your form in with payment during Box Office hours (see p. 52 for opening times). Online Season Tickets Can be purchased using credit card at belvoir.com.au
Double Check PLEASE double check you’ve fully completed all sections of your booking form!
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Location & Transport Belvoir St is in Surry Hills, a five minute walk from Central Station. Buses travel along Chalmers and Elizabeth Streets. For public transport information, call the Transport Infoline on 131 500 or visit www.131500.com.au
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Parking There is NO onsite parking and limited timed parking is available on the streets around the theatre. Accessibility At Belvoir St Theatre there is an entry ramp from the street to the foyer, lift access, a hearing loop in both theatres and this year we have scheduled two captioned performances (see p. 62 for dates). If you have specific accessibility or seating requirements, please do not hesitate to contact our Box Office on 02 9699 3444.
Food and Drink Silver Spoon Caterers provide delicious meals from one and a half hours prior to each performance at Belvoir St Theatre. Wraps, rolls and ice-cream are also available before the performance and during interval. You can also enjoy a drink at the Hal Bar in the foyer. 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 before dinner there are shows at 6.30pm and 7pm on Tuesdays, and 5pm and 5.15pm on Sundays.
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At Optus, we know our role in theatre. OK, so Optus may not be the world’s finest thespians. But we do know how to make theatre possible for everyone, through our special collaboration with Belvoir. Our unique ‘Charitable Tickets’ and ‘Unwaged Performance Programs’ offer free tickets to those who rarely have the opportunity to enjoy the theatre.
Thanks to Our Sponsors Corporate Par tner
IT Projects Partner
Major Sponsors
Associate Sponsors
Event Sponsors Bird Cow Fish One Earth Foods Silver Spoon Caterers Coopers
Government Partners
Supporters Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir supported by The Balnaves Foundation The Coca-Cola Australia Foundation, The Ian Potter Foundation, Matana Foundation for Young People, Media Tree, Stays in the Vines, Thomas Creative, Teen Spirit Foundation managed by Perpetual. For more information on partnership opportunities please contact our Development Manager Katy Wood on 02 8396 6224 or email katy@belvoir.com.au 55
Belvoir Donors We give our heartfelt thanks to all our donors for their loyal and generous support.
Foundation Donors The measure of any great theatre is its capacity to provide a strong foundation for its long-term renewal. The following major donors have made a significant financial investment in the Belvoir Creative Development Fund, which supports artistic development beyond the demands of our annual season and budget. Neil Armfield AO Anne Britton Andrew Cameron Janet & Trefor Clayton Anne & Michael Coleman Hartley & Sharon Cook
Gail Hambly Anne Harley Rachel Healy Hal Herron Clark Butler & Louise Herron
Victoria Holthouse Helen Lynch Frank Macindoe Ann Sherry & Michael Hogan Mary Vallentine AO
Chair’s Group This group of generous individuals provide special support for the development and staging of Indigenous theatre at Belvoir and enhanced opportunities for many Indigenous artists. Members of the 2010 Chair’s Group are: Anonymous (3) Antoinette Albert Jillian Broadbent Louana Butler Jan Chapman Warren Coleman & Therese Kenyon Kathleen & Danny Gilbert
Marion Heathcote & Brian Burfitt HLA Management Pty Ltd Belinda Hutchinson AM The Jarzabek Family Cassandra Kelly Hilary Linstead Wendy McCarthy AO
A.O. Redmond Jillian Segal AM Ann Sherry AO Victoria Taylor Penny Ward Kim Williams Catherine Yuncken
B Keepers Our B Keepers play a vital role within the company. B Keepers are a unique group of individuals whose financial support, often over many years, is a reflection of their passion for and commitment to Belvoir. Income received from B Keepers underpins all of our activities. Our 2010 B Keepers are: Corporate B Keeper Sterling Mail Order B Keepers Anonymous (8) Robert & Libby Albert Gil Appleton John Sharpe & Claire Armstrong Berg Family Foundation
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Bev & Phil Birnbaum Max Bonnell Mary Jo & Lloyd Capps Brian T. Carey Elaine Chia Jane Christensen
Peter Cudlipp & Barbara Schmidt Suzanne & Michael Daniel Sue Donnelly Chris & Bob Ernst Jeanne Eve
Peter Fay Margaret Fink R & A Maxwell Peter Graves David & Kathryn Groves David Haertsch Wendy & Andrew Hamlin Beth Harpley John Head Marion Heathcote & Brian Burfitt Michael & Doris Hobbs Peter & Jessie Ingle Rosemary & Adam Ingle The Jarzabek Family Avril Jeans
Rosemarie & Kevin Jeffers-Palmer Rob & Corinne Johnston Phil Kachoyan Colleen Kane A. le Marchant Jennifer Ledgar & Bob Lim Hilary Linstead Stephanie Lee Atul Lele Prof. Elizabeth More AM Dr David Nguyen D & L Parsonage Timothy & Eva Pascoe Richard & Heather Rasker Greg Roger
Geoffrey Rush Emile Sherman Peter and Jan Shuttleworth Edward Simpson Judith & Howard Smith Robin & Julie Smith Chris & Bea Sochan Victoria Taylor Sue Thomson Brian Thomson & Budi Hernowibowo John Tuckey Dr Orli Wargon Alison M Wearn Paul & Jennifer Winch Iain & Judy Wyatt
Education Donations Thank you to our Education donors who help us to provide opportunities for young people throughout NSW to access Belvoir’s unique work. Anonymous (10) Alexander Belford Jan Burnswoods Richard Cogswell The Rev. Cannon Warren Sandra Gross Sophie Guest Julie Hannaford Jan Harland Michael & Doris Hobbs Paul & Melissa Hobbs Dorothy Hoddinott Susan Hyde
Shirley Jarzabek Stewart & Jillian Kellie Jacqueline Kott Robyn Kremer Jennifer Ledgar & Bob Lim Ken Leonhardt Peter Levett Ross Littlewood Jim & Michael McAlary Julie Mills Elizabeth Meyer Patricia Novikoff Craig Pearce
Louise Roxburgh Janet Ryan Sandra See Peter & Janet Shuttleworth Kerry Stubbs Jennifer Symons Victoria Taylor Shirley Treloar Carolyn Wright Jane Westbrook Peter White Murray Wilcox
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General Donations Over $100 We thank the patrons, who, through general donations to Belvoir, provide valuable support to the projects most in need throughout the year. Anonymous (18) Ross Armfield Prof. Marie Bashir AC CVO Jennifer Bott Mary Burchell Andrew Cameron Colleen & Michael Chesterman Tracey Clancy Alan & Catherine Cunningham Dr Susan Davenport Jane Diamond Anne Duggan Sol Encel Helen Thwaites & Peter Gray Priscilla A M Guest
Diane Hague Anthony Harris Libby Higgin Vernon & Margaret Ireland Robert Jenssen Colin & Connie Jessup Gloria Jones Richard T Jones Michael & Silvia Kantor Bob Kijurina Jacqueline Kott Robyn & Andrew Kremer Sally Lomax Catherine L’Estrange & Louise-Anne Louw Wailyn Mar Phil & Jenny Marchionni Ingrid Storm &
Kevin McCreton Dr Peter & June Musgrove Janette Parkinson & Roy Fernandez Geoff & Judy Patterson Jocelyn Plate Katherine Samaras Catriona Simson Deborah Stow Augusta Supple Helen Thompson Judy Thomson Chris Vik & Chelsea Albert Edwina Waddy John & Gail Ward Ellen Waugh Neil & Jill Wilson Carolyn Wright
Belvoir is very grateful to accept all donations. Donations over $2 are tax deductible. If you would like to make a donation, or would like further information about any of our donor programs please call our Philanthropy Coordinator Shauna Wolifson on 02 8396 6219 or email shauna@belvoir.com.au
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Indigenous Theatre at Belvoir supported by The Balnaves Foundation Belvoir is delighted to welcome on board The Balnaves Foundation, who will be funding our Indigenous theatre program from 2011 – 2013. The Balnaves Foundation is a private philanthropic organisation that was established in 2006 by Neil Balnaves to provide philanthropic support to charitable enterprises across Australia. The Foundation 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. Belvoir has a long history of working with Indigenous directors, designers and actors and portraying unique Indigenous stories. In 2011, when new Artistic Director Ralph Myers takes over the creative leadership of the company, we will renew our commitment to presenting significant Indigenous works and engaging established Indigenous artists in the Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre. We will also provide opportunities in the Downstairs Theatre to invest in the development of the next generation of Indigenous theatremakers. This is possible thanks to the generous support of The Balnaves Foundation over the next three years.
From 2011 – 2013, each year The Balnaves Foundation will provide the financial underpinning for Belvoir to present two Indigenous works, one in the Upstairs Theatre and one in the Downstairs Theatre. Belvoir will offer a range of access programs in conjunction with both productions, including an Unwaged Performance and School Matinees. As part of the 2011 Season, The Balnaves Foundation will support the presentation of Jack Charles v the Crown in the Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre and Windmill Baby in the Downstairs Theatre. Belvoir extends our warmest thanks to The Balnaves Foundation for their support.
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Belvoir 18 Belvoir Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010 Email mail@belvoir.com.au Web www.belvoir.com.au Administration 02 9698 3344 Facsimile 02 9319 3165 Box Office 02 9699 3444 Artistic Director 2010 Neil Armfield Artistic Director 2011 Ralph Myers General Manager Brenna Hobson BELVOIR BOARD Louise Herron (Chair) Anne Britton Andrew Cameron Peter Carroll Michael Coleman Gail Hambly Rachel Healy Brenna Hobson Frank Macindoe Ralph Myers BELVOIR ST THEATRE BOARD Trefor Clayton (Chair) Jane Jose Stuart McCreery Nick Schlieper Kingsley Slipper ARTISTIC AND PROGRAMMING Resident Director Simon Stone Associate Director – New Projects Eamon Flack Associate Artists 2010 Wayne Blair Susanna Dowling Sarah John Cristabel Sved Associate Artist 2011 Stefan Gregory
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Downstairs Theatre Director 2010 Annette Madden B Sharp Coordinator 2010 Tahli Corin
FRONT OF HOUSE Front of House Manager Damien Storer Acting Assistant Front of House Manager Alex Bryant-Smith
EDUCATION Education Manager Jane May Acting Education Manager Cathy Hunt Education Coordinator Tahni Froudist
DEVELOPMENT Development Manager Katy Wood Partnerships Coordinator Cathy Herlihy Philanthropy Coordinator Shauna Wolifson
MARKETING Marketing Manager Jenny Robertson Marketing Coordinator Nathalie Vallejo Publicist Meera Hindocha Publications Coordinator FINANCE & OPERATIONS Stephen Asher Head of Finance & PRODUCTION Operations Production Manager Richard Drysdale Hall Murray Financial Administrator Technical Manager Ann Brown Chris Page Accounts Payable Production Deputy Fiona Matthews IT & Operations Manager Glenn Dulihanty Resident Stage Manager Jan S. Goldfeder Mark Lowrey Construction Manager BOX OFFICE Govinda Webster Box Office Manager Head Mechanist Nicole Traynor Thane Browne Assistant Box Office Costume Coordinator Managers Judy Tanner Tanya Ginori-Cairns Downstairs Technical Alana Hicks Managers Teegan Lee Jack H. Audas Preston ADMINISTRATION Artistic Administrator John Woodland Administration Coordinator Pearl Kermani
Thank You Our Production Partners Jack Charles v the Crown A co-production with Ilbijerri Theatre Company Human Interest Story A Lucy Guerin Inc. and Malthouse Melbourne production in association with Perth International Arts Festival This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria, and the Australian Government through Interconnections and New Work for Festivals initiatives managed by The Australia Council. And They Called Him Mr Glamour A co-production with The Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm Cut The development of Cut was made possible by Sydney Theatre Company’s Rough Drafts program. The 2011 Season Book and Launch would not have been possible without the valued contribution of: Jack Charles, Georgina Cole, Brendan Cowell, Gareth Davies, Maeve Dermody, John Gaden, Charlie Garber, Anita Hegh, Adam Jasper Smith, Ewen Leslie, Shelly Lauman, Alisdair Macindoe, Cassie McCullagh, Robyn Nevin, Steve Rodgers, Sarah Peirse, Harriett Ritchie, Toby Schmitz, Helen Thomson, Dan Wyllie and Trooper.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Berkelouw Books, Museum of Contemporary Art, Musica Viva, One Earth Foods, Opera Australia, Palace Cinemas, Seymour Centre, SOS Print + Media Group, Stays in the Vines, Sydney Festival, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Youth Orchestra, Vini and Wine iQ.
And the wonderful and long suffering Belvoir marketing team and the Alphabet Studio crew.
Design Tim Kliendienst and Paul Clark, Alphabet Studio Photography WILK Printer McPherson’s Printing Group Mailing House Cojo The text pages and cover board in this book are printed on paper derived from forests promoting sustainable management. 61
2011 Season
The Wild Duck Upstairs Theatre
The Business Upstairs Theatre
Previews / 30-Down Saturday 12 February Sunday 13 February Opening Night Wednesday 16 February Sunday Forum 3pm Sunday 20 March Unwaged Performance 2pm Thursday 17 March
Previews / 30-Down Saturday 23 April Sunday 24 April Opening Night Wednesday 27 April Captioned Performance 8pm Wednesday 18 May Sunday Forum 3pm Sunday 22 May Unwaged Performance 2pm Thursday 26 May
12 February – 27 March
Jack Charles v the Crown Upstairs Theatre 30 March – 17 April
Previews / 30-Down Wednesday 30 March Thursday 31 March Opening Night Friday 1 April Sunday Forum 3pm Sunday 10 April Unwaged Performance 2pm Thursday 14 April
23 April – 29 May
The Kiss Downstairs Theatre 12 May – 5 June
Preview Thursday 12 May Opening Night Friday 13 May 30-Down Tuesday 17 May Wednesday 18 May
The Seagull Cut Upstairs Theatre Downstairs Theatre 4 June – 17 July 7 April – 1 May
Preview Thursday 7 April Opening Night Friday 8 April 30-Down Tuesday 12 April Wednesday 13 April
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Previews / 30-Down Saturday 4 June Sunday 5 June Opening Night Wednesday 8 June Sunday Forum 3pm Sunday 10 July Unwaged Performance 2pm Thursday 14 July
Neighbourhood Watch Upstairs Theatre 23 July – 28 August
Previews / 30-Down Saturday 23 July Sunday 24 July Opening Night Wednesday 27 July Sunday Forum 3pm Sunday 21 August Unwaged Performance 2pm Thursday 25 August
Windmill Baby Downstairs Theatre 28 July – 21 August
Preview Thursday 28 July Opening Night Friday 29 July 30-Down Tuesday 2 August Wednesday 3 August Unwaged Performance 2pm Thursday 18 August
Human Interest Story Upstairs Theatre
31 August – 18 September Previews / 30-Down Wednesday 31 August Thursday 1 September Opening Night Friday 2 September Sunday Forum 3pm Sunday 11 September Unwaged Performance 2pm Thursday 15 September
And They Called Him Mr Glamour Downstairs Theatre 15 September – 9 October Preview Thursday 15 September Opening Night Friday 16 September 30-Down Tuesday 20 September Wednesday 21 September
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Upstairs Theatre
As You Like It Upstairs Theatre
19 November – 24 December Previews / 30-Down Saturday 19 November Sunday 20 November Opening Night Wednesday 23 November Captioned Performance 8pm Wednesday 14 December Sunday Forum 3pm Sunday 18 December Unwaged Performance 2pm Thursday 22 December
24 September – 13 November Previews / 30-Down Saturday 24 September Sunday 25 September Opening Night Wednesday 28 September Sunday Forum 3pm Sunday 6 November Unwaged Performance 2pm Thursday 10 November
The Dark Room Downstairs Theatre 3 – 27 November
Preview Thursday 3 November Opening Night Friday 4 November 30-Down Tuesday 8 November Wednesday 9 November
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
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OLIVE: I was thinking I might get you to book me a few seats. There’s some good shows on I’ve been holdin’ off on … OLIVE: Will you get the tickets, then? ROO: Let’s leave it for a coupla days, eh? I got to settle a few other things first. OLIVE: Righto. But you have to book ahead, y’know, if you want decent seats. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
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25 Belvoir Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010 Email mail@belvoir.com.au Web www.belvoir.com.au Administration (02) 9698 3344 Fax (02) 9319 3165 Box Office (02) 9699 3444 corporate partner