Season Ticket Holders receive discounted tickets, first pick of the best seats, the flexibility to swap dates and pay in instalments, and many special offers throughout the year. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Images (from top): Wonnangatta - Wayne Blair and Hugo Weaving; The Deep Blue Sea - Marta Dusseldorp; No Pay? Thanks for subscribing! Born in Pennsylvania, Williamson moved with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.His father died when he was eleven years old. The Writer premiered at London’s Almeida Theatre in 2018, By Oscar Wilde Continuing the comic theme in the Drama Theatre, Resident Director Jess Arthur takes on Laura Wade’s Home, I’m Darling. Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Kip Williams has unveiled the STC 2020 season, which will consist of 12 plays performed over four venues – the Roslyn Packer Theatre in Walsh Bay, the Drama Theatre and Playhouse Theatre at the Sydney Opera House, and Riverside Theatre in Parramatta. Directed by Jessica Arthur, 7 Sep – 17 Oct. By Angus Cerini
Directed by Shari Sebbens. ... One won’t find such disturbance in STC’s return to the Australian theatrical past in The 7 Stages of Grieving. Directed by Kip Williams. You'll get first notice when tickets go on sale, as well as a wealth of behind-the-scenes news and regular special offers. It’s a story of love, of longing, and of feeling like an outsider even in your own home. It’s easy to love Roy (Robert Menzies) and his obsession with finding a place of beauty and love, Cherry (Bessie Holland) and her search for anything that looks like love, Ruth (Katherine Tonkin) and her need for absolute order, Henry (Glenn Hazeldine) and his glorification of the past, Julie (also Hannaford) and her addiction, and even Doug (Rahel Romahn) and his need to set cats on fire. Every opening, including boxes and props, shows a brightly-lit outside world. Email Box Office. He patronises. Fax: (02) 9247 3584
Sign up to our enewsletter to be the first to hear about the stories and artists we have lined up for you. Over one gripping hour, she traces seven phases of Aboriginal history – Dreaming, Invasion, Genocide, Protection, Assimilation, Self-Determination, and Reconciliation. Opening hearts and firing imaginations with theatre. But theatre holds its memory in text – reminding us of what we might otherwise forget. ‘A Russian Doll of a play’, in the words of Williams, what happens when you turn a post-show conversation between an audience member and the show’s director into a full performance exploring the #metoo era? Inventive use of live video will capture and amplify every move. Because what better way is there to enact change than by taking on Woolies? No Way! What follows is a wild and unpredictable caper, as Antonia and her friend Margherita attempt to outsmart the police, hoodwink their husbands, and ‘liberate’ more loot. Terence Rattigan was one of the great stage and screen writers of the twentieth century and The Deep Blue Sea one of his master works. On its premiere in 1995, it became an early triumph for Deborah Mailman and Wesley Enoch, and a beloved classic of Australian theatre. In 1971, Louis Nowra was fresh out of a Melbourne university when he was asked to direct a Gilbert and Sullivan production at a “mental hospital”. Fax: (02) 9247 3584
30 Apr – 23 May | Playhouse, Sydney Opera House, By Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman
Featuring Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair, no season seems to be complete without a murder mystery these days and it will be interesting to see if STC takes the cake for most murderous/mysterious in this Drama Theatre-hosted epic. Directed by Jessica Arthur, 6 Apr – 16 May. Adapted and directed by Kip Williams.