The Oracle Belvoir Street Theatre Sydney
October 1993
A Reading Performance
of The Oracle
The Ecological Musical
(c) Alexander Broun & Terry Burgan 1993
Belvoir Theatre heads in new direction
A revamped version of the classic play The Wild Duck is being performed at Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre.
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BACK AT THE DOJO // BELVOIR ST THEATRE
From the utterly marvellous writer of Neighbourhood Watch and The Dog / The Cat comes a modern romance about wanderlust, love and karate. Lally Katz has spent the past decade turning her life into a series of hilarious and theatrically gorgeous plays. This time it’s her parents’ turn.
After nearly losing his mind in the abandon of 1960s America, young Danny (who happens to share a name with Lally’s father) finds his way again with the help of an enigmatic sensei. At a New Jersey karate dojo, he and other mislaid souls make their way back into the world, and Danny bumps into a woman called Lois… Meanwhile, in present-day Australia, Danny’s long-lost grandchild has decided to become Patti Smith…
Inspired by the true events that brought Dan and Lois Katz together, Back at the Dojo features a Hogarthian parade of characters, two real-life karate instructors and the incomparable Luke Mullins (Angels in America, The Glass Menagerie) in a role written specially for him. Belvoir joins forces with legendary Melbourne company Stuck Pigs Squealing for this ravishing, nourishing story about the myths families live by.
A co-production with Stuck Pigs Squealing
BACK AT THE DOJO
18 JUN - 17 JUL
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Interview: Eamon Flack - Director of Once in Royal David's City (Belvoir, Sydney)
the AU review sits down with Eamon Flack, the director of Once in Royal David's City - Michael Gow's new play which just premiered at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney, Australia. It is performed until 23rd March.
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Interview/Edit/Camera: Larry Heath
Filmed on the set of the play at Belvoir on 11th February, 2013.
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The Sunset Limited - Australian Premiere - ENSEMBLE THEATRE
Australian Premiere - The Sunset Limited
By Cormac McCarthy
Cast: Mark Kilmurry, Patrick Williams
Director: Jennifer Don Designer: Claire Moloney Lighting Designer: Gavan Swift & Matt Tunchon
A compelling and powerful play about compassion, faith and the value of life.
Award winning novelist Cormac McCarthys (The Road, No Country For Old Men, All The Pretty Horses) powerful, thrilling new play about two men trying to figure out the reason we live the way we live. A man has thrown himself in front of a train. Another man saves him. One man is black. The other white. Why did the white man try to kill himself? Why is the black man helping him? Inspired by real life events the play asks the age old question: To be or not to be?
Ensemble Studios graduate Jennifer Don makes her directorial debut at the Ensemble Theatre with The Sunset Limited. Jennifers interest in directing began when she assisted Hayes Gordon on the graduation of 87. She has assisted Sandra Bates on Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire. Jennifer has previously directed productions for Ensemble Studios, The Balmain Loft, Belvoir St, Sydney Short Play Festival, The Harold Park Hotel, Crypt Theatre and The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. In 2007 she was the recipient of the Emerging Directors Grant affording her the opportunity to observe Sandra Bates on her productions of TRYING and RABBIT HOLE.
Mark Kilmurry (WHITE) is a writer/director/actor who has directed more than a dozen productions at Ensemble Theatre since he was appointed Associate Director in 2005. He has appeared in more than 20 productions for other theatre companies in London, New York and Sydney. His Ensemble Theatre acting credits include Rabbit Hole, The Drawer Boy, Hamlet, Art, The Yalta Game/Afterplay, Aunty and Me and Japes.
Patrick Williams (BLACK) is a Melbourne based actor/singer/presenter who has appeared in the musicals Oh What A Night!, Hair and The Buddy Holly Story, in the stage plays The Saint Plays for MTC, Romeo and Juliet for The Australian Shakespeare Company and Strangers in the Night for Playbox. He was a regular singer on GMA with Bert Newton and was in the John Hillcoat directed Frankie and Johnny.
seductively written. New York Times
From the opening lines, we know were in the presence of a writer of great skill and depth. McCarthy is a master of one crucial aspect of stage writing: dialogue. Time Out New York
a finely tuned dispute The ideas presented offer so much food-for-thought that youll be discussing them long after seeing The Sunset Limited. This is mind expanding theatre at its best. Chicagocritic.com
SEASON DETAILS:
VENUE: Ensemble Theatre, 78 McDougall Street, Kirribilli, NSW, 2061
DATES: Previews 22 28 Oct, opens Wed 28 October, plays to December 12, 2009
PERFORMANCES: Performance times vary
PRICES: $39 - $63 (a $4.00 booking charge will apply to phone and internet bookings)
BOOKINGS: 02 9929 0644 or ensemble.com.au
FURTHER INFORMATION / INTERVIEWS / IMAGES please contact: Merran Doyle 0419 999 607
(02) 9905 4644 or email: merran@merrandoyle.com.au
Così | Trailer
Welcome to the mayhem of Louis Nowra’s Così.
A darkly funny and deeply moving ensemble piece, Così has occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians since Toni Collette, Ben Mendelsohn and Barry Otto starred in the acclaimed 1996 film. With its motley crew of loveable characters, Così offers a poignant reminder of the transformative power of music and performance, and how art can make us soar – even if just for a moment.
Sarah Goodes (A Doll’s House, Part 2) directs this warm-hearted, laugh-out-loud comedy classic with a stellar cast including Esther Hannaford, fresh from her acclaimed role in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; and MTC favourite Katherine Tonkin (Three Little Words).
A co-production with Sydney Theatre Company
Così was first performed by Company B at Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney in 1992.
Talent — Gabriel Fancourt, Esther Hannaford, Glenn Hazeldine, Bessie Holland, Sean Keenan, Robert Menzies, Rahel Romahn, Katherine Tonkin and George Zhao.
Videography — Wildebeest
Producer — Sarah Corridon (MTC)
Belvoir's 2013 Season Launch movie
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Belvoir is an Australian theatre company based at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, Australia. Its artistic director is Eamon Flack.
Belvoir receives government support for its activities from the federal government through the Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the state government through Arts NSW.Many Australian actors who have later found wider success both locally and internationally such as Deborah Mailman, Cate Blanchett, Jacqueline McKenzie, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Toby Schmitz, Judy Davis and Brendan Cowell have appeared in Belvoir productions.
Belvoir: Windmill Baby
By David Milroy
Director Kylie Farmer
With Roxanne McDonald
Opened on 28 July, 2011 at Belvoir Street Theatre
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.
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.
This production has now closed. To find out more about our current shows, call 02 9699 3444 or visit belvoir.com.au to book your tickets now!
Belvoir's 2015 Season online now
Introducing our 2015 Season!
It is my great pleasure to lift the curtain* on Belvoir's 2015 Season. It is a thrilling collection of works chock full of brand new Australian writing that brings together some of the country's finest theatre-makers. From our beloved home on Belvoir St we will take a trip to Mexico, Oz, Ancient Greece and the opera. Along the way witnessing Colin Friels as a dodgy drug dealer, Barry Otto and Peter Carroll as spotty teenagers, Robyn Nevin as the great Mother Courage and Brendan Cowell possibly playing a cat. So grab your mice (or forefingers), start clicking (or tapping) and have a browse through the Season.
See you in the foyer!
Ralph Myers
Artistic Director
*Apologies for the theatre pun, especially since we don’t actually have a curtain.
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Beautiful One Day at Belvoir
A theatrical documentary looking for a way to turn outrage into real understanding and new possibilities. 17 Nov - 23 Dec at Belvoir St Theatre.
La Traviata
27 August - 20 September - Belvoir St Theatre
TICKETS FROM $38 at belvoir.com.au
A co-production with Sisters Grimm
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 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?
The Book of Everything on at Melbourne Theatre Company November- December 2013
A short clip of the Award-winning co-production of The Book of Everything by Theatre of Image & Belvoir. Directed by Neil Armfield. Designed by Kim Carpenter
On at Melbourne Theatre Company November- December 2013
Mortido
By Angela Betzien Director Leticia Cáceres
Mortido is a crime drama, revenge tragedy and morality play rolled into one. In other words, a quintessential Sydney tale.
It begins with a Mexican fable about death and ends in the Western suburbs. In between it takes in the public housing on Belvoir Street, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, quinoa, Nazi Germany, Qantas, Coca-Cola, a seventh birthday party, the Surry Hills police, the property market and a body in the harbour. The connective tissue? Cocaine.
La Traviata - Art and money
Part opera, part protest, part drag show.
27 August - 20 September
Belvoir St Theatre
A co-production with Sisters Grimm
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 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?
Belvoir: Love Me Tender
Belvoir presents Love Me Tender.
Director Matt Lutton and Set and Costume Designer Adam Gardnir discuss Tom Holloway's Love Me Tender presented by Belvoir, Griffin Theatre Company and ThinIce.
Love Me Tender is an exquisitely written play about our fears, the expectation of parents, the extremeties of love, and the need for action when the world comes undone. With Luke Hewitt, Belinda McClory. Kris McQuade, Colin Moody and Arky Michael
Iconic play gets beach-themed revival
An Australian version of the 19th century play The Seagull starring Judy Davis and David Wenham will be performed at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre.
JASPER JONES TRAILER Belvoir 2016
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Let’s begin the season with a cracker play for any Australian, of any age (if you're over 13), and any creed. We’d love you all to come.
The backblocks of Western Australia. It’s summer, 1965. Overseas there’s war in Indochina, Civil Rights marches, the stirrings of women’s liberation – but at home Charlie Bucktin dreams of writing the Great Australian Novel.
Charlie’s 14 and smart. Perhaps too smart. But when 16-year-old, blamed-for-everything Jasper Jones appears at his window one night, Charlie’s out of his depth. Jasper has stumbled upon a terrible crime in the scrub nearby, and he knows he’s the first suspect – that goes with the colour of his skin. He needs every ounce of Charlie’s bookish brain if the truth is to emerge before the town turns on Jasper.
As the boys negotiate the secrets of a small town, the winds of change blow… But how do teenage Australians solve the riddles of a changing world?
Kate Mulvany’s adaptation of Craig Silvey’s award-winning novel is like Dorothy Hewett riffing on Harper Lee. It’s funny and it’s wise.
A coming-of-age story for a generation, and a nation too. Nominated for the 2015 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards – Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting.
Colin Friels on Mortido
MORTIDO
By Angela Betzien
Director Leticia Cáceres
6 November - 17 December // Belvoir St Theatre
Mortido is a crime drama, revenge tragedy and morality play rolled into one. In other words, a quintessential Sydney tale.