Season
Single tickets to the first seven productions in 2013 on sale 3 Dec 2012. Single tickets to STC shows at The Drama Theatre in 2013 go on sale Mon 11 Feb 2013.
Sydney Theatre Company presents productions across three venues: The Sydney Theatre, The Wharf Theatres and the Drama Theatre at Sydney Opera House. Playing in the Drama Theatre are:
Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare
The greatest love story of all time? Certainly. But it's also a prototype for some of culture's other great narratives: the rebellion against generations past, and the need to escape from a predetermined future.
One of the most thrilling things about young love is that often it is forbidden. And that very act of prohibition makes it all the more alluring.
Following his celebrated directorial debut with STC, Under Milk Wood, Kip Williams will bring his deft touch to this most familiar of plays, but one that offers up new insights with every generation.
For today's privileged young people, love and lust become pastimes to alleviate the boredom. Until it hits for real. Then the confined world of family expectation and adolescent ennui blows wide apart.
Featuring a cast of some of Australian theatre's most talented rising stars, Romeo and Juliet explores the naïve idealism and hormone-driven chaos of youth with heartbreaking results.
17 Sep – 2 Nov 2013
Drama Theatre
Vere (Faith)
A new play by John Doyle
For his much anticipated new play, playwright John Doyle (The Pig Iron People) offers a powerful meditation on science, spirituality and human frailty.
Paul Blackwell (When the Rain Stops Falling, Tartuffe, The Ham Funeral) returns to STC as Vere, a physicist at the peak of his career and still enthusing infectiously about his subject. Out of the blue he is given a shattering prognosis and must rapidly reconcile his professional ambitions and personal relationships with the certainty of his own mortality.
One of the great debates of our times, God versus science, is played out with Doyle's typical charisma and cheek. The play is brimming with intellectual engagement, gallows humour and wise, witty footnotes to culture.
Director Sarah Goodes (The Splinter) makes her Drama Theatre debut with this thoughtful and topical new Australian work.
6 Nov – 7 Dec 2013
Drama Theatre
COMPANY
Sydney Theatre Company produces theatre of the highest standard that consistently illuminates, entertains and challenges. STC has been a major force in Australian drama since its establishment in 1978, producing up to 12 plays each year including works from the classic repertoire, Australian plays, musicals, contemporary foreign works and cabaret.
Artistic Directors: Andrew Upton
Executive Director: Patrick McIntyre
Telephone: + 61 2 9250 1700
Fax: + 61 2 9251 3687
Email:mail@sydneytheatre.com.au
www.sydneytheatre.com.au
PRODUCTIONS
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sydney Theatre Company
- Drama Theatre
- 17 Sep - 02 Nov
- Vere (Faith)
- Sydney Theatre Company
- Drama Theatre
- 06 Nov - 07 Dec