Runt Audio Described Screening
23 January 2025
In the Playhouse
Cinema
Australia | 2024 | English | Family/Comedy | PG
Runt, based on Craig Silvey's best-selling novel, is a delightful Australian family film that blends heartfelt moments with humour.
The film will be screened with Audio Description scripted and recorded by Fran Mathey for Access Media Pty Ltd. It will be integrated into the film screening and heard by everyone in the audience. Suitable for community who are blind or low vision, their friends and family, advocates, and AD practitioners, this experience is designed to be shared.
Image Description: A young girl with white freckled skin and red hair crouches down right extending her right arm toward a scruffy small black mixed breed terrier, left, who rests his left paw on her hand.
| Date | Time |
| Thursday 23 January 2025 | 2pm |
| Ticket | Price |
| Standard | Complimentary |
The only authorised ticket agency for this event is Sydney Opera House. For more information about Authorised Agencies, see the frequently asked questions below.
General Public tickets available
9am, Wednesday 27 November 2024
In English
Audio Described
The film will be screened with Audio Description scripted and recorded by Fran Mathey for Access Media Pty Ltd. It will be integrated into the film screening and heard by everyone in the audience. Suitable for community who are blind or low vision, their friends and family, advocates, and AD practitioners, this experience is designed to be shared.
Wheelchair Accessible
There are a number of wheelchair and companion seating locations in our theatres. To book accessible seating contact Box Office:
Telephone
+61 2 9250 7777
(Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm AEST)
Email bookings@sydneyoperahouse.com
Find out more about accessibility at Sydney Opera House.
Run time
The advertised start time is the film start time. Venue doors will open approximately 30 minutes before the advertised film start time.
This event will run for 1 hour, 46 minutes including a 15-minute introduction
Event duration is a guide only and may be subject to change.
Age
This film is rated Parental Guidance (PG).
Children aged 15 years and under must be accompanied at all times.
The Opera House is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children that visit or engage with us. Read our Child Safety Policy.
A delightful Australian family film that blends heartfelt moments with humour
Craig Silvey’s beloved best-selling novel leaps onto the big screen in a charming new Australian family movie. Runt is the heartfelt and hilarious tale of eleven-year-old Annie Shearer and her best friend Runt, an adopted stray dog with remarkable abilities. In a bid to save their family farm, the two aspire to compete in the Agility Course Championships at the prestigious Krumpets Dog Show in London, whilst overcoming hurdles, obstacles and nefarious villains.
Presented by Sydney Opera House in collaboration with Guide Dogs NSW/ACT
Credits
Writer Craig Silvey
Director John Sheedy
Producers Jamie Hilton Craig Silvey
Director of Photography Brad Shield
Cast
Jai Courtney as Bryan Shearer
Lily La Torre as Annie Shearer
Celeste Barber as Susie Shearer
Deborah Mailman as Bernadette Box
Jack Thompson as Earl Robert-Barren
Genevieve Lemon as Dolly Shearer
Matt Day as Fergus Fink
Jack La Torre as Max Shearer
Plan your visit
Venue information
Our foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
All Sydney Opera House foyers are pram accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators). Pram parking will be available outside the theatres in the Western Foyer.
Getting here
The Sydney Opera House Car Park, operated by Wilson Parking, is open and available to use. Wilson Parking offer discounted parking if you book ahead. Please see the Wilson Parking website for details.
Please check the Transport NSW website for the latest advice and information on travel. You can catch public transport (bus, train, ferry) to Circular Quay and enjoy a six minute walk to the Opera House.
Frequently asked questions
Ticket purchases and collection at our Box Office is discouraged and eTicket or postal delivery methods should be used, wherever possible. However, if you are collecting your tickets from the Box Office, we recommend doing this at least 60 minutes before the event starts. If you have already received your tickets, the venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Please take your seats as soon as you arrive.
If you are late, we will seat you as soon as we can and, where possible, in your allocated seat. However, to reduce movement in the venue as well as minimise disruption to the performance and other patrons, ticketholders may be seated in an allocated latecomer’s seat. Please be aware that some events have lock-out periods. In these cases, latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance. On occasions, this may not be until the interval, or at all where there is no interval.
Details of our right to refuse admission can be found in our General Terms and Conditions for Tickets and Events.
In accordance with our venue security procedures, Opera House security will be scanning and checking bags under the Monumental Stairs, prior to entering the building. Bags will be scanned by an x-ray machine, and staff will wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) when handling your belongings, such as gloves. Cloaking facilities will be open 60 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 60 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. However it is strongly encouraged that you travel lightly to minimise contact and queuing. Any bags larger than an A4 piece of paper will need to be checked into the Cloak Room.
The authorised agency for this event is the Sydney Opera House.
Only tickets purchased by authorised agencies should be considered reliable. If you purchase tickets from a non-authorised agency such as Ticketmaster Resale, Viagogo, Ticketbis, eBay, Gumtree, Tickets Australia or any other unauthorised seller, you risk that these tickets are fake, void or have previously been cancelled. Resale restriction applies. For more details, please refer to our General Terms and Conditions for Tickets and Attendance at Events.
Please contact Box Office on +61 2 9250 7777 as soon as possible to advise if you can no longer attend.
Foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
The venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances.
Please bring a credit or debit card for any on site purchases to enable contactless payment. You’re welcome to bring your own water bottle but no other food and drinks are permitted inside our venues.
The health, safety and wellbeing of everyone at the Sydney Opera House is our top priority. In line with this commitment, the Opera House became a smoke-free site in January 2022. Read our Smoke-free Environment Policy.
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