Sport For Jove Makes 2018 Theatre Season Announcement
By: Julie Musbach Oct. 11, 2017
Now in it's eighth successful year offering Sydney audiences an exciting, accessible and powerful voice, Sport for Jove Theatre's 2018 season is our freshest, most exciting season to date, featuring the world premiere of two brilliant, passionate new Australian works and an iconic American classic, new partnerships with regional theatres, and our annual Summer Season, two classic productions performed outdoors over the summer.
OUTDOOR SPORT - SUMMER 2017/18
Measure For Measure
By William Shakespeare
Directed By Lizzie Schebesta
The Servant of Two Masters
By Carlo Goldoni
Adapted and Directed By Francesca Savige and George Banders
A riotously, raucous 9th Summer Festival about service, appetites and balancing acts - spanning the full reach of comedy - from Shakespeare's dark satirical masterpiece Measure For Measure to Goldoni's Italian dish of laughs The Servant of Two Masters.
What rules your life? The law? Your conscience? Your instinct? Faith? Should we be ruled by justice or mercy? Should a government legislate your sex life, your morality? How do you responsibly answer the prompts of your deepest, darkest impulses and remain an upstanding moral citizen? Shakespeare may as well have written this play yesterday - an Elizabethan Orange Is The New Black meets A Handmaid's Tale - Measure For Measure pushes the genre of comedy to it's darkest and most biting limits. A murky and morally ambiguous exploration of desire and power that will shock audiences with it's contemporary voice, will make you laugh and make you think twice.
"Lizzie is one of the finest minds on Shakespeare's writing that I have come across in 25 years of working on these plays," said Festival Director, Damien Ryan. "She has extraordinary intuition with the language and the purpose of the writing, particularly seeing the plays in daring new light. I am extremely excited to have her directing for us this season, and to work on one of Shakespeare's most surprising and subversive plays is an added treat for audiences who have enjoyed Lizzie's remarkable work on stage at the Festival since its inception."
Adapted from Carlo Goldoni's mid 18th Century Italian comedy, The Servant of Two Masters is a delicious feast of fun, following the story of an enterprising and perpetually hungry servant who endeavours to work for two masters in order to earn twice the meals! This new adaptation of The Servant of Two Masters retains the essence and hilarity of it's 1700's source, whilst honouring Goldoni's own legacy of reform by bringing an immediacy to our contemporary audience.
"Francesca and George have been comic and dramatic stalwarts of our company and its outdoor season," Ryan explained, "with a particularly extraordinary record of producing wonderfui shows for young people every Christmas as part of our Second Age Project. I laughed myself silly at their terrific new adaptation of Goldoni's irrepressible masterpiece and can't wait for audiences to revel in their inventiveness and the chaos of this spectacular play. It will be a real festival treat."
Botched marriages, dastardly disguises, cunning plots.... Men who are wildly unqualified for their jobs and unruly women pushed to the point of performing miracles. Join us this season for a feast of comedy - both light and dark - that will hopefully prove that out of chaos comes progress and satisfaction.
This delightful season features some of Sydney's best and freshest comedic actors, George Zhao, Yalin Ozucelik, Adele Querol, Gabriel Fancourt, Aanisa Vylet, Samantha Ward, Shingo Usami, Meg Clarke, Andrew Hearle, Jess Loudon, Mackenzie Fearnley, Steph Kelly, Claudia Ware and Janine Watson.
Designer Sallyanne Facer
Design Assistant Bronte Nicole
Sound Designer Tegan Nicholls
Lighting Designer Matt Cox
Stage Managers Rebecca Poulter and Steph Kelly
Vocal Coach Amy Hume
Fight Director Tim Dashwood
Festival Artistic Director Damien Ryan
Bella Vista Farm Park, Baulkham Hills
Dec 8th - Dec 30th
Everglades Garden, Leura
Jan 13th - Jan 28th
INDOOR SPORT - AUTUMN!
The River at the End of the Road
By Caleb Lewis
Produced by HotHouse Theatre and Sport For Jove
Inspired by the majestic Murray River, The River at the End of the Road is the culmination of a two-year collaboration between HotHouse and Australia's finest indoor/outdoor theatre company, Sport for Jove. Written by Caleb Lewis and directed by Damien Ryan, The River is an epic 'Huck Finn-style' adventure ... with a twist.
Flo and her dad live alone on the edge of the river. With Mum gone and Dad busy operating the ferry, Flo dreams of adventure, little dreaming how close it lies. Every twenty years when the river is
at its lowest, a huge festival is held in the dry riverbed for a night and a day. Absent pets return home and families reunite, as the living and the lost come together for one last time.
But when Flo fails to find her mother and the river starts to rise, she and a newfound friend strike out for the opposite shore, looking for answers - as her desperate father searches for a way to bring her safely home.
The River at the End of the Road is a rare large-scale production developed for Albury-Wodonga audiences, bringing together six actors from the professional company of Sport for Jove, and HotHouse's own Studio Ensemble.
The River at the End of the Road
Produced by HotHouse Theatre and Sport For Jove
By Caleb Lewis
Directed by Damien Ryan
Featuring Stacey Duckworth, Gabriel Fancourt, Mark Lee, Drew Livingstone, Amy Usherwood and the HotHouse Studio Ensemble
Hot House Theatre, Albury
March 9th - 17th
INDOOR SPORT - EDUCATION SEASON!
The Tempest, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream
for 2018, Sport For Jove is opening its Education Season productions for General Public audiences; one Saturday evening performance only of some of Sport For Jove's most exciting and detailed productions of William Shakespeare's most iconic plays. Sport For Jove's education productions contain all the theatricality and originality audiences have come to expect with our reputation for re-imagining Shakespeare's classics, entertaining audiences from students to teachers alike, and we're excited to give a better opportunity for more people to experience these wonderful plays for themselves.
The Tempest
Riverside Theatres Parramatta
May 19 - 7.30pm
York Theatre, Seymour Centre
May 26 - 7.30pm
A Midsummer Night's Dream
York Theatre, Seymour Centre
June 9 - 7.30pm
Riverside Theatres Parramatta
June 16 - 7.30pm
Macbeth
Riverside Theatres Parramatta
June 23 - 7.30pm
York Theatre, Seymour Centre
July 7 - 7.30pm
INDOOR SPORT - WINTER!
Moby Dick
By Orson Welles
An adaptation of the novel by Herman Melville
Directed by Adam Cook
"Call me Ishmael..." - so begins one of the defining tales of human literature, Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby Dick, a work of overwhelming imagination about the great struggle to defeat the nothingness - the whiteness - the encroaching terror of why we are alive, what is our faith worth, how do we perceive the world? Aboard the hauntingly atmospheric ship, the Pequod, we get the world in little, a social commentary, an extraordinary adventure and a paean to the sea and it's most powerful fish, to whaling lore and legend.
For those who have not read Moby Dick in years or have never wet their feet, it is an example of the very greatest poetry ever put to paper - exquisitely playful, funny, barbaric, soul-shunting and desperate. To see it on stage is a miracle of theatricality, the power of the spoken word, and the skill of the actor - an adventure where poetry is the captain and all of us the ocean. Director Adam Cook brings Orson Welles ingenious adaptation of Moby Dick to the stage for Sport for Jove in 2018.
An extraordinary introduction to what theatre can be, to great literature and to ambition and madness of the human spirit.
Moby Dick
By Orson Welles
An adaptation of the novel by Herman Melville
Directed by Adam Cook
Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre
August 9 - 25, 2018
INDOOR SPORT - SPRING!
Ear to the Edge of Time
by Alana Valentine
Directed by Nadia Tass
When a poet writes a contentious verse about the work of a contemporary radio astronomer he sends her into a life-changing crisis about the role of teamwork in 21st Century science. Ear to the Edge of Time is the result of extended conversations, interviews and observations of radio astronomers working specifically in the field of neutron star physics both in Australia and Internationally. The central action of the play is the discovery of a unique double pulsar system but the drama is about a deeply reluctant gender activist, the culture of contemporary science and the nature of collaborative discovery. The physics reflected in the play - the description of what pulsars are and how they spin, what is inside them and what they tell us about the science of the universe - is both fascinating and provocative, opening a window into the world of space and time as a metaphor for the relationship of art and science.
We are thrilled to have Australian legend Nadia Tass steering the vast vision of this extraordinary new play, Nadia's work is renowned by Australian and international audiences and it is a privilege to have her on board. Her partnership with Alana is very special and promises to be a theatrical highlight of 2018.
A World Premiere, Ear to the Edge of Time is the product of an extraordinary odyssey of discovery and exploration for one of Australia's greatest contemporary playwrights, Alana Valentine. The play is the winner of the fifth STAGE International Script Competition and was developed and supported, in part, through the University of California, Santa Barbara's STAGE project and Professional Artists Lab (Nancy Kawalek, Director) and the California NanoSystems Institute. STAGE is a competition for the best play in the world about science or technology, and EAR TO THE EDGE OF TIME was the winner from 200 entries from 19 countries in 2012.
Ear to the Edge of Time
by Alana Valentine
Directed by Nadia Tass
Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre
Oct 11th to 27th
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