New
Theatre launched their season for next year, announcing the productions that
will make up the exciting program and introducing the directors who will be
taking Sydney audiences on a fabulous theatrical journey.
For
Season 2013, they have put together a diverse program of nine plays that
includes revivals of two ground-breaking modern classics, from 1960s Australia
and 1980s England, and four Australian premieres.
Not
by design, but an outcome of which they’re really proud, four of the plays are
written by women, and no less than seven will be directed by women!
To
direct, they are delighted to welcome back Luke Rogers (Waiting for Godot),
who has just graduated from the NIDA Directors Course. He will be joined
by fellow NIDA graduates Harriet Gillies, Felicity Nicol, Phillip Rouse, and
Melita Rowston, making a welcome return to directing but perhaps best known as
a playwright (Crushed). Four of New Theatre’s most
experienced directors: Louise Fischer (Vernon God Little), Helen
Tonkin (Equus), Alice Livingstone (The Weir) and Rosane McNamara
(Entertaining Mr Sloane), round out the directing roster.
Summer Holiday Family Entertainment
THE SMALL POPPIES
By David Holman
Directed by Felicity Nicol
9 – 26 January
Australian Premiere, in association
with the Sydney Mardi Gras
MILKMILKLEMONADE
By Joshua Conkel
Directed by Melita Rowston
5 February – 2 March
THE PILLOWMAN
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by Luke Rogers
12 March – 13 April
THE HAM FUNERAL
By Patrick White
Directed by Phillip Rouse
23 April – 25 May
Australian Premiere
ENRON
By Lucy Prebble
Directed by Louise Fischer
4 - 29 June
TOP GIRLS
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Alice Livingstone
9 July – 3 August
Australian Premiere
JERUSALEM
By
Jez Butterworth
Directed by Helen Tonkin
13 August – 14 September
HUMBLE BOY
By Charlotte Jones
Directed by Rosane McNamara
8 October – 2 November
Australian Premiere
DYING FOR IT
By Moira Buffini
Freely adapted from Nicholas
Erdman’s The Suicide
Directed by Harriet Gillies
19 November – 21 December
