S P O RT F O RJ O V ET H E A T R E ’ S

2017 Education

ProgramTHEATRE WORKSHOPS, PRODUCTIONS,

RESIDENCIES & THE SHAKESPEARE CARNIVAL!

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SPORT FOR JOVE’S SHAKESPEARE SLAM IS BACK!

The SFJ Shakespeare Slam! is an all-en-compassing Performance Study Guide for students and teachers of Shake-speare across all age groups and a wide range of curriculum texts running through May / June 2017. This year’s program features exceptional live pro-ductions that are a must-see for stu-dents of the plays or young people being introduced to Shakespeare for the first time from a company with a peerless reputation for re-imagining Shakespeare’s classics;.

Our HSC season this year offers a mag-ical production of Shakespeare’s final play, THE TEMPEST, part of the Discov-ery Area of Study, and featuring SFJ Artistic Director Damien Ryan as Pros-pero and a wonderful, hugely experi-enced cast.

90 Minute Productions of

THE TEMPEST ROMEO AND JULIET

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

HSC Symposiums onHAMLET

THE TEMPEST JULIUS CAESAR

HENRY IV, PART 1RICHARD III

THE CRUCIBLE

And we tackle a combination of two of the most popular Shakespeare plays among younger students and their teachers:

The first is his great tragedy - a pas-sionate, fast and furious ROMEO AND JULIET.

The second is his perfect comedy – a return of the sumptuous, absolutely hilarious production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM we brought to stu-dents in 2015.

The Slam also features our acclaimed HSC Symposiums, including Hamlet, Tempest, Julius Caesar, Henry IV Part 1 & Richard III, along with Arthur Mill-er’s The Crucible.

I HAVE NEVER BEEN THANKED BY SO

MANY STUDENTS FOR TAKING THEM TO SEE ANYTHING

- HEAD ENGLISH TEACHER

SPORT FOR JOVE IS A RESIDENT THEATRE COMPANY OF THE SEYMOUR CENTRE

TO RESERVE SEATS OR REQUEST MORE INFO ON ANY OF SPORT FOR JOVE’S 2016 EDUCATION SHOWS OR SYMPOSIUMS, PLEASE CONTACT THE RESPECTIVE THEATRE...

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YOU MADE A DIFFICULT PLAY ACCESSIBLE AND

MEANINGFUL TO STUDENTS IN A SHORT SPACE OF TIME. I WILL CERTAINLY BE MAKING

A BOOKING FOR NEXT YEAR’S HSC GROUP.

— TEACHER, MARIAN COLLEGE

HSC SHAKESPEARE SYMPOSIUMS

SPORT FOR JOVE’S INTENSIVE HSC SYMPOSIUMS ARE BACK, EXPERIENCE KEY SCENES ANALYSED IN PERFORMANCE. DON’T MISS IT !Scene work from the HSC syllabus plays is interspersed with expert commentary from Damien Ryan and his team—exploring famous scenes & speeches in multiple ways, opening up diverse critical readings, unlocking language & character, hearing actors discuss the plays’ famous ambiguities and challenges, and answering students’ questions. A complete, hands-on experience that combines the unfiltered relationship students need with the plays’ action and narrative while also ensuring they are ‘watching with understanding’, in other words, extracting the key ingredients and critical thinking required to write on the plays under exam conditions. Don’t miss it!

Detailed student notes are also offered with the Symposiums.

RUNNING TIME 180 MINUTES including interval Note that Tempest Symposium is 120 minutes

PRICES $25 PER STUDENT, 1 FREE TEACHER PER 10 STUDENTS

CURRICULUM LINKS HSC ENGLISH AND DRAMA AREAS OF STUDY

SPECIFIC DATESTHE TEMPEST SYMPOSIUM @ Riverside Theatres, ParramattaThursday May 4: 1pm – 3pm (after Tempest performance at 10am) Friday May 5: 1pm – 3pm (after Tempest performance at 10am)@ Seymour CentreTuesday May 16: 12.30pm - 2.30pm (after Tempest performance at 10am)Wednesday May 17: 3.30pm - 5.30pm (after Tempest performance at 1pm)

JULIUS CAESAR SYMPOSIUM@ Riverside Theatres, ParramattaThursday May 11: 1pm - 4pm@ Seymour Centre Friday May 19: 1.30pm – 4.30pm

HAMLET SYMPOSIUM@ Riverside Theatres, ParramattaWednesday May 10: 4pm - 7pmThursday June 8: 1pm - 4pm@ Seymour CentreFriday May 19: 10am - 1pm Friday June 16: 10am - 1pm

THE CRUCIBLE SYMPOSIUM@ Riverside Theatres, ParramattaFriday June 9: 1pm – 4pm@ Seymour CentreThursday May 25: 1pm - 4pmSaturday May 27: 1pm - 4pm

RICHARD THE THIRD SYMPOSIUM@ Seymour CentreSaturday May 27: 9.30am -12.30pm

HENRY IV, PART 1 SYMPOSIUM@ Seymour CentreFriday June 23: 1pm - 4pm

One of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, The Tempest is a symphonic vi-sion of forgiveness, discovery and self-discovery – famous for its lan-guage, context, enchanting characters and breathtaking theatricality, a reflection of the world’s most famous playwright at the height of his powers and at the end of his remarkable career. What is it like to let go of the things that give us power and control? Prospero is a character full of oceanic passions. Why does someone shut themselves off from the world and study magic? What gives someone a desire for godlike power? What kind of a man raises his daughter without telling her a single thing about her past? What kind

SPORT FOR JOVE’S THRILLING 90 MINUTE TEMPEST IS A MUST SEE FOR HSC STUDENTS STUDYING THE PLAY, ALONG WITH DRAMA STUDENTS STUDYING THEATRE AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS BEING INTRODUCED TO SHAKESPEARE FOR THE FIRST TIME. FROM THE COMPANY THAT BROUGHT

ACCLAIMED AND DETAILED VERSIONS HAMLET, MACBETH AND DREAM TO THOUSANDS OF NSW STUDENTS.

PERFORMANCE DATES@ Riverside Theatres, ParramattaWednesday May 3: 10am + Q&AWednesday May 3: 1pm + Q&AThursday May 4: 10am followed by full Tempest Study Symposium from 1pm-3pm Friday May 5: 10am followed by full Tempest Study Symposium from 1pm-3pm@ Seymour CentreTuesday May 16: 10am followed by full Tempest Study Symposium from 12.30pm-2.30pmWednesday May 17: 10am + Q&A

O BRAVE NEW WORLD THAT HATH SUCH PEOPLE IN’T

Wednesday May 17: 1pm followed by full Tempest Study Symposium from 3.30pm-5.30pmThursday May 18: 10am + Q&AThursday May 18: 1pm + Q&A

RUNNING TIME 90 MINUTES

Book The Tempest Symposium for just $25, a detailed HSC Area of Study: Discovery specifc analysis of the play by Damien Ryan and his cast – with scene work and discussion with students

SUITABLE AGE & SYLLABUS LINKSSTAGE 6: AREA OF STUDY – DISCOVERY (STANDARD AND ADVANCED) The Tempest is classified as a drama text for the Standard course and as a Shakespearean drama text for the Advanced course.

In Stage 5, students are expected to have an experi-ence of Shakespearean drama. This should include seeing

Shakespearean plays in per-formance, as well as engaging in workshop activities in the classroom with Shakespear-ean texts such as Romeo and Juliet or A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This production is also ideal for Shakespeare Studies in Drama – years 8, 9, 10.

CURRICULUM LINKS SUITABLE FOR YEARS 8—12

of a man adopts a child and then makes them his slave? Prospero is a character unable to forgive, slowly killing himself with his own bitterness. Learning to let go of his power and control is one of the deep journeys of discovery that drive this great play.

But this tempest is not only in Prospero – the storm lies in the contra-dictions and ambiguities the story throws up about freedom and slavery, civilisation and barbarism, legacy and letting go, lust and chastity, youth and age, revenge and forgiveness. The sea is a place of transformation but also represents the capriciousness of nature, chaos or fate. The sea is our greatest metaphor for discovery.

THE TEMPESTby William Shakespeare

Our Season

ROMEO & JULIETby William Shakespeare

DID MY HEART LOVE TIL NOW?

In four short days we witness joy, love and profound tragedy. So much is public and outdoors in this story, capturing a particularly Italian vision of life, and yet at the heart of it is a soaring love affair that remains private, unseen and entirely secret until a terri-ble Thursday morning when a town of adults, now stripped of its children, stands in the glooming dawn to learn the appalling costs of its hatred, ignorance and gracelessness.

The young people in this great story follow their impulses and listen to their instinc-tive inner voices for which they all pay a terrible price, but their apparent rashness and “rude will” is the only logical response to the extraordinarily irrational world built around them by their families.

This play is funny, bleak, amorous, frightening, deliriously romantic, moving and inspir-ing. R&J is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare and theatre for young audiences.

SOMETIMES WE NEED THE COURAGE TO BREAK THE RULES AND STAND UP IN THE FACE OF TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES, TO DENOUNCE LOGIC AND FOLLOW OUR GUT. YOUNG PEOPLE CAN TEACH US SO MUCH ABOUT RIGHT AND WRONG IN THIS WORLD. ROMEO & JULIET IS SHAKESPEARE’S MOST MOVING PLAY. JOIN US FOR A CLEAR, INVENTIVE, ACCESSIBLE 90-MINUTE ROLLERCOASTER THROUGH VERONA, DIRECTED BY MULTIPLE SYDNEY THEATRE AWARD WINNER, DAMIEN RYAN.

PERFORMANCE DATES@ Riverside Theatres, ParramattaTuesday May 9: 10am + Q&ATuesday May 9: 1pm + Q&AWednesday May 10: 10am + Q&AWednesday May 10: 1pm + Q&AThursday May 11: 10am + Q&AFriday May 12: 10am + Q&AFriday May 12: 1pm + Q&A@ Seymour CentreTuesday June 20: 1pm + Q&AWednesday June 21: 10am + Q&A

ENGLISH K–10 SYLLABUS STAGE 4 & 5, DRAMA YEARS 8-11 RECOMMENDED TEXT (BOS SYLLABUS)In Stage 5, students are expected to have an experience of Shakespearean drama. This should include seeing Shakespearean plays in performance, as well as engaging in workshop activities in the classroom with Shakespearean texts such as Romeo and Juliet or A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Also ideal for Shakespeare Studies in Drama – years 8, 9, 10.

CLEAR STORYTELLING, ENERGETIC PERFORMANCES, SHARP STAGING, GREAT SWORDPLAY AND INTELLIGENT USE OF THE LANGUAGE.- SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Wednesday June 21: 1pm + Q&AThursday June 22: 10am + Q&AThursday June 22: 1pm + Q&A

RUNNING TIME 90 MINUTES

PRICES $25 PER STUDENT, 1 FREE TEACHER PER 10 STUDENTS

CURRICULUM LINKS SUITABLE FOR YEARS 7—12

Our Season

SPORT FOR JOVE’S 90 MINUTE MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM WAS A SMASH HIT WITH

SCHOOLS IN 2015 AND WE ARE THRILLED TO BE BRINGING IT BACK IN 2017. THE PERFECT

INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE AND THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

In the heat of the shortest night of the year, young lovers and work-a-day dreamers plunge into a world between sleep and waking, where “everything seems double”. One of Shakespeare’s truly essential works, ‘Dream’, like every fairy-story, warns us that family, love and friendship are fragile – when parents are selfish, their children break the rules; when love rears its head, friendships are forgotten; and that’s just the mortal world. The Fairy Kingdom’s war over a mortal child has

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

PERFORMANCE DATES@ Seymour CentreMonday May 22: 1pm + Q&ATuesday May 23: 10am + Q&ATuesday May 23: 1pm + Q&AWednesday May 24: 10am + Q&AWednesday May 24: 1pm + Q&AThursday May 25: 10am + Q&AFriday May 26: 10am + Q&AFriday May 26: 1pm + Q&A@ Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Tuesday June 6: 1pm + Q&A

THE IRON TONGUE OF MIDNIGHT HATH TOLD TWELVE…’TIS ALMOST FAIRY TIME

Wednesday June 7: 10am + Q&AWednesday June 7: 1pm + Q&AThursday June 8: 10am + Q&AFriday June 9: 10am + Q&A

RUNNING TIME 90 MINUTES

SYLLABUS LINKSSTAGES 4 AND 5 The English k–10 syllabus requires students to read, listen

to and view drama. At Stage 5 the selection of texts must give students an experience ofShakespearean drama. Teachers should encourage their students to attend live performances as this will assist them in understanding naturalistic and non-naturalistic theatre conventions. Drama

HSC Topic List for Individual Project students and Years 8-11 recommended Drama text (BOS Syllabus)Also recommended for Primary years 5 & 6. Also ideal for Shakespeare Studies in Drama – years 7, 8, 9, 10.

CURRICULUM LINKS SUITABLE FOR YEARS 7—11

turned the entire “mazed world” upside down.

Vows melt, bodies transform, time stops, the seasons alter, the moon stills, the world floods…”so quick bright things come to confusion…” Shakespeare’s A Midsum-mer Night’s Dream is perhaps the best possible in-troduction young people can have to the theatre and among the most powerful visions of growing up ever written.

WE HAD SUCH A GLORIOUS DAY AND OUR STUDENTS WERE JUST SO HAPPY. IT WAS THE FINEST AND MOST ENGAGING THEATRE FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL (AND THE MORE MATURE). - HEAD TEACHER ENGLISH

Directed by Susanna Dowling

Our Season

ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST ORIGINAL AND FINELY CRAFTED ROMANTIC COMEDIES; THE TALE OF THE BEAUTIFUL ROXANE AND THE MAN WHO WOULD LOVE HER, BUT FOR HIS OUTRAGEOUS NOSE – THE PLAY THAT BROUGHT THE WORD ‘PANACHE’ INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE! CYRANO IS A COMPLETE THEATRICAL MASTERPIECE. SPORT FOR JOVE’S ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION IS THE WINNER OF SYDNEY THEATRE AWARDS FOR BEST PRODUCTION, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ACTOR AND NOMINATED FOR BEST ACTRESS AND BEST DESIGN. AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH, DRAMA AND MODERN HISTORY.Sydney Theatre Awards 2013:WINNER - Best Production, Best Director, Best ActorNominated for Best Actress, Best Design

Written and premiered in France in December 1897, this is one of the greatest plays the world has ever known, poetic, theatrical and exhilarating, and a absolute thrill for students from Years 7 to 12. The love-triangle of the poet and soldier with an impossibly gigantic nose who loves the beautiful Roxane but lacks the courage to tell her, wooing her instead through the good looks of a young hero, Christian.

Cyrano is relevant now for the same reasons Shakespeare is – its ideas and concerns are simply and profoundly human – what does individualism mean and how do we remain faithful to what we believe in? What is love and how do we get past its clichés and false ideals? How does self-esteem define us all our lives? What is beauty? What drives male aggression? What is courage? And for Rostand, it was a passionate condemnation and plea for a France that he felt was losing its soul, its romance and its creativity to return to a more enlightened, brave and individual sense of its identity – its panache.

SFJ’s 2013 production returns after playing to sold out houses and standing ovations every night of the season, one of the most memorable pieces of theatre in Sydney in the past decade.

PERFORMANCE DATES@ Seymour Centre Thursday June 15: 11.30amThursday June 15: 7.30pmFriday June 16: 7.30pmSaturday June 17: 7.30pmThursday June 22: 7.30pmFriday June 23: 7.30pmSaturday June 24: 1.30pmSaturday June 24: 7.30pm

by Edmond RostandNew adaptation and Direction by Damien Ryan

RUNNING TIME 3 HOURS including interval

SYLLABUS LINKSIdeal for English and Drama Students from Years 9-12. Related to Performance Analysis, Realism and Melodrama, Theatre History, Poetry, Staging and the Elements of Drama.

PRICES $25 PER STUDENT, 1 FREE TEACHER PER 10 STUDENTS

SPORT FOR JOVE’S CYRANO DE BERGERAC PACKS ENORMOUS CLOUT. MAGNIFICENT. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.- SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

BRILLIANT! – THE AU REVIEW

SHAKESPEARE CARNIVALYOU HAVE A SWIMMING CARNIVAL, YOU HAVE AN ATHLETICS CARNIVAL - WHY NOT HAVE A SHAKESPEARE CARNIVAL?Back for 2017, after a fun-filled re-launch last year, the Shakespeare Carnival is a state-wide performance opportunity for NSW high school students to enrich their understanding of Shakespeare’s work through in-depth engagement with their favourite performance form.

Categories include duologues, group scenes, dance & movement, music and design.

Sport for Jove Theatre will provide the framework with comprehensive guidelines, workshops and advice for your students, and support you to create an arts event as big (or small) as your school needs.

The Shakespeare Carnival can be one class presenting during class time, one year group performing at lunch time or the whole school putting on a fundraiser event in the hall. You decide how you want to run things and then select participants to represent your school towards Regional and State level.

Contact us on Carnival@SportForJove.com.au for further details

WE ARE REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THE AMAZING OPPORTUNITY AND EXPERIENCE YOU PROVIDED FOR OUR GIRLS.

- LIZ ROCHE, WILLOUGHBY GIRLS

SHAKESPEARE RESIDENCY

Straight onto the stage with professional actors and directors, the students learn through doing and understanding, engaging in fresh and highly accessible ways. Staff, parents and the whole school community are brought together to celebrate a performance showcase, fuelled by a wealth of discovery about the value and beauty of these plays.

In the intensive Shakespeare bootcamp, your students will:

A WEEK IN SHAKESPEARE’S WORLD! SFJ’S IN-SCHOOL RESIDENCY PROGRAM OFFERS THE CHOICE OF AN IMMERSIVE AND ENTIRELY PRACTICAL 5-DAY OR 3-DAY EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS IN ANY YEAR GROUP, INVESTIGATING SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS, WORLD, CHARACTERS AND LANGUAGE THROUGH ACTION.

Shakespeare makes us laugh, inspires us and moves us. His poetry, when un-locked and experienced in action, offers students incomparable access to the potency of great words and ideas. The confidence and understanding they gar-ner through the program has an exponential effect on their future studies and appreciation for literature, their understanding of the world they live in, and their confidence in themselves.

For more information on this exciting program email us at: info@sportforjove.com.au

• Get the words, ideas, images, feelings and relationships of Shakespeare’s most famous plays up on their feet, into their bodies, into a shared storytelling space, in practical, exciting and dynamic ways

• Enjoy the rewards of boldness, confidence, self-esteem, fun, and most of all, ownership of their creativity— these PLAYS were made for PLAYING and that is the focus of the Residency, breaking down the barriers to these great works, demystifying meaning and making them approachable and relevant

• Learn the demands of teamwork - each joining a hard-working team, creating something they’ll always remember

• Produce an inclusive and fully staged final performance to showcase the work they have done on the plays

BY THE END OF THE WEEK...THE STUDENTS BOLDLY STAGED

MOMENTS FROM MACBETH, THE TEMPEST, ROMEO & JULIET

AND KING LEAR – INTENSE, IMAGINATIVE, FUNNY AND

MOVING PERFORMANCES BY THE ENTIRE COHORT.— SHAUNA COLNAN,

PRINCIPAL IGS

THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY?by Horace McCoy

PERFORMANCE DATESAug 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 @ 7.30pm;Matinees on Aug 9 and 16 @ 11am; and Aug 12 and 19 @ 2pm

SYLLABUSThis extraordinary play is a wonderful theatre experience for students of English, Drama, History or Cultural studies and a remarkably prescient study

of the struggle for meaning in life and the battle against the disillusionment of youth.

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CURRICULUM LINKS SUITABLE FOR YEARS 10 — 12

PRICES$25 PER STUDENT 1 TEACHER FREE PER 10 STUDENTS

FROM THE COMPANY THAT BROUGHT YOU THE 2015 INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR, SYDNEY THEATRE AWARDS (OF MICE AND MEN), COMES ANOTHER AMERICAN MASTERPIECE.Horace McCoy’s astonishing and groundbreaking novel of 1935, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, depicts a depression-era dance marathon with an unrelenting human toll on its partici-pants, and the echoes of those dancing feet can still be heard in our voyeuristic obsession with reality television, morbid competition and spectacle a century later. One of the greatest novels of the 20th Century, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? plunges us with hypnotic energy into a dark and violent world where people are readily exploited for the pennies that they might bring in from a viewing audience. Marathon dances lasted for weeks, even months, draining their participants of self-respect and gradually turning them into the walking dead.

McCoy dealt with the collapse of humanity in the 20th Century with brutal intensity and originality, pulling no punches and providing a story so rich in its theatricality that it wildly leaps from the page to the stage. Sport for Jove is thrilled to present its new stage adaptation of the seminal novel at the Sey-mour Centre in 2017, directed by the brilliant Kim Hardwick.

QUINTESSENTIAL AMERICAN TALE EXQUISITELY EXECUTED. 4 STARS

- SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

PRAISE FOR SFJ’S OF MICE OF MEN:

OPENING NIGHT’S AUDIENCE RESPONDED TO THE PIECE WITH ITS TWISTS AND MOOD

AND POWER WITH INDRAWN BREATHS AND UTTERLY SOLID APPLAUSE FOR THIS VERSION

OF STEINBECK’S SMALL MODERN TRAGEDY.- CANBERRA TIMES

Directed by Kim Hardwick

NO END OF BLAMEby Howard BarkerDirected by Damien Ryan

STUDENTS OF HISTORY, ART, ENGLISH AND CULTURAL

STUDIES WILL BE ENTHRALLED BY THIS NEGLECTED 20TH

CENTURY MASTERPIECE, NOW SO PROFOUNDLY TOPICAL,

ABOUT CENSORSHIP OF THE WORLD’S MOST INNOCENT

SATIRICAL DEVICE – THE POLITICAL CARTOON.

Howard Barker’s No End of Blame is a sublimely playful, dangerous and pertinent political masterpiece. Set over 6 decades of the 20th Century across Europe, the story pits a passionate, provocative pair of artists, one a painter, the other a cartoonist, against the forces of censorship and in-sidious state control that corrupt and stifle the human right to freedom of thought and freedom of speech. This brutal and savagely funny play could not be more relevant to our modern world and its new brand of war, jour-nalism and self-expression. A visual and aural feast for the senses.

With a stunning cast including Sydney Theatre Award winners Yalin Ozu-celik, James Lugton, Danielle King, Lizzie Schebesta, Bryce Young-man, Amy Usherwood

Please note, this production contains artistic nudity in the form life model drawing; occasional strong language and some violence. Recommended for students over 15.

RUNNING TIME120 MINUTES + INTERVAL PRICES$25 PER STUDENT1 TEACHER FREE PER 10 STUDENTS

CURRICULUM LINKSENGLISH, DRAMA STUDENTS, HISTORY, ART, CULTURAL STUDIES - a story spanning both great wars of the 20th Century, Stalinism,

Churchill’s England, through to Thatcher’s Britain - looking at the place of art and political cartoons in our culture

SPECIFIC DATESOctober 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 @ 7.30pmOctober 21 & 28 @ 2pm

WHEREREGINALD THEATRE, SEYMOUR CENTRE

SUMMER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALJulius Caesar & Antony and CleopatraDirected by Michael Pigott and Damien Ryan

When in Rome…

SPORT FOR JOVE’S ACCLAIMED SUMMER SHAKESPEARE SEASON,

NOW IN IT’S 8TH SUCCESSFUL YEAR, HAS BECOME A MUST-SEE ON THE

NSW THEATRICAL CALENDAR. THIS YEAR WE GO ON A ROMAN HOLIDAY – THE EPIC TALE OF JULIUS CAESAR

AND ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, TOLD TOGETHER IN THE FRENZY AND

ACCESSIBILITY OF THE FESTIVAL ATMOSPHERE, OUTDOORS AND FULL

OF FEASTING AND INVENTION.

Shakespeare looked to the Roman past not out of historical curiosity but to awaken us to the struggles, fears and possibilities of our present – our relationships to power, to loyalty, to freedom, to violence, to idealism and to civic duty. But above all he turned to the famous characters and events of an ancient age in order to imagine new futures –

Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra are two of his greatest plays – famed for their clarity, political modernity, poetry and their extraordinary pantheon of characters, real men and women who defined the very pulse of their age and who are rekindled in the possibilities of every political leader and every political machination of the 21st Century. Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Augustus, Portia, Cassius, Brutus, Agrippa. Their rise and thunderous fall threw down to us a set of challenges we may never master. How do we lead a nation? How do we follow a leader? What sparks revolution? What suppresses it? What price freedom…?

And as the merry-go-round of the Australian Prime Ministership has shown in recent years, politics is as personal as life itself. Love, hate, betrayal, sacrifice, lust, confusion, tyranny – power is a fragile house of cards and every nation stands in its trembling shadow. Join us outdoors this summer for a rampaging look at Rome’s eternal lessons for our contemporary lives.

HOW MANY AGES HENCE SHALL THIS, OUR LOFTY SCENE, BE ACTED OVER IN STATES UNBORN AND ACCENTS YET UNKNOWNJULIUS CAESAR

PERFORMANCE DATESBella Vista Farm, Bella VistaDecember 17, 2016 – January 5, 2017

Leura Shakespeare Festival, Everglades GardensJanuary 14 – January 29, 2017

Details and bookings at www.sportforjove.com.au