Jack Charles v The Crown

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PRODUCTION THANKS Melbourne International Arts Festival, Phillipa Campey, Amiel Courtin-Wilson and the whole Bastardy mob, Vicki Cousins and The Koorie Heritage Trust, Glenn Elston and The Australian Shakespeare Company, St Martins Youth Arts Centre, Alex Jarvis and Lucy Lawson , Mega Fun, Terry Dean, Rod McNichol, David Field, Tom Long, Yamaha, Paiste, Silverfox, Axis, and everyone, both past and present, who has made the telling of this story possible.

PHOTOgRAPHy Bindi Cole and John Harvey DESIgN Alphabet Studio

Belvoir presents an Ilbijerri Theatre Company production

Jack Charles v The Crown

Jack Charles

By JACK CHARLES and JOHN ROMERIL Director RACHAEL MAZA LONg

Jack Charles v The Crown premiered at the 2010 Melbourne International Arts Festival. This production opened at Belvoir St Theatre on Friday 1 April 2011.

Dramaturg JOHN ROMERIL Script Consultant MELANIE BEDDIE Set & Costume Designer EMILy BARRIE Lighting Designer DANNy PETTINgILL Musical Director NIgEL MACLEAN Audio Visual Designer PETER WORLAND Production & Stage Manager ASHLEy gROENEN

With JACK CHARLES Guitar & Violin NIgEL MACLEAN Percussion PHIL COLLINgS Bass MAL BEVERIDgE

Bastardy footage courtesy of Film Camp, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Ghost, Film Victoria and Filmfest Ltd.

We would like to show our respect and acknowledge the Traditional owners of the land we gather on today: the Cadigal tribe of the Eora Nation. We pay respect to their Ancestors and Elders and to any Elders that may be with us here today.

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Having grown up in theatre, I have known Uncle Jack for most of my life, and have long admired his work. It seems therefore most fitting that I should work with him now, all these years later. His is the generation that started Black Theatre in this country, paving the way for those of my generation to follow (Uncle Jack, along with my father Bob Maza, established Australia’s first Aboriginal Theatre Company, Nindethana, in Melbourne in 1972).

It is through theatre that I have learnt the true history of this country, history that was never taught in the school books. It is this early theatre that inspired who I am today, inspiring in me the passion to continue to tell the stories that need to be told.

One of my earliest memories in the theatre was at the Sydney Opera House: a scene in which two fully clad early 19th century soldiers entered, carrying between them a fully naked ‘Bennelong’ (a young Jack Charles) to centre downstage, his feet dangling above the floor…

After seeing the phenomenal documentary Bastardy, I was inspired to bring Jack’s story to the stage, knowing what a brilliant actor he was. The opportunity arose to get him in for a script reading. (I was aware he was getting on in years and it seemed wise to see how he was

Director’s NoteRachael Maza Long

fairing.) He was incredible! Every word danced off the page with those deep rich resonant melodic tones – as if he had created the words himself, in that moment. A master of the spoken word. My decision to pursue this story was set in stone in that moment.

Jack’s story is not dissimilar to many other Aboriginal people who were victims of past Government policies. He was stolen from his family at three months and placed in a boys’ home, where he would endure years of abuse. He then spent the majority of his adult years doing ‘burgs’ and ‘doing time’ to feed his addiction. There is no doubt in my mind that all of this got in the way of what would have been a truly brilliant career on stage and screen.

Melbourne-born and bred, a true Gentleman, generous in spirit, warm of heart, sharp of wit… Jack Charles is a true Elder!

It is such a great honour and privilege to work so closely and intimately with one of Australia’s great living legends. A special thanks to Uncle Jack for his incredible generosity in sharing his story.

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Shortly after the screening of a 56-minute version of my documentary, Bastardy, on the ABC, I started to receive, almost immediately, feedback from a number of sources… testament that my story had hit that ‘sweet spot’ in the minds and hearts of ordinary viewers, in Melbourne and nationwide.

It had impressed so many people, from all walks of life, that many were urged to contact me by phone or postcard, others content to wait for a chance meet, face to face. On the streets, on a tram, bus, or train… each one practically falling arse over tit to engage, talk and thank me for the experience. I thoroughly enjoy the rapport and support offered by complete strangers, and understand and honour their reaching out to me.

Taken from his mother at two months old and placed in care, becoming one of the thousands of Indigenous Australians now known as The Stolen Generation.

Moved to The Salvation Army Boys’ Home, Box Hill, Victoria, aged two. Encounters systematic physical abuse.

At age 19 travels to meet his mother again in Swan Hill, rural Victoria.

Discovers heroin, which leads to two stints in jail.

With Bob Maza, co-founds Nindethana, Australia’s first Indigenous theatre company, based in Melbourne.

Appears in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. The film wins three AFI awards and grosses over $1 million at the Australian box office (about $3.5 million today).

Approached by filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson to become the subject of a new documentary, Bastardy.

Bastardy released to critical acclaim. Screens at film festivals around the world. Wins Best Documentary at the Film Critics’ Circle Awards.

Jack Charles v The Crown premieres as part of the Melbourne Festival.

Compiled by William CohenSources: Boland, Michaela, ‘Rough life flowers into one-man show’, The Australian, 14 July 2010.Reconciliation Timeline, Reconciliation Australia website, www.reconciliation.org.au

As governed by the Flora & Fauna Act of NSW, Aboriginal people in many states, including NSW, are not recognised as citizens.

The Commonwealth Citizenship and Nationality Act extends the category of ‘Australian Citizenship’ to all Australians, including Aborigines.

The Commonwealth Electoral Act is amended to give the vote to all Aboriginal people.

In a landmark referendum, over 90% of eligible Australians voted YES to count Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in the national population Census.

The Whitlam Government establishes the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is pitched outside Parliament House in Canberra.

The Aboriginal Treaty Committee is formed, and the National Aboriginal Conference calls for a treaty between the Commonwealth Government and Aboriginal people.

Around 300,000 people walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge, demonstrating their support for the reconciliation process.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologises to The Stolen Generation on behalf of the Australian Parliament and the Australian people.

The Salvation Army issues an apology to the children who were abused and mistreated in their homes.

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It came as no surprise when Rachael Maza Long, the Artistic Director for Ilbijerri, rang to talk about taking my story to its rightful place – the stage, the theatre. The mob at Ilbijerri were always aware of the rise in my profile and standing in the performing arts arena, so it wasn’t long before I got the call to arms from Rachael and Ilbijerri – Bold Black ‘n’ Brilliant! Rachael had roped in my old friend from the Pram Factory days, John Romeril, to be my dramaturg. T’was easy to re-connect to the man who’d written the original play, Bastardy… I expect we’ll do even better this time round.

This is one very important piece of theatre that I am so anxious and ready to do. I reckon that people from the arts and performing industries have come to the realisation that I will be sharing the writing with Romeril, writing a couple of the monologues myself, and performing clean, without any giggle-juice or drugs to enhance my presence on stage.

Jack Charles v The Crown is the culmination of years of frustration and rejection from bureaucracy, both black and white. This is a timely, necessary journey we at Ilbijerri undertake in the national interest. I don’t want to, and won’t, be giving too much info ‘bout ‘the crown show’ – don’t want to let the cat out of the bag! But if you wanna know what Bastardy did for me, I suggest you sit back and enjoy the show.

A Note From Jack A Timeline

Jack Charles in 1972, New Dawn magazine.

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Looking at Roy Grounds Fort, river-side of the water-curtain entrance, aka the ‘Fish Monger’s Gate’, you couldn’t miss it. Advertising its Photography and Time exhibition, the National Gallery of Victoria had slung a huge banner on its front wall.

It was a blown-up version of one of Rod McNichol’s photographic portraits of Jack Charles, part of a 7-up’ style series Rod’s been making, catching Jack and other Melbourne identities in their 30s, 40s, 50s and so on.

An icon on an icon, for three long months a 25-foot high Jack Charles loomed large over St Kilda Rd. Meanwhile the award-winning feature-length documentary Amiel Courtin-Wilson made with Jack in the noughties had secured a long cinema release, was screened by the ABC, and remains out and about on DVD.

A hard act to follow? Co-fashion a show as huge as the life this man’s led; make it as luminous, as haunting, as Rod’s portraits, Amiel’s doco, and the NGV’s banner. Am I anxious re Jack Charles v The Crown? Of course, my next has to be up with my best or I’m cactus!

Writer’s Note John Romeril

Thankfully I have some prior form. Based on elements of his life, I wrote Bastardy for Jack in 1972. The Australian Performing Group did it at the Pram Factory and Amiel paid me the compliment of re-cycling the title for his doco. I wrote a second vehicle for Jack in the early 90s. Elements of his life and character again were central to Going Thru, the gist being a jail-tale he told me when I visited him in Castlemaine.

What calms my nerves however is knowing what a dynamite performer (and writer) Jack is.

Here I call on Bill Hunter who terms Jack “a one or two-take man”. If you’re across film financing, you’ll appreciate how on the money Jack must be to earn a rap like that. I cite also Neil Armfield: Jack is “one of Australia’s great original artists”.

If he can’t make anything I pen look good I must need God as a mate.

Jack Charles and band

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humorous drama. His theatrical approach retains an improvisational element, is collaborative in style and is responsive to a wide range of social issues. In the 1980s and 1990s his involvement in live theatre concentrated on musical drama with History of Australia: the Musical, Jonah, Legends and The Kelly Dance among his significant works. John’s work has been consistently performed at all levels of theatre: state, company, community and educational. His plays have also been translated and performed in Japan, Vietnam, Italy and elsewhere.

RACHAEL MAZA LONG Director

Rachael is the Artistic Director of Ilbijerri Theatre Company. She is well known as a television presenter on SBS’s ICAM and ABC’s Message Stick, and for her stunning performances in Radiance and The Sapphires. Most recently, in her role at Ilbijerri Theatre Company, she

has directed Jacky Jacky in the Box (Federation Square 2009, Melbourne Museum 2010), A Black Sheep Walks into a Baa… and Black Sheep: Glorious Baastards (Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2009 & 2010) and Chopped Liver (National tours 2008 & 2009). She performs regularly with her sister Lisa in the duo The Maza Sisters, and together they wrote and performed in the highly successful theatre production Sisters of Gelam, which premiered in Melbourne in 2009.

EMILY BARRIE Set & Costume Designer

Emily’s design history includes set and costumes for Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Full Tilt, Arena Theatre Company, Rawcus Theatre, Back to Back, Melbourne Workers’ Theatre, The Women’s Circus, Restless Dance Theatre, The National Institute

of Circus Arts, Union House Theatre, Red Stitch, Melbourne Fringe, The Spaghetti Western Orchestra, Moomba, Die Roten Punkte, Federation Square, Mushroom Records and The Melbourne Museum. Her designs in 2010 included the Moomba Parade, We All Fall Down, Don’t Look Now and Duets for Lovers and Dreamers. In 2011, Emily has constructed costumes for the annual Moomba Parade and is developing the design for Small Odysseys by Rawcus Theatre. Her Green Room Award nominations include Hunger (Rawcus and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) and The Heart of Another is a Dark Forest (Rawcus and Restless Dance Theatre).

JACK CHARLES Co-writer & Performer

Born in 1943, Jack was well and truly a child of the Stolen Generation. He spent many of his formative years in the boys’ homes of Melbourne, which he took on with his usual laconic outlook. “It was alright by me – I was happy to assimilate. The only trouble was I wasn’t ever going to

fit in. I’m fucking brown mate.” In 1972 he founded the first Aboriginal theatre company Nindethana and has performed with the cream of Australia’s actors, directors and writers including Geoffrey Rush, Neil Armfield, John Romeril and Tracey Moffatt. His work has spanned feature films, TV series and hundreds of plays including The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Bedevil, Ben Hall and The Marriage of Figaro. Most recently, he was the subject of Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s award-winning documentary Bastardy, and was awarded the prestigious Tudawali Award at the Message Sticks Festival in 2009, honouring his lifetime contribution to Indigenous media.

JOHN ROMERIL Co-writer & Dramaturg

Born in 1945, John began writing plays in the late 1960s while a student at Monash University. He was a founding member of the Australian Performing Group at the Pram Factory during the 1970s, writing nearly 40 plays for them. They included the greatly acclaimed The Floating World,

which earned him the Literature Board’s inaugural Canada-Australia Award in 1975. He is also remembered for other works from the 1970s, such as Marvellous Melbourne, The Dudders and The Accidental Poke. Romeril’s recent works include the script for the film One Night the Moon and the stage plays Miss Tanaka and Love Suicides. One Night the Moon, a 2001 Australian music drama, gained both cinema and television release. Miss Tanaka, based on a short story by Xavier Herbert, was the writer’s last major play in Melbourne. He transplanted its setting from Darwin to Broome as a salute to Noriko Nishimoto, the Perth-based Japanese puppeteer who was a key collaborator on the script. Other recent work has been as dramaturg for Kamarra Bell-Wyke’s Chopped Liver and Body Armour, plays with themes of Hepatitis C produced by Ilbijerri Theatre Company. After touring Aboriginal health centres, community centres and prisons in regional Victoria and South Australia in 2009 it has been touring other states. Over a 40-year career as a dramatist, John has produced nearly 80 works for stage, film and television, including satirical, musical and

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MELANIE BEDDIE Script Consultant

Melanie is a graduate of Sydney University and Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). She was a co-founder of the $5 Theatre Co. and is Artistic Director of the independent theatre company The Branch. She works as an actor, dramaturg and director. For Ilbijerri Theatre Company,

Melanie co-directed Sisters of Gelam with Rachael Maza Long. She has also directed Sinners by Ramez Tabit and Johann McIntyre, Ibsen’s Ghosts and Brecht’s Fear and Misery in the Third Reich. In 2004, Melanie won the Green Room Award for Best Director (Independent Theatre) for her production of Traitors. She has also directed at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, The National Theatre School and VCA. In 2004 she received the Dramaturgy Fellowship from the Australia Council, and in 2009 received a Gloria Fellowship from NIDA for research in the UK and USA, focusing on cross-racial casting and initiatives for developing opportunities for culturally diverse theatre practitioners. Melanie is currently a lecturer in acting at VCA School of Theatre.

MAL BEVERIDGE Bass

This is Mal’s first time working with Ilbijerri Theatre Company and his first mainstage theatre production. When Phil Collings was asked by Rachael Maza Long to put together the musicians for Jack Charles v The Crown he described his musical dream team, which included both

Nigel MacLean on guitar and Malcolm on bass. When he’s not teaching during the day, Malcolm gigs around Melbourne in various jazz and blues bands. Some of the bands he plays bass for include Louise King & The Live Club, Joel Plymam and Blues Cats. This is Malcolm’s first time performing in Sydney.

PHIL COLLINGS Percussion

Phil is a freelance drummer and guitarist. He occasionally sings a little. Phil’s most recent theatre productions include Sisters of Gelam for Ilbijerri Theatre Company and Show Us Your Tiddas for Melbourne Workers Theatre. He is currently performing with The Ben Carr Trio, The Guild League,

Sophie Koh, Kim Salmon & The Surrealists, Stu Thomas Paradox, The Gemma Turvey Trio, Vulgargrad and Louis King & the Liars Club. Previously he has performed with Lou Bennett, Lucie Thorne, Colin Hopkins Trio, Jex Saarelaht, Tom Fryer, Ren Walters, Kate Neal’s Dead Horse Band, HarDi & Co, Blue Drag and The Blue Grassy Knoll.

Jack Charles & Nigel Maclean

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ASHLEY GROENEN Production & Stage Manager

Ashley’s work over the last eight years includes large-scale events such as the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games opening and closing ceremonies. His experience stems across pyrotechnics, production/stage and tour management. Ashley has worked with the Australian

Shakespeare Company, St Martin’s Youth Arts Centre, Event Logistics, Peter Jones Public Events, Theatreworks and the National Institute of Circus Arts. Ashley works annually on the Walking with Spirits Festival in Beswick, Northern Territory, a unique event featuring multimedia exhibitions, traditional, international and contemporary music, dance and performance.

NIGEL MACLEAN Musical Director, Guitar & Violin

Nigel was awarded a scholarship to study jazz at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, in 1990 and is now an alumni advisor to that faculty. He has worked in a variety of roles including personal assistant, orchestral director, solo artist, assistant producer and notation editor for David

Hirschfelder on films such as Elizabeth, Sliding Doors, Better Than Sex and What Becomes of the Broken Hearted. He is also in demand to orchestrate films and commercials, and worked on Geoffrey Wright’s film Macbeth. Nigel has produced award-winning albums including Blue Drag’s Relaxin at the Camarillo and Don Harper’s Illawarra Suite. His performance and recording credits include work with Paul Kelly, Renee Geyer, Kate Ceberano, John Denver and Vika and Linda Bull. Nigel currently teaches improvisation for strings at Victorian College of the Arts and runs an Apple Music Learning Pod in Castlemaine, Victoria.

DANNY PETTINGILL Lighting Designer

Danny is a lighting designer in theatre, space and architectural design. He is a Bachelor of Production graduate from Victorian College of the Arts and has a Diploma of Small Companies and Community Theatre. For Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Danny has also designed Sisters

of Gelam. His other work includes The Power of Yes (Belvoir), Thom Pain (B Sharp), Speaking in Tongues (Griffin), Red Sky Morning, Pool (no water), Faces in the Crowd and The City (Red Stitch Actors Theatre), Platonov and 3xSisters (The Hayloft Project), as well as productions for Malthouse Theatre, Aphids, Tasmania Theatre Company, Melbourne Workers Theatre, Terrapin Puppet Theatre and La Mama. Danny’s awards include the Orloff Family Trust Scholarship Award in 2006 and the Besen Family Scholarship (Lighting Design) in 2008. He has multiple Green Room Award nominations for his work, receiving Most Outstanding Lighting Design in Independent Theatre in 2008 for his work on Platonov.

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PETER WORLAND Audio Visual Designer

Peter works in a variety of roles: filmmaking educator, film editor and audio visual designer. Jack Charles v The Crown is a landmark in his career, having never worked in theatre before. Peter has a tireless curiosity in moving images, the concepts and technologies used to bring the

screen to life. Some of his TV and film credits include Wild at Heart (2006), Kathleen’s Antarctic (2003) and The What If Man, which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2002.

Jack Charles & John Romeril

Artistic Director RACHAEL MAZA LONgActing General Manager BRAD SPOLDINgOffice Manager SHAUNA MAgUIREFinance Manager JOHN PAXINOSBook Keeper JON HAWKESBoard of Directors gAVIN SOMERS (PRESIDENT), ANgELA CLARKE (VICE PRESIDENT), AUNTy FRANCES BOND (TREASURER), ROSIE SMITH (SECRETARy), JIRRAH HARVEy (DIRECTOR)

Ilbijerri (pronounced ‘il BIDGE er ree’) is a Woiwurrung word meaning ‘Coming Together for Ceremony’. Ilbijerri Theatre Company is the longest existing Indigenous theatre company in Australia and the only one in Victoria. In 1990 a group of Melbourne Indigenous artists and community members came together to form a professional theatre company for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Victoria. Since then we have been initiating and developing performances in collaboration with our community and artists. Our plays explore a range of complex and controversial issues from a uniquely Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective.

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Our work possesses the power to reach out and remind audiences of every person’s need for family, history and heritage. Since commissioning and producing Jane Harrison’s renowned classic Stolen in 1992, the company has toured nationally and internationally, finding critical acclaim and resonance with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous audiences. Ilbijerri celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2010 and we entered an immensely exciting new era of Indigenous theatre – where the journey is one of discovery and the rules are simple: be BOLD, BLACK and BRILLIANT.

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The 2010 premiere season of Jack Charles v The Crown was kindly supported by the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, Une Parkinson Foundation and Department of Justice.

Ilbijerri Theatre Company is supported by Australia Council, Australian Government Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Arts Victoria, the City of Melbourne and Arts House.

Belvoir is delighted to welcome on board The Balnaves Foundation, who will be funding our Indigenous theatre program from 2011 to 2013, beginning with Jack Charles v The Crown. Each year, the Foundation will provide the financial underpinning for Belvoir to present two Indigenous works, one in each of the Upstairs and Downstairs Theatres.

The Balnaves Foundation is a private philanthropic organisation that was established in 2006 by Neil Balnaves to provide support to charitable enterprises across Australia. It supports eligible organisations that aim to create a better Australia through education, medicine and the arts with a focus on young people, the disadvantaged and Indigenous communities.

Belvoir has a long history of working with Indigenous directors, designers and actors, and of portraying unique Indigenous stories.

This year, under new Artistic Director Ralph Myers, we have renewed our commitment to presenting significant Indigenous works and engaging established Indigenous artists in the Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre. We will also provide opportunities in the Downstairs Theatre to invest in the development of the next generation of Indigenous theatre-makers.

This year, as well as supporting the presentation of Jack Charles v The Crown in our Upstairs Theatre, The Balnaves Foundation will support David Milroy’s beautiful tale Windmill Baby in the Downstairs Theatre, opening in July. We will offer a range of access programs in conjunction with both productions, including an Unwaged Performance and School Matinees.

Belvoir extends our warmest thanks to The Balnaves Foundation for their support.

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Belvoir sprang into being out of the unique action taken to save the Nimrod Theatre building from demolition in 1984. Rather than lose a performance space in inner city Sydney, more than 600 arts, entertainment and media professionals as well as ardent theatre lovers, formed a syndicate to buy the building. The syndicate included nearly every successful person in Australian theatre. From 1994 to 2010 Belvoir, known then as Company B, grew under the artistic leadership of Neil Armfield becoming one of Australia’s most celebrated theatre companies.

Under new Artistic Director Ralph Myers, the company continues to perform at its home at Belvoir St Theatre in Surry Hills, Sydney, and from there tours to major arts centres and festivals both nationally and internationally. Belvoir engages Australia’s most prominent and promising playwrights, directors, actors and designers to present an annual artistic program that is razor-sharp, popular and challenging.

Belvoir St Theatre’s greatly loved Upstairs and Downstairs stages have been the artistic watering holes of many of Australia’s great performing artists such as Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, Susie Porter, Richard Roxburgh, Max Cullen, Bille Brown, David Wenham, Deborah Mailman and Catherine McClements.

Landmark productions like Cloudstreet, The Diary of a Madman, The Alchemist, Hamlet, Waiting for Godot, Gulpilil, The Sapphires, Stuff Happens, Keating!, Parramatta Girls, Exit the King, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Toy Symphony, The Book of Everything, Page 8 and Gwen in Purgatory have consolidated Belvoir’s position as one of Australia’s most innovative and acclaimed theatre companies.

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Belvoir Staff18 Belvoir Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010 Email mail@belvoir.com.au Web www.belvoir.com.au Administration (02) 9698 3344 Facsimile (02) 9319 3165 Box Office (02) 9699 3444

Artistic Director Ralph Myersgeneral Manager Brenna Hobson

Belvoir BoardLouise Herron (Chair) Anne Britton Rob Brookman Andrew Cameron Peter Carroll Michael Coleman Gail Hambly Rachel Healy Brenna Hobson Frank Macindoe Ralph Myers

Belvoir St Theatre BoardTrefor Clayton (Chair) Stuart Mccreery Angela Pearman Nick Schlieper Kingsley Slipper

Artistic & ProgrammingResident Director Simon StoneAssociate Director – New Projects Eamon FlackAssociate Artists Kylie Farmer Stefan Gregory Frank Mainoo Anne-Louise SarksAssociate Producer Tahni FroudistLiterary Manager Anthea Williams

Education Acting Education Manager Cathy HuntEducation Coordinator Tahni Froudist

AdministrationArtistic Administrator John WoodlandAdministration Coordinator Pearl Kermani

Finance & OperationsHead of Finance & Operations Richard DrysdaleFinancial Administrator Ann BrownAccounts/Payroll Officer Susan JackIT & Operations Manager Jan S. Goldfeder

Box OfficeBox Office Manager Nicole TraynorAssistant Box Office Managers Tanya Ginori-Cairns Alana Hicks

Front Of HouseFront Of House Manager Damien StorerAssistant Front of House Manager Brooke Louttit

Development Development Manager Katy WoodPartnerships Coordinator Zoë HartPhilanthropy Coordinator Shauna Wolifson

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ProductionProduction Manager Hall MurrayTechnical Manager Chris PageResident Stage Manager Mark LowreyConstruction Manager Govinda WebsterHead MechanistDamion HollingCostume Coordinator Judy TannerDownstairs Technical Managers Teegan Lee Jack H. Audas Preston

The Wild Duck Written and Directed by Simon Stone after Henrik Ibsen 12 February – 27 March

Jack charles v the crown By Jack Charles & John Romeril Director Rachael Maza Long 30 March – 17 april

cut By Duncan Graham Directed by Sarah John 7 april – 1 May

The business Based on Vassa Zheleznova by Maxim Gorky Adapted by Jonathan Gavin with Cristabel Sved Director Cristabel Sved 23 april – 29 May

The Kiss By Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Peter Goldsworthy and Guy De Maupassant Director Susanna Dowling 12 May – 5 June

The Seagull By Anton Chekhov Director Benedict Andrews 4 June – 17 July

Neighbourhood Watch By Lally Katz Director Simon Stone 23 July – 28 August

Windmill Baby By David Milroy Director Kylie Farmer 28 July – 21 August

Human Interest story Choreographer Lucy Guerin 31 August – 18 septemBer

And they Called Him mr glamour By Gareth Davies Director Thomas Wright 15 septemBer – 9 OCtOBer

summer of the seventeenth Doll By Ray Lawler Director Neil Armfield 24 septemBer – 13 NOvemBer

the Dark room By Angela Betzien Director Leticia Cáceres 3 – 27 NOvemBer

As you like It By William Shakespeare Director Eamon Flack 19 NOvemBer – 24 DeCemBer

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