Al río / To the River is a large-scale photographic project that depicts the river, Río Bravo/Rio Grande, which is used to demarcate the international boundary between Mexico and the United States. Since 2016, Leonard has photographed along the 2,000-km stretch of river that acts as the border between the two countries, mapping the river’s… Read More »Zoe Leonard: Al río / To the River
Miss Saigon tells the story of Chris, an American male GI, who falls in love with Kim, a young Vietnamese orphan who works as a bar-girl and prostitute. When the city falls, the lovers are separated and Chris eventually returns to the U.S. Years later, Chris returns to Bangkok with his American wife, Ellen.
Newly deposed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam descends the steps of Parliament House to rage against his dismissal by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, who has replaced him with the opposition leader, Malcolm Fraser. A scoop of reporters throng toward him—chief among them Gold Logie-winner, beloved larrikin, and Wollongong’s favourite son: Norman Gunston.
The 27th Sydney Design Week (2023) offers a platform to the critical research, industries, infrastructure and technologies that underpin design practice in our city, inviting plural perspectives from our local communities. The program enlists six fields of enquiry; Eco Systems, Material Cultures, Communal Cities, Micro Cycles, Connected Threads and Photofields, to explore the complex and… Read More »Sydney Design Week – Amodern
A sonic landscape and performances based on the hidden sounds of port cities. Waters’ Witness is based on Atoui’s ongoing project documenting the acoustic identities of port cities that are deeply connected to their harbours. Recording sounds close to the sea and under the water, Atoui produces a unique score for each city which becomes… Read More »Tarek Atoui: Waters’ Witness
It’s 1593. Theatres are closed, players out of work, houses bolted, people terrified by the touch of another’s skin, the breath of another’s air. Shakespeare, syphilitic and dangerously bored, publishes a scandalous response to the pestilence—an epic work about the very things lost to us, like intimacy, identity, and the erotic freedom of touch.His searing poem, Venus and Adonis, rips and tears at the founding myth of why human beings are cursed to love each other, in every form—him and her, her-as-him, him-as-her, love as equal and unequal, obscenely arousing and utterly destructive.
Discover the secret power of words
It’s 1886 and the very first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is being compiled. Four-year-old Esme Nicoll has a front row seat. Well, she’s hiding under the sorting table, anyway. As her father and his male colleagues decide which words stay and which go, Esme collects the discarded (often gendered) scraps to compile her own far more radical, far more magical dictionary.
A sweeping historical tale in the spirit of The Harp in the South, The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme from her childhood in the 1880s, into adulthood at the height of the women’s suffrage movement and the beginning of the First World War.
War rips your world apart, shredding your life in a flash of violence and leaving your family adrift without any place to call home. You have a new name now—refugee—and a new life to construct. Treehouse Theatre presents Why Us?, the real-life stories of teenage refugees who are learning to call Australia their new home. Through spoken word, lights, sound and movement, these young survivors share their stories of joy and horror, humour and pain, loss and belonging. You will laugh with them, cry with them and be inspired by them.
Transport your students back 3,300 years, across the sands of the Sahara Desert to the heartbeat of Ancient Egypt, ruled by the most celebrated pharaoh in the country's storied history, Ramses the Great. Experience one of the greatest collections of its kind in this Australian-first exhibition. This all-new multisensory educational museum experience provides a window… Read More »Ramses & The Gold of the Pharaohs
The Lehman Trilogy features a cast of three playing the Lehman brothers, their sons and grandsons, in an extraordinary feat of storytelling told in three parts on a single evening. The Lehman Trilogy is the story of a family and a company that changed the world. On a cold September morning in 1844, a young… Read More »The Lehman Trilogy
Shakespeare’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is reawakened in this breathless production brimming with magic, mirth and mayhem. Love is in the air in Athens – and it’s contagious. Besides the royal wedding, which is just days away, there are young lovers dreaming of enchanted futures together. Hermia and Lysander are besotted with one… Read More »A Midsummer Nights Dream
Ten Thousand Suns departs from an acknowledgement of a multiplicity of perspectives, cosmologies, and ways of life that have always woven together the world under the sun. This central life-giving body, like the world it shines light upon, has otherwise been known under thousands of different words in as many languages. But many of these… Read More »24th Biennale of Sydney – Ten Thousand Suns
Redemption? Disgrace? Honour? Legitimacy? Love? Glory? What sort of world do the young inherit from the old, and what should we fight for? What makes a truly great leader? Henry IV (Part 1) is a play made for our time. Shakespeare looks back at history to imagine his nation’s future and turns an immense and… Read More »Henry IV (Part 1)
Sport for Jove’s Richard III returns after a hugely successful season in 2023. Seen through the eyes of Elizabeth I this production gives students an incredible insight into the play and when it was written. This production is an essential tool for students to come to grips with this play’s innate theatricality and plethora of… Read More »Richard III
