Into the Woods features a cast of 12 including Tamsin Carroll ( Dusty, Oliver ), Esther Hannaford ( Mr Burns, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical ) and Justin Smith ( Billy Elliot the Musical ). Back in the director’s chair for this one, Flack promises that this will be another show driven by the animating force of “How the hell are they ever going to fit this thing in Belvoir?!” And now the company is teaming up with Sydney’s beating heart of musical theatre, Hayes Theatre Co, to present a brand-new production of the classic Into the Woods, by Stephen Sondheim, 35 years on from its Broadway premiere. Photograph: Supplied/Belvoir | Blessed Union Into the Woods ( Mar 18-Apr 23 )īook and originally directed on Broadway by James Lapineįrom Calamity Jane to Fangirls, Belvoir has been gaining quite a reputation for staging some joyous and impressive musicals. Their life together is a progressive success story, so why should breaking up be any different? Blessed Union is for anyone who’s looked at their life and wondered if there might be a better way to live it. This play follows Ruth and Judith, who have two kids and a manageable mortgage in the Inner West. Now she turns her wicked wit to a traditional family drama about an entirely non-traditional family in Blessed Union. Sydney’s (Australia's?) premier cabaret chanteuse and custodian of LGBTQIA+ storytelling (she is the creator and host of podcast and nationally touring event series Queerstories ), Marsden made her mainstage writing debut with axe-wielding musical Lizzie with Hayes Theatre Co earlier in 2022. If there is one surefire way to make sure an entire sub-group of people are going to be booking tickets to theatre, it is this promise: Maeve Marsden has written a lesbian divorce comedy. Directed by Bangarra alumni Deborah Brown, Blue takes us deep into the beauty and sadness of a young life at its new beginning. But you can see a tender, more personal side of him in Blue – presented in association with Sydney Festival, it’s a remarkable playwriting debut written and performed by Weatherall himself, who is also the 2021 Balnaves Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellow. Rising star Thomas Weatherall is about to make a splash by way of Netflix’s reboot of Heartbreak High. Belvoir St Theatre’s 2023 season Blue ( Jan 14-29 ) While most of the rest of the season is far less fantastical in premise, those same principles continue through. I was in a closet inside a closet, living in Brisbane in the late ’90s… It came to mind, again, thinking about the way in which a story that is built on the pure wit of invention, and self-reinvention, is able to offer a path out.” “I found myself thinking about this piece again, which is a show that in some ways saved my life when I was very sort of lost. I was thinking a lot about how to offer something that was joyful, while at the same time also carrying some of the… emotional complexity and murkiness that we've been experiencing the last couple of years in particular,” says Flack. “The canon of classics has been feeling like it’s been falling away into the past more and more rapidly with every year that passes. Photograph: Supplied/Belvoir | Into the Woods Perhaps the biggest coup of the upcoming season is the fantastical musical Into the Woods. From a “lesbian divorce comedy” penned by Queerstories founder Maeve Marsden to a new staging of a classic Sondheim musical, Belvoir is up to what it does best – shedding a compassionate light on ordinary, everyday life alongside the mystical worlds that only the magic of theatre can create.įreshly landed and shaking off dregs of jetlag after touring Counting and Cracking to Europe, Belvoir artistic director Eamon Flack gave us an overview of what’s coming up next. Next up, Belvoir’s 2023 season is bursting at the seams with joyful optimism, thought-provoking theatre and lashings of heart. While a steady stream of intriguing plays has been treading the boards at the theatre’s Surry Hills home homegrown pop-musical Fangirls lit up the Sydney Opera House with an elevated five-star season there has been a successful international tour of S Shakthidharan’s groundbreaking show Counting and Cracking, whose companion piece, The Jungle and the Sea, lands locally in November 2022 and the company put on a host of indie works in the Downstairs Theatre under the 25A banner. Over the past year, Belvoir has picked up the scattered pieces from previous years that were blown apart by the impacts of Covid and turned them into one of the company’s biggest years yet.
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