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Old Fitzroy Theatre 2014 Season announced by Sydney Independent Theatre Company
The Old Fitzroy Theatre has been home to some of the most wonderful theatre experiences I’ve had in 2013. Standouts were Friday, the recent King Lear I really enjoyed and the very touching An Ordinary Person was a theatre evening that remained in my mind for days. In 2013 The Sydney Independent Theatre Company was appointed as residents and managers of the theatre space at The Old Fitzroy Hotel, itself a historical icon to Sydney-siders, and they’ve brought out a 2014 program that ensures The Old Fitzroy Theatre will be one of the spaces to be in the forthcoming year.
There are many reasons to love independent theatre, but one of my favourites is the proximity of audience. Intimacy with a stranger is an experience y0u can get no where other than sitting in a room while the finest actors perform, and it’s magnified when the audience is small and close. The space at The Old Fitzroy Hotel is the perfect size to allow significant numbers to see a show, and still retain that remarkable quality of communion that only small theatre can really provide. If you aren’t afraid to really feel your art, then the Old Fitzroy theatre is for you.
As for the 2014 programe, all I can say is bring it on. If 2013 was a great year for them, 2014 is sure to be better. My suggestion is to book early for any shows that tickle your fance and of course, as always, keep an eye out for my reviews.
Wittenberg
7 ‐ 25 January 2014 – Australian premiere of American play
David Davalos
Produced by Brevity Theatre Co and directed by Richard Hilliar
A thought provoking take on literature, history and the world we live in through the medium of a Hamlet/Faustus
fantasy.
LEGEND! ‐ “Slips” Cordon ‐ A Safe Pair Of Hands
by Pat Sheil
28 January ‐ 15 February 2014 – World premiere of Australian play
The unreliable hyperbolic reminiscences of the greatest Australian who ever lived!
Produced by Decorum, directed by Lex Marinos and performed by John Derum
Everything I Know I Learnt From Madonna
written and performed by Wayne Tunks
18 ‐ 22 February 2014 – Sydney premiere of Australian play
An autobiographical emotional story of life and loss interlaced with those Madonna lyrics we all know so well.
Produced by Tunks Productions as part of the 2014 Sydney Mardi Gras Festival and directed by Fiona Hallenan‐Barker
Fully Committed
by Becky Mode
24 February ‐ 1 March 2014 – American play
One of Sydney’s most diverse actors and leading voice and dialect coaches Nick Curnow, brings 40 different characters
to the one stage.
Produced by Brevity Theatre Co, directed by Alexander Butt and performed by Nick Curnow.
(I saw this at the Sydney Fringe in 2013 and highly recommend it!)
Tidy Town of the Year
by Victoria Greiner, Sarah Hodgetts and Andy Leonard
4 ‐ 22 March 2014 – World premiere of Australian play
A dying town, one award, three motel cleaners, one limbless headless torso …
Written and performed by Victoria Greiner, Sarah Hodgetts and Andy Leonard
A Moment on the Lips
by Jonathan Gavin
25 March 12 April 2014 – Australian play
Produced by Mad March Hare Theatre Company and performed by Sarah Aubrey, Claudia Barrie, Julia Billington,
Maeve Macgregor, Ainslie McGlynn
It’s the odd moments and the little things.
Winner of the Philip Parsons Young Playwright Award 2003.
Lies, Love and Hitler
by Elizabeth Avery Scott
15 April ‐ 3 May 2014 – Sydney premiere of Australian play
Produced by CADA Studio Productions, directed by Rochelle Whyte and performed by Dug Chapman and James Scott
Risk versus reward, tyranny and pacifism, institutionalism and the nuances of contemporary sexual mores.
Shortlisted for the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award in 2009.
Scenes from an Execution
by Howard Barker
13 ‐ 31 May 2014 – English play
Produced by No White Elephant and directed by Richard Hilliar
One man’s idea of victory is one woman’s idea of slaughter.
Brad Checked In
by Paula Noble
3 ‐ 21 June 2014 ‐ Australian play
Produced by Citizen Content Productions presents, directed by Steven Tait and performed by Laura Holmes, Chris Miller and Sam Smith
Brad’s out of marriage and into social networking.
Who Knows
by Paul McIntyre
24 June ‐ 12 July 2014 ‐ Sydney premiere of Australian play
Produced by Kore Productions and directed by Samara Kinney
A play to remind us all that FAN is short for FANATIC!
Play Me, I’m Yours
by Robert Allan
15 July ‐ 2 August 2014 ‐ World premiere of Australian play with music and songs
Produced by Sydney Independent Theatre Company and directed by Julie Baz
The life and death of a piano and the generations of people who played it.
Joan, Again
by Paul Gilchrist
5 ‐ 23 August 2014 ‐ World premiere of Australian play
Produced by subtlenuance and directed by Paul Gilchrist
In 1431, Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake. Fifteen years later, she was back.
The God Of Hell
by Sam Shepard
26 August ‐ 13 September 2014 – American Play
The greatest American playwright of his generation … As hilarious as it is sobering.
Produced by MopHead Productions, directed and designed by Rodney Fisher and performed by Vanessa Downing, Jake Lyall, Ben McIvor and Tony Poli
A play to be announced
7 ‐25 October 2014
Produced by Sydney Independent Theatre Company and directed by Julie Baz
November Spawned a Monster
by Alex Broun
28 October 15 November 2014
World premiere of one‐man Australian musical interwoven with the music of Morrissey and the Smiths
Produced byFly‐on‐the‐Wall Theatre (Melbourne) and directed by Robert Chuter
Sleep on and dream of love because it’s the closest you will get to love ‐ poor twisted child…
Sydney Shakespeare Festival
18 November ‐ 20 December 2014 – eighth season
Produced by Sydney Independent Theatre Company and directed by Richard Hilliar
One cast plays perform in two of Shakespeare’s classic plays on alternate nights
