ANDREW MCKINNON, IN ASSOCIATION WITH RICHARD JORDAN PRODUCTIONS LTD, PETER WILSON PRODUCTIONS, AND THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS
Following sellout performances in 2007, BAFTA-award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes returns to Australia for an encore national tour of her one-woman tour-de-force, Dickens’ Women.
Bringing to life 23 of Charles Dickens’ most affecting and colourful female (and male!) characters, Margolyes presents her powerful, comprehensive, and at times hilarious expose of Dickens, his writing, and the real-life women who found themselves immortalised in his books.
This strictly limited season is part of the worldwide celebration of 200 years of Charles Dickens in 2012. Don’t miss your chance to see this acclaimed actor in the roles she was born to play.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
Ruben Guthrie is on fire. He’s 29, he’s the Creative Director of a cutting-edge advertising agency and he’s engaged to a Czech supermodel. He pours himself a drink to celebrate, a drink to work, a drink to sleep and one spectacular night he drinks so much he thinks he can fly...
Ruben Guthrie is the fabulously sophisticated comedy from Australian actor and playwright Brendan Cowell. He lines up the shots for us in a heady cocktail of fizzy humour and touching revelation. It’s a sparkling play about spiralling high, crashing hard and going to AA with your mum.
Blue Cow, Hobart’s own independent actors’ company, presents this award-winning play in a production directed by Robert Jarman, with Scott Farrow as Ruben.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
Direct from China, Shaolin Kung Fu is set to captivate Australia with its highoctane kung fu mastery showcasing China’s most accomplished and spirited kung fu performers. Made famous by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the haolin style of kung fu dates back 1,500 years and brings with it the traditions, power and majesty of 32 dynasties of kung fu fighting.
Shaolin Kung Fu presents a dynamic mix of kung fu styles from weaponry using rods, three section staffs, fighting fans, lungchuans, knives and spears to choreographed animal-inspired fight scenes and meditative reflections. Each performance moves seamlessly into the next creating a heady mix of agility, flexibility, stamina and beauty.
Set to an intoxicating soundtrack that mixes traditional Chinese songs with the modern beat of drums and rhythm, the action of Shaolin Kung Fuwill have audiences transfixed from the very first beat.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A BIG HART PRODUCTION CREATED WITH THE NAMATJIRA FAMILY
Namatjira is another groundbreaking new Australian work by Scott Rankin (Box the Pony, Certified Male, Stickybricks) starring Trevor Jamieson and Derik Lynch.
At turns hilarious, compelling and mesmerising, Namatjira is the story of Australia’s most iconic Indigenous artist.
Elea was born in the desert in Aranda country, Central Australia, in 1902. Baptised Albert he signed his work with his father’s surname – Namatjira – for the first time 31 years later at his first solo exhibition of watercolour landscapes.
Following their national sell-out sensation Ngapartji Ngapartji, Big hART now brings us the deeply moving story of Albert Namatjira, a journey that is at turns deeply compelling and hilarious. The rich watercolours of Namatjira’s story are transformed into a momentous theatrical event, and have already brought audiences to their feet night after night at the Belvoir Street Theatre.
Namatjira is more than a night at the theatre, this is an experience of art, live on stage.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
Make sure you don’t miss this night of outstanding performances by some of Australia’s best known Stars as we celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the first performance at the Theatre Royal.
This wonderful evening includes the ‘Stars on Stage’ Concert, which will be hosted by Garry McDonald, one of Australia’s best known entertainers, much loved for his role as Arthur in the television series ‘Mother and Son.’ The concert will feature a stunning performance by dancers from the Australian Ballet and include a range of other brilliant pieces that celebrate stars past and future at the Theatre Royal. Actors, dancers and singers will recreate hallmark performances and relive the lively atmosphere of the Theatre Royal over the past 175 years. A Vivien Leigh, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Noel Coward and many more will be here to entertain you! The concert concludes with a mass choir performance focussing on the future of the Theatre Royal.
And following the Concert this special evening continues with an intimate experience on stage that will include performances by surprise guest artists, a gourmet supper featuring the finest Tasmanian produce prepared by a celebrity Chef and the opportunity to meet the ‘Stars’. Tickets for this fabulous evening of entertainment and fun are $175 per person.
If you’re unable to join us for the full event, you can purchase tickets for the ‘Stars on Stage’ Concert only for $35 per person.
By attending this evening, not only will you experience a fantastic night out, you will contribute to the Theatre Royal’s Applause Private Giving Program, which is focused on:
Providing access for children to attend performances at the Theatre Royal
Assisting artists of the future
Supporting the restoration, conservation and development of this beautiful theatre.
A PRODUCTION BY THE ESCAPISTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH CRITICAL STAGES
This is not a love story. This is a story about love.
This is the story of Thom and Alethea. Two neighbours in an apartment block, trying desperately to keep their lives from falling apart. But the wall that stands between them has decided they belong together.
Following sell-out seasons across Australia, this hilarious smash-hit production by The Escapists is a stunning celebration of theatricality, imagination and the joy of play.
Using chalk, sock puppets, an overhead projector and over two-dozen characters, Lucas Stibbard’s captivating tour-de-force performance will inspire and delight with live music by Neridah Waters in a tall tale of whimsy and architectural enlightenment.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A CRITICAL STAGES AND FINUCANE & SMITH PRODUCTION
From internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning creators Finucane & Smith comes the haunting and electrifying work The Flood.
The sheep farm is dilapidated. The farmhouse, dark and squalid, sits by the river, sheltering a mad old lady, and her isolated hard-drinking daughter. Memories are seeping through the floorboards. As the sun sets, the floodwaters rise. The screen door bangs open in the rain and wind; Catherine has returned after 20 years.
The past is here.
Through the mesmerising friction between estranged sisters, fuelled by alcohol and uncertain memories of a long-dead father, three women are trapped with a past no one wants to remember.
Bristling with dark humour and edge-of-the-seat performances by three of our finest actresses, The Flood is startlingly authentic writing, plunging audiences into the lives of characters so real you feel you know them; a web of family intrigue against the haunting Australian outback.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A BELL SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTION
Falling in love is never easy. Take our hero Arnolphe for instance. Now here’s a guy who wants desperately to get married but is afraid that a smart woman will cheat on him. His ingenious solution? Enlist the help of a local convent to raise a girl so stupidly innocent that she won’t know the first thing about cheating – let alone the last. In his mind she will be ever-faithful.
The perfect wife. Or is she?
Following on from her success with Twelfth Night, Lee Lewis directs this fresh new translation from Justin Fleming of Moliere’s comedic train-wreck of a love story that tangles innocence with arrogance – and the other way around.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
Chasing the Lollyman is a one-man show devised and performed by one of Queensland’s most dynamic and funny Indigenous performers, Mark Sheppard. It is a joyous sharing of stories, a celebration of urban Indigenous identity and takes a satirical look at the media and popular culture.
Playing a variety of characters, weaving stand up with storytelling and clown, Mark pokes fun at everything from Neighbours (what would it be like if a Murri family moved into Ramsey Street?) to politics.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS AN ENSEMBLE THEATRE PRODUCTION
Can a country cowboy and a sophisticated virtuoso change their tune for love? What do a classical musician and retired country and western singer have in common? Not a lot according to Monica who really just wants Gary, aka Rhinestone Rex, to do the job he’s being paid for and renovate her kitchen. She hates his taste in music, his attitudes to women and the columns he wants to put on her kitchen cabinets.
Gary can’t find much about Monica to recommend to anyone but still finds her attractive in a cold, rigid and inflexible kind of way. Can they find a way past all their conflicts towards a harmonious and fulfilling relationship? Or will their differences keep them from making beautiful music together?
Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica is master playwright David Williamson’s 43rd play, and director Sandra Bates’ twelfth Williamson production.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
THE THEATRE ROYAL PRESENTS A LA MAMA THEATRE/FORTYFIVEDOWNSTAIRS PRODUCTION
What story lies behind the image? The truth, or the next front page?
In the digital era of the 24-hour news cycle, how do photo-journalists square their commitment to the truth with the media’s voracious need for a graphic image? When the threat of death is a daily reality, why do they do it?
Landing in Sarajevo and joining a pack of seasoned war journalists, rookie photographer Dannie Hills sets out to capture the perfect image. Each photograph she shoots becomes a kaleidoscope of dreams, memories and emotions – exciting, painful, and forever haunting.
Widely heralded as a remarkable piece of physical theatre, this award-winning play integrates fluid movement, live sound design and animated projections with striking originality. With its frenetic and restless energy set against a backdrop of 20 years of conflict, Bare Witness is a visceral experience that will change the way you look at the news.
This is a Theatre Royal Season 2012 show and is available for Season package discounts.
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