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EDUCATION BROCHURE SPORT FOR JOVE THEATRE COMPANY’S

TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN

SPORT FOR JOVE T H E A T R E C O M P A N Y

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New for 2015... Sport For Jove’s

SHAKESPEARE SLAM!Sport For Jove’s annual SHAKESPEARE SLAM!

is an essential performance period for

students and teachers of Shakespeare across

all age groups, developed by a company with

a peerless reputation for re-imagining

Shakespeare’s classics. Each year, running

from March to May 2015, the SHAKESPEARE

SLAM! will feature a combination of our

insightful symposiums and exceptional live

productions of Shakespeare’s plays that are a

must-see for students of the plays or young

people being introduced to Shakespeare for

the first time.

This extensive collection of plays and material

will give your students invaluable resources

for understanding and discussing

Shakespeare’s works. What plays and

symposiums are playing in the SHAKESPEARE

SLAM! for 2015? ...read on!”

The Symposiums:HAMLET / RICHARD III / JULIUS CAESAR /

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE / THE TEMPEST

ONLY $25 PER STUDENT

A combination of critical ANALYSIS and theatrical EXPERIENCE

is the essence of the NSW HSC Syllabus. Students must see

live productions to understand these great plays. How about

the added value of being able to dive beneath the surface of a

scene, or a speech or a character’s deepest motivations.

A complete, hands-on experience that combines the unfi ltered

relationship students need with the plays’ action while also

ensuring they are ‘watching with understanding‘, extracting

the key ingredients and critical thinking required

to write on the plays under exam conditions.

SFJ’s Shakespeare Symposiums are very affordable and an

essential toolkit for taking apart and putting back together

these challenging works in the HSC. Don’t miss out!

HAMLET: March 19, 26, 28 & May 28

RICHARD III: March 26

JULIUS CAESAR: March 28 & May 26

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: May 15, 27 & 29

THE TEMPEST: May 25 & 26

Running times: 180 minutes, including an interval

Seymour Centre and Riverside Theatres

2014 was an exciting year for Sport For Jove;

meeting and learning from teachers about the

ways in which theatre can enhance the lives

and understanding of young people, and

working with thousands of NSW students in

Drama and English to deliver a engaging

program of theatrical experiences.

We are thankful for all those who choose

Sport For Jove to provide the critical live

theatrical experience students need to engage

with and understand these great texts.

We’d love to see you again in 2015; our most

extensive and complete season yet, with 6

unforgettable theatrical productions. We are

also continuing our very successful HSC

Shakespeare Symposiums series, designed

with even greater emphasis on giving

students the experience of the play. Education

remains at the heart of our company and we

are committed to delivering outstanding

productions to compliment students’ learning.

So as Macbeth said, “your pains are registered

where every day I turn the leaf to read them”…

so, turn the leaf… and enjoy!

WELCOME

DAMIEN RYANArtistic Director

HSC SHAKESPEARE SYMPOSIUMS

SHAKESPEARE SLAM!

TURN TO OUR CALENDAR FOR TIMES AND VENUES >>

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each

other.”

Set in the desperation of the Great Depression, Of Mice and

Men is one of the world’s most compelling tales of friendship

and survival. George and Lenny are displaced migrant workers

who dream of one day settling down on their own piece of

land. Their shared vision of a better future and the strength of

their friendship carry them through the loneliness, oppression

and uncertainty of one of the world’s most profound eras of

disillusionment. The play, adapted by John Steinbeck from his

extraordinary novel, remains a stunning indictment,

particularly in today’s era of economic, political and moral

disillusionment, of how we treat our disenfranchised fringe

dwellers, our migrant peoples and our most vulnerable.

Of Mice and Men teaches the value of understanding and

human kindness even under extreme circumstances. A

must-see for students studying this iconic American classic

or a great experience of magical and inventive theatre for

Drama and English students of all ages.

“You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,

And now and then stab as occasion serves.”

Monarch. Prisoner. Corpse.

King Edward’s illicit desire will eclipse the law, alienate his

nobles and wife, and threaten to destroy a nation. Marlowe’s

1593 tragic masterpiece, Edward II, shows us just how

personal politics really is, offering a savage examination of an

all too common modern story - how our deepest desires can

lead to spectacular falls from grace.

Sport for Jove Theatre Company turns its acclaimed ensemble

style toward Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare’s best

frenemy - bold, bad and dangerous to know. Come and see

why this young ill-fated genius gave our Will nightmares.

BY ARTHUR MILLER

DIRECTED BY DAMIEN RYAN

BY JOHN STEINBECK BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

DIRECTED BY TERRY KARABELAS

The Crucible Of Mice and MenMarlowe’s Edward II

“We are only what we always were, but naked now.

And the wind, God’s icy wind, will blow...”

Arthur Miller's parable of mass hysteria draws a savage

parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the

strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the

McCarthyism that gripped America in the 1950s. But its

portrait of the ordinary evils latent in any society and the

mindless, hysterical persecution of minority groups through

ignorance, fear of ‘otherness’ and our capacity to serve

ourselves above all others make it one of the world’s most

transcendent and important stories, in any age.

Sport for Jove’s site-specific vision for The Crucible offers

students a truly unforgettable experience of this great

masterpiece, performed in the incredible atmosphere of Bella

Vista Farm’s 200-year-old buildings and grounds. The

remarkable old farm and its extraordinary wood shed become

Salem, 1692 – the story told by some of Australia’s finest

actors. Seats are limited and this is not to be missed.

T I C K E T S : $ 2 5 P E R ST U D E N T / 1 T E A C H E R F R E E P E R 1 0 ST U D E N T S / B O O K I N G S : R I V E R S I D E PA R R A M AT TA – 0 2 8 8 3 9 3 3 0 8 S E Y M O U R C E N T R E – 0 2 9 3 5 1 7 9 4 0

“…the iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve…’tis almost

fairy time…”

In the heat of the shortest night of the year, young lovers and

work-a-day dreamers plunge into a world between sleep and

waking, where “everything seems double”. One of Shakespeare’s

truly essential works, ‘Dream’, like every fairy-story, warns us

that family, love and friendship are fragile – when parents are

selfish, their children break the rules; when love rears its head,

friendships are forgotten; and that’s just the mortal world. The

Fairy Kingdom’s war over a mortal child has turned the entire

“mazed world” upside down.

Vows melt, bodies transform, time stops, the seasons alter,

the moon stills, the world floods…”so quick bright things come

to confusion…”

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps the best

possible introduction young people can have to the theatre

and among the most powerful visions of growing up ever

written.

“…a pound of fl esh…nearest his heart…so says the bond…”

The Merchant is a story Shakespeare couldn’t resist…an

unfathomable sadness in a man’s heart…the mysterious

terrors of the ocean…hate crime and religious intolerance…

our willingness to gamble with our lives…things that still hurt

and hinder us to this day in our struggle to know the difference

between mercy and justice.

Some of Shakespeare’s most extraordinary characters people

this play. Portia, the brilliant young woman who dresses as a

man to save Merchant’s life and bears witness to an untold

passion between Antonio and her husband, Bassanio. At the

centre of them all in the court of Venice stands a Jewish

moneylender, Shylock, demanding a pound of flesh from a

man who is willing to have his heart torn out of his body as a

gesture of love to his friend…

A must-see for HSC students or younger years studying the

play, along with people being introduced to Shakespeare for

the first time. Sport for Jove’s reputation for reimagining

Shakespeare’s classics is peerless. Its critically acclaimed

Hamlet played to 15,000 students in the last two years.

“…O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife…”

Shakespeare’s most immersive and haunting play tells of the

murderous ascent to greatness of a husband and wife who

believe they can control time and destiny. A loving couple,

suffering the loss of a child, are surrounded by the children of

others – of the King, Macduff, Banquo. To what extent is their

first criminal act an act of love in that terrible void, a sacrifice

she makes for him and in return, he for her? Sport for Jove’s

critically acclaimed Macbeth is an ecstatic vision of what love

and ambition can do to people, of ghosts, shadows and the

terrors of the imagination.

A must-see for students of the play or young people being

introduced to Shakespeare for the first time from a company

with a reputation for reimagining Shakespeare’s classics.

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

DIRECTED BY RICHARD COTTRELL


DIRECTED BY. TERRY KARABELAS & DAMIEN RYAN


DIRECTED BY SUSANNA DOWLING

Merchant of VeniceMacbethA Midsummer Night’s Dream

Dates: May 12-21

Seymour Centre & Riverside Theatres

Dates: March 18-27


Dates: May 7-30


Dates: March 2 - 7

Bella Vista Farm / Call Riverside to book tickets

Dates: July 9-25

Seymour Centre

Dates: October 1-17

Seymour Centre

Running time: 1 hr & 40 mins no interval, including a

10-minute introductory analysis.

Running time: 1 hr & 40 mins no interval, including a

10-minute introductory analysis.

Running time: 2 hrs & 30 mins including interval, Q&A

sessions with the cast on all school matinees.





2 hrs & 10 mins including interval, Q&A sessions with the

cast on all school matinees.

“Sport for Jove’s Hamlet is the best I have ever seen. Do not miss it for any reason whatsoever…teenagers were rapt and silent throughout. The most electrifying, memorable, sustained and intelligent realisation of the tragic Prince of Denmark I've ever seen."

Diana Simmonds, Stage Noise

“One of the best productions of anything I have ever seen, one of the best Shakespeare's. Truly do your mind, your soul and your love of theatre a favour and go and see it. I went to a school's session today - you could have heard a pin drop.”

James Waites, former SMH critic


“If there’s any company other than Sport For Jove making Shakespeare live and breathe all over again, in new ways, I don’t know of it.”

Daily Review

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Riverside Theatres: Cnr Church St and Market St, Sydney NSW 2150 / 8839 3308

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Seymour Centre: Cnr of City Rd and Cleveland St, Sydney NSW 2006 / 02 9351 7940

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DESIGN AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY SEIYA TAGUCHI


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