Belvoir Street Theatre reveals nine productions for 2025 season
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By AYUMI HONDA
Belvoir Street Theatre has announced their 2025 program, where the prestigious theatre company will present nine plays including new Australian works, multi-layered Indigenous stories, incredible adaptations and some classics done the Belvoir way.
“Belvoir is a great big ongoing unfinished story made up of all the stories we tell, have ever told, and are yet to tell,” said the theatre’s Artistic Director Eamon Flack. “Every new show adds to this gargantuan decades-long group-improvisation. It is a tale told by thousands. An epic hundreds of episodes long. Full of heroism and feats of daring. Ever-changing. Full of unexpectedness and happy accident. Belonging to everyone and no one. Turning good capitalist dollars into vanishing acts of theatricality. A river of life. A celebration.”
Read ahead for the full list of plays!
JACKY
16th January to 2nd February
2025 season begins with award-winning play, “Jacky”. Jacky’s a smart, enterprising young indigenous Australian. But when Jacky’s unemployable little brother Keith rolls into town, Jacky’s various lives in the white world threaten to come undone.
SONG OF FIRST DESIRE
13th February to 23rd March
Camelia is losing her grip, lost between the past and the present as she passes her days in the garden of her Madrid home. Her children employ Alejandro, a Colombian migrant, to look after her. But this house isn’t what it seems, keeping the terrible secrets of history in its stones.
BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY
5th to 27th April
Redfern, 1966: Cheryl, Lulu and Queenie are young and life is full of hilarity and joy, even if jobs are precarious, the police harass them, and racism seeps into everything. But as they prepare for the biggest glam event of the year, the Deb Ball, everything is about to change.
THE WRONG GODS
3rd May to 1st June
Nirmala farms the soil as her ancestors did, but her daughter Isha wants something more – an education, opportunity. The Wrong Gods melds mother-and-daughter struggle with the economics of progress, leading us to ask what we are worshipping and what price we will pay.
THE SPARE ROOM
7th June to 13th July
When Helen’s old friend, Nicola, comes to town for treatment, it only makes sense she should stay in the spare room. Nicola has put her faith in a shady alternative cancer clinic, and Helen is determined to be her brilliant friend and carer no matter what. But as the sleepless nights rack up, a short stay in the spare room becomes a loving, maddening battle for life.
GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS
26th July to 24th August
Two young boys fall back on their imaginations as they grapple with their mother’s sudden death. In the sadness comes ‘Crow’– trickster, babysitter, provocateur and healer. Did this odd bird come to a grieving family because they needed him? Or is he something they made?
ORLANDO
30th August – 21st September
Virginia Woolf’s most beloved and brilliant novel takes to the stage in a joyous new adaptation from creators Elsie Yager and Carissa Licciardello (A Room of One’s Own, Scenes from the Climate Era).
MEOW MEOW’S THE RED SHOES
4th October to 9th November
From a chorus of hairy fawns to singing swans and showgirl stars, experience an unforgettable, frenetic song-and-dance into meaning. A musical celebration that will shock you out of stagnancy and into ecstatic oblivion.
THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING LEAR AND HIS THREE DAUGHTERS
15th November to 4th January
This is a adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest play, “King Lear” and depicts what happens when the trappings of privilege, education, and civilisation are stripped away, and we have to look the human specimen square in the mirror.
For more information on all plays, visit www.belvoir.com.au.
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