Our 2013 season

• Cosi
• The God Boy
• Pride and Prejudice
• Proof
• Anne Boleyn

Cosi written by Louis Nowra, directed by Simon Boyes

13-23 March 2013

Melbourne, 1971. Lewis, a recent university graduate, has been employed by the local psychiatric hospital to direct some of the patients in a dramatic production. It's a chance for Lewis to gain some experience and money, and it's an experiment in developing the social skills and confidence of his charges. What he doesn't expect is that one of the patients, Roy, has already decided that the group will stage Cosi fan Tutte, Mozart's ambitious three-hour-long comic opera. A pity, then, that none of the cast can speak Italian - or sing opera!

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The God Boy written by Ian Cross, directed by Mary Coffey

22 May - 1 June 2013

Based on the classic New Zealand 1957 novel of the same name, this is the powerful and moving story of young Jimmy Sullivan. As an 11-year-old Jimmy believed he was 'a boy that God has his eye on'. That was until his parents' turbulent and unhappy marriage finally broke down with tragic consequences. A play that will rip at an audience's heart and soul, The God Boy's themes of the vulnerability of children and the inability of faith to compensate for betrayal are still all too familiar in today's society.

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Pride and Prejudice adapted from Jane Austen by Joy Hellyer and Amy Whiterod, directed by Paul Kay and Joy Hellyer

26 June to 13 July 2013

Stagecraft is celebrating Pride and Prejudice's 200th anniversary with a fresh new adaptation of literature's original romantic comedy. While focusing on Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, the play celebrates other elements that make this tale so popular - the love story between Jane and Mr Bingley, the comedy of Mr Collins, Mrs Bennet and Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and of course the naughty tale of Lydia and Wickham. Set among the country gentry of the Regency era, there will be balls, soirées, and of course dashing young men - all in want of a wife.

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Proof written by David Auburn, directed by Tanya Piejus

5-14 September 2013

Pulitzer Prize winner, Proof, is a highly engaging drama set in Chicago. Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert, must deal not only with his death but with the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable mathematical solutions in the 103 notebooks Robert left behind. Catherine struggles to solve the most perplexing problem of all: how much of her father's madness - or genius - will she inherit?

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Anne Boleyn written by Howard Brenton, directed by Ewen Coleman

6-16 November 2013

Commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 2010, Anne Boleyn was described by Time Out as making 'religion sexy and doctrinal disputes bloody good fun. The tale of the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife is juxtaposed with the court of King James I, 100 years later where James has found alarming evidence that Anne was a religious conspirator with the most dangerous ideas of her day. She comes alive for him, a brilliant but reckless young woman confident in her sexuality, whose marriage and death transformed England forever.

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