Sydney Theatre Company

Sydney Theatre Company's Artistic Director Kip Williams and Executive Director Patrick McIntyre discuss the first six shows of our 2022 season.

Listen as they give exciting behind the scenes insights into the season and discuss how it all came together.

If you want to skip ahead to a particular show, the timecodes below can guide you.

2.32 - Triple X

5.35 - Grand Horizons

7.51 - White Pearl

9.58 - Blithe Spirit

13.20 - The Picture of Dorian Grey

16.06 - Wudjang: Not the Past

Sydney Theatre Company's Artistic Director Kip Williams and Executive Director Patrick McIntyre discuss the first five shows of our 2021 season.

Listen as they give exciting behind the scenes insights into the season and discuss how it all came together.

If you want to skip ahead to a particular show, the timecodes below can guide you.

07:30 Playing Beatie Bow

10:55 Appropriate

15:40 Home, I'm Darling

18.20 Fun Home

21.36 The Wharf Revue: Good Night and Good Luck

In this episode you’ll be hearing a discussion, originally broadcast as a live Webinar during the period of theatre closures earlier this year, between Archibald-Prize winning artist, Nicholas Harding with his friends and legends of stage and screen, Hugo Weaving and Heather Mitchell. Nicholas and Hugo uncover what it’s like to sketch and be sketched in the rehearsal room, and what artists can capture of actors and they all discuss what theatre means to them, as an art-form and its ability to bring people together and spark our imagination with story-telling.

During the period of theatre closures earlier this year, STC produced and shared a number of online performances and content pieces in order to stay connected with our audience members.

STC’s former Board and Foundation Chair Ian Darling AO is one person whose positive impact on the Company has been felt across the years. A long-time friend of the Company, Ian generously gave us the opportunity to stream his documentary In the Company of Actors for free via our website during May and June. Our community of theatre lovers jumped at the opportunity to re-live STC’s historic 2006 tour of Hedda Gabler to New York.

We received a great deal of wonderful feedback about sharing the film and so contacted Ian to discuss the process behind making the film, what it was like to be a fly on the wall, and why it was important to capture the legacy of the Hedda Gabbler tour. This discussion took the form of a live webinar, hosted and moderated by our Artistic Director Kip Williams.

We invited a small group of STC community members to attend the Webinar, and were thrilled to be joined by a number of long term subscribers, donors and supporters who’ve pledged a gift to STC in their Will.

This podcast is a recording of that Webinar.

Back in March, in simpler times, Andrew Denton hosted a panel with some STC favourites – John Gaden, Mandy McElhinney and Richard Roxburgh – chatting about their best-loved memories of The Wharf, past productions and backstage mischief.

In July this year actor, filmmaker and advocate Daniel Monks took time out of his busy schedule, performing in STC's production of Lord of the Flies, to do a special 'in conversation' event in which he discussed his craft, his career and his leadership in the art and disability advocacy space. A collaboration between STC and Accessible Arts, NSW's peak arts and disability organisation, this talk was moderated by STC's Artistic Director Kip Williams.

Image: Hon Boey

Sydney Theatre Company's Artistic Director Kip Williams and Executive Director Patrick McIntyre discuss the 2020 season.

Listen as they give exciting behind the scenes insights into the season and discuss how it all came together.

CHAPTERS

02:08 The Deep Blue Sea
04:21 No Pay? No Way!
07:08 Home, I'm Darling
09.35 Triple X
13:07 The 7 Stages of Grieving
16:15 The Writer
18:30 The Picture of Dorian Gray
21:46 Fun Home
25:17 Wonnangatta
27:25 The Wharf Revue 2020: Good Night and Good Luck
28:36 Rules for Living
30:47 A View from the Bridge

Producer: Patrick Carey
Mix and master: David Trumpmanis

This episode was recorded live at Rosyln Packer Theatre for the pre-season briefing of STC’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams.

Featuring a full cast and several creatives, including the production’s director and our company’s artistic director, Kip Williams, the conversation delves into the psychology of the Pollitt family, around whom the play is centred, the meaning of truth, and some hints at the elements of design which are bringing this steamy Southern tale to life.

Which sound design moment gives Paul Mac chills? Is drama or comedy harder to compose for? We spoke to chart-topping electronic music producer Paul Mac and the celebrated, prolific theatre composer and sound designer Steve Francis about creating the soundtrack for Nakkiah Lui’s biting political satire, How to Rule the World.

Find out how a legend of Australian dance music found himself composing for theatre, gain an insight into theatrical sound design from one of the best in the field, and hear the music that resulted when the two got together in the studio.

How to Rule the World is playing at Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre until the 30th of March.

A lively discussion on the genesis and development of this frighteningly relevant and bitingly funny political satire.

This Q&A was recorded live at Roslyn Packer Theatre for the How to Rule the World Pre-season Briefing, one of Sydney Theatre Company's Insight Events in which audiences meet the actors and creative teams behind STC’s work.

How to Rule the World is playing at Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre until the 30th of March 2019. Tickets are on sale now.