In addition he adapted and directed Wolf Erlbruch’s children’s book Duck, Death And The Tulip as part of the 2013 Perth International Arts Festival and directed an adaptation by Tom Holloway of Colin Thiele’s Storm Boy, as a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company for which he received the Performing Arts WA Award for Best Director (previously WA Equity Awards). In 2013, John has directed Hamlet as part of a multi-year partnership with the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts. Following the success of Driving Into Walls, the production toured to the Sydney Opera House and Parramatta Riverside Theatre in June 2013. Under his direction, Barking Gecko Theatre Company has been nominated for eleven Helpmann Awards, including Best Children’s Presentation. In 2012 he also directed Susie Miller’s Driving Into Walls for the 2012 Perth International Arts Festival. In the same year, John directed a stage adaptation of Shaun Tan’s children’s book The Red Tree, which was adapted by John with designer Gypsy Taylor and premiered at Barking Gecko Theatre Company in 2011 and re-produced for the 2012 Perth International Arts Festival.
In his first season as the Artistic Director of Barking Gecko Theatre Company, John wrote for the stage and directed The Amber Amulet adapted from Craig Silvey’s children’s book, which premiered in 2011. John also collaborated with Ross Mueller on a new production entitled This Highway Home with a creative workshop held in 2010. For Griffin Theatre, John directed Tiger Country and in 2009 Neil LaBute’s The Distance From Here. In 2008 John spent three months in New York assisting Edward Albee on a workshop of his new play Me, Myself And I, before working with Cicely Berry at the National Theatre in London. For Parramatta Riverside, John directed Suzie Miller’s All The Blood And All The Water and the highly acclaimed Far Away for Black Swan Theatre Company. In 2008, 20 John directed the Actors at Work Program for the Bell Shakespeare Company touring extensively to schools across Australia. Some Explicit Polaroids and Love were both nominated for Best Independent Production at the 2006 Sydney Theatre Awards. John directed a critically acclaimed sold-out season of Mark Ravenhill’s play Some Explicit Polaroids at Darlinghurst Theatre and Patricia Cornelius’ highly successful play Love at Belvoir Street (2006). John was Assistant Director on The Lieutenant of Inishmore with Neil Armfield at Belvoir Street (2004) and with Julian Meyrick on Doubt at the STC (2006). For Belvoir Street, John directed Sarah Kane’s play Blasted and Lawrence Mooney’s Sink or Swim. John’s work has been recognized with multiple Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Awards.Īt NIDA John directed Reg Cribb’s The Return, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Who’s Afraid of the Working Class, Closer, Attempts on her Life, Hamlet and The Greek Trilogy. The work will be presented in August as part of the STC 2015 season announced last week by Upton.A multi-award-winning Australian Director whose work has been staged extensively throughout Australia, John has directed productions for Belvoir Street, Bell Shakespeare, Parramatta Riverside, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Ensemble Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Theatre Company, Griffin and Opera Australia. Rush will pair with his long-time collaborator director Neil Armfield to do King Lear, the first time Rush has appeared for the STC since 1993, when he starred opposite a very freshly graduated Blanchett in one of her early outings.
Tickets to existing subscribers went on sale yesterday and going by the overwhelming response non-subscribers had better be quick when tickets go on sale to the general public on October 14.Īfter a year off, Blanchett returns to the Sydney stage next year alongside Richard Roxburgh in a new version of a little known Chekhov play.īlanchett and Roxborough join forces in The Present, which will be written by Blanchett’s husband and Sydney Theatre Company artistic director Andrew Upton, and based on Anton Chekov’s first play Platonov. The company is using a semi-naked image of Rush as King lear to promote the star-studded season which boasts another Oscar winner in Cate Blanchett. The site is back up and running normally, according to an STC spokesman. Fans desperate to see Geoffrey Rush back on the Sydney stage, possible with his kit off, are back on track today, after demand to see the Oscar-winning star crashed the Sydney Theatre Company website yesterday.
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