03.10.24
Dear Grif-friend,
It’s been all arms on deck right here at Griffin as a result of as you may need seen… the 2025 Season has formally launched!
Season Launch is at all times the busiest time of 12 months for the Griffs; even after the exhibits have been programmed, there are present groups to place collectively, photographs to shoot, venues to seek out, brochures to put in writing… however it’s all price it after we get to share a tremendous season of recent work with you, our Grif-family.
In 2025 we’re on the street once more whereas the SBW Stables Theatre undergoes main redevelopment—we’re couch-surfing with our associates and neighbours throughout Sydney and past. We’re bringing you a 12 months of performs which can be profound, spectacular, inspiring, and so silly; however above all, tales written about us, by us, for us.
Next 12 months is a 12 months the place we’ll be speaking about local weather change, about generational battle, about nuclear energy. But amongst all these large concepts, similar to in life itself, it’s additionally about tenderness and forgiveness and group and household and friendship.
Without additional ado, right here’s Griffin 2025!
Our first play for 2025 is Nucleus by Alana Valentine, directed by Andrea James and starring Paula Arundell and Peter Kowitz. We’re thrilled to be welcoming Alana again to Griffin after premiering her play Ladies Day in 2016 and her new play tenderly traces the shifting attitudes round certainly one of Australia’s most divisive environmental points.
Next up is a heart-bursting play about childhood, belonging, and the transformative energy of Okay-pop. Michelle Lim Davison is an absolute treasure of the Australian stage and display, and now she is making her playwriting debut with us at Griffin with a narrative impressed by her personal life occasions, Koreaboo. Michelle herself will take to the stage underneath the route of the nice Jessica Arthur and Associate Director Andrew Undi Lee.
Our subsequent present joins a line-up of now-iconic Australian performs that originated on our tiny kite-shaped stage after which went onto a lot greater stages and far bigger cultural impression. These are performs with names like Away, Holding the Man, City of Gold, Prima Facie, Golden Blood… and now Dylan Van Den Berg’s Whitefella Yella Tree. We’re thrilled to see this acclaimed work come again for a whirlwind tour throughout the east coast—kicking off with a season at Sydney Theatre Company.
With our remaining essential season present for the 12 months we would like you to think about. Imagine escaping to a world with no web. No intruders. And… no garments. We are very excited, and ever-so barely nervous, to be bringing to the stage… Naturism by Ang Collins. And in case it wasn’t already abundantly clear, Naturism is carried out by an all-nude solid.
And lastly, to cap off our 2025 exhibits, a really beloved program that’s returning after a 12 months’s hiatus. We’re very completely happy to be bringing again Griffin Lookout for 2025.
The first of those Lookout productions is by the blazingly proficient Iolanthe, who many will know from her efficiency in seven strategies of killing Kylie Jenner. We’re proud to help her playwriting debut—SISTREN.
Our second Lookout present is Birdsong of Tomorrow by Nathan Harrison. Nathan calls himself an expert theatremaker and an beginner birdwatcher—and in Birdsong of Tomorrow he’s combining each these loves collectively within the one present.
There’s a lot I’m excited for wanting forward, not simply with 2025 however with the rest of 2024 too! Merlynn Tong’s Golden Blood closes subsequent week at Wharf 1 Theatre, and Flat Earthers: The Musical is within the remaining week of rehearsals earlier than starting previews at Hayes Theatre Co. subsequent Friday. You can seize tickets to each of those good exhibits on our web site.
And lastly, thanks as at all times in your help of Griffin. Make certain you subscribe as a result of subsequent 12 months goes to be greater, bolder and extra lovely—we are able to’t wait so that you can be part of us!
It’s going to be a 12 months of huge concepts, and massive stomach laughs, and fairly a couple of wobbly bits thrown in for good measure. That’s Griffin 2025!
Much love,
Declan x