Belvoir Celebrates the Publication of 25 BELVOIR STREET

A new coffee table book celebrates 27 years of Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre.

25 BELVOIR STREET

Edited by Robert Cousins

PRICE: $77. PAGES: 259. ILLUSTRATIONS: 259 (black & white and colour). HARDBACK.

[Belvoir is] ‘… the city’s most exciting and beloved theatre’. - Cath Keenan, Sydney Morning Herald, 2010

‘Somewhere along the way Belvoir passed from being a Surry Hills upstart to an institution of the town… [it] speaks to its city year after year with great theatrical bravery’. - David Marr, 25 Belvoir Street

Belvoir will mark the end of an era, and the start of a new one, with a coffee table book commemorating 27 years of theatrical magic on the treasured corner stage at 25 Belvoir Street.

25 Belvoir Street has been published to coincide with the end of Neil Armfield’s tenure as Artistic Director of Belvoir, and the start of a new era under the new Artistic Director Ralph Myers. It brings together a snapshot of Belvoir’s history, with first hand stories of how it evolved from ‘a Surry Hills upstart’ to ‘the city’s most exciting and beloved theatre’.

The book features rarely-seen illustrations from the theatre’s rich history including photographs of some of Australia’s leading performers honing their craft – Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Richard Roxburgh, Hugo Weaving, Robyn Nevin, Julie Forsyth, Robert Menzies, Peter Carroll, Deborah Mailman and Max Cullen all feature alongside many others.

Alongside the photographs are newly commissioned essays by Robert McFarlane, Rhoda Roberts, Ralph Myers, Alan John, James Waites, Rita Kalnejais, Benedict Andrews and Neil Armfield, with a foreword by David Marr.