Seymour Centre Announces 2023 Season

Image: Camp. Photographer: Sallie Colechin

Sydney's Seymour Centre has announced its 2023 season, a set of six plays by independent theatre companies.

Opening the year in February is the world premiere of CAMP, presented by Siren Theatre Co in association with Sydney WorldPride. Written by Australian playwright, Elias Jamieson Brown (Green Park), and directed by Kate Gaul (The Trouble with Harry, Hayes Theatre Company’s H.M.S Pinafore), CAMP welcomes us to the punk lands of the 1970s to chart the birth of Australia’s fierce gay rights movement.

Image: On A Clear Day. Photo credit - Harvey House & Kenney Designs

In March, Squabbalogic (Man of La Mancha) returns to the Seymour with On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, a revamped adaptation of the ‘60s Broadway musical and cult Barbra Streisand film. On A Clear Day features all-new musical arrangements and brings a fresh queer twist to a classic tale. 

Outhouse Theatre Co (Heroes of the Fourth Turning) is back at the Seymour in June with the Australian premiere of Nina Raine’s Consent, following barrister friends, Ed and Tim, who take opposing briefs in a rape case. Probing the murky moral terrain of the courtroom and the marriage bed, Consent is rich with ideas and theatrical ingenuity, a work of sparkling intelligence, wit, and power that compelled UK audiences and set the West End alight with chatter and conversation. 

Image: The Turning of the Screw. Photo credit Emily Elise, Fifty One Watts Graphic Design

In July, Tooth and Sinew presents a scary mid-winter treat – a brand-new adaptation of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. Written and directed by Tooth and Sinew’s Richard Hilliar (U.B.U.: A Cautionary Tale of Catastrophe at KXT), this psychological thriller will leave you questioning your senses and checking every shadow. 

Image: Venus and Adonis. Photo credit - Andre Vasquez and Sean Dowling

In September, Sport for Jove takes us inside the world of Shakespeare’s epic plague-era  poem, Venus and Adonis, to tell a story about the need to love, the right to speak, and the power of the printed word.

Rounding out the season in November, Seymour welcomes Little Eggs Collective, winner of Best Independent Production at the 2021 Sydney Theatre Awards, with The Lost Boys, a new, multidisciplinary, ensemble-based work inspired by Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie.

Plus, as a special add-on, and following a successful workshop production in 2019, Squabbalogic will return to the Seymour in August with the

full, world premiere production of The Dismissal, a musical account of the epic constitutional crisis that led to Gough Whitlam’s 1975 prime ministerial dismissal. Tickets for this production will go on sale in early 2023, and a wait list is available.

Seymour Centre’s 2023 season shows are available in a variety of multipacks, with two-, three-, four-, five- and six-show packs on offer.