‘Electrifying’ Judy Davis will star in adaptation of The Spare Room, with Colin Friels as King Lear later in the season
A stage version of Helen Garner’s novel The Spare Room will debut at Belvoir St theatre in Sydney, starring Judy Davis in her first on-stage role in almost 15 years.A stage version of Helen Garner’s novel The Spare Room will debut at Belvoir St theatre in Sydney, starring Judy Davis in her first on-stage role in almost 15 years.
The production is one of three literary adaptations premiering in Belvoir’s upcoming season, alongside Max Porter’s bestselling novel Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, co-starring the actor Toby Schmitz, who adapted it with the director Simon Phillips and the lighting designer Nick Schlieper; and Virginia Woolf’s queer classic Orlando, adapted by Belvoir’s resident director, Carissa Licciardello, and the transgender artist Elsie Yager.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is about an autistic boy. But it hasn’t always been autism-friendlyClosing out the year is Flack’s production of The True History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters, drawing on the original folio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy, and starring Colin Friels alongside his daughter, the actor Charlotte Friels.
Acknowledging the challenge of selling tickets in a cost-of-living crisis, Belvoir’s executive director, Aaron Beach, spoke of the company’s commitment to putting audiences first, using a “dynamic pricing” approach for tickets alongside community engagement and concession programs to make sure there was “a price type for everyone”.
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