05.10.23
Pricey Grif-friend,
It’s been a whirlwind week for Griffin. In case you missed it, we launched our 2024 Season!
Final Tuesday night, the employees, board and (a few of the) prolonged household of Griffin gathered within the Cell Block Theatre on the Nationwide Artwork Faculty to disclose and rejoice our season for subsequent yr—and it was a heck of a celebration. We had bougie booze courtesy of 4 Pillars Gin, a tasty unfold due to Bourke Road Bakery and a shocking and shifting Welcome to Nation by Aunty Norma Ingram earlier than the season was introduced.
I’m extremely happy with this one. It in all probability appears to be like a little bit totally different to Griffin seasons previous as a result of we’re on the cusp of one thing very thrilling… mid-next yr, the SBW Stables Theatre as we all know it can endure its greatest renovation EVER! You’ll be able to learn all concerning the upcoming renovations, which have been designed with love by Tim Greer of TZG Architects, and which wouldn’t have been attainable with out the generosity of the NSW Authorities or the Neilson Basis, over on our web site.
Whereas we’re nonetheless producing an entire season stuffed with thrilling new Australian work subsequent yr, we’re saying a brief goodbye to our superbly un-future-proofed ex-horse-stables theatre with presumably the largest, most formidable manufacturing (or three) in Griffin’s more-than-forty-year historical past. I’m so thrilled to be directing the Australian equal of Warfare of the Roses, one of the crucial quietly epic explorations of group and belonging… The Lewis Trilogy by the godfather of Kings Cross, Louis Nowra.
It feels apt to farewell the SBW Stables Theatre with a trilogy that paints Australian life with such a deft, humorous, vivid brush, and I can’t wait to work with an ensemble of eight actors who will convey these three performs to life in early 2024. As an viewers member, you may select to return to the SBW Stables Theatre over a number of days to witness one play per night time, OR you may pull out all of the stops and expertise the total seven hours on one. single. day!!! (With ample breaks for drinks, nibbles and dinner in fact 🍽️).
You should buy your tickets to The Lewis Trilogy proper now once you subscribe to a 3 Play (to not point out a 4 or 5 Play!) bundle over on the Griffin web site… and whilst you’re at it, you may take a look at the entire season, which incorporates lauded Munanjali poet Ellen Van Neerven’s shimmering debut play, swim, which can be introduced over at Carriageworks earlier than travelling to Yugambeh Nation at BLEACH* Competition on the Gold Coast, and a bloody thrilling first-time partnership between Griffin and Hayes Theatre Co., the superbly bizarro MUSICAL Flat Earthers: The Musical, by Jean Tong, Lou Wall & James Gales.
That’s to not point out that Merlynn Tong’s Golden Blood 黄金血液 will make a neon-bright return to Sydney Theatre Firm and Melbourne Theatre Firm subsequent yr, and the one, the one Suzie Miller can be first playwright off the rank for 2024 with a Particular Return Season of Jailbaby. It’s going to be GREAT—it is best to be part of us, and save once you subscribe to the yr forward.
However I’m getting forward of myself. There may be nonetheless a lot pleasure available in 2023, with our gorgeous smash-hit season of Blaque Showgirls by Nakkiah Lui formally extending its season for one week! The play will now end on Saturday 21 October, supplying you with, the viewers, seven extra probabilities to get in on the silliness, the sexiness, the sequinned satirical showstopper that co-directors Shari Sebbens & Ursula Yovich have cooked up with the solid. Most performances have utterly offered out, so phrase to the smart—guide your tickets for the ultimate weeks now.
Lastly, I’ve received some less-good information—on account of sickness, the great Uncle Graham Simms is unable to carry out his debut solo present Gadigal Gal this yr at Griffin. Whereas we’re unhappy we will’t convey you this poignant and fabulous musing on the lifetime of an Aussie drag icon Nana Miss Koori, the well being and wellbeing of our artists is of utmost significance right here at Griffin, so we all know it’s the proper name. We’ll be in contact with information about Gadigal Gal as quickly as we all know it. Within the meantime all ticket holders have been contacted by the Griffin Field Workplace, however you probably have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.
I hope you’ll be part of Griffin on our adventures in 2024 and past by subscribing, and I’ll see you across the SBW Stables Theatre earlier than we give it the makeover of a lifetime!
A lot love,
Declan x
