The Depot Theatre has announced its 2017 season, promising another exciting year of Australian firsts, new writing and innovative interpretations of much-loved classics.
Based in the historic Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville, in Sydney’s inner west, The Depot Theatre aims to give a home to independent theatre-makers and creatives. In 2017, the Depot will host 11 shows, including five brand new works and three Australian premieres.
Kicking off the season in March is Ellie, Abbie & Ellie’s Dead Aunt, a new Australian romantic comedy, written and directed by Monica Zanetti. Another new Australian work follows in April, with the very talented Charlie Falkner (Dirty People) and Jackrabbit Theatre bringing us a tale of millennial lust in the age of new media in Sex Object.
In June, Wayne Tunks will premiere his latest work, Bitch, about a casually racist matriarch with a drinking and pokie habit. Jackrabbit Theatre returns with the premiere of Front in July, by Michael Abercromby, a play which proves being in a band is never just about the music. Finally, Bazonka Productions will present the intriguingly titled Violent Extremism: And Other Adult Party Games, a new Australian political satire by Richie Black.
“Over the past year and a half, we have refurbished, reinvented and breathed new life into the venue providing opportunities for hundreds of indie theatre makers,” said David Jeffrey, who shares the Depot Theatre’s Artistic Director duties with Julie Baz.
“We look forward to a wonderfully creative year ahead in 2017.”
Baz will direct two shows in the upcoming season: Willy Russell’s contemporary classic, Educating Rita, and the Australian premiere of Technicolour Life, a play about a wounded soldier returning to civilian life by Jami Brandli.
Also making their Australian premieres on the Depot stage are The Big Meal by Dan LeFranc, and Modern Jesus, by Christopher Neels, presented by Fledgling Theatre Company.
The season is rounded out with two classics presented by the innovative Secret House company, whose production of Cymbeline was one of the highlights of the Depot’s 2016 calendar. Next year, Secret House will present their take on Shakespeare’s The Winters Tale, and Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull.
For more details on what promises to be an entertaining and inventive season of independent theatre, visit www.thedepotheatre.com
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