Secondary Education Program

We are delighted to present our 2025 Secondary Arts Education Program, aimed at providing high-quality arts education for high school students. Incorporating a diverse array of productions, workshops and seminars, this program is suitable for students in Stage 4 through to Stage 6 HSC.

This year, Sport For Jove is delighted to bring its full-length production of Macbeth to the York Theatre stage. The boldly imaginative and fully contemporary production is true to the text and full of engaging revelations, making it a wonderful experience for students and teachers alike. Additionally, their Lecture and Play offerings for Shakespeare’s Henry IV (Part 1) and Richard III take students through a short lecture of the texts followed by a performance of the play in full theatrical prowess. Designed to first open students' minds to the themes and intentions of the work and then show how those elements transcend the script on stage. These offerings are truly valuable for those studying Stage 6 HSC English Advanced Modules A and B.

Plus, Sport For Jove’s HSC Symposium series is back and better than ever with The Crucible, Tempest/Hag-Seed, Othello and The Merchant of Venice Symposiums where Artistic Director Damien Ryan shares his invaluable insights of the texts from the perspective of a play.

With conversations shifting and a renewed focus on consent education, we are delighted to bring a new production Yes Yes Yes to the Reginald Theatre. Part documentary, part confession, part open conversation, Yes Yes Yes is a theatre show created specifically for young adults exploring the knotty and necessary topics of healthy relationships, desire and consent. The production reasonably opens up the conversation of consent that feeds directly into the NSW PDHPE and Life Ready syllabus.

Nucleus is a new play by award-winning playwright Alana Valentine, brought to us by Griffin Theatre Company. Alana Valentine is a household name, with previous works Cyberbile and Parramatta Girls being recognised on the Stage 6 Drama course prescriptions for 2025 - 2027. We are lucky to host Alana for a 15-minute post-show Q&A which will be an invaluable opportunity for students to investigate her works for their Individual Projects and Verbatim Theatre modules of the Drama HSC.

Finally, we welcome back Treehouse Theatre and their incredible work in their new production Chasing Freedom - The Incredible Journey of Child Refugees. Treehouse Theatre works with young refugees through a specialised program that uses drama workshops as a vessel for CBT-Exposure Therapy and Narrative Exposure Therapies as models of trauma recovery. At the end of the 13-week program, participants perform their stories live to an audience of their peers. Chasing Freedom is an important addition to all social justice, cohesion and wellbeing programs.

We hope you enjoy our 2025 Secondary Education offerings and look forward to welcoming you and your students to Seymour soon.

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