2024 Season Overview
Theatre needs to explore big questions in the most artful and entertaining ways possible and Seymour’s 2024 season does just that: five outstanding, must-see events, presented in partnership with some of Sydney’s most ambitious independent theatre companies.
In April we begin with the winner of the 2022 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. Seymour favourites, Outhouse Theatre Co, return with the much-anticipated Australian premiere of A Case for the Existence of God by Samuel D Hunter (The Whale), a beautifully written duologue that investigates connection between two very different men, both experiencing a hostile and divided world.
Excellence continues with a new Australian play, Trophy Boys - a queer black comedy about power, privilege and high school debating. A savagely funny satire, don’t miss the production from Melbourne which The Age gave five stars saying Trophy Boys is “a revelation”.
From the UK, we have the Australian premiere of Arlington by Enda Walsh (Once). A performance that almost defies category, Arlington is a wild fusion of story, physicality and visual art, with the New York Times describing it as Samuel Beckett meets Black Mirror. With echoes of Orwell’s 1984, Walsh’s play deals with the capacity of love to survive loss and death – a theatre experience unlike any other, brought to us from Empress Theatre (Cyprus Avenue at Old Fitz).
In September we welcome WildThingProductions to the Seymour with a new version of Sydney favourite Seventeen by Matthew Whittet. A group of acting legends will take on the challenge of becoming 17-year-olds on their most important day, the end of school – for ever. Through this innovative conceit, Whittet’s heartfelt play explores what youthful optimism means when seen through the eyes of experience. Premiering at Belvoir almost 10 years ago and produced to great acclaim in the UK at the Lyric Hammersmith, this is Seventeen’s first major Sydney revival.
We end the year with an absolute must-see: The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez, is theatre as major event: thirteen actors tell a huge story over two parts, each of 3+hrs. Inspired by the EM Forster classic Howards End, The Inheritance focuses on a group of gay men in contemporary New York all affected in different ways by the AIDS crisis. The Inheritance won the Tony and Olivier awards for Best Play and is simply a Sydney theatre event not to be missed.
If you like your theatre to be provocative, insightful, and wildly entertaining, then we look forward to seeing you here, at the Seymour in 2024.
Timothy Jones
Artistic Director
Explore our full 2024 Seymour Season Program by viewing our digital brochure below.
Theatre needs to explore big questions in the most artful and entertaining ways possible and Seymour’s 2024 season does just that: five outstanding, must-see events, presented in partnership with some of Sydney’s most ambitious independent theatre companies.
In April we begin with the winner of the 2022 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. Seymour favourites, Outhouse Theatre Co, return with the much-anticipated Australian premiere of A Case for the Existence of God by Samuel D Hunter (The Whale), a beautifully written duologue that investigates connection between two very different men, both experiencing a hostile and divided world.
Excellence continues with a new Australian play, Trophy Boys - a queer black comedy about power, privilege and high school debating. A savagely funny satire, don’t miss the production from Melbourne which The Age gave five stars saying Trophy Boys is “a revelation”.
From the UK, we have the Australian premiere of Arlington by Enda Walsh (Once). A performance that almost defies category, Arlington is a wild fusion of story, physicality and visual art, with the New York Times describing it as Samuel Beckett meets Black Mirror. With echoes of Orwell’s 1984, Walsh’s play deals with the capacity of love to survive loss and death – a theatre experience unlike any other, brought to us from Empress Theatre (Cyprus Avenue at Old Fitz).
In September we welcome WildThingProductions to the Seymour with a new version of Sydney favourite Seventeen by Matthew Whittet. A group of acting legends will take on the challenge of becoming 17-year-olds on their most important day, the end of school – for ever. Through this innovative conceit, Whittet’s heartfelt play explores what youthful optimism means when seen through the eyes of experience. Premiering at Belvoir almost 10 years ago and produced to great acclaim in the UK at the Lyric Hammersmith, this is Seventeen’s first major Sydney revival.
We end the year with an absolute must-see: The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez, is theatre as major event: thirteen actors tell a huge story over two parts, each of 3+hrs. Inspired by the EM Forster classic Howards End, The Inheritance focuses on a group of gay men in contemporary New York all affected in different ways by the AIDS crisis. The Inheritance won the Tony and Olivier awards for Best Play and is simply a Sydney theatre event not to be missed.
If you like your theatre to be provocative, insightful, and wildly entertaining, then we look forward to seeing you here, at the Seymour in 2024.
Timothy Jones
Artistic Director
Explore our full 2024 Seymour Season Program by viewing our digital brochure below.
