In Sydney’s theatres this year, there are many shows to look forwards to – Griffin has the 2015 Griffin Award
winner The Turquoise Elephant, Phillip
Kavanagh’s Replay, and Finegan
Kruckemeyer’s Those Who Fall In Love Like Anchors Dropped Upon The Ocean Floor;
Belvoir has a season of general munificence,
including Kate Mulvany’s adaptation of Jasper
Jones, Kit Brookman’s The Great Fire,
Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife, Twelfth Night, and the conclusion of Matthew
Whittet’s Windmill trilogy in Girl,
Asleep; STC has Arcadia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The
Golden Age, Almeida’s King Charles
III, and 1927’s Golem, as well as Angela Betzien's The Hanging; Bell Shakespeare has Romeo and Juliet, Othello,
and another Molière adaptation in The
Literati, a co-production with Griffin. There’s a cracker year at Opera Australia with John Bell’s production of
Carmen, and Julie Andrews’ My Fair Lady; Sport for Jove’s No End of Blame, Away, and Three Sisters; a
new Andrew Bovell play; and (fingers crossed) Squabbalogic’s
original musical-theatre take on The
Dismissal.
On the bookshelves, there is a second helping of Saramago
and Marquez, a slew of brand new plays to get lost inside of, and another
attempt at Eleanor Catton’s The
Luminaries.
On television, hopefully we’ll get to see The Kettering Incident, a final series
of BBC’s Wallander, as well as a new
BBC adaptation of War & Peace,
David Stratton’s history of Australian cinema, and the War of the Roses
tetralogy in series two of The Hollow
Crown.
In cinemas, there is Todd Haynes’ Carol, Derek Cianfrance’s
adaptation of The Light Between Oceans,
the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar!, the eagerly
awaited return to JK Rowling’s wizarding world in Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them, and hopefully a wide release for Simon Stone’s The
Daughter in March.
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