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Sydney Theatre Company


The Association is very pleased to support and work with the Sydney Theatre Company to accept donations for the Company in the United States. This collaboration enables the Association to further promote and expose Australian talent in the Arts.

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About the Sydney Theatre Company
 

Highly-acclaimed Director Liv Ullmann with the Association's President Frances Cassidy


 
 
 
Sydney Theatre Company (STC), as the premier theatre company in Australia, has been a major force in Australian drama since its establishment in 1978. Current Artistic Directors, Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton joined the Company at the beginning of 2008. In 2009, Liv Ullmann and Steven Soderbergh will direct for the Company.
 
STC offers Sydney audiences an eclectic program of Australian plays, lively interpretations of the classic repertoire and the best of new international writing. As the state theatre company of NSW, it has also established a significant education program for schools and in its studio space since 1987. These programs produce work devised by and for developing artists with productions including Baz Lurhmann's Six Years Old or in its current identity, Next Stage.
 
STC has launched and fostered the theatre careers of many of Australia's internationally renowned artists including Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, Geoffrey Rush, Toni Collette, Rose Byrne and Cate Blanchett. Renowned directors Michael Blakemore, Max Stafford-Clark, Howard Davies, Declan Donnellan and Philip Seymour Hoffman have worked with STC in recent years.
 
 
About A Streetcar Named Desire
 
Cate Blanchett at the opening night party of the sold-out production A Streetcar Named Desire in New York

 

The Sydney Theatre Company production of A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on September 5 and ran until October 17, 2009. This production, directed by Liv Ullmann, starred Cate Blanchett as Blanche, Joel Edgerton as Stanley, Robin McLeavy as Stella and Tim Richards as Mitch. It played at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from October 29 until November 21, 2009 and is currently playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.
 
"How often do you get to watch an actress of such virtuosity pulling out every stop of her instrument and then some?"
- The New York Times on Cate Blanchett
 
An aging Southern beauty, Blanche is all artifice, pomposity, and need traits that Cate Blanchett, a transcendent performer (who made her New York stage debut at BAM in 2006 as an unforgettable Hedda Gabler), conveys with the most delicate balance of hysteria and pathos. Playing off of Joel Edgerton as the remorseless monster Stanley, and Robin McLeavy, as her conflicted sister Stella, Blanchett and the outstanding ensemble cast of the Sydney Theatre Company bring new life to this celebrated work.