The Bleeding Tree won Best New Australian Work

20.01.16

‘The Bleeding Tree’ won Best New Australian Workat the Sydney Theatre Awards  For those of you who saw the extraordinary Paula Arundell so bravely capture the pain and knowledge and humour of a woman fighting her way out of a…

A message from Lee, 20 January

On Monday night Angus Cerini’s The Bleeding Tree won Best New Australian Work at the Sydney Theatre Awards. How awesome is that?! I know, I know, I know…theatre is not a competition…you can’t win theatre. But making new plays is…

LADIES DAY Production Images

08.01.16

Who doesn’t love a man in a dress? Ladies Day hits the stage, check out the production shots. Season runs until 26 March.  Book you tickets.       

A note from Lee – 5 January, 2016

05.01.16

2016. Ready, set, GO! The Griffin staff are back in the office. Alana Valentine’s Ladies Day is in rehearsal. Reg Cribb’s Thomas Murray and the Upside Down River moves into the theatre next week as the first Griffin Independent play…

7 Nominations – 2015 Sydney Theatre Awards

21.12.15

The nominees are in for the Sydney Theatre Awards, judged by esteemed Sydney journalists and critics, are in. Congratulations to those Griffin shows and creatives that made the illustrious nominees list! BEST NEW AUSTRALIAN WORK The Bleeding Tree (Angus Cerini) BEST…

2015 Studio Artist David Williams in Budapest

17.12.15

Thanks to the good folk of Griffin Theatre Company, and with the assistance of Arts NSW, in November I went to Budapest to spend a couple of weeks with the independent political theatre company PanoDrama. Global warming was kind, and…

A message from Lee, 16 December

16.12.15

So I’m sitting in the cool depths of MONA looking at the Gilbert and George exhibition thinking about the impact this great museum is having on the national consciousness. Thinking about national stories. Thinking about the first week of rehearsals…

All 2016 shows now on sale

08.12.15

Tickets to all Griffin 2016 shows are now on sale! This includes our new ‘Peter Pan’ Under 35s price, and just in time for Christmas. With tickets for as little as $30 – browse our shows and lock in some…

In conversation with Phillip Kavanagh

02.12.15

Two men are sitting on a sofa. One of them is in desperate need of money. His chosen profession of going school-to-school preaching Christianity to children via a puppet of Jesus is proving less lucrative than he’d hoped. (I feel…

A message from Lee, 2 December

It’s December! Our funding application to the Australia Council is in! YAY! Kit Brookman’s A Rabbit For Kim Jong-il closed after a great week at Parramatta Riverside! YAY! Benito di Fonzo’s A Riff on Keef  is a gas gas gas for the next two…