"The first visible Sydney Theatre Company venture under the leadership of Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton is a bold venture of movement without words for Wharf 2LOUD. It is a great start." Jill Sykes, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 February 2008

"Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton ’s first piece of programming for Sydney Theatre Company... suggests they ’ll be bold and open-minded about what theatre is and should be. Great news." Deborah Jones, The Australian, 6 March 2008


In 2008, the five shows we have curated for the Wharf 2Loud program are glimpses into the vast possibility of theatre.

The first show is not even in Wharf 2 but in the Richard Wherrett Studio (that lovely room over at Sydney Theatre). embrace: GUILT FRAME is a mesmerising movement piece that drifts and eddies through human emotion at about a millimetre per second.

The rest of the season WILL BE in Wharf 2.

Manna, the second show, is driven by the aural theatre-scape as strongly as it is by the visual. The third – putting the spanner in our own works – is a new play, a new Tommy Murphy play in fact. Saturn’s Return explores a crucial hiatus in time.

The fourth piece Highway Rock ‘n’ Roll Disaster comes to us fully-formed and road-tested from a young Adelaide company, The Border Project. Looking as much like a gig as a play, it’s full of vim, vigour and vroom. Frankenstein, the final instalment in our mini-season, sees Ralph Myers and his hand-picked team of experts untangling the creative process through the mother of all creative processes: the invention of life itself.

You will safely be able to say after each of these 'you know...' or 'Gosh'... or even 'Wow... I’ve never seen anything quite like it’ without fear of repeating yourself.

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Cate Blanchett & Andrew Upton
Artistic Directors 2008
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"The first visible Sydney Theatre Company venture under the leadership of Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton is a bold venture of movement without words for Wharf 2LOUD. It is a great start." Jill Sykes, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 February 2008

"Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton ’s first piece of programming for Sydney Theatre Company... suggests they ’ll be bold and open-minded about what theatre is and should be. Great news." Deborah Jones, The Australian, 6 March 2008


In 2008, the five s... (read more)