Press & Updates
Check out the tweets from STC’s Pre-Season Briefing of Endgame which took place this evening.
Endgame opens on March 31
Follow hashtag #STCEndgame from 6.15pm tonight to keep up with the conversation from the pre-season briefing with the cast & key creatives
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
#STCEndgame preseason briefing will be kicking off in a few minutes – follow along for rehearsal insights from the actors & key creatives
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Kip Williams introduces the cast and crew of #STCEndgame at our pre season briefing. @ Sydney Theatre… https://t.co/oOvBTiBOIF
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Andrew Upton: Alot of shared insights & themes with Waiting for Godot, & shared understanding of the importance of humour. #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Hugo chats about his associate director role in #STCEndgame and also working on Godot. Endgame seems darker, but doesn’t lack humour
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Hugo Weaving’s plays Hamm in #STCEndgame. He says the play is very lean, stripped back, but very human and real.
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Hugo: The characters in #STCEndgame are very human – they have ailments, dreams and complaints.
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
There’s more dialogue than action. Tom Budge plays Clov and carries most of the physical action of #STCEndgame.
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
The play might lack action, but the interaction btwn the characters are so delicate, that the action becomes pivotal here #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
The restrictions of the characters – 3 of the 4 can’t move – focus the audience more keenly on each subtle gesture & movement. #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
In this very restrained world, every movement is magnified and significant – Nick Schleiper, set designer #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
What you’ll see in the theatre is 4 people in a pressure cooker of a set. The costumes have been found/scavenged. #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Nick Schleiper – luckily grey is his favourite colour! Beckett has specified ‘a room, grey light’ in his very particular stage directions.
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Nick has created a rich colour palette of greys in the set – the slight variations are only apparent because of the intimacy of the world
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
No music is technically allowed in Endgame, & there is none in this production! #STCEndgame (Beckett aficionados will be relieved!)
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
It feels wrong to deviate from Beckett’s instructions – observing Beckett’s rhythms and vision pays off in the humour #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
The poetry in it is dense. The cast found it’s a different play on a different day. Hugo advises you to let it wash over you. #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Hugo: Sometimes it might seem there is not alot going on, but there’ll be a wealth of images generated in the mind of the aud. #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Andrew: there’s a great deal of story in #STCEndgame. He sees similarities w/ Chekov after really digging in & reading the play many times
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Tom Budge: the are constant identifiers and connections for the audience; relationships, family, situations. You’ll recognise. #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Andrew: #STCEndgame is a generous & warm play that has a lot to give.
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Andrew hopes the audience will take away solace – a confronting solace perhaps. #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Andrew: let’s remove the moniker absurdism from the canon. It doesn’t do Beckett justice – it’s so much more than that. #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
Bruce Spence returns to the humour – there is a lot of it to take away. As Beckett says ‘nothing is funnier than unhappiness’ #STCEndgame
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
And that’s a wrap folks! #STCEndgame previews at Roslyn Packer Theatre from 31 March. Info & tix: https://t.co/l3ob2wIr0e
— SydneyTheatreCompany (@SydneyTheatreCo) March 23, 2015
