Who is Nora Helmer - heroic feminist, rabid neurotic, or just a selfish runaway?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Come experience the ultimate expression of Shakespeare's theatrical mastery in this exciting new production by Susanna Dowling.
A Midsummer Night's Dream 2011
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is very much a play about women, all of whom, are defined by their personal relationships to the notion of chastity and
All's Well That Ends Well
Tired of trusting to fate? Sick of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune? Done with trusting the gods? Make your own luck!
As You Like It
Love’s delightfully irrational force interrupts this play’s central thrust before it even has a valid reason to do so, when our depressed heroine
Cesario and Word Wrestling Entertainment 2016
The exciting curtain raising performances of the Second and Third Age Project.
Cyrano de Bergerac (2013)
One of the world’s most original and finely crafted romantic comedies; the tale of the beautiful Roxane and the man who would love her, but for
Ear to the Edge of Time
A World Premiere from one of Australia's great contemporary playwrights.
Edward II
“You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab as occasion serves.”
Exit, Pursued By A Bear
In the forest of Arden, a ragbag assembly of players gather to prepare a play for the Duke and Duchess' wedding night.
Hamlet
Sport for Jove’s acclaimed production of Hamlet returns to the Seymour Centre and Riverside at Parramatta in May 2013, following its huge
King Lear and The Playoffs
The exciting curtain raising performances of the Second and Third Age Project.
Love's Labour's Lost
Hundreds of years before Wilde, Shakespeare was in the midst of a wild, rule-breaking love triangle of his own if we are to believe his sonnets.
Macbeth
This is a play littered with children, all of them so fragile within in its terrible events. It is a play constantly throwing up images of family
Moby Dick
One of the defining tales of human literature coming to Sydney's stage in August.
Much Ado About Nothing
Considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies; the story that inspires our respect for what it is to be an individual, something a little
No End Of Blame
A sublimely playful, dangerous and pertinent political story.
Of Mice And Men
One of the world’s most compelling tales of friendship and survival.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
A powerful exploration of the beauty and the danger of being an original.
One Night Stand : Shakespeare Series
One night only performances of Shakespeare's most iconic plays.
Othello
Sport For Jove Theatre company brings its award-winning blend of passionate storytelling and inventive theatricality to Shakespeare’s story of
Romeo and Juliet
This production of Romeo and Juliet takes a simple, ensemble approach to the storytelling, using song and voice, and celebrating the actors’
Shakespearealism
Playing outdoors in Sport For Jove's Summer Season 7 is the brilliant short one-act comedy, Shakespearealism, by acclaimed Australian actor,
The Comedy of Errors
Sport For Jove tackles one of Shakespeare's most classically constructed work: taking place within in a few hours and in a single location.
The Crucible
Damien Ryan’s new production offers an extraordinarily rare experience of this great play.
The Importance of Being Earnest
The deep wishes of Oscar Wilde’s heart saw him crushed by the puritanical machine in his own lifetime but his razor sharp satirical comedies cut
The Libertine
The Libertine proved a tremendous artistic and box office success for Sport For Jove, enjoying 8 sold out performances and the winner of various
The Merchant of Venice
One of Shakespeare’s true masterpieces. Iconic, dangerous, controversial and rarely staged.
The River at the End of the Road
An epic ‘Huck Finn-style’ adventure … with a twist!
The Taming of the Shrew
A remounting of Sport For Jove's widely acclaimed production.
The Taming of the Shrew 2012
400 years of searing debate has surrounded this famous play, which many consider a farce, others a serious political diatribe on cruelty in its
The Tempest
We may never know whether this was the last complete play written by Shakespeare, though suggestions persist that this play represents Shakespeare
Three Sisters
A brand new Australian translation of one of theatre’s defining works.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Shakespeare’s most beautiful and melancholic comedy is a feast of variety, a holiday festivity peopled with some of his most surprising and
Twelfth Night, or What You Will 2012
Shakespeare’s most beautiful and melancholic comedy is a feast of variety, a holiday festivity peopled with some of his most surprising and
Will-I-Am
The Second Age Project presenting some of Shakespeare's most moving, funny and powerful scenes in this exciting new production.
Willigan's Island
The Second Age Project presenting some of Shakespeare's most moving, funny and powerful scenes in this exciting new production.
Events
ROSE RIOT - The Hollow Crown
“let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings…” Richard II
ROSE RIOT - The Wars of the Roses
“Glory is like a circle in the water…” Joan of Arc
Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses, the inspiration for television’s Game of Thrones, is all about glory – its splendour and its terrible price. The red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York seek to strangle each other in an epic, 30-year cycle of violence, romance, political manoeuvring, popular uprising and deep prophecy until the unweeded garden of the realm yields a new flower – the Tudor Rose – the white dyed in the heartblood of the red, the red turned pale with fear of the white.
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Past plays and performances from Sport For Jove's history.
