Belvoir St Theatre

I visited Belvoir to see the stirring «Kill the Messenger» play written by Nakkiah Lui. The venue is 3 stories high with an extensive bar featuring a variety of local wines, beer and cider.
Support local theatre and check out whatever is playing!

I’ve seen many productions at the Belvoir Theatre in Surry Hills. With an outstanding reputation and a recently renovated premises, the Belvoir Theatre always has something interesting, something hilarious or something hilariously interesting in its seasonal program.
Most recently I went to the Belvoir to see a play called ‘Gwen in Purgatory.’ They were lucky tickets, tickets that came to me when the rightful theatre goers were called away to travel overseas, and the tickets, being non exchangeable fell to me.
Myself and a friend, (Pardon moi: My friend and I) went to the Sunday Matinée and as expected joined the audience of elderly people to watch the hilarious play about a woman who is getting on and has a priest come to bless her new house. (The plot is more complex than that but I wouldn’t want to spoil it for you.)
The play was a hoot and it wasn’t even ruined by the audience of theatre goers who narrated and commented on every little detail, «He’s not going to do that is he?», «Oh no, he shouldn’t have said that.» and «Look there he is, he’s at the door.» As though they were watching a filmic pantomime.
The Belvoir has two theatres, one up a long flight of stairs and the other, a downstairs, street level theatre.
There’s a courtyard where people can smoke and have a drink during interval, but being a residential area, must keep the noise down late at night.

Last night I attended «The Dark Room» at t he Belvoir Street theatre. I admit it has been a few years since I have been to Belvoir, but I used to
see quite a few plays there and as soon as i walked into the theatre last night I realised I must go more often.
I don’t go to the theatre much, but Belvoir is worth going to as they are at the top of their game, being (in my opinion) the home of the countries most
cutting edge theatre companies, particularly company B.
I used to see a lot of compant B productions when I was a teenager and would reuglarly see performances featuring Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Jacqueline McKenzie & Richard Roxborough,
before any of them became big stars and many of the profuctions were directed by the great Neil Armfield. So many Australian actors have cut their teeth at Belvoir and then gone on to have huge Hollywood careers.
Belvoir excells on every level, from Staging to Sound & Lighting design, it is always innovative & inspiring.

Authentic theatre — you walk into Belvoir and you can just feel the drama in the walls. Its an actors theatre, with the shows performed here being driven by the love of the art above anything else… that said, expect something good…
I saw Geoffrey Rush perform here a few years ago and he and the play was simply outstanding.
The Belvoir encourages new artists too, with smaller spaces available for emerging talents to show off their works in a professional area. It’s very competitive to get an offer to use the space, so you know you’re not going to be watching something completely amateur.
I can’t guarantee you will love the play you’re seeing as it varies from season to season but I can tell you, that you will love the experience. A great place to get your cultural groove on.

Fantastic place to take in a bit culture. I watched the Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen and it was a very interesting Australiana take of it. The actors performed within the bounds of a glass cube, which worked well as on of the characters was a live duck, quack! The auditorium seats about just under 100 people. I enjoyed waiting for the show to start, the foyer seconds as a bar where you can get a glass of wine and read up on upcoming shows. It’s very rustic and earthy the crowd is a mix of middle-​aged subscribers and young theatre buffs. So it’s really anyones game. I’m lucky enough to know one of the bar-​tenders /​ushers a young Sydney actor Jackie — she’s sure to offer her finest hospitality on your visit.