Black Swan Announces 2017 Season and Creative Shifts

After celebrating the company's 25th birthday in 2016, we look to the future, while at the same time acknowledge those who have made a significant impact on the company. We fondly farewell our Artistic Director of nine years Kate Cherry, who has programmed the majority of the 2017 season. We are thrilled to honour our Founding Artistic Director Andrew Ross who will direct the rarely seen and engaging absurdist classic - Beckett's Endgame, and welcome our new Artistic Director Clare Watson making her directorial debut with the Swedish romantic horror Let the Right One In.

The year commences in the Heath Ledger Theatre with Michael Gow's heartfelt and life-affirming Once in Royal David's City, a co-production with Queensland Theatre, then for the winter season a suitably chilling psychological thriller in Joanna Murray-Smith's Switzerland starring theatre stalwart Jenny Davis.
The Studio Underground showcases: Lally Katz' surreal fantasy about suburban childhood in The Eisteddfod; Pulitzer and Tony award winning I Am My Own Wife, based on the true story of German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf; a Rio Tinto BLACK SWAN Co-commission by resident writer, Hellie Turner in The Lighthouse Girl, a moving commemorative ANZAC story; and the magical realism tale Coma Land by Will O'Mahony.

The season will deliver four mainstage shows in the Heath Ledger Theatre with a record four shows in the Studio Underground. This includes two World Premieres, four WA Premieres, two co-productions, an Australian Premiere and five plays written by Australian playwrights. The year also marks a significant 20 year partnership with Rio Tinto and an array of wonderful community investment programs and initiatives.

Please view our trailer for BLACK SWAN Theatre Company's 2017 season below:

Subscriptions during the priority period are from 10 October to 3 November 2016 with BLACK SWAN single ticket shows on sale on Friday 4 November 2016.

Bookings through Ticketek box offices or via the Ticketek Theatre & Arts Hotline 1300 795 012.

For further information, please visit www.bsstc.com.au

Photo Credit: Robert Frith