The Season
Student Tickets
Primary, secondary and tertiary students are entitled to discounted tickets for Black Swan's four Playhouse Theatre productions for 2008 (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Female of the Species, Far Away, Cyrano de Bergerac) and Jandamarra, which will be playing at the Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre. When purchasing individual tickets, secondary and tertiary students must show student identification. Discounted ticket prices are also available for the productions at PICA, Subiaco Arts Centre and His Majesty's Theatre
Student Ticket Price for Playhouse Productions & Jandamarra: $20.00
Teachers and lecturers are able to make a group student booking through BOCS Ticketing. With every group student booking, teachers/lecturers will be sent a complimentary Education Resource Kit developed by Black Swan's Education Manager and for every 10 students booked 1 teacher/lecturer receives a complimentary ticket (maximum 10 complimentary tickets issued).
Dive In and Book a School Subscription
A school subscription provides a valuable and cost effective opportunity for middle and upper secondary students to experience a wide range of theatre in a variety of venues at a discounted ticket price. A group of 10 or more students can select two, three or four shows from the season. Please note advance payment is required for subscription bookings.
School 4 Play Subscription Ticket: $63.00 per student
(Your choice of 3 Playhouse seasons + The Caucasian Chalk Circle or 2 Playhouse seasons + Jandamarra + The Caucasian Chalk Circle.)
School 3 Play Subscription Ticket: $51.00 per student
(Your choice of 3 Playhouse seasons or 2 Playhouse seasons + Jandamarra)
School 2 Play Subscription Ticket: $35.00 per student
(Your choice of 2 Playhouse seasons or 1 Playhouse season + Jandamarra)
Please note that complimentary teacher subscriptions are capped at a total of 5.
School Booking Form for easy school bookings download a School Booking Form
Black Swan Theatre Company's
2008 School Subscription Season
Jandamarra
Growing up just as the first pastoralists were cutting a swathe through his native lands, Jandamarra is one of Australia’s ultimate tragic heroes. Station childhood, angry young man, police tracker of his own people and finally inspirational leader of the most successful Indigenous resistance against white settlement, his life was lived on the jagged edge of change and uncertainty.Playwright and long-term Kimberley identity, Steve Hawke has worked with Bunuba and Kriol translators on what will be the first trilingual mainstage theatre production in Australia’s history (production in Bunuba, English and Kriol with English surtitles).
Warning: Some explicit language, violence and partial female nudity (toplessness).
Venue: Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre, Pavilion 6
Preview: Sat 9th Feb 7.30pm / Mon 11th Feb 6.30pm
Season: 12th – 23rd February
Times: Mon 6.30pm, Tues – Sat 7.30pm
Matinees: Thurs 14th Feb 11am, Sat 16th Feb 2.15pm, Sat 23rd Feb 2.15pm
Target Audience: High school year levels 10 – 12 and tertiary students
Target Audience: High school year levels 10-12 and tertiary students
Learning Areas: Drama, English, Society and Environment, Aboriginal and Indigenous Studies.
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Brecht’s most successful and widely regarded play. Infused with live music, song and movement the HotBed artists will rework this classic into a lively contemporary setting. Not to be missed!Venue: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)
Preview: Thurs 28th Feb 8pm
Season: 29th February – 15th March
Times: Tues-Sat 8pm
Matinees: Thurs 6th Mar 11am, Sat 8th Mar 2.15pm, Thurs 13th Mar 11am
Target Audience: High school year levels 10 – 12 and tertiary students
Learning Areas: Drama and English
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
George and Martha, those arch-monsters of American theatre who have enthralled and appalled audiences for 50 years, return for another bout of marital warfare and ‘Get the Guests'. With all the terrifying fascination of watching a four car pile-up in slow motion, Albee's modern classic plumbs the depths and scales the heights of polite middle-class cruelty with such wit and brilliance it will leave you breathless.Venue: Playhouse Theatre – Pier Street Perth
Preview: Sat 17th May 7.30pm, Mon 19th May 6.30pm
Season: 20th May – 1st Jun
Times: Tues 27th May 6.30pm, Wed – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 1st Jun 5pm
Matinees: Thurs 22nd May 11am, Sat 24th May 2.15pm
Target audience: High school year levels 10 – 12 and tertiary students
Learning Areas: Drama and English
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The Female of the Species
Inspired by Germaine Greer's experience in 2000 with a female intruder in her home, Joanna Murray-Smith's feminist farce sparks with an intelligence and confidence worthy of Greer herself.Margot is ‘sprinting for a deadline' in her country home when she is confronted by Molly. What appears to be hero-worship slowly takes on a sinister edge as it emerges that Molly blames Margot's ever-changing feminist perspective for ruining her life and killing her mother. The upshot of this ‘show down' is never predictable and always hilarious
Venue: Playhouse Theatre – Pier Street Perth
Preview: Sat 21st Jun 7.30pm, Mon 23rd Jun 6.30pm
Season: 24th June – 6th July
Times: Tues 1st Jul 6.30pm, Wed – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 6th Jul 5pm
Matinees: Thurs 26th Jun 11am, Sat 28th Jun 2.15pm
Target Audience: High school year levels 10 – 12 and tertiary students
Learning Areas: Drama and English
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Far Away
Caryl Churchill’s miniature masterpiece Far Away once again defies category and precedent. Set in an unnamed totalitarian state in the near future, Far Away draws disturbingly on our recent memories of conflict – Bosnia? Northern Ireland? Iraq? – and combines this with an Alice in Wonderland fantasy world in which the familiar is made strange and the strange, familiar. An exhilarating challenge to the mind and emotions.Venue: Playhouse Theatre – Pier Street Perth
Preview: Sat 16th Aug 7.30pm, Mon 18th Aug 6.30pm
Season: 19th – 31st August
Times: Tues 26th Aug 6.30pm, Wed – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 31st Aug 5pm
Matinees: Thurs 21st Aug 11am, Sat 23rd Aug 2.15pm
Target Audience: High school year levels 10 – 12 and tertiary students
Learning Areas: Drama and English
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmund Rostand’s classic tale of of a nose so large it kept a great love unrequited, is a wild and glorious poem in praise of love and sacrifice. It is a hugely entertaining, swashbuckling, fairytale adventure aimed straight at your heart.Venue: Playhouse Theatre – Pier Street Perth
Preview: Sat 18th Oct 7.30pm, Mon 20th Oct 6.30pm
Season: 21st October – 2 November
Times: Tues 28th Oct 6.30pm, Wed – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 2nd Nov 5pm
Matinees: Thurs 23rd Oct 11am, Sat 25th Oct 2.15pm
Target Audience: High school year levels 10 – 12 and tertiary students
Learning Areas: Drama, English, LOTE and Society and Environment
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