SEYMOUR CENTRE ANNOUNCES 2025 SEASON
“Seamed with pathos and humour” – Time Out Sydney (The Face of Jizo, AUS)
New York Times Critic’s Pick – (Eureka Day, USA)
2024 Nominee Best New Play WhatsOnStage Awards (Cowbois, UK)
★★★★ “Beautiful” – Cultural Binge (RUINS , Sydney)
“Incredibly moving” – Stage Whispers (Glass Child, Brisbane)
*2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the Seymour Centre! For this very special year, Seymour has unveiled an impressive 2025 program, continuing to support Australia’s best independent theatre companies and deliver ambitious theatre works of scale that wrestle with contemporary issues, challenge expectations, and provide an unmissable theatre experience.
Eureka Day (Outhouse Theatre Co.
Seymour is proud to finally reveal an exciting program which includes a Sydney premiere of Kayah and Maitreyah Guenther’s Glass Child (The Farm), New York Times Critic’s Pick Eureka Day (Outhouse Theatre Co), the acclaimed Japanese play by Hisashi Inoue’s The Face of Jizo (Omusubi Productions), the full-length premiere of Emily Ayoub and Madeline Baghurst’s Ruins أطلال (Clockfire Theatre Company), and the Australian premiere of Charlie Josephine’s Cowbois (Siren Theatre Co), a fitting end to the season.
Seymour Centre’s 50 th year begins with the launch of the annual Seymour Season, a set of five must-see events including three international plays and two locally produced works,
presented in partnership with Australia’s best independent theatre companies.
Seymour Centre’s Artistic Director, Timothy Jones said, “Since inception, part of our mission has been to proudly support independent artists and companies to create and present
outstanding performances at Seymour: One Extra Dance Company, Theatre Hydra, Carnivale, Musica Viva, Nimrod Theatre, SIMA Jazz and, more recently, Squabbalogic and
Sport For Jove have all called Seymour Centre their home.
Stills Photographer Dance and Music Promotional
Seymour’s curated performance season provides the foundations that allows major work to flourish. We support independent companies like no other, providing a free venue, technical
and marketing expertise to allow artists to get on with the business of making art… art that both reflects our world and rocks it. And in Season 2025, following on from the success of our
2024 season (Trophy Boys, The Inheritance among others) this is exactly what we will deliver: the best independent performance companies, creating ambitious theatre works ofscale that wrestle with contemporary issues, challenge expectations and provide an unmissable theatre experience. These are stories of now”.
Opening the year in April, Queensland-based contemporary dance company, The Farm, presents the Sydney premiere of Kayah and Maitreyah Guenther’s Glass Child. An “incredibly moving…deeply personal” work (Stage Whispers), Glass Child is a poignantly revealing depiction of the sibling relationship between Kayah, a young man with Down syndrome, and his sister Maitreyah expressed through dance, theatre and storytelling.
In May, Outhouse Theatre Co returns with the highly anticipated Sydney premiere of the New York Times Critic’s Pick Eureka Day by American playwright Jonathan Spector. A smash
hit on Broadway and the West End, Eureka Day has been hailed as the “perfect play for our age of disagreement” (New York Times). Ideological warfare is declared at a cosy, progressive prep school when a mumps outbreak triggers a parental mutiny. Widely topical and screamingly funny, this razor-sharp satire will have you wincing and laughing in equal measure.
The Face of Jizo The Face of Jizo
The Face of Jizo
In August, Omusubi Productions brings one of “the greatest play[s] of Japan’s postwar era” (Saiichi Maruya) Hisashi Inoue’s The Face of Jizo to the Seymour Centre following its sold-out, critically acclaimed Australian premiere season at the Old Fitz Theatre in November 2023.
This acclaimed Japanese play, which centres on a father and daughter in the aftermath of war, is a tale of courage, first love, spirited fathers, and learning to embrace the ghosts of the past.
After a successful first outing in 2024, the Clockfire Theatre Company presents the full- length premiere of RUINS by Emily Ayoub and Madeline Baghurst in September.
RUINS harnesses the magic of visual storytelling and draws on themes of sacrifice, migration and homeland to explore the question: What is our heart’s journey when our
world is split in two?
Rounding out the season in November, Seymour welcomes Siren Theatre Co to present the Australian premiere of Charlie Josephine’s Cowbois directed by Kate Gaul. Originally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Cowbois was described by Time Out UK as “joyously subversive”, and is a rollicking queer Western like nothing you’ve seen before. In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their husbands, swept up in the gold rush, have been missing for almost a year and show no sign of returning. That is until handsome bandit Jack Cannon swaggers up to the town’s saloon. Nominated for Best New Play and Best Costume Design at the 2024 WhatsOnStage Awards, Cowbois is the perfect ending to Seymour’s 2025 season.
As part of Seymour’s 50 th anniversary celebration, the launch kicks off with a special early bird ticket offer of $50 for all full priced tickets*.
Early bird tickets are strictly limited andavailable until 28 February unless sold out prior.
Seymour Centre’s 2025 season shows are also available in a variety of multipacks, on sale now at https://www.seymourcentre.com/
2025 SEYMOUR SEASON-DATES PRODUCTION PRESENTED BY
Glass Child (Sydney premiere) The Farm, Kayah and Maitreyah Guenther, Kate Harman and Gavin Webber 9 – 16 April
Eureka Day (Sydney premiere) Outhouse Theatre Co -29 May to 21 June 2025
The Face of Jizo Omusubi Productions –21 Aug – 6 Sept
RUINS (Full-length premiere) Clockfire Theatre Company –25 Sep – 18 Oct
Dec Cowbois (Australian premiere) Siren Theatre Co 20 Nov – 13
