Symposiums
HSC & YEAR 11
ABOUT SFJ's HSC & YEAR 11 SYMPOSIUMS
Essential opportunities to deepen your student’s practical understanding through experiencing and analysing key scenes and characters in performance.
Sport for Jove’s HSC Performance Symposium series in 2024 offers an even stronger theatrical experience of the plays’ major scenes and characters in performance, coupled with theatrical and dramatic analysis and curriculum-based insights into how they work.
Join Damien Ryan and the team to explore the plays’ multiple meanings, open up diverse critical readings, unlock language & character, hear actors discuss the plays’ famous ambiguities and challenges, and respond students’ questions. A complete, hands-on experience that combines the unfiltered relationship students need with the plays’ action and narrative while also ensuring they are ‘watching with understanding’, in other words, extracting the key ingredients and critical thinking required to write on the plays under exam conditions. Every aspect of the work is geared toward the curriculum and the specific needs of students studying these plays.
Detailed Student Resource Kit included with each Symposium.
EACH SESSION IS 2.5 HOURS IN DURATION
including performance, analysis and discussion
In 2024, we invite you and your students to explore the following plays with us.
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Advanced Module B: Critical Study of Literature.Senior English – Year 11 & 10.
Drama – Years 10-12 – introduction to and sophisticated analysis of Shakespeare’s plays and theatrical practices.
History – Interpretation and Propaganda
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English – Stage 4, 5 & 6 HSC: also suitable for younger years in Drama; Language, Literature, Literacy; The Arts, Theatre and Cultural Studies
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Advanced Module A: Textual Conversations;
Senior English – Year 11 & 10.
Drama – Years 10-12 – introduction to and sophisticated analysis of Shakespeare’s plays and theatrical practices.
History – Interpretation and Propaganda
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English–Stage 6 HSC; Stage 4, 5: also suitable for younger years in Drama; Language, Literature, Literacy; The Arts, Theatre and Cultural Studies
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English – Stage 4, 5, & 6: Drama;
Language, Literature, Literacy;
The Arts, Theatre & Cultural Studies
YEAR 11 SYMPOSIUM
New must-see Symposium for Year 11 Students Damien Ryan has worked on Othello for nearly 30 years, don’t miss this opportunity to join him and a group of exceptional actors as they unlock the story, characters, dramatic structure, themes and theatricality of Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy through scene-work and analysis live on stage at the Seymour Centre. One day only! 2 sessions available!
SYLLABUS LINKS
English – Stage 4, 5, & 6: Drama;
Language, Literature, Literacy;
The Arts, Theatre & Cultural Studies
Dates and Booking
SEYMOUR CENTRE
KING HENRY IV, PART 1
Mon, 12 Mar
Tue, 13 Mar
Sat, 16 Mar
Mon, 18 Mar
11am
11am
7pm
11am
MERCHANT OF VENICE
1.30pm
Wed, 5 Jun
RICHARD III
Thu, 14 Mar
Fri, 15 Mar
Tue, 19 Mar
11am
11am + 7pm
11am
the crucible
Thu, 21 Mar
Mon, 3 Jun
Tue, 4 Jun
11am
10.30am
10.30am
tHE tempest | hagseed
Wed, 20 Mar
Thu, 6 Jun
Fri, 7 Jun
11am
10.30am
1.30pm
OTHELLO
11am
10am
10am
Fri, 22 Mar
Wed, 5 Jun
Fri, 7 Jun
RIVERSIDE THEATRES
tHE CRUCIBLE
Mon, 13 May
Tue, 14 May
10am
10am
OTHELLO
Mon, 13 May
1.30pm
orange civic theatre
tHE tempest | hagseed
Tue, 5 Mar
10am
tHE CRUCIBLE
Tue, 5 Mar
1pm
OTHELLO
Wed, 6 Mar
10am
Please call 02 6393 8111 to make a booking.