Sydney Dramaturgical Company is a company that produces theatre in odd years and that, in even years, takes on the work that circulates around it: the way a show is named, positioned, listed, distributed, reviewed, archived.
This work does not surround the show; it is part of it. The description belongs to the thing described; the archive belongs to the performance; the press release belongs to the text. A show is not an object to be packaged after the fact; it is an assemblage that constitutes itself as it meets its outside.
Discovery call. Thirty minutes. We learn what the show is, where the production stands, and what is missing. Free; no commitment.
Brief. We send a written brief naming the services we'd recommend, the deliverables, the timeline, and the price. You take all of it, part of it, or none of it.
Positioning session. Where we begin if we work together. One to two hours. We figure out who the show is for, what makes it specific, and what survives a tough crowd. Deliverable: a one-page positioning document from which the rest of the work proceeds.
Production-phase work. Copy; listings; casting; rehearsal documentation; social assets; press outreach; preview management. Weekly check-ins. We work to the production's schedule.
Opening and run. Press coordination; review monitoring; audience feedback collection; production photography asset turnover.
Archive. After closing night, we assemble the production record: summary, dates, venue, cast and creative team, photos, reviews, audience feedback, director reflection, press links. The archive becomes part of the artist's portfolio and the production's searchable record.
[box office 2025 starting with an eeny weeny budget]
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September 1, 2025
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7:00 PM (evening); 2:00 PM (matinee, 7 September only)
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Australian premiere of Matthew Gasda's Doomers, a two-act corporate psychodrama about a fictionalised OpenAI boardroom crisis. Directed by Victoria Lenehan. Set in the not-so-distant past — 2023 — when the AI takeover was still speculative, not inevitable. The Sydney Dramaturgical production split performances between two Surry Hills venues: Two80 Cabaret for the evening runs (1, 9, 29, 30 September) and Tom Mann Theatre for the 7 September matinee and evening shows. The 7 September performances were accompanied by a free public panel, AI-pocalypse Now? Australia's AI Future, featuring Professor Alana Maurushat of Western Sydney University. Reviewed in The Scoop by Christian Claye Edwards and in Pulp Magazine by Anastasia Dale. Presented by Sydney Dramaturgical Company as part of Sydney Fringe Festival 2025. 1–30 September 2025.
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September 4, 2025
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7:00 PM
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World premiere. Co-written and co-performed by Anastasia Dale and Ava Broinowski, two writers associated with the University of Sydney student press. An experimental two-hander built from a sequence of public addresses — wedding speeches, eulogies, confessions — that interrogated the construction of self-narrative. The production's central scenographic device was a suspended overhead mirror at Rofe Street Theatre, which placed the audience's own reactions in the field of view. Produced by Aubrey Wang. Tech by Rupert McEvoy. Presented by Sydney Dramaturgical Company as part of Sydney Fringe Festival 2025. Reviewed at length in Honi Soit by Alex Butler. 4–6 September 2025, Rofe Street Theatre, Leichhardt.
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September 23, 2025
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7:00
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World premiere. Directed by Ziggy Lumley Tow in his theatrical debut. An experimental tragicomedy on immigration, identity, and long-distance relationships under neoliberalism, inspired by the structure of Japanese Noh theatre. Starring Kyrah Brock-Fenton (Home and Away, Housos) as Booba, with Agustin Lamas as Homie. Set design by Lottie Braun (Lottie World) and Hamish Shorrocks. Wardrobe by Diaan Vitnell, NAS BFA Sculpture graduate. Ambient soundtrack by Umki, multidisciplinary artist from Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. Set pieces sourced from The Bower Reuse and Repair Centre, Marrickville. Presented by Sydney Dramaturgical Company as part of Sydney Fringe Festival 2025. 23–27 September, The Actors Pulse Playhouse, Redfern.
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