Cesario and Word Wrestling Entertainment 2016

Sport for Jove's exciting youth drama initiative the Second Age Project returns for a fourth year, expanded to include a new concept the Third Age Project, featuring Hills District area youth working alongside trained theatre professionals to perform their own theatrical production in a curtain raising performance before the mainstage show at the Sydney Hills Shakespeare in the Park that evening.

Onstage for a limited run from Dec 20th ...

The Second Age Project presents....

CESARIO
It's the summer of 1596, the plague is rife, and Judith Shakespeare -who insists on being called 'Cesario'- is on a mission. While her famous playwright father is making his way home from London, Cesario ventures out into the streets of Stratford Upon Avon, dodging the local twin bullies, entreating the Apothcary's son for a cure, and haggling with the travelling Higgler family for a spell - anything to help save her identical twin brother Hamnet, who is very very ill...

DIRECTOR Scott Sheridan
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS George Banders & Francesca Savige
STAGE MANAGER Thomas Grone
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Sarah Starr
MUSIC COMPOSITION Drew & Naomi Livingstone
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER Tim Dashwood
 
CAST:
Melanie Dobson - Cesario (Judith Shakespeare)
Heath Jelovic - Hamnet Shakespeare/ Hobbler Higgler
Tambre Paris-Kulasin - Martha / Mary / Hatful Higgler
Tara Richardson - Honesty Higgler
Max Ryan - Wattle / Handsome Higgler
Rhyan Starr - Susannah Shakespeare / Hateful Higgler
Emelia Stepneiwski - Daub / Henrietta Higgler
River Winn - The Leader / Horace Higgler
 

The Third Age Project presents...

WORD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT 2016
Written by Francesca Savige, George Banders and William Shakespeare, with creative contributions from the whole ensemble.

WWE 2016 brings Shakespeare's most witty, most woeful, most royal and most dangerous characters into the ring to battle it out with words. The reigning champion Richard the 3rd still wears the crown, but will he be able to hold on to it? Its a high-stakes battle to the death for those who wield words like weapons. Let's get ready to rumble....

DIRECTORS George Banders and Francesca Savige
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Scott Sheridan
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER Tim Dashwood
MUSIC COMPOSITION Drew & Naomi Livingstone
STAGE MANAGER Sarah Starr
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Thomas Grone

CAST
Elen Attard - Tybalt
Meg Attard - Imogen / Benvolio
Ethan Austin - Petruchio / Balthasar
Tamara Bailey - Host / Henry V
Holky Bramble - Desdemona / Abraham
Ben de Pagter - Macbeth / Security / Gossipy Crowd member
Isabella Dib - Ophelia / Witch
Chloe Farrington - Macduff / Gossipy crowd member
Kristy Hampson - Juliet / Gregory
Paris Jeffrey - Katherina / Dorky crowd member
Jussi Jenssen - Leontes / Witch
Ashleigh King - Iago / Sampson/ Eager crowd member
Imogen King - Queen Margaret / Eager crowd member
Mabel Li - Paulina / Dicky 3 Cheersquad
Laura McInnes - Benedick / Dicky 3 Cheersquad
Janvi Mistry - Hemione / Dicky 3 Cheersquad
Hudson Musty - Hamlet
Dinitha Senevirathne - Host / Henry V
Thulitha Senevirathne - Richard III
Nicola Stewart - Helena / Witch
Anna Williamson - Beatrice / Charles the Wrestler
Chloe Zurynski - Lady Anne / The Oracle