EDUCATION SEASON 2025
WELCOME
A MESSAGE FROM EDUCATION COORDINATOR
GEORGE BANDERS
Welcome, teachers, to an inspiring 2025! We’re kicking off the year with three exciting production offerings for your students:
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Henry IV Part 1
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Richard III
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Macbeth
This year, our education productions are launching these classic plays into the contemporary world, giving your students the chance to connect deeply with themes, characters, and behaviours that are relevant to their own lives. It’s a thrilling way to explore timeless stories through a fresh lens, sparking conversations beyond the classroom!
Students can experience Henry IV and Richard III as standalone plays or as part of Sport for Jove’s epic History Cycle, from Richard II to Richard III, including Henry IV and Hal’s rise to Henry V. This is an invaluable experience, offering incredible clarity on Shakespeare’s grand historical vision—bold, intense, and electrifying.
We are thrilled to bring you our learning festival of plays, workshops, and symposiums. Together, we’ll unlock texts, breathe life into characters, and inspire student imagination for years to come.
Teaching these plays can be challenging, and we’re here to support you. Whether you bring your students to the theatre or we bring our experienced teams to your classrooms, we’re excited to collaborate on creating a rich, engaging learning experience. We believe in active learning through movement and voice, engaging students as participating audiences, not just textbook learners.
Explore our “swag bag” of offerings and start planning for 2025! Let’s work together to tailor workshops that align with the curriculum and your students’ needs. We're passionate about detail, language, ideas, and meaning, and we believe learning can be fun.
Warm regards,
The Education Support Team at Sport for Jove
“ The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. ”
- William S. Burroughs
A huge thanks to our Principal Education Partner, Seymour Centre and all our other venues that will be hosting us throughout the year.
2025 Productions
For more than a decade, our Education Program has been where teachers turn to so their students can experience rich and engaging productions, deepening their understanding and relationship to the text.
In 2025 we offer 3 mainstage productions: Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, Part 1, Richard III and Macbeth.
Performances will take place for school audiences at:
NSW
The Seymour Centre, Sydney
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
Orange Civic Theatre, Orange
Roxy Theatre, Leeton
Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Nowra
QLD
The Events Centre, Caloundra
HOTA, Gold Coast
The Empire Theatre, Toowoomba
We will offer detailed Student Resource Kits for all works in the season.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
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STUDENT RESOURCE KIT INCLUDED IN ALL BOOKINGS
2025 HSC & YEAR 11 SYMPOSIUMS
"It is always a pleasure to attend Sport for Jove symposiums as they are aimed at the right level for students to understand and yet challenging enough to get them thinking more critically about
the texts."
Jackie Doman, Teacher, Rouse Hill Anglican College
Sport for Jove’s HSC Performance Symposiums series in 2025 offers a powerful theatrical experience of the plays’ major scenes and characters in performance, coupled with theatrical 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 and character, hear actors discuss the plays’ famous ambiguities and challenges, and respond to 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.
We extract the key ingredients and critical thinking required to write on plays under exam conditions. Every aspect of the work is geared toward the curriculum and the specific needs of students studying these plays.
EACH SESSION IS 2.5 HOURS IN DURATION
including performance, analysis, discussion and a brief interval.
Detailed Student Resource Kit included with each Symposium.
In 2025, we invite you and your students to explore the following plays with us:
The Tempest | Hagseed
The Crucible
Othello
The Merchant of Venice
THE SHAKESPEARE CARNIVAL
Join us for our Lucky 9th year! Raise the profile of the arts in your school, give your students a challenge with a chance to shine and unite the school arts community with our links to English, Drama, Dance, Visual Art Curriculum.
The Shakespeare Carnival is a chance for students to develop literacy and collaboration skills, complex problem solving and leadership abilities, confidence and resilience as they act, dance, perform music or make short films on a smartphone.
youth WORKSHOP SERIES
Throughout 2025, Sport for Jove will offer a series of workshops for secondary school students.
Whether it be demystifying Shakespeare, scene work, improvisation, or working on your HSC monologue pieces, you can be sure Sport for Jove will have something on offer for you.
As a participant in our Pre-Professional Series, you will experience first-hand what it is like to be a Jove-actor, extending your range, uncovering tension, and playing imaginatively with your peers.
Workshops will be led by Sport for Jove staff members and industry professionals, giving you access to world-class theatre training in a safe, supportive environment.
We will release details about each workshop on our website throughout the year. Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to receive information.
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Booking WITH OUR VENUE PARTNERS
To reserve seats or request more information on Sport For Jove’s 2025 Education Season, contact our venue partners below...
PRINCIPAL EDUCATION, VENUE & PRESENTING PARTNER
SEYMOUR CENTRE
Cnr City Road & Cleveland Street, Sydney
(02) 9351 7940
w: seymourcentre.com
e: schoolbookings@seymour.sydney.edu.au
VENUE PARTNERS
ROXY THEATRE
114-118 Pine Avenue, Leeton
(02) 6953 2074
w: roxyleeton.com.au
HOME OF THE ARTS, GOLD COAST
135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise
(07) 5588 4000
w: hota.com.au
THE EVENTS CENTRE, CALOUNDRA
20 Minchinton St, Caloundra
(07) 5491 4240
w: theeventscentre.com.au
THE EMPIRE THEATRE, TOOWOOMBA
154-56 Neil Street, Toowoomba
(07) 4698 9900
w: empiretheatre.com.au
Reserve
Head to the relevant booking location and reserve your tickets (venues will be COVID-safe and you will be updated with all the latest health advice in 2024)
Confirm
Confirm your numbers and pay the deposit or full payment based on the venue booking policy. Please check in with the relevant venue directly in regards to their policy. If you are on a wait list, you will be contacted to lock in your booking.
Attend
Come along with your students on the day, aim to arrive at the venue 30 minutes prior to the start time. Seating for schools is by general admission, each school is asked to enter the theatre as a group. And please enjoy the show!