Red Stitch Actors Theatre

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Red Stitch Actors Theatre
Address2 Chapel Street
St Kilda East, Victoria
Capacity 80
Website
redstitch.net

Red Stitch Actors Theatre is an ensemble theatre company based in Melbourne, Australia.

Established in 2001 and with its first season in 2002, Red Stitch has presented over 100 contemporary plays. These include works from international playwrights such as Edward Albee, Annie Baker, Jez Butterworth, Martin Crimp, Amy Herzog, Sarah Kane, Neil LaBute and Simon Stephens, and more recently Australian playwrights such as Melissa Bubnic, Tom Holloway and Joanna Murray-Smith. [1] [2]

Red Stitch's 80-seat theatre is a converted church hall on Chapel Street, St Kilda East opposite the Astor Theatre. [3] The company was based until 2003 in an industrial building in Inkerman Street, St Kilda. [4] Red Stitch occasionally plays seasons at Arts Centre Melbourne's Fairfax Studio and tours to other cities across Australia.

In 2019, Red Stitch revamped the Cromwell Road Theatre in South Yarra as a flexible space seating up to 120, to be a second venue for the company. [5]

Red Stitch productions have won and been nominated for numerous Melbourne Green Room Awards, including receiving the 2006 Green Room Award for Production - Theatre Companies for Harvest by Richard Bean. Its production of Red Sky Morning by Tom Holloway was nominated for the national Helpmann Award for Best Regional Touring Production in 2011.

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References

  1. "Red Stitch announce 2016 season celebrating 15 years". Arts Review. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  2. Bailey, John (27 August 2006). "Reap and sow for all". The Age . Melbourne. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  3. Usher, Robin (1 December 2010). "Well Red ensemble sticks to the script". The Age . Melbourne. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  4. Usher, Robin (15 March 2002). "Why build a house when you can build a theatre?". The Age . Melbourne. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  5. Francis, Hannah (22 November 2019). "Red Stitch opens second theatre against the odds". The Age. Retrieved 24 January 2020.