Dark comedies, new Australian plays and Moby Dick onstage make up an exciting new season.

Promising its freshest, most exciting season to date, Sport for Jove’s 2018 line-up features the world premiere of two new Australian works, an iconic American play, new partnerships with regional theatres, and two classic productions performed in the outdoors.

^{Festival season. Photo © Zelko Nedic.}

Shakespeare’s satirical masterpiece Measure for Measure and an adaptation of Goldoni’s comedy The Servant of Two Masters kicks things off as part of the Summer Festival, which takes place outdoors at Bella Vista Farm Park in Baulkham Hills and Everglades Gardens in Leura. Measure for Measure will be directed by Lizzie Schebesta, “one of the finest minds on Shakespeare’s writing that I have come across in 25 years of working on these plays,” said Festival Director and Sport for Jove Artistic Director Damien Ryan.

“She has extraordinary intuition with the language and the purpose of the writing, particularly seeing the plays in a daring new light. I am extremely excited to have her directing for us...