State Theatre Company South Australia will put Australian writers and local voices at the centre of its 2027 season, with six new Australian works among eight productions, including two Company commissions, two works by award-winning artists and two productions developed through the SPARK program.

Announced by Artistic Director Petra Kalive at Adelaide’s Her Majesty’s Theatre, the season ranges from a contemporary reimagining of an ancient Greek epic to a revival of Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and a stage adaptation of South Australian author Pip Williams’ The Bookbinder of Jericho.

Kalive says the emphasis on Australian work emerged during the year-long process of developing the program rather than from a predetermined plan.

STCSA Artistic Director Petra Kalive and Executive Director Kath Fyffe. Photo © Claudio Raschella

“It kind of evolved over the year,” she says. “It’s not that international work wasn’t on my radar. I wasn’t considering it, but as the year progressed, I’m just thinking about works that spoke most urgently to the conversations we’re having culturally, and works that were going...