The 15-play season, 11 by Australian writers, includes a 'cine-theatre' staging of Dracula, a co-pro with Dublin's Gate Theatre, and a new production of the musical Dear Evan Hansen.

The five-play season, which includes a world premiere by sisters Mandy and Hayley McElhinney, is the first under new Artistic Director Kate Champion.

Hoy, whose adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall opens next month, has been appointed as the new Fellow, while Kamarra Bell-Wykes has received the Patrick White Playwrights Award.

Director Ian Michael offers a raging, harsh new production of Angus Cerini's play with its clipped, repetitive poetry powerfully delivered by three women of colour.

The playwright, whose Wonnangatta premiered last year starring Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair, is this year’s recipient of Sydney Theatre Company’s $25,000 Fellowship, while Ra Chapman has won the Patrick White Playwrights Award.

Vengeance and resolution, exorcism and benediction, this excellent new production captures the visceral drama of Angus Cerini’s remarkable play.

Angus Cerini’s new play about an unsolved double murder, is atmospherically staged and brilliantly performed by Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair.

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This restaged Gothic murder ballad thrills with its grisly poetry and razor-sharp production.