Jasper Jones play performed in 2016, Sydney, NSW
Jasper Jones: an original stage production (2016), performed in Sydney.
Adapted by Kate Mulvany.
Directed by Anne-Louise Sarks.
Based on the novel of the same name by Craig Silvey.
Performed at: Belvoir St Theatre, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia (archives 1, archives 2).
Performed on: January 2, 2016 to February 7, 2016.
Reviews.
This much-loved novel is given a beautiful stage treatment in Kate Mulvany’s adaptation. Anne-Louise Sarks’s warm and lively production… is brilliantly cast. It is a splendid start to Belvoir’s 2016 season.
— John McCallum for The Australian (source).
Whether you know the book or not, this piercing adaptation is very much worth seeing for the way it depicts – and shows ways across – some of the deep and enduring divides in our society.
— Jason Blake for the Sydney Morning Herald (source, archive 1, archive 2).
This is a moving, astute and often very funny production…
— Ben Neutze for the Daily Review (source, archive).
Mulvany has created something crackling and genuine here, a glimpse of racial and gender inequity in our all-too recent past. Take a teen.
— Cassie Tounge for Aussie Theatre (source, archive1, archive 2).
…the creatively rich production that opens Belvoir’s 2016 with that most welcome phenomenon: the big fat, satisfying, thought-provoking, laugh-making, tear-jerking smash hit.
Above: Actors from Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre bring Craig Silvey's novel Jasper Jones to life on stage. Photo credit: Monique Schafter (photo source, archive).
Above: Charles Wu (playing Jeffrey Lu), Guy Simon (Jasper Jones), and Tom Conroy (Charlie Bucktin) star in stage adaptation of Jasper Jones at Bevloir Theatre. Photo credit: James Brickwood (source: Sydney Morning Herald, archive 1, archive 2).
Above: Playwright Kate Mulvany (left) and director Anne-Louise Sarks (right) at Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre, January 2016. Photo credit: Toby Zerna (source).
Above: Guy Simon in front of the Belvoir St Theatre, December 2015. (Source: Guy Simon's Instagram; archived.)
Read about the Barking Gecko Theatre Company 2014 stage production of Jasper Jones that was performed in Perth.
Read about the Melbourne Theatre Company 2016 stage production of Jasper Jones that was performed in Melbourne.