Black Swan State Theatre Company
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| Address | State Theatre Centre of WA, Level 1, 182 William Street Perth, Western Australia Australia |
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| Production | A Streetcar Named Desire; As You Like It; Dust; The Seagull; Laughter on the 23rd Floor; Gasp!; Flood; The House on the Lake |
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| http://www.bsstc.com.au/ | |
Black Swan State Theatre Company (formerly The Black Swan Theatre Company) is Western Australia's state theatre company. It runs an annual subscription season in Perth at the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, tours its productions regionally and interstate, and screens live broadcasts around the state. Black Swan's Artistic Director is Kate Cherry; past artistic directors include Andrew Ross and Tom Gutteridge.
Black Swan’s inaugural production was Twelfth Night in 1991. The Australian’s Alison Farmer claimed that the new company “soared triumphant”, and that “at last West Australian theatre can be said to have found its own unique way of dealing with the Bard”.
Black Swan’s founding Artistic Director was Andrew Ross; he held the position until 2003. Black Swan’s office and rehearsal room was located at the Old Masonic Hall in Nedlands, and its productions were performed in various theatres around Perth. Black Swan won critical and popular acclaim for both its world premiere productions and locally inspired reinterpretations of international theatre classics. Some of its landmark productions from this period include Bran Nue Dae, Sistergirl, Tourmaline, Corrugation Road (winner of The Age Critics’ Award), The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, Cloudstreet and The Odyssey.
Following Ross’ departure in 2003, Peter Kingston was engaged as Black Swan’s acting Artistic Director until the appointment of Tom Gutteridge in 2004.
In 2008, Black Swan was rebranded Black Swan State Theatre Company, an event which coincided with the appointment of Kate Cherry as the company’s new Artistic Director.
In 2011, Black Swan became one of two Resident Companies in the new State Theatre Centre of WA (the other is Perth Theatre Company). Since then, all of its productions have been performed there in either the Heath Ledger Theatre or the Studio Underground. In its first year at the State Theatre Centre, Black Swan presented the world premiere of Rising Water, the first piece written by acclaimed Western Australian novelist Tim Winton specifically for the stage. In the same year, Black Swan was the first Australian theatre company to broadcast a live stage performance, when Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Kate Cherry, was broadcast in real time to audiences across regional Western Australia.
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