NIDA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we learn and tell stories, the Bidjigal, Gadigal, Dharawal and Dharug peoples, and we pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present.
2023 Student Productions Season
Proudly supported by Matchbox Pictures.
Our June and October seasons celebrate eight productions that stretch from gender politics to geopolitics, caress to carnage, to the nature of theatre itself. The seasons feature new Australian works, Australian premieres of bold new international writing, musical theatre, opera, and work at the intersection of film and theatre.
These productions are led by leading Australian and international professional directors, and highlight the work of students from a wide range of disciplines.
Please join us to celebrate a new generation of Australian storytellers working across acting, performance, design, costume, props and effects, technical theatre and stage management, and scenic construction technologies.
David Berthold
Artistic Director in Residence
The Coronation of Poppea – one of the great music dramas – charts the erotic and brutal politics of Nero’s Rome. Emperor Nero and his new love Poppea ruthlessly sweep aside anyone who stands in the way of their union. In this bloodthirsty drama, love triumphs. But at what cost?
Part biography, part spy drama, part absurdist nightmare A Very Expensive Poison looks at the true story of the assassination by poison of Alexander Litvinenko by the Russian secret service in London in 2006.
In this witty satire of power, Shakespeare is put on trial for falsifying history and defaming Richard Sandaime (Richard III), the Grand Master of Ikebana.
An opulent drawing room in the Presidential Palace. Outside: civil war. A Western photojournalist awaits the return of the dictator. She is here to take his portrait. The dictator’s wife, her best friend and an interpreter wait with her. Prada shoes, vodka glasses and light fingers tap out the time. He is late, very late…
