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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Dee Jefferson

Helen Garner, Virginia Woolf and Max Porter headline Belvoir St theatre’s 2025 program

Judy Davis and Elizabeth Alexander in a promotional photograph promoting a 2025 production of Helen Garner's novel the Spare Room at Belvoir St theatre
A stage version of Helen Garner’s novel The Spare Room will debut at Belvoir St theatre in Sydney, starring Judy Davis in her first on-stage role in almost 15 years. Photograph: Daniel Boud/Belvoir

An adaptation of Helen Garner’s award-winning novel The Spare Room will debut at Sydney’s Belvoir St theatre in 2025, starring Judy Davis as a fictionalised version of the author in her first on stage role in almost 15 years.

The announcement caps a banner year for Garner’s work on stage, with an operatic adaptation of The Spare Room in development with the Melbourne company Monstrous Theatre, as well as a remount of the 2008 opera The Children’s Bach.

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