Sport for Jove
HSC & Year 11 Symposiums
Tuesday 30 June | Suitable for HSC & Year 11
Essential opportunities to deepen your student’s practical understanding through experiencing and analysing key scenes and characters in performance
Sport for Jove’s HSC Performance Symposiums series in 2026 offers a powerful theatrical experience of the plays’ major scenes and characters in performance, coupled with theatrical analysis and curriculum-based insights into how they work.
Designed specifically for Years 9 – 12, this intensive session, tailored to the curriculum, blends extended live performance of key scenes with expert commentary from Damien Ryan and his team. Students will explore famous speeches and moments through multiple interpretations, unpacking language, character, and critical perspectives in real time.
The Crucible | Tuesday, 30 June | 9:30am | Years 9-12
Students will delve into the characters’ motivations, examine the play’s structure and language, and tackle its big ideas, all guided by professional actors deeply familiar with the text.
The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s parable of mass hysteria, is a portrait of the ordinary evils latent in any society, of mindless, hysterical persecution through ignorance, fear of ‘otherness’, and human capacity to serve ourselves above all others, making it one of the world’s most transcendent and important stories, in any age!
Duration: 2 Hours 30 Minutes (Including performance, analysis, discussion and brief interval)
The Tempest /Hag-Seed | Tuesday, 30 June | 1:30pm | Years 9-12
This interactive symposium invites students to explore The Tempest’s enchanting characters, poetic language, and transformative themes, with a direct contrast and comparison to Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed
This tempest is not only in Prospero – the storm lies in the contradictions and ambiguities the story throws up about freedom and slavery, civilisation and barbarism, legacy and letting go, lust and chastity, youth and age, revenge and forgiveness. The sea is a place of transformation but also represents the capriciousness of nature, chaos, or fate.
Duration: 2 Hours 30 Minutes (Including performance, analysis, discussion and brief interval)
The Tempest /Hag-Seed | Tuesday, 30 June | 1:30pm | Years 9-12
This interactive symposium invites students to explore The Tempest’s enchanting characters, poetic language, and transformative themes, with a direct contrast and comparison to Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed
This tempest is not only in Prospero – the storm lies in the contradictions and ambiguities the story throws up about freedom and slavery, civilisation and barbarism, legacy and letting go, lust and chastity, youth and age, revenge and forgiveness. The sea is a place of transformation but also represents the capriciousness of nature, chaos, or fate.
Duration: 2 Hours 30 Minutes (Including performance, analysis, discussion and brief interval)