when: 12 July 2025 - 07 September 2025 | venue: Sydney Theatre Company | cost: Starting from: $40-$125 | address: 15 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, NSW 2000 | website: https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/whats-on/productions/2025/circle-mirror-transformation | tickets: https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/whats-on/productions/2025/circle-mirror-transformation
published: 07 Jul 2025, 5 min read
Life has no rehearsals
Rebecca Gibney (Packed to the Rafters) and Cameron Daddo (Once _at Darlinghurst Theatre) make their Sydney Theatre Company debuts in this humorous and heartbreaking mosaic of daily life. With a knockout ensemble cast also featuring Ahunim Abebe, Nicholas Brown (_Long Forgotten Dream, Still Point Turning) and Jessie Lawrence, Circle Mirror Transformation is a masterpiece of simple beauty and laugh-out-loud relatability by one of America's most exciting playwrights: Pulitzer Prize-winner, Annie Baker.
In a modest, small-town community hall, five people - mostly strangers - come together to take part in an amateur acting class. The class is run by Marty (Gibney), a well-meaning, passionate and provocative teacher who leads the group in a series of drama games. She intends to get them in touch with their inner selves and let their imaginations run free. But as the exercises build in intensity and their lives become further intertwined, real-life drama begins to seep into the curriculum.
Director Dean Bryant (Dear Evan Hansen, Bloom) continues a winning run at STC with a play that unearths spectacular gems from seemingly unassuming moments. From the quietly devastating to the hilariously familiar, Baker's script takes human life and puts it on breathtakingly intimate display.
By Annie Baker, Directed by Dean Bryant
Approx. duration: 1 hr 45 mins (no interval). Subject to change.
Content: Infrequent strong language and mature themes. Subject to change.
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Life has no rehearsals
Rebecca Gibney (Packed to the Rafters) and Cameron Daddo (Once _at Darlinghurst Theatre) make their Sydney Theatre Company debuts in this humorous and heartbreaking mosaic of daily life. With a knockout ensemble cast also featuring Ahunim Abebe, Nicholas Brown (_Long Forgotten Dream, Still Point Turning) and Jessie Lawrence, Circle Mirror Transformation is a masterpiece of simple beauty and laugh-out-loud relatability by one of America's most exciting playwrights: Pulitzer Prize-winner, Annie Baker.
In a modest, small-town community hall, five people - mostly strangers - come together to take part in an amateur acting class. The class is run by Marty (Gibney), a well-meaning, passionate and provocative teacher who leads the group in a series of drama games. She intends to get them in touch with their inner selves and let their imaginations run free. But as the exercises build in intensity and their lives become further intertwined, real-life drama begins to seep into the curriculum.
Director Dean Bryant (Dear Evan Hansen, Bloom) continues a winning run at STC with a play that unearths spectacular gems from seemingly unassuming moments. From the quietly devastating to the hilariously familiar, Baker's script takes human life and puts it on breathtakingly intimate display.
By Annie Baker, Directed by Dean Bryant
Approx. duration: 1 hr 45 mins (no interval). Subject to change.
Content: Infrequent strong language and mature themes. Subject to change.
Go see Circle Mirror Transformation 2025.
Circle Mirror Transformation 2025 is on 12 July 2025 - 07 September 2025. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Walsh Bay. Call 02 9250 1777 for details. Visit their website at https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/whats-on/productions/2025/circle-mirror-transformation.
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