1/32STCSA favourite, Nathan O’Keefe with Nancye Hayes in the 2014 production of The Importance of Being Earnest.
Applause! 50 years of real drama at State Theatre Company of SA
Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Nancye Hayes, Robyn Nevin, Ruth Cracknell, Lisa McCune, Garry McDonald, Sarah Snook, Hugo Weaving, Jacki Weaver, Miriam Margoyles, Paul Blackwell… so many stars have graced the stage for the State Theatre Company of SA.
2/32Catherine McClements in The Events, 2016 – she returns to the company later this year with Chalkface.
3/32Tilda Cobham Hervey, centre, with Eugenia Fragos, right, and Paul Blackwell in Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know To Be True in 2016. The brilliant actor and STCSA stalwart Blackwell died in 2019.
4/32Christine Anu, Casey Donovan, Hollie Andrew and Kylie Farmer in The Sapphires 2011.
5/32Doris Younane is a striking and terrifying Medea in 1995
6/32Eugenia Fragos, Eleanor Stankiewicz and Miriam Margoyles in Neighbourhood Watch, 2014.
7/32Jacki Weaver in Entertaining Mr Sloane, 2010
8/32Jacqy Phillips, Geoff Revell and Annie Maynard in The Government Inspector 2005
9/32Hugo Weaving in Jean Anouilh’s Ring Around the Moon, directed by Rodney Fisher, 1989.
10/32George Spartels (perhaps better known from Play School) and Lorna Lesley, known from many hit Aussie sitcoms including A Country Practice, in Vocations, 1984
11/32Colin Friels and Mel Gibson in Cedoona, 1978. Gibson also starred in Oedipus and Henry IV Parts I and 2. Picture: David Wilson
12/32Geoff Revell and Jacqy Phillips in The Ham Funeral, 2012.
13/32Garry McDonald in Uncle Vanya, 2006, alongside Adelaide favourite Elena Carapetis.
14/32Succession star Sarah Snook was in King Lear opposite John Gaden in 2009.
15/32Lisa McCune and Darren Gilshenan in Machu Picchu, 2016. Lisa most recently starred in Girl from the North Country.
16/32Ruth Cracknell starred in many STCSA shows in the 1980s, including Emerald City, The Importance of Being Earnest and Happy Days. Here she is, at left, alongside Jennifer Hagan in Vita & Virginia, 1999.
17/32Judy Davis, Wayne Jarratt, Isobel Kirk, Michele Stayner, Les Dayman, Tony Prehn, Colin Friels and Mel Gibson in The Les Darcy Show, 1978. This was a year after Judy graduated from NIDA in 1977. She was also in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. Her now husband Colin Friels was also in many STCSA shows including Family Lore, Annie Get Your Gun, Macbeth, Henry IV and Cedoona, opposite Mel Gibson. Picture: David Wilson
18/32Richard Bennett and Gary Sweet in David Williamson’s The Removalists, 1991.
19/32George Kapiniaris in the 2010 production of the play The Give and Take.
20/32Dennis Olsen (back) with (l-r) Sean Taylor, Renato Fabretti and Jacki Weaver for State Theatre Company production of Entertaining Mr Sloane, 2010.
21/32Peter Crossley, Jane Menelaus and Doris Younane (front) show off their Gum Nut Baby, Flannel Flower and Wattle Ball costumes at rehearsals for 'Away'.
22/32Actor Victoria Longley, Martha Lott, John Gaden and Sarah Snook in publicity shot for State Theatre Company production of 'King Lear'.
23/32The incredibly funny production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2011 and 2013) starred Tim Overton, Damian Callinan and Nic English.
24/32Lucy Fry, Xavier Samuel in Chekhov’s The Seagull, 2014. Picture: Shane Reid
25/32Mitchell Butel in Mr Burns, A Post-Electric Play, 2017. Picture: Tony Lewis
26/32Caroline O'Connor in Bombshells, 2005. Picture: Supplied
27/32Robyn Nevin outside the Adelaide Festival Centre with her beagle-blue heeler-cross dog, Nellie, 1989. She was in Adelaide to perform as "Hedda Gabler" .
28/32Ezra Juanta, Mitchell Butel and Jacqy Phillips on stage in Mr Burns, 2017. Picture: Tony Lewis
29/32Pamela Rabe in Footfalls, part of a Beckett Trilogy. Picture: Shane Reid.
30/32'A Flea in Her Ear' with John Gaden, Edwin Hodgeman and John Wood in 1991. Picture: Martin Jacka
31/32John Wood, David Field and Nancye Hayes in Jonah, 1991. Picture: Trina Tepper
32/32Actor and director Robyn Nevin in 1989, during the four-week run of Hedda Gabler.