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What is Sydney Dramaturgical Company?
Sydney Dramaturgical Company is an independent producing organisation based in Sydney, working on Gadigal and Wangal land. The company was established in 2025 by founding producer Aubrey Wang—a writer and theatre-maker interested in psychoanalysis, the aesthetics of bureaucracy, and the limits of communication—to formalise an existing body of work spanning new Australian writing, contemporary adaptations of classical texts, and Auslan-integrated performance. Within Sydney's theatre ecology, the company operates as a cross-sector platform: productions are accompanied by artist–scholar lectures, AI and cultural policy panels, interdisciplinary symposia, and civic dialogue that convenes practitioners from academia, technology, and the arts. The company exists as a legal entity to formalise what was already happening—writing, producing, theorising, and curating moments of collapse, communion, and choreographed failure. It is a small, independent theatre group making new work for live audiences, held together by spreadsheets, group chats, and a lot of last-minute printing. It believes theatre cannot be automated and insists on the singular event—each performance a one-time arrangement of bodies, light, air, and thought.
What kind of work does Sydney Dramaturgical make?
The company produces mainstage productions, salon-scale studio works, development labs, and public discourse programming. In its inaugural 2025 Sydney Fringe season it presented four works across four venues. These were: Antigone!, a trilingual adaptation in English, Attic Greek, and Auslan featuring Deaf performer James Kerwin and onstage Auslan interpretation by Paul Sorauer, with live Greek lyre composition by Amber Allayiotis; Booba, a Noh-inspired work on immigration, identity, and long-distance relationships under neoliberalism, directed by Ziggy Lumley Tow; Adoration Gods, an experimental autofiction two-hander exploring speech as magic, violence, and artifice; and the Australian premiere of Matthew Gasda's Doomers, a dramatisation of the OpenAI boardroom crisis, staged across Tom Mann Theatre and Two80 Cabaret over thirty days of Sydney Fringe and accompanied by a public AI industry panel convening cybersecurity, neuroscience, and digital innovation. A fifth work, Chinese Restaurant, was developed in Melbourne at the Chinese Museum. Beyond production, the company publishes dramaturgical research, commissions essays, and maintains an ongoing critical writing practice currently based between Sydney and New York City.
Do you take review or essay commissions?
Yes. Companies, festivals, producers, and publications can commission reviews by emailing EDITORIAL@sydneydramaturgical.com. The same rigour and interdisciplinary approach that structures the company's theatrical productions (spanning classical adaptation, translational performance, and contemporary political drama) informs every piece of critical writing.