CHARACTER ROLES, LEADS, CAMEOS & AWARDS
THEATRE
"For a long time we've been asking the question of whether the theatre is dead but the virus has led to an explosion of our sense of what's valuable because we have been left so isolated. We need the sense of dialogue the theatre gives. I think it's as simple as that. Theatre gives us something the screen can't. It gives us something that film can't get, that Netflix can't get, the sounding board between the writer and the art. There's a sense of immersion that cannot be found anywhere and a sense of immediacy in the theatre. We're all in the dark and we're all around the fire. Theatre is the original storytelling." - Sigrid Thornton, actor
THE AGE/SMH 2020
THE AGE/SMH 2020
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"Sigrid Thornton is Australian entertainment royalty. As Golde, she is both the supporting wife but knows how far to allow her old-fashioned husband to go before she needs to give him a reality check." - Man In Chair 2016 |
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THEATRE ROLES
THE SEAGULL
By Anton Chekhov in a new adaptation by Andrew Upton. Directed by Imara Savage Sigrid Thornton returns to STC as the larger-than-life diva Irina, in a contemporary, gutsy and darkly funny new adaptation from Australia’s greatest interpreter of Chekhov: former STC Artistic Director Andrew Upton (The Present, Three Sisters). In a country house beside a lake, love triangles, intrigue and thwarted egos run amok. The glamorous, ageing thespian Irina Arkadina has arrived for a romantic getaway with her much younger lover, the novelist Boris. Irina’s son Constantine, a struggling playwright, is besotted with a beautiful ingénue from the next house over, Nina. But when a flirtation blossoms between Nina and Boris, jealousy, ambition and a lack of phone signal throw the whole party into various states of crisis. Director Imara Savage last beguiled STC audiences with her revelatory production Saint Joan in 2018. In The Seagull, Savage and a thrilling cast featuring Arka Das, Michael Denkha, Harry Greenwood, Markus Hamilton, Mabel Li, Sean O’Shea, Toby Schmitz, Megan Wilding and Brigid Zengeni, will take Upton’s wry and offbeat sense of humour to new heights in this ambitious investigation of the power of art and the complicated personalities that make it happen. The first of Chekhov’s great masterpieces, The Seagull is a smart, funny and moving play that is unmissable for anyone who loves theatre. In the hands of these extraordinary artists, we are in for something very special. |
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The Blue Room
Sigrid made her much-anticipated second professional theatre appearance in the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) / ICA production of The Blue Room in Melbourne in January 2003. After months of hype and speculation about the ‘controversial’ nude scenes, theatre critics and theatre goers quickly forgot the brief flashes of flesh and were entranced by Sigrid’s sensational performance opposite Marcus Graham.
One of the most complex and difficult plays for an actor to perform, The Blue Room required Sigrid to play five completely different characters over 10 scenes in a journey of exploration through the complexities of sexual relationships. With multiple accents to master and the challenge of lightening fast wardrobe changes, critics were unanimous in their praise for her flawless performance. The MTC was similarly impressed when the play sold out prior to opening night and additional seats in the extended season were quickly snatched up by eager theatre goers. In fact, The Blue Room broke all previous sales records for a non-musical performed by the MTC, not just once, but several times in the days following the announcement of an extended season.
Sigrid made her much-anticipated second professional theatre appearance in the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) / ICA production of The Blue Room in Melbourne in January 2003. After months of hype and speculation about the ‘controversial’ nude scenes, theatre critics and theatre goers quickly forgot the brief flashes of flesh and were entranced by Sigrid’s sensational performance opposite Marcus Graham.
One of the most complex and difficult plays for an actor to perform, The Blue Room required Sigrid to play five completely different characters over 10 scenes in a journey of exploration through the complexities of sexual relationships. With multiple accents to master and the challenge of lightening fast wardrobe changes, critics were unanimous in their praise for her flawless performance. The MTC was similarly impressed when the play sold out prior to opening night and additional seats in the extended season were quickly snatched up by eager theatre goers. In fact, The Blue Room broke all previous sales records for a non-musical performed by the MTC, not just once, but several times in the days following the announcement of an extended season.
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The Effect, Melbourne Theatre Company
BYRON BACHE THEATRE CRITIC HERALD SUN AUGUST 22, 2014 Sigrid Thornton shines in “The Effect” MEDITATIONS on the nature of love by hot young British playwrights seem to be the high water mark at the Melbourne Theatre Company. The Effect rounds out a triptych that includes the 2013 mounting of Nick Payne’s Constellations and this year’s production of Cock by Mike Bartlett. All three of these knotty, political examinations of the heart were directed by Leticia Caceres, who might just be the smartest director on the MTC’s books right now.Writer Lucy Prebble’s play places us squarely in the middle of a drug trial. Connie (Zahra Newman) and Tristan (Nathaniel Dean) have signed up for a four-week, live-in course of a new anti-depressant. As the weeks pass and their dosage increases, the pair fall for each other, hard. Is it a chemically induced dopamine spike, or is it love? Is there even a difference? And what if one of them is in the control group, taking a placebo? The trial is overseen by psychiatrist Dr Lorna James (Sigrid Thornton), who insists anti-depressants do nothing. “We’re going to look back at this chemical imbalance shit like it’s the four humours all over again,” she says to Toby (William McInnes), an old flame who’s traded psychiatric research for a plum gig as the drug company’s TED-talk-ready public face. Caceres’s staging has an incredible tenderness about it. The material could easily invite histrionics, but they never appear. There’s some shaky pacing in the opening, but things are quickly righted. Prebble’s script could have been a two-hour-long dig at the pharmaceutical industry, but it’s subtle, controlled and as heart-rending as it is funny. Andrew Bailey’s set, a maze of translucent walls that fly in and out, is one part in the perfect little fugue of Kate Davis’s costumes, Chris More’s projection and Damien Cooper’s lighting, all sticking to the same limited palette before blowing it out in the final scenes. And a pulsing, moody sound design by The Sweats ties it all together. The performances are spellbinding. Newman and Dean have a fascinating, caveat-laden chemistry as the medicated lovers, and Caceres has fashioned McInnes’s occasional tendency towards woodenness into the facade surrounding something far more layered. But it’s Sigrid Thornton who’s the star here, and rightfully so. Her Lorna is a biting, wound-up, droll creation, and her reluctant unravelling is brilliant. The Effect is that rare beast: a rich, challenging play that’s as moving as it is intelligent. See it. Now. THE EFFECT Melbourne Theatre Company Rating: ★★★★ 
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Black Swan Theatre Company Ever since the play opened on Broadway in 1947, directors can't resist restaging the story of love, lust, passion and power set in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Much-loved Australian actress Sigrid Thornton plays the lead role of Blanche DuBois, an aging Southern Belle who has come to live with her sister Stella and Stella's husband Stanley after losing her family's fortune. Kate Cherry is the director of the play, as well as the Artistic Director of the Black Swan State Theatre Company. Her father also directed Australia's first staging of A Streetcar Named Desire. |
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