Black Swan State Theatre Company Unveil 2016 Season

Black Swan State Theatre Company have revealed their 25th anniversary season.

The season opens in hub for emerging artists Black Swan Lab in Studio Underground, 14 January - 7 February, with LOADED: A Double Bill Of New Plays, featuring Gita Bezard's Girl Shut Your Mouth and Wil O'Mahony's Tonsils + Tweezers. The Hub will then play host to A Perfect Specimen by Perth playwright Nathaniel Moncrieff, 30 June - 17 July.

Black Swan's mainstage, Heath Ledger Theatre, opens with Picnic At Hanging Rock, a co-production with Malthouse Theatre, 1 - 17 April, before Pulitzer winner Angels In America by Tony Kushner makes its WA premiere, in a production directed by Kate Cherry, and starring Adam Booth. 28 May - 19 June.

Black Swan's first international collaboration, with National Theatre Of China, brings Bertoldt Brecht to the mainstage in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, under the directorship of Dr Wang Xiaoying, with Chinese and Australian designers, and featuring an Australian cast, 30 July - 14 August.

Clinton: The Musical, 27 August - 11 September, makes its way from Edinburgh Fringe and Off-Broadway to premiere at Black Swan, by Paul and Michael Hodge and directed by Adam Mitchell, and the season closes, 22 October - 5 November, with a co-production with Queensland Theatre Company, Justin Fleming's adaptation of Molieré's Tartuffe.

For more information, or to purchase a subscription, head to Black Swan State Theatre Company's website.