We are a registered COVID-Safe business and we're committed to making your Seymour visit as safe and enjoyable as possible.

Due to physical distancing requirements, the theatre will operate at 50% reduced capacity during school shows. School groups will be spaced apart according to NSW Government guidelines. If spacing is required within your school group, please contact schoolbookings@seymour.sydney.edu.au

The booking teacher will be listed as the school group’s point-of-contact for contact tracing.

Schools are responsible for ensuring that any staff and students who are unwell, awaiting a COVID test result, or under instruction to self-isolate do not attend. 

Masks are encouraged, but ultimately up to the discretion of schools.

Find out about our other COVID safety measures here.

No Shakespearean play is more moving or offers a more modern x-ray of contemporary political tensions.

A general from outside Venice - enlisted as a child soldier at the age of seven - now leads a Christian naval force in what appears to be a fully assimilated and enlightened racial environment. Until his sexuality crosses a boundary that stirs latent hatreds and xenophobic fears of the ‘other’. Venice, a city resting precariously on its own watery grave, and Cyprus, a frontier surrounded by enemies and a hostile ocean, are the battlefields upon which family, love, community, trust, ambition, and jealousy are put on the severest trial.

Relentless, dark, and even darkly funny, Othello disturbs in us the very real thoughts we don’t dare to share, even to think, and the very real things people do to each other.

Image credit: Seiya Taguchi