Tactile Tours are designed to introduce visitors with disability to new ways of experiencing and enjoying contemporary sculpture. Guided by experienced and specialist training Sculpture by the Sea staff and guides from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, participants will be encouraged to engage with sculpture through informed discussion and touch. 

The 2015 Tactile Tour program also provides audio description tours for participants who are blind or vision impaired. Cost is FREE. Please visit the Sculpture by the Sea website to find out how to book.

Anton Chekhov’s first play was a sprawling, unstructured epic but it marked out the style and themes he would return to in his later masterworks from The Seagull to The Cherry Orchard. It remains a mysterious, unpolished gem.

The manuscript, left unpublished until almost two decades after Chekhov’s death, lacked a title. Over the years it has inspired various adaptations – Wild Honey, Fatherlessness, The Disinherited – but it is most commonly referred to as Platonov, the name of the man at its centre. And yet, the play has always contained another extraordinarily rich and complex character – that of Anna Petrovna

Taking on these roles for Sydney Theatre Company are the fearsome talents of Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh. Irish director John Crowley, renowned for his work on the West End and Broadway, brings his lean and precise theatrical vision.  Visit the STC website to book the Auslan interpreted performance Thursday 17 September 7.30pm