By Katherine Porritt-Fraser, for Pulp Media

“The Bleeding Tree paints a nuanced and complicated picture of survivors of violence. It gives them the complexity their stories have always deserved. It is not the glossy, polite theatre we are used to, and that is what makes it powerful. It is gritty, messy, challenging and unapologetic. It won’t let you look away from the story it’s trying to tell.”

By Jonah Dunch, for Pulp Media

“I peek into the Cellar Theatre, where cast and crew are busy setting up for one of the final rehearsals of Younger and Smaller. They follow me back out of the Cellar’s black-walled, postered lobby and up the narrow concrete stairs to sit in a circle on the lawn. Actor Frank Yang is still wearing his head, and director James Mukheibir—despite the quick turnaround on this three-week production cycle—is managing not to lose his.”

By The Sydney Morning Herald

"It captures that moment they all shared –that sense of wonderful possibilities that getting into Sydney University at this time represented. This group of students certainly made the most of it: they created at Sydney University a remarkable ripple that a decade later became the new wave of Australian theatre and filmmaking."

By Matthew Forbes, for Honi Soit

“With performances dating back to 1883, SUDS has long been a welcoming hub for artistic expression and diversity. Many active members of the society, however, feel that there is still work to be done in ensuring the inclusion of creatives from a wider scope of backgrounds – specifically, those of a non-cisgender identity. This lack of representation is what the team behind SUDS’ first main production of 2020 – ‘Slot 1’ – are hoping to rectify as they bring Sarah Ruhl’s stage adaptation of the seminal novel Orlando to the Cellar Theatre.”

By Honi Soit

“Dating back to the early parts of last century, the burgeoning S.U. Dramatic Society (SUDS) had no on-campus theatre to call home. The smaller SUDS productions were staged in Wallace Theatre or in the upstairs rooms of what is now the Holme Building; and the larger, more spectacular productions were staged in the Great Hall.”

By Patrick Morrow and Peter Walsh, for Honi Soit, in memory of Elliot, the 2015 SUDS social secretary and an avid performer and contributor to the performing arts community in USYD

“He leaves behind a far longer lifetime’s worth of brilliant memories, and a renewed urgency: do everything you can, as well as you can; trust the things and people you love, and love them hard. Be fearless, be direct and be kind. None of us can afford to waste any time.”

By Edward Furst for Pulp

“Bell once wrote that if you “were a serious theatre goer and wanted Shakespeare, Aristophenes, Beckett, Sartre, Brecht, or anything experimental’, you had to take in SUDS or the Players”, the latter being a rival dramatic society on campus at the time.”

By Honi Soit

“Part of the Cellar Theatre’s ceiling collapsed on the evening of Thursday, June 1, forcing the Sydney University Dramatic Society (SUDS) to cancel the remaining nights of their current production, The Normal Heart, which opened on Wednesday.”