Monthly Archives: July 2014

July 14

Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure – Genesian Theatre plays a legend. (Theatre Review)

Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure Genesian Theatre 5th July to 9 August You can grab your tickets here.  Steven Dietz is almost as well-known for his adaptations of earlier works as he is for his very many original plays. He is one of the most performed playwrights in the United States and has an uncanny […]

July 14

Lisa chats with Lucinda Vitek, director of ‘It’s Been a While’ (Theatre Interview)

It’s Been A While King Street Theatre From 15 July to 19 July You can grab your tickets here. It’s Been A While has a very exclusive run at the King Street Theatre this month, one of those shows you have to dive on to be sure not to miss it. As a teaser before […]

July 09

Every Second – Shannon Murphy and the race to the egg. (Theatre Review)

Every Second Darlinghurst Theatre Company June 27 to July 27  – You can buy your tickets here. What is it to want to give birth to a child in a world staggering under the weight of its unwanted children? Surely the problem of infertility is not childlessness, it is an inability to perpetuate one’s genes. […]

July 08

The Lunchbox – Ritesh Batra’s mouthwatering debut. (SFF Film Review)

The Lunchbox is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab tickets here. “Sometimes the wrong train can take you to the right destination.” It is impossible to imagine some of our contemporary Hollywood screen “overaged loverboy’s” such as Mel Gibson in What Women Want, Jack Nicholson in Something’s gotta Give or Woody […]

July 08

Of Monopoly and Women – Interview with Sascha Hall (Theatre interview)

Of Monopoly and Women Brave New Word Theatre Company Exchange Hotel Balmain. You can grab tickets here.   Tomorrow night, I am headed off to the opening night of Of Monopoly and Women. Following the sell out season of Dancing Naked in the Backyard, Brave New Word is back with its next original Aussie work, Of […]

July 07

La Ronde – Enigma and Arthur Schnitzler. (Theatre Review)

La Ronde Enigma theatre company You can grab tickets here  When Sigmund Freud told Arthur Schnitzler that what he’d struggled to convey in a lifetime was successfully summed up in the one hundred minutes of La Ronde, he cemented for Schnitzler a divisive point of reference that has rocked the theatre world ever since. With […]

July 07

Book of Days – Interview with director Elsie Edgerton-Till (Theatre Intereview)

Book of Days New Theatre – season 8 July – 9 August Grab your tickets here. One of the more exciting Sydney July theatre openings is New Theatres production of Book of Days, directed by Elsie Edgerton-Till. Lanford Wilson wrote Book of Days fourteen years ago, and I confess, it’s a play that has been […]

July 04

Food – Steve Rodgers and that which we consume. (Theatre Review)

Food Force Majeure and Riverside Theatre. Check touring dates here.  You are what you eat. Or are you what eats away at you? In Food, Steve Rodgers examines our two most basic endurance needs, food and sex, bringing them together around an examination of personal history, asserting that what we have consumed forges who we […]

July 03

The Mercy Seat – Who are we when the world falls apart? (Theatre Review)

The Mercy Seat Gentle Banana People in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company Neil LaButes The Mercy Seat opens with a man sitting alone on a couch holding a ringing mobile phone. The apartment setting is shrouded in dust. Soon a woman enters, she takes the ringing phone from his hands and places it on […]

July 02

My name is Truda Vitz – Olivia Satchell and the memory of the unknown. (Theatre Review)

My Name is Truda Vitz Tap Gallery June 25 to July 6 You can grab your tickets here. The bulk of our childhood memories are the stuff of legends. They are composed of blurs of things we saw tainted by responsive feelings and contained by the witness of the powerful other, parents, grandparents or older […]