Trojans Team MESS. 14-15 and 20-22 November PACT centre for emerging artists. You can grab your tickets here Photo credits – Katy Green Loughrey. Theatre takes time. It takes time to write a script, to choose a script, to audition and choose performers, to schedule production, to learn lines etc. For an art form that […]
Monthly Archives: November 2014
November
14
The Way Things Work – Aidan Fennessy and the corruption of the Real. (Theatre Review)
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The Way Things Work Rock Surfers Theatre Company 5 – 29 November. Grab your tickets here. “Without getting too snooty about it,” says Aiden Fennessy in the writers notes to the current production of The Way Things Work, “corruption seems to be a very male way of approaching the task of ‘getting things done.’ And […]
November
13
1790: A tale Not Often Told – Robert Thomson reminds us that we are our history. (Theatre Review)
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1790:A Tale Not Often Told Lend Lease Darling Quarter Theatre 13-15 November. You can grab tickets here. I remember once hearing David Malouf speaking about the Australian’s resistance to assimilating American culture. We were gathered (virtually at his feet but not quite) at a bookshop in Sydney and he was talking about American’s that were […]
November
11
20 Years Ago Today – Interview with the Vampire. (Film Review)
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Richard Pattinson was worried at one point there that his stint as Edward Cullen might hurt his career, yet he only needed to be reminded that Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Antonio Banderas had all survived the “hot young vampire” curse and gone on to have very long term successful careers – not to […]
November
10
Interstellar – It’s better than you think. (Film review)
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Like Lucy earlier on this year, pseudo-science keyboard warriors have come out in droves to trash Christopher Nolan’s ambitious, long sci-fi flick Interstellar, and also like Lucy, it doesn’t matter how many times Kip Thorne (upon whose work Interstellar is based, and who acted as both scientific consultant and executive producer to the film) or […]
November
09
Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve Fucked – Rob Hayes, loneliness and ‘pets’. (Theatre Review)
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Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve Fucked. The Old 505 Theatre Unhappen – You can buy your tickets here. One of the most surprising and brilliant confrontations in Rob Hayes’ Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve Fucked, is that the title isn’t a metaphor or allegory, and that isn’t a problem. I’m not sure if this constitutes […]
November
09
Dalylight Saving – Nick Enright and the dominance of the sitcom. (Theatre review)
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Daylight Saving Darlinghurst Theatre Company Eternity Playhouse, 31 October to 30 November – You can grab your Tickets here. Why do we leave our marriages? Rarely, and usually restricted to the hallowed halls of abandon in Las Vegas, do we enter into marriage lightly. It is something talked over with everyone we love, it is […]
November
08
Amadeus – Genesian Theatre, Envy, Jealousy and Disbelief. (Theatre review)
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Amadeus Genesian Theatre October 25 to November 29 2014 – You can grab your tickets here. Is there any greater mental curse than living with the juxtaposition of reaching for a genius you know alludes you and competing against an Other who reaches that genius with ease? The thing most creators who harbour a desire […]
November
06
1790: A Tale Not Often Told – Theatre interview with director Pete Malicki.
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1790: A Tale Not Often Told 13 – 15 November, Lend Lease Darling Quarter Theatre You can grab your tickets here. http://www.foundingmodernaustralia.com.au The story of Arthur Phillip, first governor of NSW and founder of the settlement now known to us as Sydney, and Woollarawarre Bennelong of the Eora nation and their friendship, is a multilayered […]
November
05
November Spawned a Monster – Alex Broun and the existential Leap. (Theatre Review)
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November Spawned a Monster Old Fitzroy Theatre 28 October to 15 November – You can grab your tickets here. If there is one experience that unites us in our youth, it is self loathing. We will never hate ourselves as much in our lives as we do under the age of thirty. The youthful passion […]
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