Gaybies 6 Feb to 8 March at Eternity Playhouse (Darlinghurst Theatre Company) You can grab your tickets here. Photo credits: Helen White One of my favourite pieces of nostalgia is Reality Bites, mostly for the single moment when Janeane Garofalo stares into the camera and says with all the wreck and woe of early twenties […]
Monthly Archives: February 2015
February
13
Gaybies – The kids are alright at The Eterntiy Playhouse. (Theatre Review)
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February
10
Between Us – The Voices Project 2015 at ATYP. (Theatre Review)
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Between Us 4 feb to 21 Feb The Warf Theatre – you can grab tickets here. Photography by Tracey Schramm. The voices project at ATYP is always one of the highlights of the Sydney theatre calendar, a great way to start the year and an always optimistic look at up and coming talent and the […]
February
07
Asylum “Five” – Who are we as we refuse the asylum seeker? (Theatre Review)
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Asylum Five 505 theatre All artists involved will waive their fees so that ticket sales can be donated, in full, to the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown & the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (asrc) in Melbourne. Note: If you can’t buy tickets here (these shows are selling fast) donations can be made to either of the […]
February
06
Asylum “Two” – Who is the asylum seeker? (Theatre Review)
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Asylum “Two” The Old 505 Theatre All images credited to Robert Catto. All artists involved will waive their fees so that ticket sales can be donated, in full, to the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown & the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (asrc) in Melbourne. Note: If you can’t buy tickets here (these shows are selling fast) […]
February
05
Why I can’t wait to see 50 Shades of Grey. (article)
posted by lisathatcher
Of all the reasons you will read about why not to see 50 Shades of Grey – and there will be many as everyone thinks their armchair two cents is the most valuable in this debate – the most important question to ask is why people, men and their female sympathisers in particular, hate it […]
February
04
Asylum “One” – Theatre examines the question of seeking asylum. (Theatre Review)
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Asylum – One Old 505 Theatre from 3 – 15 February You can buy your tickets here. Over the next couple of weeks in Sydney, theatre professionals are coming together to give voice to the very real problem of what to do in our society about our on going treatment of those individuals seeking asylum […]
February
03
The Gambler – The turn of the unfriendliest of cards. (Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
One triumph does not a great director make, as we see in the 2015 remake of the semi-remake The Gambler, a film that should have given director Rupert Wyatt a chance to work more of the magic he performed with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but instead winds up being a soup of […]
February
01
Beyond Therapy – Christopher Durang and the modern marriage. (Theatre Review)
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Beyond Therapy King Street Theatre and Understudy Theatre 28 Jan to 14 Feb. You can grab your tickets here. Christopher Durang writes a deceptively complex script using absurdist narrative structures to laugh at a topic he clearly takes very seriously in Beyond Therapy which is still a little like watching a 70’s American sit-com if […]
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