One of my favourite cinematic moments saw Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall listening to his daughter Alex (Ashley Johnson) through a toilet door as she cries and details the problems between herself and her boyfriend. When Nick tries to leap to her rescue she cuts him off and says “He’s a total player – I […]
Monthly Archives: September 2015
September
28
A Steady Rain – A nightmarish confrontation with our double. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
The below is more of a critical analysis of A Steady Rain than a review. It is probably best appreciated after you have seen the play. For me the play contained strong elements of psychoanalysis and its a bad habit of mine to want to indulge whenever I’m provoked. I was moved by this play, […]
September
26
All the Difference – Sydney Fringe Festival (Theatre review)
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All The Difference Old 505 Theatre at The Sydney Fringe Festival You can grab your tickets here According to Bertolt Brecht, the temptation to rationalise the contemporary human condition falls too easily into an association with the forces at odds with humanization. “Even those writers who are conscious of the fact that capitalism impoverishes, dehumanizes, […]
September
23
Retrograde – Sydney Fringe Festival (Theatre Review)
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Retrograde 107 Projects – The Sydney Fringe Festival You can grab your tickets here The inaugural show for new theatre company Sandking Collective exhibits many of the reasons I gravitate toward and tend to prefer independent theatre. Primarily its the use of intimacy and the small space to engage in the most subversive of all […]
September
19
Shakespeare Tonight – Sydney Fringe Festival (Theatre Review)
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Shakespeare Tonight New Theatre, Sydney Fringe Festival You can grab your tickets here. We live an a fascinating, exciting and daunting time for literature. In an age when universities are business and innovative corporations are the sources of knowledge, writers and artists must respond to the changing way we perceive the world and understand who […]
September
19
Our Father who Art (Nearly) in Heaven – Nathan Finger goes Wilde. (Sydney Fringe Festival Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Our Father Who Art (Nearly) In Heaven Sydney fringe festival at the Seymour Centre You can grab your tickets here A combination of farce and the whodunnit genres is not normally my favourite cup of theatre tea, yet I confess, after seeing Our father Who Art (Nearly) In Heaven, I’m starting to wonder why that […]
September
17
All About Medea – Montague Basement and the mystique feminine. (Theatre Review)
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All About Medea Sydney Fringe Festival – 505 Theatre You can grab your tickes here. All About Medea images by Patrick Morrow In his directors notes to All About Medea, Saro Lusty-Cavallari highlights the parallels between the transformation of Jason and Medea’s relationship in ancient Greek mythology and the contemporary complications for young heteronormative couples […]
September
10
Dark Vanilla Jungle – Sydney fringe Festival (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Dark Vanilla Jungle Mad March Hare theatre Company for the Sydney Fringe Festival You can grab your tickets and more info here All images courtesy of Daina Marie Photography For Phillip Ridley civilisation is the veneer we use to protect ourselves from our ugliness, but it can be argued it is also the conversation that protects […]
September
09
Six Degrees of Ned Kelly – Sydney Fringe Festival. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Six Degrees of Ned Kelly http://www.melitarowston.com You can grab tickets and more info here. I grew up in The Sutherland Shire in Sydney Australia, a region (in)famous for being right-wing, socially closed-minded and above all one hundred percent true blue Aussie. I have four brothers (only girl, oldest child) and my mother wasn’t around for […]
September
09
Ride & Fourplay – The beauty and difficulty of human relationship. (Theatre review)
posted by lisathatcher
Ride & Fourplay Darlinghurst theatre Company till 4 October You can grab your tickets here. Images credit: Robert Catto The impact on our life of technology can’t be denied, but it is particularly prevalent in the speed at which we are forced to move these days. A Chris Rock joke circulating a few months back […]
Lisa Thatcher 