I’ve known the team from Subtlenuance (Daniela Giorgi and Paul Gilchrist) for some time now, and a reoccurring subject in our (very many) late night chats has centrerd around an issue Australians seem to have with Australian writers. Even today, Australian writing is seen more as something to “encourage” as if it were good for […]
Author Archives: lisathatcher
October
02
TickTickBoom – Lisa chats with Melissa Lee Speyer (Theatre Interview)
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September
28
The Intervention and Good, Die Young – Sydney Fringe Festival 2018
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The Intervention and Good, Die Young The Sydney Fringe Festival 25 Sep 2018 to 29 Sep 2018The Living Room, 104 Erskineville Rd Erskineville You can grab your tickets here The Intervention A presumption existed through Western thought that the human mind or consciousness is autonomous and authentic faculty with which one can interpret the world […]
September
19
Evita – An opinion sanctified by time. (Theatre Review)
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Evita Opera Australia The Sydney Opera House September 18 – November 3 You can grab your tickets here. On the Fortieth anniversary of Evita the musical, perhaps the question to ask ourselves is why we want to/are celebrating this musical at all? The 1979 Andrew Lloyd Webber Tim Rice vehicle is the most commonly known […]
September
12
Eggistentialism – Sydney Fringe (Theatre)
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Eggsistentenialism 2018 Sydney Fringe Festival 505 Theatre Newtown You can grab tickets here. Burdened by the oppressive cultural relationship Irish lawmakers have with the female body, the marvelous Joanne Ryan has made a road map of a show that walks us through the complex decision making an Irish female struggles with in her approach to […]
September
10
Macbeth – Pop-Up Globe reveals Shakespeare as he is meant to be. (Theatre Review)
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Pop Up Globe Sydney 2018: Macbeth Entertainment Quarter Sydney From September 5 You can grab your tickets here. Macbeth is a brief yet linguistically dense tragedy of Shakespeare’s, written immediately after the death of Queen Elizabeth and the ascension of James of Scotland who was the new monarch and Shakespeare’s patron. Witches were all the […]
September
05
Macbeth – Women in a man’s world (Theatre Review)
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Macbeth She Shakespeare PACT Theatre August 29 – Sept 8 You can grab your tickets here In 1991 Susan Faludi wrote what would become an essential feminist text called “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Woman.” The author argued that a media driven backlash existed in the 1980’s as an answer to important advances made […]
August
27
Mum, Me and the IED – Theatre represents simulation. (Theatre Review)
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Mum, Me and the IED Collaborations Theatre Group with The Depot Theatre From 15 August – 1 September. You can grab your tickets here. Images: James Balian In ‘On Exactitude in Science,’ Jorge Luis Borges writes a one-paragraph short story about an empire where the science of cartography becomes so exact that only a […]
August
23
Moby Dick – The changing face of the White Whale. (Theatre Review)
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Moby Dick Sport for Jove Seymour Centre 9 – 25 August You can grab your tickets here. Images: Marnya Rothe The beauty in Sport for Jove’s Moby Dick lies in a certain progression from Herman Melville, through Orson Welles and finally to arrive at Adam Cook directing on an Australian stage in 2018. While so many […]
August
01
Carrie: The Musical – Fresh perspective as the lifeblood of theatre. (Theatre Review)
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Carrie: The Musical Louis Ellis Productions and The Depot Theatre 25 July – 4 August. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Rebeccalynne Photography For Louis Ellis Productions, this production of Carrie:The Musical is primarily about bullying, and as director Hayden Tonazzi states in his Program notes, the ‘cost of being yourself.’ Carrie the outsider, Carrie […]
August
01
Mum, Me and the IED – Lisa chats with James Balian and Roger Vickery. (Theatre Interview)
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Mum, Me and the IED is showing at The Depot Theatre August 15 – September 1. You can grab your tickets here. The Depot Theatre has played host to some of the best emerging theatre of the last few years, so much so that it has established itself as a haven for independent productions seeking a space […]
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