Asylum is on at Comber Street Studios, Paddington 15-25 November. You can grab your tickets here. The Sydney theatre community has been regularly appalled and concerned about the treatment of asylum seekers in this country. There have been many wonderful creative responses aimed at all members of our society, expressing solidarity and comfort for […]
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November
04
Merciless Gods – Drama that unifies in the dark. (Theatre Review)
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Merciless Gods Griffin Theatre in collaboration with Little One’s Theatre 1 – 25 November. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Sarah Walker It has been noted that the poem must be given to the mute, to the stutterer, to the stranger, rather than to the chatterbox, to the grammarian or to the nationalist. Equally […]
November
02
She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange – How and who to be after The Event. (Theatre Review)
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She Rode Horses like the Stock Exchange Rocket Productions in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company Kings Cross Theatre, 20 October – 11 November. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley, Asparay Photography Occupy Wall Street can be seen as an event that is yet to reveal its profoundity on history. It did not attempt […]
November
01
Hijacked Rabbit – Theatre as revolution. (Theatre review)
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Hijacked Rabbit 31 October to 11 November, Blood Moon Theatre, Jack Rabbit Theatre company. You can grab your tickets here. We should be careful when we think of theatre as receiving good press, because the theatre has always been violently attacked. We look back at “Shakespeare’s time” with a sort of reverence for some lost […]
October
27
The Big Meal – Dan Lefranc and the immutable family. (Theatre Review)
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The Big Meal The Depot Theatre 185 October – 4 November You can grab your tickets here. Images: Katy Green Loughrey According to Alain Badiou, Truth is closely connected to Events. Truth is a particular set of statements and narratives originally set off by an Event, and subsequently committed to it. Therefore, Truth is always […]
October
22
A View from the Bridge – Iain Sinclair and the justification for Arthur Miller. (Theatre Review)
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A View from the Bridge Red Line Productions The Old Fitz Theatre – 18 October -25 November You can grab your tickets here. Images: Supplied by Red Line Productions A real question exists for the serious theatre-goer as to what is happening when we see repeated texts. As a great writer friend of mine suggested […]
October
20
The Kitchen Sink – the hot and cold of kitchen sink realism. (Theatre Review)
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The Kitchen Sink Ensemble Theatre 14 October – 18 November. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Prudence Upton The only possibility of hope in the relentlessly difficult world of playwright Tom Wells protagonist family comes through the children, which is an optimism that goes decidedly against the social realist concepts of the kitchen sink realist […]
October
18
Monopoly – Steve Hopley brings the dollar to the room. (Theatre Review)
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Monopoly Hot Room Theatre Group Blood Moon Theatre, 20 and 21 October. You can grab your tickets here. There is much fuss and carry on about interesting theatre in Sydney at the moment, but as very often happens, while we are all focused on productions with access and means to information distribution, smaller very clever […]
October
15
No End of Blame – Howard Barker’s delightful accusations against all of us. (Theatre Review)
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No End of Blame Sport For Jove, Seymour Cntre 12 – 28 October, You can buy your tickets here. Images: Kate Williams. The central question Howard Barker and his protagonist struggle with in No End of Blame boils down to what art is and what is its role in our life. For Nietzsche (and most […]
October
12
Buyer and Cellar – the superficial wrestles the real in the ego state. (Theatre Review)
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Buyer and Cellar Ensemble Theatre 6 October – 12 November. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Prudence Upton When Jonathan Tolins places Alex More at the bottom of the stairs in Barbra Streisand’s basement, a complex situation comedy occurs between a gay man and his alter ego – the representational Diva. Alex reminds us, […]
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