Sunday In the park with George Little Triangle Theatre Company at The Depot Theatre 6-16 September You can grab your tickets here. Stephen Sondheim wrote Sunday In The Park With George after the failure of Merrily We Roll Along when he was so wounded by negative reviews and an early closing that he’d become determined […]
Author Archives: lisathatcher
September
11
Undertaking – Sydney Fringe (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Undertaking Mongrel Mouth 6-30 September. You can grab your tickets here. There are many exciting things to do at The Sydney Fringe Festival this year, but surely one of the most thrilling is the immersive theatre experience by Mongrel Mouth on the second floor of the exciting new Hub in Alexandria. Here, Mongrel Mouth expose […]
September
10
Dreamgirls – Finding its place on the amateur stage. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Dreamgirls Rockdale Musical Society, Rockdale Town Hall September 8-17, You can grab your tickets here. One of the more interesting aspects of Dreamgirls is time. In this production directed by Rod Herbert, something lost in the glamour of the film comes to the fore, and we watch as careers, music and histories battle for room […]
September
08
I see – Sydney Fringe (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
I see – The Sydney Fringe I see is currently playing at The Sydney Fringe Festival. You can grab tickets here. I have to confess, I love The Sydney Fringe. Experience is of that raw, rough round the edges kind, and it’s the only festival (really) that captures the zeitgeist of a city. Every rehearsal, […]
September
06
The Squeal in the Pen – Benedict Hardie and the agony of influence. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
The Squeal in the Pen New Fitz Play #7 2017 The Old Fitz theatre, 29 August – 9 September You can grab your tickets here. The idea of the New Fitz Program 2017 is to have playwrights respond to productions on the mainstage. This interesting idea runs the risk of tapping into the Australian cultural […]
September
05
Figaro – Vive la révolution! (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Figaro Genesian Theatre Company The Genesian Theatre, 2 September – 14 October. You can grab your tickets at the Gensian here. Or through Tickets Tonight here. Images: Tom Massey In the program to Figaro, a note penned by director Shane Bates argues the case for a 2017 revival of Figaro since in the last two […]
September
01
American Beauty Shop – Subjugation of the human by the spectacle. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
American Beauty Shop Some Company, and Oleg Pupovac in association with bAKEHOUSE Kings Cross theatre August 25 – September 16 You can grab your tickets here. Steel Magnolias was written by Robert Harling in 1987 and like the film made two years later, it was hailed as a feminist classic (although many of the male […]
August
31
The Show Goes On – Bernadette Robinson and her connection to the sublime. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
The Show Goes On The Sydney Opera House August 25 to September 10 You can grab your tickets here. Often, when we go to theatre, what we deem to be ‘quality’ settles upon us in the very first few moments of a show. We move toward a show, hopefully devoid of prejudices (or otherwise what […]
August
29
The Gulf – Audrey Cefaly and the distance from ourselves. (Theatre review)
posted by lisathatcher
The Gulf Lume Productions at Flow Studios (Flow Studios 59 Denison St Camperdown) 23 August – 5 September You can grab your tickets here. Many of our contemporary ‘free speech’ arguments can be distilled to the idea of searching for a fundamental truth in the face of post-modernisms insistence that truth, like Neitzche’s God, […]
August
28
I’d Rather Goya robbed me of my sleep than some other son of a Bitch – Reviving the imaginary with Rodrigo Garcia. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
I’d Rather Goya robbed me of my sleep than some other son of a Bitch Théâtre Excentrique at The 505 Theatre in Newtown. 22 August – 2 September You can grab your tickets here. Images: Emma Lois. If there is a way to pin down what the emblematic protagonist of Rodrigo Garcia’s I’d rather Goya robbed […]
Lisa Thatcher 