Author Archives: lisathatcher

August 27

Modern Jesus – Christopher Neels and Hegel’s destructive reason. (Theatre Review)

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Modern Jesus Fledging Theatre Company and The Depot Theatre 23 August – 2 September 2017 You can grab your tickets through Depot Theatre here or Tickets Tonight here. Imagery: Liam O’Keefe The correlational dichotomy between words and deeds is an ancient theoretical problem as old as history itself. It was thought that Alexander the Great decided […]

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August 25

After the Dance – Terrance Rattigan and his Joan of Arc. (Theatre Review)

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After the Dance New Theatre, 9 August to 9 September You can grab your tickets here. Images: © Bob Seary Please note – this review contains spoilers By far the most interesting question in Terrance Rattigan’s After the Dance is why does Joan die? Terrance Rattigan wrote After the Dance in 1939, yet it has spiked […]

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August 24

Lip Service – Helena Rubenstien and the principles of feminism. (Theatre Review)

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Lip Service Ensemble Theatre, 17 August – 30 September You can grab your tickets here. Images: Prudence Upton Freud is evoked many times in Lip Service. John Misto appropriately calls forth the common problem women of Helena Rubenstein’s day suffered in their efforts to emancipate in the shadow of the great narrator. While Freud was battling […]

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August 23

Rice – Of Knowledge and Mothers. (Theatre review)

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Rice Griffin Theare Company 21 July – 26 August You can grab your tickets here Images: Brett Boardman “Women indeed are human beings, but they are of a lower state than men and can never attain to full equality with them.” Confucius “I should like to remind the women present here that no group, no community, […]

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August 22

Dignity of Risk – Beauty in the internal dialogue. (Theatre Review)

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The Dignity of Risk Shopfront’s harness ensemble and ATYP At the ATYP studio 9 August to 26 August. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Tracy Schramm It is the (anti)fashion right now, to question our perception of others. Often analysis of the problem surrounding this thought function is a presumption of unconsciousness in those […]

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August 21

4:48 Psychosis – Sarah Kane and the inclusion of everything. (Theatre Review)

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4:48 Psychosis Workhorse Theatre Company with Red Line Productions Tyhe Old Fitz Theatre 16 August – 9 September You can grab your tickets here Images: Andre Vasquez   It is already too late to think in terms of separate genres or subgenres of critical discourse necessarily explained and expanded in some clear-cut cultural division of labour […]

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August 04

4:48 Psychosis – Lisa chats with Anthony Skuse (Theatre Interview)

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4:48 Psychosis is at The Old Fitz from 16 August to 9 September. You can grab your tickets here.  The Sydney theatre community is maturing into a distinctive vehicle for theatre written about, for and engaged with the female voice. It’s a thrilling time for a witness such as myself. A time filled with inspiration, […]

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August 02

Acts of Faith – Melvyn Morrow and the ownership of “facts” (Theatre Review)

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Acts of Faith King Street Theatre from 18 July to 5 August You can grab your tickets through Tickets Tonight here, or through Kings Street theatre here. Surely the placement of the Property Developer and the Nun in a real estate deal is one of the most modern examples of the spheres of fiction and […]

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July 31

Technicolor Life – Theatre as an enormity. (Theatre Review)

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Technicolor Life The Depot Theatre 26 July – 12 August. You can grab tickets through Tickets Tonight here.  Images by Katy green Loughrey It was Theorodre Adorno who stated “ The coming extinction of art is pre-figured in the increasing impossibility of representing historical events.” The lamentation of intellectual discourse that everything has already been […]

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July 21

This much is True – Hearkening back to a restricted discourse. (Theatre review)

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This Much is True Red line Productions 12 Julyy – 12 August The Old Fitz You can grab your tickets here In world obsessed with the “limitations” of so called political correctness, it is a sophisticated pleasure to toddle along to Louis Nowra’s play This Much IS True for a reminder of how restricted speech […]

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