Inner Voices Don’t Look Away and Red Line Productions Old Fitz Theatre 15 June to 9 July You can grab your tickets here. Images Ross Waldron Louis Nowra, a baby boomer, wrote Inner Voices in a much simpler time. Jimmy Carter had come to power, his first act to pardon all evaders of the Vietnam […]
Author Archives: lisathatcher
June
11
Smudge – Disability and Trauma as a crises of language. (Theatre Review)
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Smudge The Kings Fools and Bakehouse Theatre Company Kings Cross theatre, May 27 – June 11 (You can grab your tickets here) Images Liam O’Keefe The crises of disability, as immediately obvious in the four opening words of this sentence, is one of language. According to his 2004 paper Trauma without Disability, Disability without Trauma: […]
June
10
A man with five Children – Nick Enright questions selfies and 7-Up. (theatre review)
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A Man With Five Children Darlinghurst Theatre Company Eternity Playhouse June 3 – June 26 You can grab your tickets here. Images Helen White Rather than documenting our present, it can be argued that filming and photography is an action resulting in a distancing from our present. The camera provides enough distance so we can […]
June
02
The Literati – Molière brought to new life by Justin Fleming. (Theatre review)
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The Literati Griffin Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare The stables theatre from 27 May to 16 July. You can grab your tickets here. In the film Mistress America, a young man named Tony studying literature at Columbia follows his friends into a home that is occupied by a group of pregnant women holding a book club. […]
May
28
The Nice Guys – touching on tough subjects without comment. (Film Review)
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The Nice Guys The complex notion of the teen age girl as seen through the eyes of men remains predictably unresolved in Shane Blacks The Nice Guys. The opening scenes reveal a teenage boy coming to terms with females and as expected its through a sexual context. The Nice Guys is set in nineteen seventy-seven, […]
May
25
The Lobster – Yorgos Lanthimos beats us to death with his laboured philosophy again. (Film review)
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Note: I first wrote this review in October 25, 2015. If you’re at all familiar with Yorgos Lanthimos’ previous works, then disappointingly, you don’t have to see The Lobster. He needs a new set of friends, or a new set of books or something, because the tiresomely dull philosophy at the core of The Lobster […]
May
18
Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse – the delicate and tragic beauty of being human. (Theatre Review)
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Seven Days In The Life Of Simon Labrosse Theatre Excentrique, Creative Space 99 Darlinghurst. 18-29 May 2016. You can grab your tickets here. Image credits: Emma Lois As Simon Labrosse (Gerry Sont) reveals his life to us in Seven Days In The Life of Simon Labrosse, we are forced to confront the dichotomy Capitalism demands; […]
May
15
As We Forgive – Seeing ourselves in the eyes of youth. (Theatre Review)
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As We Forgive Griffin Theatre Company and Tasmania Performs Discover more about As We Forgive here. It was Freud who asked not if a man is justified to be jealous of his wife, but rather why his jealousy was necessary to his sense of self worth. In a world of unexamined morality – a morality […]
May
10
Black Jesus – The difficulties in Zimbabwe reach our protected shores. (Theatre Review)
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Black Jesus bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company, 29 Apil – 21 May King Cross Theatre, You can grab your tickets here Image credit: Nick McKinlay Watching Black Jesus, one is struck by how rarely we see stories from Africa on our Sydney stages – and how few of even them are written by African writers. The people […]
May
09
Dirty People – Millenials on the verge of greatness. (Theatre review)
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Dirty People Doonbrae Productions and Jackrabbit Theatre Find out more about this production here. Photo credits: Tom Cramond Like every generation before them, Millennial’s get a lot of bad press. Narcissistic, delusions of grandeur, more interested in becoming a personal assistant to a star than enter politics, they are the generation that receive on average […]
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