Author Archives: lisathatcher

September 19

Our Father who Art (Nearly) in Heaven – Nathan Finger goes Wilde. (Sydney Fringe Festival Theatre Review)

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Our Father Who Art (Nearly) In Heaven Sydney fringe festival at the Seymour Centre You can grab your tickets here A combination of farce and the whodunnit genres is not normally my favourite cup of theatre tea, yet I confess, after seeing Our father Who Art (Nearly) In Heaven, I’m starting to wonder why that […]

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September 17

All About Medea – Montague Basement and the mystique feminine. (Theatre Review)

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All About Medea Sydney Fringe Festival – 505 Theatre You can grab your tickes here.  All About Medea images by Patrick Morrow In his directors notes to All About Medea, Saro Lusty-Cavallari highlights the parallels between the transformation of Jason and Medea’s relationship in ancient Greek mythology and the contemporary complications for young heteronormative couples […]

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September 10

Dark Vanilla Jungle – Sydney fringe Festival (Theatre Review)

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Dark Vanilla Jungle Mad March Hare theatre Company for the Sydney Fringe Festival You can grab your tickets and more info here All images courtesy of Daina Marie Photography For Phillip Ridley civilisation is the veneer we use to protect ourselves from our ugliness, but it can be argued it is also the conversation that protects […]

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September 09

Six Degrees of Ned Kelly – Sydney Fringe Festival. (Theatre Review)

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Six Degrees of Ned Kelly http://www.melitarowston.com You can grab tickets and more info here.  I grew up in The Sutherland Shire in Sydney Australia, a region (in)famous for being right-wing, socially closed-minded and above all one hundred percent true blue Aussie. I have four brothers (only girl, oldest child) and my mother wasn’t around for […]

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September 09

Ride & Fourplay – The beauty and difficulty of human relationship. (Theatre review)

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Ride & Fourplay Darlinghurst theatre Company till 4 October You can grab your tickets here. Images credit: Robert Catto The impact on our life of technology can’t be denied, but it is particularly prevalent in the speed at which we are forced to move these days. A Chris Rock joke circulating a few months back […]

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September 08

Articles at The Essential – The Guest

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It’s a bug bear of mine that poorly made “male oriented” films such as the Furious franchise are marked up by the 80% male critical audience under the assumption that they are light hearted fun and need not be judged by the usual critical criteria, while female oriented films like Fifty Shades of Gray are […]

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September 05

The Aliens – Outhouse Theatre and the real. (Theatre review)

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The Aliens Old Fitz Theatre 25 Aug to 10 Sept You can grab your tickets here Images by Rupert Reid Annie Baker is regularly touted as a “realist”, a title she doesn’t sit well with, and rightly so. In fact it is her depiction of very ordinary artifice, carefully layered phrase by phrase and gesture […]

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September 01

Me Earl and the Dying Girl – Good writing is uncessesary if you tell us what we want to hear. (Film review)

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Here’s the thing about doing something clever. You’ve got to BE clever in the first place, otherwise your flash of lightning you think separates you from the rest of the population exposes you as nothing other than egoistic and naively entranced with your mind’s ability to function at the most rudimentary level. This is a […]

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August 22

Articles at The Essental

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  My blog has been pretty quiet lately. For those of you who don’t know, my day job is in accounting and this time of year is a total punish for me. It all starts mid June and each year seems to stretch on a little longer. I’m racing to complete all my accounting obligations […]

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August 12

Flame Peas – The glamerous road to the Aussie Leagues Club exposed. (Theatre Review)

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Flame Peas Old Fitz Theatre, late show season, 4-15 August. You can grab your tickets here. Photo Credits:  Dominic Lorrimer Right from the start, the late night shows at The Old Fitz theatre have been a great idea, and one of the gems in the Red Line Productions programming that keeps the space “real” and […]

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