One of the highlights of my Fringe experience this year has been The Defence, a very interesting and well executed play examining gender relations within the rehearsal spaces of contemporary theatre. This expansive theme is couched within the narrations of one August Strindberg, a play write and novelist who has the peculiar reputation for writing […]
Category Archives: Articles
September
09
Lifeforce – Joanna Weinberg and the conceiving of conception. (Sydney Fringe Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Joanna Weinberg is on a roll at the moment – at least that’s how it appears from the outside. The film Goddess, based on her stage play Sink Songs was a critical and commercial hit, despite its fairly low distribution. Her previous musicals, The Piano Diaries, which is still playing around the country and Every […]
September
07
The Defence – Chris Dunstan and August Strindberg in a battle of wits. (Sydney Fringe Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
She is the victim of a false belief…namely that woman – this stunted form of human being compared to man, the lord of creation, the creator of civilization – is equal to man or might become so. Embracing this absurd ambition leads to her downfall. Absurd because a stunted form, governed by the laws of […]
September
05
Murder on the Nile – Nannette Frew, The Genesian Theatre and the genius of Agatha Christie. (Theatre review)
posted by lisathatcher
If Agatha Christie were a man, she would be considered the kind of genius no female could ever aspire to. She is the best-selling novelist of all time, and her books have sold roughly four billion copies. After Shakespeare and The Bible, her books rank as the most published in history. She is the most […]
September
02
Spur of the Moment – Anya Reiss and the future of theatre (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
The Australian Theatre for Young people is fifty years old this year, and as part of the celebration, there is a very polished and well performed production of Spur of the Moment available for Sydney audiences to enjoy. What is most remarkable about Spur of the Moment is not the play itself, but that it […]
September
02
Fred – Lisa Chappell, Christopher Stollery and the cultural meal. (Fringe Festival Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
One of the joy’s of The Sydney Fringe Festival is the lucky-dip theory of never being sure of what you’re going to get. However when you have talent like Lisa Chappell and Christopher Stollery you know that you’ve dipped into that bag with your eyes wide open. Fred is an action packed, thrilling one-woman show […]
August
31
The Sydney Underground Film Festival – Sept 5 – Sept 8
posted by lisathatcher
The Sydney Underground Film Festival runs from Thursday the 5th of September through to Sunday the 8th of September. You can purchase tickets here. Highlights of this years Underground film fest are Alejandro Jodorowsky’s latest film, The Dance of Reality and Paul Schrader’s latest film The Canyon’s. Each of these films are opening and closing […]
August
27
Equus 40 years on with Elliott Marsh, head of Nomadic Artists. (Sydney Fringe Festival Interview)
posted by lisathatcher
I saw the fortieth anniversary reading of Equus a couple of weeks back. You can read my review of the reading here. The reading was the introduction to a large-scale project by Nomadic Artists to bring this fascinating and controversial play to the Sydney audiences in 2013 as a part of the Sydney Fringe Festival. […]
August
25
Jerusalem – Helen Tonkin brings Jez Butterworth to lucky Sydney. (theatre review)
posted by lisathatcher
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills? Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my […]
August
23
Romeo and Juliet – Stephen Wallace brings something old to brilliant life. (theatre review)
posted by lisathatcher
It’s difficult to see a Shakespearean play these days, if by some miracle the play hasn’t previously been seen, parts of it have been used in modern vernacular, advertising, pop-quoting and/or been read, misread and hated through studies at school. Of all the plays that fall under this banner, surely one of the most often […]
Lisa Thatcher 