The Local Exchange Hotel, Insomniac Theatre Company March 8 – 20. You can grab your tickets here. Image – GiGee Photography It was a moment of realisation for me when I discovered the strange faux 1970’s style aesthetics of Australian clubs, that seem enhanced with each interior decorating upgrade, were deliberate and designed to appeal […]
Category Archives: Articles
March
01
My response to the Academy Awards (article)
posted by lisathatcher
For the most part, it was a dull affair, but then when isn’t it so? It’s been many years since an academy awards ceremony has excited me, and yet strangely I still find myself clamouring for the results, aching for my favorite and being crushed when they inevitably don’t win. The “awards season” is […]
February
20
The Pride – The complex relationship between nihilism, society and love. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
The Pride Darlinghurst Theatre Company Eternity Playhouse till 6 March. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Helen White It can be argued that the tragedy of the modern human condition, is we are forced to deal with nihilism after the death of God. The great metaphysical dream, exemplified in the fifties, of the soul […]
February
19
Perch – truth in form and movement. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Perch From 9-21 February, Belvoir Street Theatre You can grab your tickets here. Photos by Phyllis Photography The strength of the theatrical experience shines through when one forgoes analysis of representation (content, plot, characters and narrative) and conducts a reflexive exploration via the level and mode of presentation; that truth is always on the side of form, […]
February
18
Year of the Family – Embrace the darkness of familial love. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Year of the Family Tooth and Sinew at the Kings Cross Theatre from 10 – 20 February You can grab your tickets here 1994 was declared by the United Nations General Assembly to be The International Year of The Family. As if Freud had planned it himself, the declaration posed immediate threats to liberal sensibilities: […]
February
16
The Whale – the consumers guide to self destruction. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
The Whale Old Fitz Theatre 2 Feb through to 4 March You can grab your tickets here. In a culture obsessed with the rights of the individual at all costs at a micro level and determined to reduce everyone to a statistic that serves the economy at the macro level, it seems one of the […]
February
13
All Good Things – ATYP The Voices project. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
All Good Things ATYP – The Voices Project 3 Feb to 20 Feb – you can grab your tickets here Note: ATYP (of course) is continuing its committment to emerging writers and young actors even though The Voices Project itself if coming to an end. The Voices Project has been a thrilling start to the Sydney […]
February
09
The Poor Kitchen – Nostalgia and the power of observational blindness. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
The Poor Kitchen Old 505 Theatre, now at 5 Eliza Newtown, 2-6 February At the time of publishing this review, the run is complete. For more info and possibly other performances, pop in here. It is the sluggish habit of most countries to use nostalgia to evoke a naivete that reduces our engagement with the present. […]
January
25
Tender Napalm – Love and pain at first sight. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Tender Napalm Brevity Theatre Company and Red Line Productions Late show at The Old Fitz Theatre 19-30 Jan 2016 – You can grab your tickets here. Contained in the breathy moments of initial desire is the heady inevitability of steady decline, claims Phillip Ridley in his two-hander Tender Napalm. And yet Tender Napalm is no […]
January
16
The Fantasticks – Trying to remember, and trying to forget. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
The Fantasticks 11 – 31 January The Hayes Theatre Company You can grab your tickets here. Photo credit: Marnya Rothe There are many things to love about the Helen Dallimore directed The Fantasticks currently showing at The Hayes Theatre, that oh-so-unfashionable story about two neighbouring fathers who use reverse psychology to get their children to […]
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