In the Heights Blue Saint Productions Sydney Opera House. You can find out more here. Images: Clare Hawley In my efforts to cover as many shows in Sydney as I can, I do not always get the chance to perform in depth analysis on each one. However, feedback is essential and it is my intention […]
Category Archives: Theatre
January
15
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – What do we do with Oompa-Loompa’s? (Theatre Review)
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Capitol Theatre January to June 2019 You can grab your tickets here. Images: Jeff Busby Issues of race plagued Roald Dhal when he first penned Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Having originally wrote Charlie as a black child, the story goes he was persuaded by his publisher to make Charlie […]
January
11
Nosferatu: A Fractured Symphony – Standing on the shoulders of our Vampires. (Theatre Review)
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Nosferatu: A Fractured Symphony Montague Basement at The Old 505 Theatre 8 Jan – 19 Jan – You can grab your tickets here. Find out more about the production here. Images: Zania Ahmed “O Germany- Hearing the speeches that ring from your house, One laughs. But whoever sees you, reaches for his knife.” Bertolt […]
January
08
Since Ali Died – Poetry on the Griffin Stage (Theatre Review)
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Since Ali Died Griffin Theatre Company Stables Theatre, 7-19 January. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Robert Catto Rap, Hip Hop and other Mainstream Black Art occupy an explosive tension at the intersection of race, commerce and culture. A great deal of Black Art is consumed by non-Black folk and distributed upon non-Black platforms […]
January
07
Fool For Love – Freedom from the father (Theatre Review)
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Fool for Love Patina Productions Limelight on Oxford 2-12 January You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley Locating Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love in time and psychological context is a complex matter. The themes of Fool For Love and others in his Family Quintet are universal: the outer landscapes imposition upon the inner world; […]
December
20
The Illusionists – The experience of Magic. (Theatre Review)
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The Illusionists 19 to 29 December, Sydney Opera House. You can grab your tickets here. It is now the stuff of legend that the Simon Painter produced 2013 The Illusionists show sold out at the Sydney Opera House before it even opened. The shows subsequent popularity has become something of a mystery for critics. At […]
November
25
What Santa Does Other Days of the Year – The Genesian make us laugh like kids. (Theatre Review)
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What Santa Does Other Days of the Year 23 November to 8 Dacember. The Gensian Theatre. You can grab your tickets here. The annual pantomime is a staple of every long-lived theatre. They are smaller affairs today than the original Augustus Harris concoctions from London’s Drury theatre started in 1879, but they still contain a […]
November
20
The Serpents Teeth – A peaceful reminder of the costs of war. (Theatre Review)
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The Serpents Teeth Hasemann, Ball & Radda Productions and bAKEHOUSE Theatre company 9 – 24 November. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley In recent days, French president Emmanuel Macron has called for an EU army to compliment NATO. He has been supported by the outgoing Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel who, in her […]
November
17
The Dance of Death – Judy Davis draws the Kierkegaard out of Strindberg. (Theatre Review)
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The Dance of Death Belvoir Theatre 10 November to 23 December You can grab your tickets here. Images: Lisa Tomasetti Just as great Norwegian artists of the late nineteenth century (Ibsen, Jornson and Munch) were deeply influenced by the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, so we see his breath all over August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death. […]
November
08
Whose Uterus is it Anyway? – Georgie Adamson and The Clinic. (Theatre Review)
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Whose Uterus is it Anyway? 505 Theatre FeshWorksFEMME October 30 – November 10. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Jasmin Simmons Tellingly absent from Georgie Adamson’s waiting room game show in Whose Uterus is it Anyway? is the female aged between forty-nine and sixty-nine, even though she is the second largest social demographic and […]
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