Technicolor Life The Depot Theatre 26 July – 12 August. You can grab tickets through Tickets Tonight here. Images by Katy green Loughrey It was Theorodre Adorno who stated “ The coming extinction of art is pre-figured in the increasing impossibility of representing historical events.” The lamentation of intellectual discourse that everything has already been […]
Category Archives: Theatre
July
21
This much is True – Hearkening back to a restricted discourse. (Theatre review)
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This Much is True Red line Productions 12 Julyy – 12 August The Old Fitz You can grab your tickets here In world obsessed with the “limitations” of so called political correctness, it is a sophisticated pleasure to toddle along to Louis Nowra’s play This Much IS True for a reminder of how restricted speech […]
July
15
FRONT – Is it ever about the music? (Theatre Review)
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FRONT The Depot Theatre with Jack Rabbit Theatre From 28 June to 15 July 2017 You can grab your tickets thought Tickets Tonight here. My partner has a saying: Seek forgiveness and not permission. It’s formally attributed to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper who was forced to live by it, but it has long been […]
July
14
Before Lysistrata – Power to the People (theatre Review)
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Before Lysistrata Montague basement Currently showing KXT from 10 July to 22 July You can grab your tickets here Ironically, it was the success of Donald Trump that brought to light a previously hidden kind of absurdity to the discourse of consensus. Before his election win, enlightened reason existed as the great arbiter, the great […]
June
05
The Ham Funeral – Theatre as the ruin of discursivity. (Theatre Review)
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The Ham Funeral Siren Theatre Company and Griffin Independent 17 May to 10 June Griffin Theatre You can grab your tickets here. The dramatic death of Mr Lusty and the ensuing ham funeral in his honour should have heralded the departure for Australian culture from our mouldy, illicit landlord England, toward a celebrated separateness. Instead […]
April
29
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo – Theatre in layers over time. (Theatre Review)
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Bengal Tiger At the Baghdad Zoo Mad March Hare Theatre Company and Red Line Productions The Old Fitz Theatre 2 April to 6 May You can grab your tickets here. Image credits: Kate Williams Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo occurs in various shades of night, for the war in which this play is set […]
April
27
Sex Object – Conceeding nothing to the spirit of finitude. (Theatre review)
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Sex Object Jack Rabbit Theatre The Depot Theatre 19 – 29 April 2017 You can grab your tickets here. Image credits: Omnes Photography It was Nietzsche who argued that motives for certain types of morality stand in antithesis to its principle. Examples of these types of morality include industriousness, obedience, chastity, piety and justness. His […]
April
14
Trade – What is money rather than what makes money. (Theatre review)
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Trade Hurrah Hurrah Theatre Company at The old 505 Theatre April 4-15 2017. You can grab your tickets here. The difference of opinion in today’s political landscape is measured not by whether you are for or against capitalism, but by how you are for capitalism. It has long been my contention that liberals need to […]
April
12
Ellie, Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) – Theatre with a heart and a brain. (Theatre review)
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Ellie, Abbie (& Ellie’s dead Aunt) The Depot Theatre and Feet First Ventures 29 March to 8 April. At the time of publishing this review, this production has stopped running at The Depot Theatre. You can find out more about future productions here. The distrust imposed upon females over their choice of art and literature […]
April
03
Consensual – Young adults in pursuit of freedom. (Theatre Review)
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Consensual New Theatre Newtown 14 March to 15 April You can grab your tickets here Photos Bob Seary When considering the play Consensual, it is important to remember Evan Placey wrote it for older teens still at school. Therefore, it is an adults conceit to imagine Consensual is attempting to apportion censure on either of […]
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