Which Way Home Belvoir Theatre An ILBIJERRI Theatre Company production in association with Belvoir & Sydney Festival You can grab your tickets here. Control of the narrative is surely one of the most important modern battles for the developed world. We are seeing this problem exposed at its most crude with the imposition of “fake […]
Category Archives: Theatre
January
24
Which Way Home – The language we use to talk to our-self. (Theatre Review)
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January
10
Ladies In Black – Language reveals its creative beauty and stylish prison. (Theatre review)
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“A clever girl is the most wonderful thing in Creation you know; you must never forget that. People expect men to be clever. They expect girls to be stupid or at least silly, which very few girls really are, but most girls oblige them by acting like it. So you just go away and be […]
December
30
Circus 1903 – The lost circus narrative captured in beauty. (Theatre Review)
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Circus 1903 The Sydney Opera House Dec 18-29 2016 The Regent Theatre Melbourne Jan 3 – 12 2017 You can grab tickets for both here. The Circus has undergone so many changes and controversies over its 250 modern history, not the least of which has been the transformation of its audiences. From the pre-modern format, […]
December
09
The Taming of The Shrew – What do we do with Shakespeare now that he’s so tamed? (Theatre review)
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The Taming of the Shrew Montague Basement and PACT theatre 29 November – 10 December at PACT theatre You can grab your tickets here. Image credits: Zaina Ahmed At the time of Shakespeare, nearly all the marriages were two stage processes. First a binding domestic contract of obligation within the families and secondly a religious […]
December
09
Relatively Speaking – Speaking with each other, relatively. (Theatre review)
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Relatively Speaking The Ensemble Theatre, 18 November to 14 January You can grab your tickets here Images: With its shades of Wilde’s Importance of being Earnest, Alan Ayckbourn manages to avoid the social timing of his 1965 play taking precedence over the verbal acrobatics, which marks his play as different from its inspiration. There is […]
December
02
Morgan Stern – the clinic, madness and the mirror. (Theatre review)
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Morgan Stern Company of Rogues and Blood Moon Theatre 23 November to 3 December You can grab your tickets here Photo credits – Chrissie Ianssen “The clinic—constantly praised for its empiricism, the modesty of its attention, and the care with which it silently lets things surface to the observing gaze without disturbing them with discourse—owes its […]
November
17
Flood – What lies beneath. (Theatre Review)
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Flood Lambert House Enterprises Old 505 Theatre 8-19 November, You can grab your tickets here. Images: Alexandra Nell It is a perpetual bug bare of mine that white Australians think they can tell the story of those they seek to abuse – be they Australian indigenous people, asylum seekers, immigrants or people with disability – […]
November
14
Good with Maps – Journey’s without, within and through time. (Theatre Review)
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Good With Maps Invisible Circus, bAKEHOUSE, Siren Theatre Company Kings Cross Theatre November 4 – 26 You can grab our tickets here. Photo credits Lucy Parakhina “I’m good with Maps” declares Jane Phegan immersed in her character created by Noëlle Janaczewska. It’s a bold and declarative statement, not unlike the badges of honour we appoint […]
November
08
My Fathers Left Testicle -Darkness arrives through the light. (Theatre Review)
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My Fathers Left Testicle Depot Theatre with Mustard Seed Productions 2-12 November You can grab your tickets here. What is going on with Australian’s and this asylum seeker caper? It’s been years since the Hawke government set up mandatory detention centres and the (in)famous Woomera IRPC incident which saw six year old Somalian refugee Shyan […]
October
23
The Days Are as Grass -Age and beauty in language. (Theatre review)
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The Days Are as Grass RPW & Stories About Humans with The Depot Theatre October 19 – 29 You can grab your tickets here Photo credits: Clare Hawley It seems a persistent characteristic of being human is a fundamental inability to describe our physical experience. As one has more and more experiences we start to […]
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