Pandora’s Bag Joanna Weinberg at The Hayes Theatre Pandora’s Bag is next showing Sept 4 Camelot Lounge, Marrickville. You can grab your tickets here or here. More on Joanna Weinberg here. When Tom Ford, working for Gucci at the time, was asked what a woman should look for in a handbag, he said the following: […]
Category Archives: Theatre
June
29
The Viagra Monologues – Secret men’s business. (Theatre Review)
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The Viagra Monologues Off the Avenue Productions and Blood Moon Theatre 16 June – 2 July You can grab your tickets here Why is it so difficult to talk about male sexuality properly? Contrary to the popular idea that feminism attacks male sexuality, perhaps it is the discipline most interested in an honest examination of […]
June
28
Bicycle – Freedom to choose your suffering. (Theatre review)
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Bicycle Lies, Lies and Propoganda Theatre Company with Red Line Productions Late stage, Old Fitz Theatre June 21 – July 2 You can grab your tickets here Photo by Matt Ralph. Set (from Inner Voices) by Anna Gardiner. At the end of the great novel “The Piano Teacher” by Elfrie Jelinek immortalised in a film […]
June
24
Straight – Bromance as a path to orientation exploration. (Theatre review)
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Straight Brilliant Adventures in conjunction with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company Kings Cross hotel theatre June 16 – July 2 You can grab your tickets here. One of the great joys of theatre is the immediacy of the ephemeral. Theatre is a transitory notion, an event at which the audience is never passive. We see films we […]
June
18
Inner Voices – Puppets taking power. (theatre review)
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Inner Voices Don’t Look Away and Red Line Productions Old Fitz Theatre 15 June to 9 July You can grab your tickets here. Images Ross Waldron Louis Nowra, a baby boomer, wrote Inner Voices in a much simpler time. Jimmy Carter had come to power, his first act to pardon all evaders of the Vietnam […]
June
11
Smudge – Disability and Trauma as a crises of language. (Theatre Review)
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Smudge The Kings Fools and Bakehouse Theatre Company Kings Cross theatre, May 27 – June 11 (You can grab your tickets here) Images Liam O’Keefe The crises of disability, as immediately obvious in the four opening words of this sentence, is one of language. According to his 2004 paper Trauma without Disability, Disability without Trauma: […]
June
10
A man with five Children – Nick Enright questions selfies and 7-Up. (theatre review)
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A Man With Five Children Darlinghurst Theatre Company Eternity Playhouse June 3 – June 26 You can grab your tickets here. Images Helen White Rather than documenting our present, it can be argued that filming and photography is an action resulting in a distancing from our present. The camera provides enough distance so we can […]
June
02
The Literati – Molière brought to new life by Justin Fleming. (Theatre review)
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The Literati Griffin Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare The stables theatre from 27 May to 16 July. You can grab your tickets here. In the film Mistress America, a young man named Tony studying literature at Columbia follows his friends into a home that is occupied by a group of pregnant women holding a book club. […]
May
18
Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse – the delicate and tragic beauty of being human. (Theatre Review)
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Seven Days In The Life Of Simon Labrosse Theatre Excentrique, Creative Space 99 Darlinghurst. 18-29 May 2016. You can grab your tickets here. Image credits: Emma Lois As Simon Labrosse (Gerry Sont) reveals his life to us in Seven Days In The Life of Simon Labrosse, we are forced to confront the dichotomy Capitalism demands; […]
May
15
As We Forgive – Seeing ourselves in the eyes of youth. (Theatre Review)
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As We Forgive Griffin Theatre Company and Tasmania Performs Discover more about As We Forgive here. It was Freud who asked not if a man is justified to be jealous of his wife, but rather why his jealousy was necessary to his sense of self worth. In a world of unexamined morality – a morality […]
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