Disco Pigs Throwing Shade Theatre Company, January 7-9 2016 The Fuse Box, The Factory Theatre. You can grab tickets here. The Fuse Box at The Factory theatre is a nice little space for the claustrophobic world of Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs, that play that describes and foresees the life of its two protagonists squashed into the […]
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December
12
They’ve Already Won – Can there be life before death? (Theatre Review)
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They’ve Already Won 8-20 December 2015 Downstairs at Belvoir. You can grab your tickets here. Wolf Bierman once wrote that, while the spiritualist question is “Is there life after death?” the materialist question is: “Is there life before death?” Are we really alive today, alive in the sense of ecstatic opening which makes life […]
November
30
Debris – Great and challenging fare late nights at the Old Fitz. (Theatre Review)
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Debris Old Fitz Theatre At the time of publishing this review, the very short run for Debris is over. You can find out more about the production and if there will be repeat performances here. Fabrication, alienation, obsession and guilt are the primary feelings through which Denis Kelly feels we engage with the world around […]
November
25
Last Drinks / Two Mouths Four Hands – fresh works and ideas in Balmain. (Theatre Review)
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Last Drinks/Two Mouths Four Hands Exchange Hotel Balmain November 17 through to 26. You can grab your tickets here. Images David Hooley Immediately striking when one has the pleasure of attending Last Drinks and Two Mouths Four Hands, is the complimenting perspectives of a female and male writer. Telling is the mood and tone of […]
November
20
Dot Dot Dot – Fresh Sydney writing tells a tale that’s old and new. (Theatre review)
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Dot dot dot The Old 505 Theatre in its new digs at 5 Eliza st Newtown Until 28 November. You can grab your tickets here. Pop culture may be venerated today, acknowledged by writers such as David Foster Wallace and given credence via cult status, but it is worth remembering the tabloid newspapers birth coincides […]
November
17
Roadkill Confidential – Mind bending theatre that evokes the wild ride. (Theatre Review)
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Roadkill Confidential Lies Lies and Propaganda theatre company Kings Cross theatre, Kings Cross Hotel 11 – 28 November. You can grab your tickets here Images Emily Elise In Roadkill Confidential, moralising in all its forms, including strong characterisation, is absent. All the characters float by us. They are ephemeral creatures, existing as if they were […]
November
12
Duck Hunting – A nightmarish confrontation with our inner self. (Theatre Review)
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Duck Hunting Contemporarian Theatre Company King Street Theatre from 4 Nov to 29 Nov. You can grab your tickets here. Images Toby B. Styling Craig Stephens’ crises, the axis upon which Alexandr Vampilov’s 1969 play Duck Hunting pivots, is one of language. Craig talks and talks and talks throughout the staged single day of Duck Hunting, […]
November
11
Good Works – Ian Sinclair engages a deep connection with Nick Enright. (Theatre Review)
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Good Works The Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Eternity Theatre 31 October – 29 November – You can grab your tickets here Images Helen White “There’s no such thing as character, only behaviour” Existentialism and religion have always been the kinds of enemies that occasionally like to sleep with each other. While 60’s existentialism, as exemplified by […]
November
04
A Girl with the Sun in her Eyes – Shards of the masculine pieced together. (Theatre Review)
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A Girl with the Sun in her Eyes Old Fitz Theatre 27 October to 14 November. You can grab your tickets here. Images Vanessa Wright A Girl with the Sun in her Eyes is contemporary theatre that plays out, if not examines, the failures of traditional masculinity in a contemporary context. It’s narrative centres on […]
October
26
Dead Centre/ Sea Wall – Emotional engagement at The Old Fitz. (Theatre Review)
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Dead Centre/Sea Wall Red Stich Actors Theatre and Red Line Productions You can grab your tickets here Image credits Jodie Hutchinson First things first – it was wonderful to see such a rich, successful female performance at The Old Fitz. It’s great to see such a thing anywhere, but Red Line Productions were in dire […]
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