The Dapto Chaser Griffin Theatre from 1 – 25 July You can grab your tickets here. It has been a highlight of my 2015 theatre-attending year, to see some beautifully written Australian works. Post cultural cringe Aussie aesthetics of the sort that would have Patrick White giggling and dancing about at the pretentious after show […]
Category Archives: Theatre
July
12
The Dapto Chaser – Mary Rachel Brown and the importance of language. (Theatre review)
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July
12
Of Mice and Men – Sport for Jove bring an almost perfect producton to life (Theatre Review)
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Of Mice and Men Seymour Centre, Reginald theatre 9 – 25 July You can grab your tickets here. It is a testament to the great writer, John Steinbeck that Of Mice and Men can be told so often, can still move so powerfully and can retain its precarious balance refusing to fall helplessly into melodrama […]
July
07
Men – Brendan Cowell and the problems of a man’s man. (Theatre Review)
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Men Old Fitz Theatre 30 June to 25 July You can grab your tickets here. Men is by far the stand out production in the successful first year of the new management at The Old Fitz theatre. A play that made its debut treading the same boards fifteen years ago, time has been good to […]
July
04
The Diary of Anne frank – Sam Thomas and the choice of love over fear. (Theatre Review)
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The Diary of Anne Frank New Theatre 9 June – 11 July You can grab your tickets here. In her notes to this production of The Diary of Anne Frank currently playing at The New Theatre in Newtown, Sam Thomas writes: “Sadly, the play’s underlying themes of discrimination, intolerance and the scapegoating of minorities are […]
June
27
This is not Mills and Boon – 505 Theatre’s Fresh Works (Theatre Review)
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This is Not Mills And Boon Old 505 Theatre 23-28 June You can grab your tickets here. Sometimes its difficult to know if we talk about sex all the time or not at all. After all, what is sex? It has been broken down and defined by science, psychology, psychoanalysis, art, pornography, politics, law, advertising, […]
June
23
Memory – 505 Theatres Fresh Works
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Memory Old 505 Theatre / Fresh Works Fresh Works is currently on at The Old 505 theatre. You can grab tickets here. Interactive theatre is one of those little life experiences that can leave you with a sudden shortness of breath, grasping at your chest as your head screams “oh dear god – not me!” […]
June
20
Being Norwegian – Brevity salutes those of questionable origins. (Theatre Review)
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Being Norwegian Brevity theatre Company at The Old Fitz theatre 9-21 June. You can grab your tickets here. David Greig has made a name for himself by being a prolific theatre writer from whom the themes of (anti)nationality, displacement and globalisation have emerged almost by accident. He has become a purveyor of modern themes as […]
June
18
Misterman – Kate Gaul electrifies the Old Fitz Theatre. (Theatre Review)
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Misterman Old Fitz Theatre 10 to 27 June. You can grab your tickets here. Something seismic happens when Kate Gaul embraces Enda Walsh. She serves up what we go to Indie Theatre for (reverent capitals intended). There is a theatrical simpatico on display that can energise a room with that skillfully woven enticement to unconditional […]
June
10
Venus in Fur – Grace Barnes and broadness of perspective. (Theatre Review)
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Venus in Fur has been all the rage since it’s 2010 debut, strangely tapping into a BDSM trend that has hit the main stream with a flourish. The culmination of its success is the late 2014 film adaptation by Roman Polanski that remains close to the source material and is still fresh in the mind […]
May
26
(extra)ordinary, (un)usual – Pete Malicki and theatre to kick back to. (Theatre Review)
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(extra)ordinary, (un)usual New Theatre, Newtown Three shows Wed 13,20,27 May You can grab your tickets here. There are many reasons to go to the theatre, but perhaps the most common one is to be enthralled and entertained, with a good dose of giggle added in. It’s a cliché (and a bourgeois condescension) to state that […]
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