Shivered Mad March Hare Theatre Company You can Grab tickets here Theatre isn’t real, at least it isn’t as real as real life is real. One of my favourite things about theatre (besides the unsettling intimacy which overwhelms in deliciously small spaces) is the transgressive act of performance. Real people pretending, without shame, in front […]
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May
18
The house of Ramon Iglesia – Subtle, poignant beauty at the old Fitz. (Theatre review)
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The House of Ramon Iglesia Mophead Productions at The old Fitz Theatre 12 May to 6 June You can grab your tickets here. The House of Ramon Iglesia has many poignant moments, but particularly affecting is a scene when, drunk and devastated at a swindle because of his own ignorance, Ramon falls in the streets on […]
May
17
Rhymes with Silence – Sydney creatives answer the question, Why doesn’t she just leave? (Theatre review)
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Rhymes with Silence 16 to 34 May, 107 Projects Redfern. You can grab your tickets here. A poignant poem sits at the end of the program for Rhymes with Silence currently playing at the 107 Projects theatre space in Redfern. It is by the great writer Kate Rotherham, who’s chilling ten minute play As a […]
May
17
Zeroville – Lies Lies and Propoganda go a little Avant Godard. (Theatre review)
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Zeroville Lies Lies and Propoganda Get more info here. Photos by Sasha Cohen As director Michael Dean states in his notes in the program to Zeroville, Stephen Hawking warned us at the end of 2015 “that the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” And yet, states Dean, to […]
May
11
The Importance of Being Earnest – Furies Theatre and the importance of influence (Theatre Review)
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The Importance of Being Earnest Furies Theatre at The Exchange Hotel Balmain May 5 to 17 – You can Grab your tickets here (be fast – this one is selling out) The double is a concept that has intrigued readers and writers for many centuries, exemplified in the Dostoyevsky novel (of which he didn’t wholly […]
May
08
Animal/People – Brooke Robinson and our psychic shadows. (Theatre Review)
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Animal/People Rock Surfers Theatre Company 29 April – 16 May – You can grab your tickets here. Animal/People has many interesting facets to its beauty – and this is a deeply beautiful production; beautiful as a sensory pleasure that gives deep satisfaction to the mind. The best kind of beauty. The lighting, the sound, the […]
May
05
A Town Named War Boy – Ross Mueller builds an intimacy that reaches through the years. (Theatre Review)
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A Town Named War Boy ATYP – The State Library of NSW 29 April to 9 May – You can grab your tickets here. Images Tracy Schramm “Isn’t it marvelous what a man can put up with and yet be happy.” We hear all the time, in the many attempts to bring us closer to […]
May
03
Vice – Melvyn Morrow challenges you in your role as judge, jury and executioner. (Theatre Review)
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Vice King Street Theatre April 21 to May 9. You can grab your tickets here. Image credits to Thomas Adams It’s taken me a long time to write about Vice. I kept changing my approach, and that in itself tells you this is a piece of theatre that is very thought-provoking and worth spending those […]
April
29
Dolores – The right actor, the right character, the right time. (Theatre Review)
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Dolores Old Fitzroy Theatre 28 April to 9 May. You can grab your tickets here. Photo credits – Rupert Reid We’re spared the usual problem with Edward Allen Barker productions, in that Red Line has not fostered two of his down-beat efforts on us together, which helps a great deal in confronting the tough message […]
April
27
Antigone – Timelessness in our time. (Theatre Review)
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Antigone Théâtre Excentrique PACT theatre from 23 April to 2 May. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Emma Lois Just when I was starting to despair that I was seeing too few truly exciting theatrical productions in Sydney in 2015, along comes Théâtre Excentrique’s interpretation of Antigone (pronounced ‘on-tee-gone’ when the Anouilh version is […]
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