Deathtrap Darlinghurst Theatre Company At the Eternity Playhouse, 15Apri to 10 May, You can grab your tickets here. Images Helen White Deathtrap is a play within a play within a play on most of the things that we deem important in the play – at the superficial level at least. It throbs with clever association […]
Category Archives: Theatre
April
22
Haircuts – Mediterranean warmth and sultry Sydney nights. (Theatre Review)
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Haircuts The Greek Theatre April 15 to 26. You can grab your tickets here. Choosing to work within the many facets of our multicultural community, Con Nats has framed Haircuts around multiple narratives that serve to remind us how similar we all are under our various cultural differences. Haircuts is currently on at the really […]
April
20
Orphans – Magic realism and the hyper-surreal father. (Theatre Review)
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Orphans Red Line Productions The Old Fitz Theatre, 14 April to 9 May – You can grab tickets here. Photos – Rupert Reid One can’t question Orphans pedigree. Though it appears quaintly old-fashioned these days – perhaps even more so to a contemporary 2015 Sydney indie audience who may be more savvy than their American […]
April
19
Seeing Unseen – The greatest secrets hidden in the most unlikely places. (Theatre Review)
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Seeing Unseen 505 Theatre, 8 – 26 April You can grab your tickets here. The impact of technology on our lives is a theme that contemporary theatre has been grappling with. It’s difficult to describe the nature of the disjointedness we all experience in technology as it is coupled with a peculiar freedom we enjoy […]
April
19
Jerry And Tom – The character that has character. (Theatre review)
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Jerry and Tom Insomniac Theatre The Exchange Hotel, 9 April to 30 April, you can grab tickets here. Photos by GiGee Photography Note: Rick Cleveland has kindly left some great comments below, which greatly contribute to my review and reviewing in general. Please be sure to read them. Rick Cleveland wrote Jerry and Tom in […]
April
18
The Rocky Horror Show – Still the beast is feeding. (Theatre review)
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The Rocky Horror Show Sydney Lyric Theatre, April to 7 June You can grab tickets here. The Rocky Horror Show boasts many spurious distinctions but one it can consistently claim over the last forty-two years is a noteworthy ability to drive a censorious wedge between the critic and the audience. This ability to call forth […]
April
13
Simpson, J 202 – Genesian Theatre and the ANZAC spirit. (Theatre review)
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Simpson, J. 202 Genesian Theatre 11 April – 2 May. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Grant Fraser John jack Simpson Kirkpatrick is an intriguing fellow. Posthumously used rather shamelessly as a propaganda story, the real human story, the man behind the myth is, as to be expected, much more interesting than all […]
March
27
A little night music – Sydney University Musical Theatre Ensemble and the very beautiful. (Theatre Review)
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A Little Night Music MUSE (Sydney University theatre Ensemble) Seymour Centre from 25 – 28 March You can grab tickets here Despite its complexity and the multifarious delicate nuances, A Little Night Music has become a bit of a favourite for young musical ensembles to cut their teeth on, almost acting as a rite of […]
March
24
When the Rain Stops falling – New Theatre and the exquisite tragedy. (Theatre Review)
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When The Rain Stops Falling New Theatre 17 March to 18 April You can grab your tickets here Image credits Bob Seary In When The Rain Stops Falling, Andrew Bovell crafts such interesting characters, that he can give them relatively obtuse things to say in a theatrical structure that works against its own narrative […]
March
24
Fallout – Smoking Gum Theatre and the time after the end. (Theatre Review)
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Fall Out SmokingGum Theatre 18 – 27 March, Exchange Hotel Balmian. You can grab your tickets here We have learnt to live with the promise of our unnatural demise. It’s quite phenomenological in contemporary society that there will be some current ‘scare’ that has some basis in fact, but for the most part is highly […]
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