The Big Funk Suspicious Woman Productions Tap Gallery – March 11 – 21 You can grab your tickets here John Patrick Shanley is definitely a romantic. His heroes always have to perform a grand sweeping gesture that involves some sort of love connection to resolve the problem a residue of build up from the difficulties […]
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March
18
My Mother and Other Catastrophes – Rivka Hartman and the pleasure and pain of family. (Theatre Review)
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My Mother and Other Catastrophes A play reading by Rivka Hartman Watch for tickets here. The way generations pass down their pain is obviously of great interest to anyone with parents, but particularly to great Sydney playwright Rivka Hartman, who examines this through the eyes of Jewish women in My Mother and Other Catastrophes. In […]
March
17
And Now To Bed – Subtelnuance talks about sex, bay-bee. (Theatre Review)
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And Now To bed Subtelnuance Theatre Company Level 4, The Kings Cross Hotel. You can grab your tickets here. One of my ex’s was terrified of sex. Not just sex with me (!) but of the devouring intimacy of it, the reckless feeling of being out of control and the teetering on an abyss that […]
March
16
Freak Winds – Marshall Napier’s homage to Australian gothic. (Theatre Review)
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Freak Winds Red Line Productions 10 March to 11 April Old Fitz Theatre – You can grab your tickets here. Photo credits – Tim Levy The Australian gothic has a rich, yet still under explored history in our countries artistic culture, usually recognisable in films from the 1970’s forward, and these days more likely to […]
March
12
Hamlet on Fort Denison – Sydney Shakespeare Company and overwhleming beauty. (Theatre review)
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Hamlet Sydney Shakespeare Company on Fort Denison every Monday evening through to April 27 You can grab tickets here (currently sold out, but look for more performances) There are many pleasures to be had on our Sydney foreshore, but few carry the cultural wit and charm of the Sydney Shakespeare Companies current production of Hamlet, […]
March
03
Queen Bette – The great pleasure of the bumpy night. (Theatre Review)
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Queen Bette The Old 505 Theatre, 25 February to 15 March You can grab your tickets here. “When I was most unhappy I lashed out rather than whined.” Given the profound difficulties all women have in Hollywood these days, it’s very hard to understand how Bette Davis secured the success, choices and freedoms she did […]
March
03
Vampire Lesbians Of Sodom – Don’t dream it, be it. (Theatre Review)
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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom Feb 25 through to March 7, Level 4 Kings Cross Hotel Theatre You can grab your tickets here. You may wonder at a statement that claims the Sydney theatre scene really needs Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, but a quick hop up to the Level 4 theatre at the Kings Cross hotel, […]
February
28
Pope Head: The Secret Life of Francis Bacon – Brutal Truth Decay! (Theatre Review)
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Pope Head – The Secret Life of Francis Bacon On at The Old Fitz Theatre from 24 feb to 6 March You can grab your tickets here It is often tempting (though less so these days) to think of ‘Reality’ as something of a surface, both concealing and transmitting unacknowledged thoughts, feelings and behaviours; not […]
February
26
Freshly Squeezed – Collaborative theatre that examines collaboration. (Theatre review)
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Freshly Squeezed PACT Gallery – find out more here. Unfortunately I’ve had a very busy February, and where I intended to write-up Freshly Squeezed the night I attended, I missed out and therefore this marvellous show that only ran for two nights, is now gone from the PACT theatre and I will just have to […]
February
23
Piccolo Tales – A living breathing piece of Kings Cross speaks. (Theatre Review)
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Piccolo Tales The Piccolo Cafe, 12 Roslyn Street, Kings Cross You can grab your tickets here. Of all the delightful places to hold a slice of mini-theatre, a cafe in Kings Cross sounds like a crazy idea, untill you walk down Roslyn street, see the chairs set up on the footpath staring directly into a […]
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