Short and Sweet The Factory Theatre, Marrickville Through to end of March – You can buy your tickets here. Photo credits: Sylvi Soe The Factory Theatre in Marrickville is buzzing at the moment with the final two weeks of the annual Short and Sweet theatre competition. I’m lucky enough to be a part of it […]
Category Archives: Theatre
February
17
Cock – What are relationships for? (Theatre review)
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Cock Old Fitz Theatre / Red Line Productions 3 Feb to 6 March You can grab your tickets here. Feminists and the gay community have been at odds for decades over the question of nature v’s nurture. It is essential to the feminist oeuvre that women are made not born and it is equally essential […]
February
13
Gaybies – The kids are alright at The Eterntiy Playhouse. (Theatre Review)
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Gaybies 6 Feb to 8 March at Eternity Playhouse (Darlinghurst Theatre Company) You can grab your tickets here. Photo credits: Helen White One of my favourite pieces of nostalgia is Reality Bites, mostly for the single moment when Janeane Garofalo stares into the camera and says with all the wreck and woe of early twenties […]
February
10
Between Us – The Voices Project 2015 at ATYP. (Theatre Review)
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Between Us 4 feb to 21 Feb The Warf Theatre – you can grab tickets here. Photography by Tracey Schramm. The voices project at ATYP is always one of the highlights of the Sydney theatre calendar, a great way to start the year and an always optimistic look at up and coming talent and the […]
February
07
Asylum “Five” – Who are we as we refuse the asylum seeker? (Theatre Review)
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Asylum Five 505 theatre All artists involved will waive their fees so that ticket sales can be donated, in full, to the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown & the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (asrc) in Melbourne. Note: If you can’t buy tickets here (these shows are selling fast) donations can be made to either of the […]
February
06
Asylum “Two” – Who is the asylum seeker? (Theatre Review)
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Asylum “Two” The Old 505 Theatre All images credited to Robert Catto. All artists involved will waive their fees so that ticket sales can be donated, in full, to the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown & the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (asrc) in Melbourne. Note: If you can’t buy tickets here (these shows are selling fast) […]
February
04
Asylum “One” – Theatre examines the question of seeking asylum. (Theatre Review)
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Asylum – One Old 505 Theatre from 3 – 15 February You can buy your tickets here. Over the next couple of weeks in Sydney, theatre professionals are coming together to give voice to the very real problem of what to do in our society about our on going treatment of those individuals seeking asylum […]
February
01
Beyond Therapy – Christopher Durang and the modern marriage. (Theatre Review)
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Beyond Therapy King Street Theatre and Understudy Theatre 28 Jan to 14 Feb. You can grab your tickets here. Christopher Durang writes a deceptively complex script using absurdist narrative structures to laugh at a topic he clearly takes very seriously in Beyond Therapy which is still a little like watching a 70’s American sit-com if […]
January
26
Bad – Thinking theatre at its best. (Theatre Review)
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Bad The Old Fitz Theatre Late Show 14 – 31 January. You can buy your tickets here. Photo Credits – Yael Stempler Most welcome at the Old Fitz is the late night offering Bad, written and performed by Kate Walder and Penny Greenhalagh, an all girl clown performance exploring the question of ‘Bad’ theatre through […]
January
18
The Winslow Boy – Witty words at the Genesian. (Theatre Review)
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The Winslow Boy 17 January to 14 February at The Genesian Theatre You can grab your tickets here. Photography credits Mark Banks Life for lawyers is changing. One of the great unintentional by-products of mass communication on the internet is the redistribution of power via a demystification of elitism. Vocations such as lawyers and merchant […]
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