Masterclass Old Fitz Theatre, 13 – 31 January Grab your tickets here. Photography – Marnya Roth In the cinema, the viewer is an afterthought, a reality that occurs after the film project is complete, one of a series of numbers in a room. In the theatre the spectator is real (as opposed to a reality) […]
Category Archives: Theatre
January
17
Masterclass – Gareth Davies and the power of performance. (Theatre Review)
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January
17
Short and Sweet Top 80 – The Festival kicks off on a high. (Theatre Review)
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The Short and Sweet Theatre Festival Sydney stages, Jan 7 to march 15. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Sylvi Soe. One has to be patient and generous with large-scale festivals forging their own imprint on a culture. Often it takes a few years for a festival to find its footing, but […]
January
01
2014 in Theatre. The best plays I saw last year.
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I keep telling people we’re in an exciting time for Australian Theatre here in Sydney, and for the most part I’m met with incredulity, and a gentle smile at my enthusiasm for which everyone is generally grateful, even if a little dubious. For a theatre critic who deliberately doesn’t see everything, and preferences marginal, indie […]
December
11
The Legend of King O’Malley – An Australian classic given new breath by Don’t Look Away. (Theatre Review)
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The Legend of King O’Malley Seymour Centre 26 November – 13 December You can grab your tickets here. Bob Ellis is one of Australia’s best male political writers, recent problematic books not withstanding. He’s been regaling us with tales of his position of privilege and access for decades, and I confess to many hours of great […]
December
09
River – Claire Lovering and lonliness. (Theatre Review)
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River Old 505 Theatre The difference between loneliness and solitude is more than choice, and it is more than circumstances. We know we can feel lonely in a crowd and we know that we can feel a overwhleming connection with everything in the universe in solitude. In her introduction to River, Claire Lovering writes a […]
December
08
The God of Carnage – Twisted Tree Theatre and the pleasures of social decay. (Theatre Review)
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The God of Carnage Tap Gallery Downstairs 26 November to 7 December. It has been said many times in many different ways, that what is most interesting about human beings is not what we have in common with the animals but the ways in which we are different. Yasmina Reza seems interested in this as […]
December
05
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – New Theatre and Sondheim. (Theatre Review)
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Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street New Theatre 18 November – 20 December You can grab your tickets here. Stephen Sondheim has said Sweeny Todd is a tale of obsession and revenge and how vengeance can consume a person prone to it. It has also been said to be about capitalism, the tyranny […]
November
25
Belle of the Cross – Poetry in the dust and dirt of the Kings Cross homeless. (Theatre review)
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Belle of the Cross The Old Fitzroy Theatre 18 – 29 November. You can grab tickets here. “The Lorikeets look down on us”, says Belle. “But down here are the seagulls, the pigeons and the ibis…” the streets that Belle calls her home are not for the beautiful birds who live in the high city […]
November
25
The Les Robinson Stroy – The bohemian life on Sydney’s shores. (Theatre review)
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The Les Robinson Story The Old Fitzroy Theatre 18 – 29 November 2014 You can grab tickets here. There’s no getting around it, we need our Bohemians. The bourgeoisie need them to feed their bereft imaginations, bankers and financiers need them to hate, the tourists need them to visit, politicians need them to ignore, the […]
November
25
Interview with Martin Portus – The Les Robinson Story (Theatre Interview)
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The Les Robinson Story Old Fitzroy Theatre 18 – 29 November You can grab tickets here The Les Robinson Story is a monologue by Kieran Carroll about one of Australia’s forgotten literary greats – a problem many people ahead of their time experience in their day, but is ususually followed by a posthumous discovery when […]
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