November Spawned a Monster Old Fitzroy Theatre 28 October to 15 November – You can grab your tickets here. If there is one experience that unites us in our youth, it is self loathing. We will never hate ourselves as much in our lives as we do under the age of thirty. The youthful passion […]
Category Archives: Theatre
November
05
November Spawned a Monster – Alex Broun and the existential Leap. (Theatre Review)
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October
22
Howie The Rookie – Toby Schmitz makes a silk purse from a sow’s ear. (Theatre Review)
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Howie The Rookie Red Line Productions and Strange Duck Productions Old Fitzroy Theatre 30 September to 25 October. You can buy your tickets here. In his book ‘Theatre,’ David Mamet, unsurprisingly argues the case against the engaged theatre director, claiming that the biggest contribution they could possibly make is to get out of the way […]
October
20
Him – Coleman Grehan’s Barney-esque Butoh at PACT. (Theatre Review)
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Him PACT Centre for Emerging Artists Sydney Fringe Festival During the recent Sydney Fringe Festival, I was able to catch a remarkable show titled “Him” at the PACT theatre. Him is a forty minute (or so) Butoh inspired theatre dance piece devised and performed by Coleman Grehan. Grehan is a talented young musician and theatre […]
October
13
Kill the PM – Fregmonto Stokes and the layers of leftist conspiracies. (Theatre Review)
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Kill The PM Old 505 Theatre October 8 to 26 – You can grab your tickets here. Photographs by Lucy Parakhina Is leftist political passion a poison that rots the brain, a mind-barrel filled with un-absolvable guilt or a conspiracy to destabilise in order to plough fertile soil for an alien conspiracy? If the hard […]
October
13
Harvest – Louise Fischer and the problems of progress. (Theatre Review)
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Harvest New Theatre 7 October to 8 November – You can grab your tickets here. Roughly ten years ago, Harvest writer Richard Bean outed himself as a ‘Monsterist’, now defined as a playwright committed to large-scale works, with enormous casts, covering enormous themes and taking a (relatively) enormous amount of time. It’s a bold move […]
October
06
The Motherfucker With The Hat – Moral relativism on the New York streets. (Theatre Review)
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The Motherfucker With The Hat Workhorse Theatre Company Darlinghurst theatre 19 September to 19 October You can buy your tickets here. Photos by Kurt Sneddon Moral relativism is one of the oldest conversations between humans since we learnt how to talk to each other. Too often it is used by the emotionally pampered as an […]
September
27
All The Single Lad(ie)s – Blurred gender lines at PACT for Fringe (Theatre Review)
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All The Single Lad(ie)s 24 to 27 September PACT centre for emerging artists. You can grab tickets here. Complications between the sexes are not new, however they are evolving and with each passing year, our ability to articulate what goes on between men and women (if such creatures really exist) gains traction, particularly since philosophies […]
September
27
Brother Daniel – Collaborations theatre take us from hero to zero. (Theatre review)
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Brother Daniel Collaborations Theatre Group at the Tap Gallery September 24 to October 5. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Mark Banks It is currently the fashion among those who fancy themselves to be on the higher end of the IQ scale, to contextualise the death of god as the refusal of an […]
September
23
The Chairs – SUDS at the Sydney Fringe. (Theatre Review)
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The Chairs SUDS at The Sydney Fringe Festival 23 September to 26 September – You can grab tickets here. No fringe festival would be complete without the local university dramatic society giving us a non-Shakespearean classic. It’s surely one of the staples of any fringe festival, and a chance for a classic to be openly experimented […]
September
20
Four Dogs and Bone – Kate Gaul at the Sydney Fringe (Theatre review)
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Four Dogs and a Bone Brief Candle Productions with SITCO for Sydney Fringe 16 to 27 September You can grab your tickets here. Photo credits – Katy Green-Loughrey There is a peculiar immodesty in writing that assumes fame and money will naturally follow recognition, when overwhelmingly, the converse is true – that even when success […]
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