Jennifer Forever A Two Peas Production at the Sydney Fringe You can grab your tickets here If feminists thought they could heave a sigh of relief at the demise of credibility in religious based misogyny, they’ve been appalled (or perhaps indifferent) to find much of the fantasy rich conservative-male-dominant hysteria inherent in religious misogyny has […]
Category Archives: Theatre
September
19
Jennifer Forever – Two Peas at the Sydney Fringe (Theatre Review)
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September
19
Procne and Tereus – Montague Basement at the Sydney Fringe (Theatre Review)
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Procne and Tereus Montague Basement at the Sydney Fringe festival to Saturday 20 September You can buy your tickets here How do you tell this story? is the central question at the heart of Montague Basement’s production of Procne and Tereus as written and directed by Saro Lusty-Cavallari after the Greek myth of Procne, Tereus […]
September
15
Spiders Web – Genesian Theatre and cheery misunderstandings. (Theatre Review)
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Spider Web The Genesian Theatre 30 August to 11 October – You can grab your tickets here. When Agatha Christie wrote Spiders Web, is was to satisfy the artistic desires of Margaret Lockwood who wanted to appear in a West End play in a role specifically written for her. Over lunch, the famous actress stretched […]
September
09
The God of Hell – Rodney Fisher brings American heartland into our laps. (Theatre Review)
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The God of Hell The Old Fitzroy Theatre Photograph credits Gareth Davies Mophead Productions in association with SITCO. 26 August through to 13 September. You ca buy your tickets here. In the program for The God of Hell, (Pluto, plutonium – get it?) Director/Designer Rodney Fisher draws the attention of the audience to the plight […]
September
08
Slapdash Song Night – Keira Daley at the Sydney Fringe (Cabaret Review)
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Keira Daley’s Slapdash Song Night Each Sunday night of the Sydney fringe at The Record Crate Grab tickets here. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, there’s something special about Keira Daley – enormous talent meets enormous personality meets enormous brain – her show’s Lady Nerd and Keira Daley v’s the 90’s were […]
September
03
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea – Heated swimming with Little Spoon Theatre co. (Theatre Review)
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Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Little Spoon Theatre Company At the time of publishing this critique, this performance is finished. One of the great mysteries about love, is that what a person needs and what they can provide are often inversely proportionate to qualities in the person they desire. We have sexual attraction, emotional […]
August
11
Bad Day Insurance – Lisa Chappell and our hopes for a better future. (Theatre Review)
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Bad Day Insurance The Old 505 Theatre August 6 – 24. You can grab your tickets here. What is the ultimate Bad Day Insurance? That is, what can you control, that can be relied upon to repair the damage caused by a bad day? Is that what insurance is? A stop-gap between you and trouble? […]
August
10
Not About heroes – Carla Moore and the cry for a real civilization. (Theatre Review)
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Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; […]
August
09
Joan, Again – Paul Gilchrist and the weight of our personal narrative. (Theatre Review)
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Joan, Again Subtlenuance in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company Old Fitzroy Theatre August 5- 23 You can grab tickets here. The nature of the story and the narrative is at the heart of Paul Gilchrist’s excitingly experimental work Joan Again, a piece of theatre that takes the very bold and contemporary decision to pin […]
August
05
Mr Kolpert – Pantsguys, Rope and the Albee in us all. (Theatre Review)
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Mr Kolpert Pantsguys Productions ATYP from 30 July to 16 August. You can grab your tickets here. Photography: Kate Williams Surely the thrill in the underlying current of misbehavior (tween smoking at its least, calculated murder at its best) lies in the aftermath. Rules and their consequences are made for three reasons: to prevent bad […]
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