Four Places Outhouse Theatre Tap Gallery from July 29 to August 10. You can grab tickets here. Photographer – Richard Farland Photopgraphy Once upon a time, the children rising up in a mutinous power play against aged, mentally fragile parents was seen as an illicit act of deceit, a grab for the parental asset stash […]
Category Archives: Theatre
August
01
Three Sisters – Anton Chekhov made “now” by SUDS. (Theatre review)
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Three Sisters 30 July to 9 August Sydney University Dramatic Society. You can grab tickets here. It is a very interesting thing to see a strong, large cast of exquisitely beautiful young people performing Anton Chekhov’s great existential tragedy, but even more interesting when they’re located in 2014 Sydney as a backdrop against a bitterly […]
July
23
Phaedra – Erotic abandonment and cool crisp Sydney nights. (Theatre review)
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Phaedra Tap Gallery July 17 – 26. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Sascha Cohen There is a special thing that happens in theatre, a strange discombobulation where the audience is always confronted by the transgressive pairing of “The Real” and “The Not Real.” If a director and performers decide to take advantage […]
July
21
Of Monopoly and Women – Brave New Word Theatre Company and the greatest love of all. (Theatre Review)
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Of Monopoly and Women Brave New Word Theatre Company Exchange Hotel July 9 – July 24 Grab Your Tickets here. Female relationships, particularly sisters, is one of those great literary subjects that rarely sluggish because so many writers have their own unique experience of the dynamic and at the same time, project universals we can all […]
July
21
Lawrence English – Wilderness of Mirrors (Music Review)
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These with a thousand small deliberations Protract the profit of their chilled delirium, Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled, With pungent sauces, multiply variety In a wilderness of mirrors. What will the spider do, Suspend its operations, will the weevil Delay? De Bailhache, Fresca, Mrs. Cammel, whirled Beyond the circuit of the shuddering […]
July
18
It’s Been A While – Smoking Gum Theatre and the problems of memory. (Theatre Review)
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It’s Been A While Smoking Gum Theatre Company and King Street Theatre 16-19 July. You can grab your tickets here. Schoolies week is an excellent topic for live theatre, and It’s surprising it isn’t examined more often. So much about the actions we take so causally in our youth become the blue prints of our […]
July
17
Lisa chats with director of Four Places, Nicholas Hope (Theatre Interview)
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Four Places Tap Gallery from July 29 to August 10 You can grab tickets here. Four Places is an interesting story, written by Joel Drake Johnson. Sketched together on a deceptively simple frame, this emotionally precise play uses its spare structure to devastating and darkly comic effect. A brother and sister have received word from their […]
July
14
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure – Genesian Theatre plays a legend. (Theatre Review)
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Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure Genesian Theatre 5th July to 9 August You can grab your tickets here. Steven Dietz is almost as well-known for his adaptations of earlier works as he is for his very many original plays. He is one of the most performed playwrights in the United States and has an uncanny […]
July
14
Lisa chats with Lucinda Vitek, director of ‘It’s Been a While’ (Theatre Interview)
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It’s Been A While King Street Theatre From 15 July to 19 July You can grab your tickets here. It’s Been A While has a very exclusive run at the King Street Theatre this month, one of those shows you have to dive on to be sure not to miss it. As a teaser before […]
July
09
Every Second – Shannon Murphy and the race to the egg. (Theatre Review)
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Every Second Darlinghurst Theatre Company June 27 to July 27 – You can buy your tickets here. What is it to want to give birth to a child in a world staggering under the weight of its unwanted children? Surely the problem of infertility is not childlessness, it is an inability to perpetuate one’s genes. […]
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