Of Monopoly and Women Brave New Word Theatre Company Exchange Hotel Balmain. You can grab tickets here. Tomorrow night, I am headed off to the opening night of Of Monopoly and Women. Following the sell out season of Dancing Naked in the Backyard, Brave New Word is back with its next original Aussie work, Of […]
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July
08
Of Monopoly and Women – Interview with Sascha Hall (Theatre interview)
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July
07
La Ronde – Enigma and Arthur Schnitzler. (Theatre Review)
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La Ronde Enigma theatre company You can grab tickets here When Sigmund Freud told Arthur Schnitzler that what he’d struggled to convey in a lifetime was successfully summed up in the one hundred minutes of La Ronde, he cemented for Schnitzler a divisive point of reference that has rocked the theatre world ever since. With […]
July
07
Book of Days – Interview with director Elsie Edgerton-Till (Theatre Intereview)
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Book of Days New Theatre – season 8 July – 9 August Grab your tickets here. One of the more exciting Sydney July theatre openings is New Theatres production of Book of Days, directed by Elsie Edgerton-Till. Lanford Wilson wrote Book of Days fourteen years ago, and I confess, it’s a play that has been […]
July
04
Food – Steve Rodgers and that which we consume. (Theatre Review)
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Food Force Majeure and Riverside Theatre. Check touring dates here. You are what you eat. Or are you what eats away at you? In Food, Steve Rodgers examines our two most basic endurance needs, food and sex, bringing them together around an examination of personal history, asserting that what we have consumed forges who we […]
July
03
The Mercy Seat – Who are we when the world falls apart? (Theatre Review)
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The Mercy Seat Gentle Banana People in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company Neil LaButes The Mercy Seat opens with a man sitting alone on a couch holding a ringing mobile phone. The apartment setting is shrouded in dust. Soon a woman enters, she takes the ringing phone from his hands and places it on […]
July
02
My name is Truda Vitz – Olivia Satchell and the memory of the unknown. (Theatre Review)
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My Name is Truda Vitz Tap Gallery June 25 to July 6 You can grab your tickets here. The bulk of our childhood memories are the stuff of legends. They are composed of blurs of things we saw tainted by responsive feelings and contained by the witness of the powerful other, parents, grandparents or older […]
July
01
Interview with Steve Hopley, director of La Ronde. (Theatre Interview)
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LA RONDE IN THE ROUND Enigma presents LA RONDE By Arthur Schnitzler July 2 to 12, 2014 You can grab your tickets here. Ten couples. Ten scenes. A round dance of love, sex and infidelity. Written in Freud’s Vienna in 1897, Arthur Schnitzler’s psychological investigation of sex was never intended to be performed. After publication […]
June
23
O.C.Diva – The talented Hilary Cole and Cabaret. (Theatre Review)
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O.C. Diva Hayes Theatre Sunday’s 15 June to 29 June. Grab your tickets here. Hilary Cole, the rising star on the Sydney musical theatre scene, is definitely a woman to watch. After wowing audiences as the star of Squabbalogic’s enormously successful Carrie in 2013 and then The Drowsy Chaperone (what a great show that was) […]
June
23
The Violent Outburst that Drew Me To You – Kate Gaul and the smell of teen spirit. (Theatre Review)
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The Violent Outburst that Drew me to You Griffin Theatre with Siren Theatre Company 18 June to 12 July. You can grab tickets here. We all know that overwhelming frustrated anger that the human caught between a departure from childhood and the passage into adulthood experiences. Is everyone around me stupid? is the cry of […]
June
17
Winter – John Fosse and the words to say it. (Theatre Review)
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Winter Old 505 Theatre 7 – 22 June You can grab your tickets here. If life is what happens when you’re making other plans, then surely communication is what happens when you say nothing, in the spaces between the patterned and circular repetitious lines we sprout that act as familiar signposts dedicated to the listeners […]
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