Brad Checked In Old Fitzroy Theatre 3 – 21 June You can grab your tickets here Images used in this post are by Katy Green Loughrey I used to be a social media hound and then one day I turned it all off, and I’ve worn that moment of power like a badge of honour […]
Category Archives: Theatre
June
09
Brad Checked In – Paula Noble and the price of on-line love. (Theatre Review)
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May
23
The Young Tycoons – Darlinghurst Theatre Company and the resurrection of mistakes. (Theatre review)
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The Young Tycoons Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Spooky Duck Productions Eternity Playhouse 16 May to 15 June. Buy your tickets here. It’s a shame, in this county, we don’t have more theatrical satire on some of our greatest high-profile melodramas, because this form of humour seems to suit Australian wit perfectly. After all, it was […]
May
20
Scenes from an Execution – Tooth and Sinew belt us with a rich serve of Howard Barker. (Theatre Review)
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Scenes From an Execution Tooth and Sinew in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company The Old Fitzroy Theatre 13 – 31 May Buy Your Tickets Here. “I wish I were not sensual… I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp and be grasped, because […]
May
19
Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) – David Jeffery uses social awkwardness to get closer. (Theatre review)
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Thom Pain (based on nothing). Sydney Independent Theatre Company Old Fitzroy Theatre Sitting in the dark, waiting for something to appear or happen on the stage, is a phenomena (not peculiar to theatre) that both unites and separates us. It is something we do together and yet it emphasises our aloneness as we collectively ‘wait’ […]
May
19
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice – Lane Cove Theatre Company back by popular demand. (Theatre Review)
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The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Lane Cove Theatre Company New Theatre Newtown – buy tickets here. Thu – Sat 7:30pm, Sun 5pmFinal performance, Sat 24 May 5pm A girl who can only speak in the voice of others as she communicates with her dead father and a woman who never shuts up and […]
May
17
Something to be Done – Gabatwa Productions and the art of the body. (Theatre review)
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Something To be Done Gabatwa Studios – buy tickets here. Tap gallery From 13 May to 1 June A striking image heralds the start of Gabriel McCarthy’s one man show, Something to be done. McCarthy himself inside a tulle bag, his grip evoking a closed off womb space. He wakes, and finding himself stranded […]
May
13
Lisa chats with Justin Fleming, author of His Mothers Voice. (Theatre Interview)
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His Mothers Voice – grab tickets here. My very wonderful conversation with Justin Fleming is one of the beautiful things that happened to me in the early days of April that was “delayed” by “life” getting in the path of my blogging and the virtual world that we all know is the really real anyway. […]
May
13
Trainspotting – Black Box Theatre and Emu Productions take us to the dark side of ourselves. (Theatre review)
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Trainspotting Black Box Theatre and Emu Productions King Street Theatre till May 24. Buy Tickets here. I saw Irvine Welsh at the Adelaide writers festival a few years back. He is an engaging speaker with a warm, generous personality, who puts up a convincing show of modesty. Among his many witty anecdotes was a consideration […]
May
12
Antigone: The Burial at Thebes – ancient theatre reflects modern times. (Theatre Review)
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At the time of this writing, the opportunity to see Antigone: The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney produced by Furies Theatre Company has passed. Unfortunately a tight season for the play and an enormous imposition of real life for me coincided but I wanted to continue my review, because this is a […]
May
02
Plaything – Simon Dodd and the ultimate theatre of the absurd piss-take. (Theatre Review)
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If there is one thing I regret about Simon Dodd’s Plaything, it is that it was only on for two nights at the Sydney Comedy Festival. So by the time of this review, all opportunities to see it will have been exhausted… that is, of course, until the next time it will be performed, because […]
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