Category Archives: Theatre

February 23

Privates on Parade – Alice Livingstone modernises Peter Nichols big questions. (Theater Review)

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British self-consciousness is rarely a serious thing. Self criticism is often performed through comedy or parody and is part of why we love British humour so much – it seems so much smarter than what other nations can produce. Set in 1948, Privates on Parade sits in the early stages of that political oddity known as the Malayan emergency and follows […]

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February 22

Everything I know I learnt from Madonna – Wayne Tunks and the pop star muse. (Theatre Review)

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I have a tale to tell Sometimes it gets so hard to hide it well I was not ready for the fall Too blind to see the writing on the wall Madonna – Live to tell. We appropriate and colonise music more than any art form. A book takes you from your world and transports […]

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February 20

Unsex Me – Mark Wilson and the wars within. (Theatre Review)

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Unsex Me Mark Wilson and PACT theatre, February 19-22 Buy tickets here. When Foucault argues that the history of sexuality has not been one of a linear narrative in getting closer to the proposed mystery, but rather a complex cycle of entanglement perpetually distorted by politics, science and the church, the modern thinker is given yet […]

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February 19

The Dead Ones – Margie Fischer and the power of memory. (Theatre Review)

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The Dead Ones February 18-22 Seymour Centre. Buy Tickets here. What happens to us when we die? Philosophy has always been concerned with what happens to us when we die, only because it is the single most important factor of life. Death is the thing we have in common with animals, plants and each other. It dominates […]

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February 14

Pinball – Alison Lyssa brought to new life by Duck Duck Goose. (Theatre review)

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Pinball Duck Duck Goose  / Tap Gallery Theatre 11-28 February Tickets available here.  A recurring thought, as I watched Pinball the other night, was how much I would have loved to study this play, or any other written by Alison Lyssa as I was reading and studying The Removalists, The Club, Don’s Party or any […]

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February 14

A Boy and a Bean – Nick Atkins addresses the questions you didn’t know you were asking. (Theatre Review)

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A Boy and a Bean PACT Centre for Emerging Artists Feb 12 – 15. A Boy and a Bean tickets for sale here. I as talking to a very bright, warm-hearted person in the last twelve months (politically pro same-sex marriage) about the talents of Heath Leger and the sadness of his death. I expressed […]

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February 14

Short and Sweet – Ten minute theatre that reveals us to ourselves. (Theatre/Festival review)

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Short and Sweet Festival King Street Theatre and Seymour Centre 8 January 2014 through to 31 March 2014 Buy tickets to the Short and Sweet heats here. It was a journey that started with a burst into first world problems, traveled through a euthanasia clinic, rotating a few times around a loop of learned experience, […]

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February 10

Bite Me – Anthony Skuse and The Voices Project. (Theatre Review)

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Bite Me ATYP Studio Theatre, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay February 5-22, 2014 Book for Bite Me here. When a director agrees to present the ten chosen plays from the ATYP The Voices project, they are agreeing to find a way beyond the key theme to connect the disparate voices which, if the project has been […]

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February 01

Legend! Slips Cordon: A Safe Pair of Hands – history re-written by the cheeful rabble. (Theatre review)

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Legend! ‘Slips’ Cordon – A safe pair of hands The Old Fitzroy Theatre Decorum in association with The Sydney Independent Theatre Company Season from 28 Jan – 15 Feb “(Australian) Citizens know that some among them will have more power and money than others… But according to the unspoken national ethos, no Australian is permitted […]

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January 22

Hotel Sorrento – Hannie Ryson and Genesian Theatre examine the Cultural Cringe. (Theatre Review)

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Hotel Sorrento Genesian Theatre 18 January through to 22 February Buy tickets through the Genesian Theatre Website.      “The problem with loyalty is that you can keep on and on, living a lie. And you don’t even know you’re doing it.” Australia is not the only post-colonial country to suffer from the cultural cringe, […]

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