Enright on the Night The Genesian Theratre 23 March – 13 April. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Grant Fraser Theatre is necessarily transitory and ephemeral. Something of theatre is preserved in text and type, but reviews, programs and published plays can never properly portray the experience of attendance. In this, theatre (and live […]
Category Archives: Theatre
March
31
Enright on the Night – Theatre as embodied histories. (Theatre Review)
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March
29
Leopardskin – Michael McStay and the twist on everything. (Theatre Review)
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Leopardskin 26 March – 6 April, Jackrabbit Theatre at KXT Kings Cross Theatre. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley Michael McStay is one of those very ‘now’ young people who understand parody harbours the potential to inform a politics of social structure through the way that it denaturalizes culturally embedded practises relating […]
March
27
The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race – Melanie Tait and good old fashioned fun. (Theatre Review)
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The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race Ensemble Theatre 22 March – 27 April You can grab your tickets here. Images: Phil Erbacher Feel good, feel good! That is what you get with The Appleton Ladies Potato Race, in abundance. A lighthearted, joyful romp through an essentially romanticized vision of small-town rural Australia that plays heavily into […]
March
26
Much Ado About Nothing – Bar’d Work bring Shakespear back home. (Theatre Review)
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Shakesbeer: Much Ado About Nothing Bar’d Work See more for Sessions and venues here. Some of the clever folk from the Pop-up Globe, fresh from knowing their lines and roles so well, have banded together to keep the magic alive by transplanting Shakespeare into the pubs of Sydney, where (it can easily be argued) they […]
March
25
Fierce – The truly sublime Real of football. (Theatre Review)
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Fierce The Old Fitz Theare March 20 to April 13. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley In her notes on the play, writer Jane e Thompson tells us that she asked herself a question: “What would happen if a woman was good enough to compete against men at the highest level in […]
March
21
The Realistic Joneses – Will Eno and the absurdist language game. (Theatre Review)
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The Realistic Jonses Patina Productions at Limelight on Oxford 13-30 March. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley It was Wittgenstein who said ‘A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.’ It is this idea that occurs when watching The Realistic Joneses, a Will Eno play directed […]
March
20
Russian Transport – Erika Sheffer and fear of The Other. (Theatre Review)
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Russian Transport Fishy Productions with Darlinghurst Theatre Company. 9 – 31 march. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Nino Tamburri It can be argued that America’s fundamental narrative is one of a land stolen from its inhabitants by European immigrants who managed, pillaged and murdered their way to great financial success and totalitarian commercial […]
March
18
Jess and Joe Forever – Zoe Cooper revealed on the Norfolk Broads. (Theatre Review)
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Jess and Joe Forever Sugary Rum Productons in association with 25A Belvoir downstairs. 13 – 30 March. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Kate Williams In Jess and Joe Forever, Zoe Cooper addresses the problem Philosophy has had with friendship for so long. That is, is friendship a relation based on sameness or difference, […]
March
16
Every Brilliant Thing – Kate Mulvany reaches out. (Theatre Review)
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Every Brilliant Thing Belvoir Theatre 8 – 31 March You can grab yout tickets here. Images: Brett Boardman If the following review raises any concerns for you, please don’t hesitate to contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or at their website lifeline.org.au. More links are in the closing paragraph of this piece. In Every Brilliant […]
March
14
Wrath – Liam Maguire and the absurd corporate now. (Theater Review)
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Wrath Jackrabbit Theatre at KXT. 8-22 March. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley Surely questioning our attitude to business and our relationship to business culture is one of the imperatives of our age? Even if we do so in full support of the capitalist machine, it is still good practice to examine […]
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