Plaything The Depot Theatre from 30 March to 16 April. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Katy Green Loughrey The question of humour and its role in our life exists at the heart of Simon Dodd’s Plaything. Two people, a female and a male, find themselves trapped on a stage – a limited […]
April
09
Plaything – Humour as a defense against the tragedy of being human. (Theatre review)
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April
03
Metamorphosis – The story that transforms itself, the production that transforms the story. (Theatre Review)
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Metamorphosis Throwing Shade Theatre Company The Fuse Box Studio, The Factory Theatre, 31 March – 2 April Metamorphosis is now closed, but you can get more info about possible future shows here. It is accepted that one of the many great talents of Franz Kafka is that he created his own past, his own predecessors. […]
March
22
A Bigger Splash -What’s below the surface can remain buried. (Film review)
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A Bigger Splash The nymphete swanning about her mother or father’s house in bikinis is a creature that never existed except in the minds of unpleasant males who chose to interpret a person before them in the most superficial manner. No teen girl, no matter how she pretends at social courage is confidently seducing much older […]
March
21
Bully Boy – What we do when we send our troops to war. (Theatre Review)
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Bully Boy A Night of Play theatre company. 10 – 26 March Blood Moon Theatre, The World Bar. You can grab your tickets here. At one crucial point in Bully Boy, Major Oscar Hadley (Jaymie Knight) sits beside Private Eddie Clark (Patrick Cullen) on a plane reading ‘Civilization and its Discontents’ while the young Private […]
March
20
That Eye The Sky – Does Tim Winton need a little realism with his magic? (Theatre Review)
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That Eye,The Sky New Theratre, 15 March to 16 April 2016 You can Grab your tickets here. Photos by Bob Seary When Patrick White lamented in 1958 the absence of a complex and mature Australian literary system, he said: “In all directions stretched the Great Australian Emptiness, in which the mind is the least of […]
March
16
The Local – Did your local pub need its upgrade? (Theatre Review)
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The Local Exchange Hotel, Insomniac Theatre Company March 8 – 20. You can grab your tickets here. Image – GiGee Photography It was a moment of realisation for me when I discovered the strange faux 1970’s style aesthetics of Australian clubs, that seem enhanced with each interior decorating upgrade, were deliberate and designed to appeal […]
March
07
The Picture of Dorian Gray -Wilde’s message reimagined. (Theatre Review)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Genesian Theatre from 16 Feb through to 19 March You can grab your tickets here In 1890 when Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray it was only four years after Nietzsche wrote Beyond Good and Evil, the scandalous text that criticised philosophers, poets writers and moralists of not […]
March
01
My response to the Academy Awards (article)
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For the most part, it was a dull affair, but then when isn’t it so? It’s been many years since an academy awards ceremony has excited me, and yet strangely I still find myself clamouring for the results, aching for my favorite and being crushed when they inevitably don’t win. The “awards season” is […]
February
20
The Pride – The complex relationship between nihilism, society and love. (Theatre Review)
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The Pride Darlinghurst Theatre Company Eternity Playhouse till 6 March. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Helen White It can be argued that the tragedy of the modern human condition, is we are forced to deal with nihilism after the death of God. The great metaphysical dream, exemplified in the fifties, of the soul […]
February
19
Perch – truth in form and movement. (Theatre Review)
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Perch From 9-21 February, Belvoir Street Theatre You can grab your tickets here. Photos by Phyllis Photography The strength of the theatrical experience shines through when one forgoes analysis of representation (content, plot, characters and narrative) and conducts a reflexive exploration via the level and mode of presentation; that truth is always on the side of form, […]
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