Year of the Family Tooth and Sinew at the Kings Cross Theatre from 10 – 20 February You can grab your tickets here 1994 was declared by the United Nations General Assembly to be The International Year of The Family. As if Freud had planned it himself, the declaration posed immediate threats to liberal sensibilities: […]
February
18
Year of the Family – Embrace the darkness of familial love. (Theatre Review)
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February
16
The Whale – the consumers guide to self destruction. (Theatre Review)
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The Whale Old Fitz Theatre 2 Feb through to 4 March You can grab your tickets here. In a culture obsessed with the rights of the individual at all costs at a micro level and determined to reduce everyone to a statistic that serves the economy at the macro level, it seems one of the […]
February
13
All Good Things – ATYP The Voices project. (Theatre Review)
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All Good Things ATYP – The Voices Project 3 Feb to 20 Feb – you can grab your tickets here Note: ATYP (of course) is continuing its committment to emerging writers and young actors even though The Voices Project itself if coming to an end. The Voices Project has been a thrilling start to the Sydney […]
February
09
The Poor Kitchen – Nostalgia and the power of observational blindness. (Theatre Review)
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The Poor Kitchen Old 505 Theatre, now at 5 Eliza Newtown, 2-6 February At the time of publishing this review, the run is complete. For more info and possibly other performances, pop in here. It is the sluggish habit of most countries to use nostalgia to evoke a naivete that reduces our engagement with the present. […]
January
25
Tender Napalm – Love and pain at first sight. (Theatre Review)
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Tender Napalm Brevity Theatre Company and Red Line Productions Late show at The Old Fitz Theatre 19-30 Jan 2016 – You can grab your tickets here. Contained in the breathy moments of initial desire is the heady inevitability of steady decline, claims Phillip Ridley in his two-hander Tender Napalm. And yet Tender Napalm is no […]
January
16
The Fantasticks – Trying to remember, and trying to forget. (Theatre Review)
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The Fantasticks 11 – 31 January The Hayes Theatre Company You can grab your tickets here. Photo credit: Marnya Rothe There are many things to love about the Helen Dallimore directed The Fantasticks currently showing at The Hayes Theatre, that oh-so-unfashionable story about two neighbouring fathers who use reverse psychology to get their children to […]
January
09
Disco Pigs – Throwing Shade brings fresh light. (Theatre Review)
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Disco Pigs Throwing Shade Theatre Company, January 7-9 2016 The Fuse Box, The Factory Theatre. You can grab tickets here. The Fuse Box at The Factory theatre is a nice little space for the claustrophobic world of Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs, that play that describes and foresees the life of its two protagonists squashed into the […]
December
28
Suffragette – The overdue narrative of a female war. (Film Review)
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Of all the complex and contradictory feelings I had as I was watching Suffragette, the most interesting was the revelation that the story was long overdue. I’m not the only female critic who had this experience. I’ve read of two others who experienced being bludgeoned with the observation that the story was late, and the […]
December
16
Star Wars: The force Awakens – Looks like we might have a female Jedi. (Film review)
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Please note – there are no spoilers in this review. However, it contains a comparison between one aspect of the latest film with the first Star Wars that may be construed as a spoiler in some circumstances. Consider yourself warned. It’s almost as impossible to ignore Star Wars: The Force Awakens as it is to […]
December
12
They’ve Already Won – Can there be life before death? (Theatre Review)
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They’ve Already Won 8-20 December 2015 Downstairs at Belvoir. You can grab your tickets here. Wolf Bierman once wrote that, while the spiritualist question is “Is there life after death?” the materialist question is: “Is there life before death?” Are we really alive today, alive in the sense of ecstatic opening which makes life […]
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