Between Us 4 feb to 21 Feb The Warf Theatre – you can grab tickets here. Photography by Tracey Schramm. The voices project at ATYP is always one of the highlights of the Sydney theatre calendar, a great way to start the year and an always optimistic look at up and coming talent and the […]
February
07
Asylum “Five” – Who are we as we refuse the asylum seeker? (Theatre Review)
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Asylum Five 505 theatre All artists involved will waive their fees so that ticket sales can be donated, in full, to the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown & the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (asrc) in Melbourne. Note: If you can’t buy tickets here (these shows are selling fast) donations can be made to either of the […]
February
06
Asylum “Two” – Who is the asylum seeker? (Theatre Review)
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Asylum “Two” The Old 505 Theatre All images credited to Robert Catto. All artists involved will waive their fees so that ticket sales can be donated, in full, to the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown & the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (asrc) in Melbourne. Note: If you can’t buy tickets here (these shows are selling fast) […]
February
05
Why I can’t wait to see 50 Shades of Grey. (article)
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Of all the reasons you will read about why not to see 50 Shades of Grey – and there will be many as everyone thinks their armchair two cents is the most valuable in this debate – the most important question to ask is why people, men and their female sympathisers in particular, hate it […]
February
04
Asylum “One” – Theatre examines the question of seeking asylum. (Theatre Review)
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Asylum – One Old 505 Theatre from 3 – 15 February You can buy your tickets here. Over the next couple of weeks in Sydney, theatre professionals are coming together to give voice to the very real problem of what to do in our society about our on going treatment of those individuals seeking asylum […]
February
03
The Gambler – The turn of the unfriendliest of cards. (Film Review)
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One triumph does not a great director make, as we see in the 2015 remake of the semi-remake The Gambler, a film that should have given director Rupert Wyatt a chance to work more of the magic he performed with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but instead winds up being a soup of […]
February
01
Beyond Therapy – Christopher Durang and the modern marriage. (Theatre Review)
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Beyond Therapy King Street Theatre and Understudy Theatre 28 Jan to 14 Feb. You can grab your tickets here. Christopher Durang writes a deceptively complex script using absurdist narrative structures to laugh at a topic he clearly takes very seriously in Beyond Therapy which is still a little like watching a 70’s American sit-com if […]
January
27
Selma – an American problem, an American film, an American audience. (Film Review)
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Selma is a specific film made for a specific audience at a specific time. It is a well made film, that includes competent performances, a high level of technical acumen and is directed by one of Americas most interesting directors. Its purpose is two-fold; to highlight a specific problem to the American people that recent […]
January
26
Bad – Thinking theatre at its best. (Theatre Review)
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Bad The Old Fitz Theatre Late Show 14 – 31 January. You can buy your tickets here. Photo Credits – Yael Stempler Most welcome at the Old Fitz is the late night offering Bad, written and performed by Kate Walder and Penny Greenhalagh, an all girl clown performance exploring the question of ‘Bad’ theatre through […]
January
22
American Sniper – I need a hero! (Film Review)
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American Sniper is a tribute eulogy to Chris Kyle, fetishising the American hero in the most calculated ways, not the least of which is linking him to The Man With No Name and Dirty Harry. It is a disturbing propaganda piece, of which the man himself would most likely approve, painting a horribly gray […]
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