The Poor Kitchen Patina Productions and Limelight on Oxford Limelight Downstairs 8-26 May You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley It was Camus who said “Living naturally is never easy.” Or as Elle (Amy Victoria Brooks) cries in The Poor Kitchen “What is this? Scooby Doo?” Daniela Giorgi has a talent for retaining […]
Tag Archives: David Jeffrey
May
14
The Poor Kitchen – A vibrant taste of Italy on Oxford Street. (Theatre Review)
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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 […]
July
28
Cristina in the Cupboard – the point and purpose of the parable. (Theatre review)
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Cristina in the Cupboard The Depot Theatre from 13 – 30 July. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Katy Green Loughrey Cristina In the Cupboard is a piece of magic realism written by one of Australia’s best contemporary playwrights, Paul Gilchrist. It is a complex work that examines both the process of exploring […]
April
09
Plaything – Humour as a defense against the tragedy of being human. (Theatre review)
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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 […]
July
20
The Cherry Orchard – An old play about transition in a new theatre space. (Theatre review)
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The Cherry Orchard 15 July through to 1 August The Depot Theatre You can grab your tickets here. Images by Katy Green Loughrey Ironically, the current manifestation of The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov’s last and arguably greatest play about the decaying end of a House and an era, is the inaugural play in a brand new […]
November
24
A sad farewell to SITCO and the end of an era at the Old Fitz Theatre. (Article)
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They say all good things must come to an end, and while this is nearly always true, very rarely do things come to as abrupt an end as the one forced on the successful Sydney Independent Theatre Company, the enormously experienced talent of Julie Baz and David Jeffrey. It heralds the end of a fantastic […]
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