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: Julie Baz
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 […]
January
07
Fool For Love – Freedom from the father (Theatre Review)
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Fool for Love Patina Productions Limelight on Oxford 2-12 January You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley Locating Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love in time and psychological context is a complex matter. The themes of Fool For Love and others in his Family Quintet are universal: the outer landscapes imposition upon the inner world; […]
October
27
The Big Meal – Dan Lefranc and the immutable family. (Theatre Review)
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The Big Meal The Depot Theatre 185 October – 4 November You can grab your tickets here. Images: Katy Green Loughrey According to Alain Badiou, Truth is closely connected to Events. Truth is a particular set of statements and narratives originally set off by an Event, and subsequently committed to it. Therefore, Truth is always […]
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 […]
October
17
Ghosts – The Depot Theatre rescues Ibsen from middle class theatre morality. (Theatre Review)
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Ghosts The Depot Theatre You can grab your tickets here Ibsen’s Ghosts is a classic, and like all classics it bares the burden of relevancy. I have recently seen the latest Game of Thrones inspired version of Macbeth (!) a film that broke its belly open trying to justify its own existence. For me, I […]
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 […]
May
19
Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) – David Jeffery uses social awkwardness to get closer. (Theatre review)
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Thom Pain (based on nothing). Sydney Independent Theatre Company Old Fitzroy Theatre Sitting in the dark, waiting for something to appear or happen on the stage, is a phenomena (not peculiar to theatre) that both unites and separates us. It is something we do together and yet it emphasises our aloneness as we collectively ‘wait’ […]
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