Proof Freefall Productions in association with New Theatre New Theatre 14 – 30 July You can grab your tickets here Images by Michael Snow What we know of genius remains a triumph of mythology over science despite many hours and dollars being spent in research via multiple fields. Abounding myths regarding genius are immortalized in […]
Tag Archives: New Theatre
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
24
When the Rain Stops falling – New Theatre and the exquisite tragedy. (Theatre Review)
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When The Rain Stops Falling New Theatre 17 March to 18 April You can grab your tickets here Image credits Bob Seary In When The Rain Stops Falling, Andrew Bovell crafts such interesting characters, that he can give them relatively obtuse things to say in a theatrical structure that works against its own narrative […]
December
05
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – New Theatre and Sondheim. (Theatre Review)
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Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street New Theatre 18 November – 20 December You can grab your tickets here. Stephen Sondheim has said Sweeny Todd is a tale of obsession and revenge and how vengeance can consume a person prone to it. It has also been said to be about capitalism, the tyranny […]
October
13
Harvest – Louise Fischer and the problems of progress. (Theatre Review)
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Harvest New Theatre 7 October to 8 November – You can grab your tickets here. Roughly ten years ago, Harvest writer Richard Bean outed himself as a ‘Monsterist’, now defined as a playwright committed to large-scale works, with enormous casts, covering enormous themes and taking a (relatively) enormous amount of time. It’s a bold move […]
July
07
Book of Days – Interview with director Elsie Edgerton-Till (Theatre Intereview)
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Book of Days New Theatre – season 8 July – 9 August Grab your tickets here. One of the more exciting Sydney July theatre openings is New Theatres production of Book of Days, directed by Elsie Edgerton-Till. Lanford Wilson wrote Book of Days fourteen years ago, and I confess, it’s a play that has been […]
June
06
Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them – New Theatre and the cry of the Left. (Theatre Review)
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Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them New Theatre, 3 June to 28 June 2014 You can grab tickets here. All the photos in this review are credited to Bob Seary. It is a helluva brave play that names Terri Schiavo as the perfect right-wing wife, but the barbs and the […]
May
19
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice – Lane Cove Theatre Company back by popular demand. (Theatre Review)
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The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Lane Cove Theatre Company New Theatre Newtown – buy tickets here. Thu – Sat 7:30pm, Sun 5pmFinal performance, Sat 24 May 5pm A girl who can only speak in the voice of others as she communicates with her dead father and a woman who never shuts up and […]
April
14
V.D. – Pete Malicki and the monologue that just keeps getting better. (Theatre Review)
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V.D. The Monologue Project May 7,9 and 10. You can buy tickets here. He takes my hand, walks me to the car, even opening the car door for me. The date passes in a blur of nerves and I quick;y get the impression that Dan Hunsford has no intention of killing, raping, scamming or religiously […]
March
25
To Kill a Mockingbird – New Theatre speaks the words Australia needs to hear. (Theatre review)
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To Kill A Mockingbird New Theatre you can buy your tickets here. 18 march – 19 April In the announcement to bring To Kill A Mockingbird to the New Theatre as part of the 2014 program launch, Louise Fisher told the audience the New Theatre felt that given Australia’s current political climate, we needed a […]
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