Simple Souls 13 – 30 November Top Shelf Fringe HQ. You can grab tickets here. Paul Gilchrist is one of Austrlia’s best writers of Magic Realism. His play Christina in the Cupboard is vivid and wild, perplexing and compelling. The work was able to expose an adherance to a single truth as a kind a […]
November
08
Simple Souls – Lisa Chat’s with Paul Gilchrist (Theatre interview)
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November
07
The Underpants – Expressionism made modern with wit. (Theatre Review)
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The Underpants Sugary Rum Productions and The Seymour Centre 31 October – 23 November. You can grab your tickets here. Images: David Hooley Sugary Rum Productions offers us it’s trademark depth and complexity with The Underpants, a comedy written during the Weimar Republic by Carl Sternheim and adapted by Steve martin during the presidential campaign […]
September
24
John – Annie Barker and the organic whole. (Theatre Review)
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John Outhouse Theatre The Seymour Theatre 19 September to 12 October You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley For Annie Barker, the characters of her remarkable play John intuit each other as much as they see, hear, smell and touch each other. They are each in tune with the ‘music’ of each other’s […]
September
14
Nine – Little Triangle and the question of Creative origins. (Theatre Review)
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Nine Little Triangle The Seymour Theatre 6 Sept – 14 Sept You can grab your tickets here. Since their inaugural production in 2017, Little Triangle have established themselves as a high-quality theatre company that has become the go to place for rarely seen musical works. Their previous productions have raised the standard in independent musical […]
September
09
Reviews I missed: Cats Talk Back (Sydney Fringe)
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Cats Talk Back Occasionally, day job and other projects get in the way of a reviewer’s agenda. Reviews are not only about selling tickets. They contribute to a contemporary conversation about the essential practice of theatre, the way Sydney approaches this artistic practice and how we should talk about what we see. For this reason, […]
August
30
Chicago – the right musical at the right time in the right place. (Theatre review)
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Chicago Capital Theatre till October 20. You can grab your tickets here. Tendrils of a strange fear are extending into the hearts and minds of those of us in countries that purport to be America’s allies. While Donald Trump has been slowly eroding our faith in America for the past several years, a terrible sense […]
August
30
Betty Breaks Out – Brecht, Sartre and Liz Hobart. (Theatre Review)
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Betty Breaks Out life after Productions and Kings Cross Theatre 27 August to 7 September. You can grab your tickets here Images: Jasmin Simmons Across the inner city of Sydney in the month of August, mini festivals celebrating new Australian writing are drawing our attention to the importance of nurturing and cultivating the Australian voice. […]
August
08
Life of Galileo – Colin Friels and the power to see. (Theatre Review)
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Life of Galileo Belvoir Theatre 3 August to 15 September. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Brett Boardman For Director Eamon Flack, Writer Tom Wright (who adapts this production from the Bertolt Brecht original) and actor Colin Friels, the play Life of Galileo makes a claim for contemporary relevance by exemplifying Galileo as man […]
July
23
We are the Himalayas – Brave New Word theatre company and the courage of dissent (Theatre Review)
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We are the Himalayas Brave New Word Theatre Company 3rd July to the 27th of July. You can grab your tickets here. For Alain Badiou, when we collectively count the dead of a Gulag or of the Cultural Revolution, we must include the dead of Capitalism (from colonialism to world wars and proxy wars) and […]
July
18
Aladdin Jr – Wyong Muscial Theatre pulses with community spirit. (Theatre Review)
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Aladdin Jr Wyong Musical Theatre Company Friday 5 July – Sunday 21 July. You can grab your tickets here. Aladdin as a musical construct devised by Disney appears at first glance to be a natural vehicle for the transmutation of traditional white values delivered package-perfect by globalisation. However, the perfect solution to the complex problems […]
