Extinction of the Learned Response Glitterbomb and Belvoir 25a 7 – 25 May. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Jasmin Simmons For Freud, an irreconcilable rift between humans and animals stemmed from something he termed ‘primal parricide’ in Totem and Taboo. This notion further explored through Derrida’s theories around carnophallogocentrism becomes a source of […]
May
10
Extinction of the Learned Response – Emme Hoy brings Derrida and H.G. Wells together at last. (Theatre Review)
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May
09
Folk – Folk music as collaborative artistry. (Theatre Review)
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Folk Ensemble Theatre 3 May – 1 June. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Phil Erbacher Using a framework of modern-day Kitchen Sink Realism, Folk has the ability to take a simple tale and stack it by remaining true to those it seeks to represent. On the surface we have three misfits bonded by […]
May
09
Winyanboga Yurringa – Andrea James and the gathering of women. (Theatre Review)
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Winyanboga Yurringa Belvoir Theatre 4 – 26 May You can grab your tickets here. Images: Brett Boardman In Top Girls, Caryl Churchill asks important questions of women that, according to Winyanboga Yurringa writer Andrea James, are universal, and yet require the destabilizing force of theatre as a trip in another’s shoes to expand beyond certain […]
May
08
Small Mouth Sounds – White people and well-ness (Theatre Review)
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Small Mouth Sounds Darlinghurst Theatre Company 3 – 26 May. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Robert Catto Essential to capitalisms trajectory are the efforts of neoliberalism to promote and to a certain extent demand the ideals of individualism. Indeed, a critical irony of neoliberalism is that the more self-regulating it expects and requires […]
May
06
Normal: Lisa chats with Katie Pollock. (Theatre Interview)
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Normal The Uncertainty Principle and The Old 505 Theatre 29 May – 15 June. You can grab your tickets here. Images: James Balian It was enormously interesting reading into The Town that Caught Tourettes in order to interview writer Katie Pollock about her forthcoming play Normal. Mass psychogenic illness is a baffling condition that has […]
May
05
Joseph K – Secret House repurpose The Trial for a modern take. (Theatre Review)
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Joseph K Secret House with Limelight on Oxford 1-18 May. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley Currently, it is presumed, Kafka’s work exists outside of any attempt to impose meaning despite his works being remarkably suggestive texts. Not quite symbolic, not quite surreal, not quite absurd, his writings are the sort that […]
May
04
The Poor Kitchen: Lisa chat’s with Daniela Giorgi (Theatre Interview)
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The Poor Kitchen Limelight on Oxford, Limelight Downstairs 8 – 26 May. You can grab your tickets here. Of all the things I would like to inherit in my life, an olive farm in Italy rates around the top. Raised on A Room With A View, I became addicted to E.M. Forster sweetened by a […]
May
02
Sensitive Guys – The witness as complicit in narrative. (Theatre Review)
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Sensitive Guys Cross Pollinate Productions with JackRabbit Theatre KXT 30 April to 11 May. You can grab your tickets here. The 1968 May revolution events in France are used today by many academics as a symbol of a specifically post-modern revolution. The unrest began with a series of student occupation protests against capitalism, consumerism, American […]
April
30
Pygmalion – Steampunk brings the writers true vision to life. (Theatre Review)
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Pygmalion New Theatre 23 April to 25 May. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Bob Seary The decision by director Deborah Mulhal to use a steampunk aesthetic in her production of Pygmalion has delivered George Bernard Shaw the vital reframing of the play he continually sought after crucial misunderstandings emerged in its staging and […]
April
26
Ajax (after Sophocles) – PTSD, metaphores and community. (Theatre Review)
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Ajax (after Sophocles) Burning House Theatre Company with Old 505 Theatre 23 April to 4 May. You can grab your tickets here. In his program notes, director Robert Johnson explains that any approach toward a classic text (something Burning House theatre company from Melbourne take very seriously) should be founded upon searching for origins of […]
