Van De Maar Papers Ratcatch and the Old 505 Theatre 9 – 20 July. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley In Alexander Lee-Rekers artistic universe, the motivations and drives of each becomes irrevocably linked to the motivation and drive of all. Motivation and drive themselves stem from a kind of suffering, a […]
July
17
Van De Maar Papers – Ratcatch bring the Grand Narrative back. (Theatre Review)
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July
16
The Cripple of Inishmaan – a crippling correction to the Man of Aran (Theatre Review)
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The Cripple of Inishmaan Mad March Hare Theatre Company with Red Line Productions July 11 – August 10. You can grab your tickets here. The specter of the film ‘Man of Aran’ hovers over the top of The Cripple of Inishmaan like a false map that allows for a necessary misinterpretation in the pursuit of […]
July
10
Ignite Collective – Scratch Night: Lisa chats with Loredana Cross
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Ignite Collective – Scratch Night 7Pm Wednesday 10 July The Bordello Room, KXT. Find out more about Ignite Collective here. As a writer of fiction myself, it has long been my contention we should be writing ‘for’ those around us. What I mean by that is, for writing to reach a universal it should seek […]
July
09
Glittery Clittery – A cult feminist cosmic disco. (Theatre Review)
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Glittery Clittery Fringe Wives Club and The Furies Stables theatrre 8 – 20 July. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Kate Pardy When one is dealing with a universal structuring principle, like feminism, one always assumes (in principle of course) it is possible to apply the structuring principle to all its potential elements so […]
June
27
I (Love) You – Eliza Oliver and self expression. (Theatre Review)
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I (Love) You Old 505 Theatre 18 – 29 June. You can grab your tickets here. Up until very recent times, the form-giving subject has always been male. But not only male. We live inside a paradox: language proves the sexuality of the peridium of ‘living’ while all language (governed by science) maintains that discourse […]
June
27
We are the Hymalayas: Lisa chats with Mark Langham (Theatre interview)
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We are the Himalayas Brave New Word Theatre Company July 3 – 21. You can grab your tickets here. What a great joy for this little commie gen X’er to be able to legitimately dip into the world of Communist Russia to prepare questions for We are The Himalayas! I was able to indulge in […]
June
25
Trevor – a timely alternative to deterministic narratives. (Theatre Review)
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Trevor Outhouse theatre with bAKEHOUSE June 14 – July 6. You can grab your tickets here. images: Clare Hawley Since the discovery of the social complexity of primate societies other than Homo sapiens, a general argument has taken hold that reduces, or fights the reduction of, the human being as if it were necessary to […]
June
13
Things I know to be True – Family and the self. (Theatre Review)
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Things I know to be True 8 June – 21 July. Belvoir Theatre You can grab your tickets here. Images: Heidrun Lohr A bildungsroman primarily told from the protagonist’s perspective and then the writers, Things I know to be True holds at its core a promise and a warning: one of the essential nature of […]
June
12
Gloria – The end of subjectivity in a meaningless office. (Theatre review)
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Gloria The Seymour Theatre and Outhouse Theatre Company 6 – 22 June. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley In an outstanding act of courageous curating, Outhouse Theatre Company bring us one of the most interesting, modern and damning pieces of theater we’ve seen on a Sydney stage in 2019. In a ruthless […]
June
03
Normal – Society as the hysteric. (Theatre Review)
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Normal The Uncertainty Principle and The Old 505 Theatre 29 May – 15 June You can grab your tickets here Currently showing at the 505 Theatre in Newtown is Katie Pollock’s Normal, a fascinating examination of the way that societal pressures can impose themselves upon the bodies of the unsuspecting, or in this case, young […]
