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 […]
Tag Archives: Darlinghurst Theatre Company
March
20
Russian Transport – Erika Sheffer and fear of The Other. (Theatre Review)
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Russian Transport Fishy Productions with Darlinghurst Theatre Company. 9 – 31 march. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Nino Tamburri It can be argued that America’s fundamental narrative is one of a land stolen from its inhabitants by European immigrants who managed, pillaged and murdered their way to great financial success and totalitarian commercial […]
February
06
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice – Working class symapthies modernised. (Theatre Review)
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The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Darlinghurst Theatre Company 1 Feb – 24 Feb YOu can grab your tickets here. Images: Robert Catto Typical of writing tropes in the 1990’s women’s battles against misogynistic behaviors need a female antagonist between the woke female and her masculine attackers. The Rise and Fall of Little Voice fits […]
October
26
Festival Fatale – Lisa chats with Lana Schwarcz. (Theatre interview)
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Festival Fatale: Lovely Lady Lump Eternity Theatre, 27 October. You can grab more info about the festival as well as tickets here. The important and exciting Festival Fatale is on again at The Eternity Playhouse in Darlinhurst tomorrow, and I was lucky enough to catch the HILARIOUS (and astonishningly bright) Lana Schwarcz. I have written […]
October
05
Maggie Stone – White people and their white money. (Theatre Review)
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Maggie Stone Darlinghurst Theatre Company 30 September – 21 October. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Robert Catto In August 2001, after the Tampa affair and censure from the Norwegian Government on grounds of violation of human rights, the Australian Government introduced The Pacific Solution which saw asylum seekers detained on Nauru before entering […]
September
21
In Real Life – Is intelligence ever real? (Theatre Review)
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In Real Life Darlinghurst Theatre Company Eternity Playhouse 15 Sept – 15 Oct. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Phil Erbacher Being good at chess does not make you a genius, and the fact that humans think it does (by consensus) is part of our problem with Artificial Intelligence. Work on artificial intelligence is […]
February
20
The Pride – The complex relationship between nihilism, society and love. (Theatre Review)
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The Pride Darlinghurst Theatre Company Eternity Playhouse till 6 March. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Helen White It can be argued that the tragedy of the modern human condition, is we are forced to deal with nihilism after the death of God. The great metaphysical dream, exemplified in the fifties, of the soul […]
April
24
Deathtrap – A play on a play within a play. (Theatre Review)
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Deathtrap Darlinghurst Theatre Company At the Eternity Playhouse, 15Apri to 10 May, You can grab your tickets here. Images Helen White Deathtrap is a play within a play within a play on most of the things that we deem important in the play – at the superficial level at least. It throbs with clever association […]
February
13
Gaybies – The kids are alright at The Eterntiy Playhouse. (Theatre Review)
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Gaybies 6 Feb to 8 March at Eternity Playhouse (Darlinghurst Theatre Company) You can grab your tickets here. Photo credits: Helen White One of my favourite pieces of nostalgia is Reality Bites, mostly for the single moment when Janeane Garofalo stares into the camera and says with all the wreck and woe of early twenties […]
October
06
The Motherfucker With The Hat – Moral relativism on the New York streets. (Theatre Review)
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The Motherfucker With The Hat Workhorse Theatre Company Darlinghurst theatre 19 September to 19 October You can buy your tickets here. Photos by Kurt Sneddon Moral relativism is one of the oldest conversations between humans since we learnt how to talk to each other. Too often it is used by the emotionally pampered as an […]
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