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 […]
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July
16
The Cripple of Inishmaan – a crippling correction to the Man of Aran (Theatre Review)
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April
22
Alice in Slasherland – The Post modern assault on bourgeois culture. (Theatre Review)
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Alice in Slasherland Last One Standing Theatre Company with Red Line Productions The Old Fitz Theatre April 18 to May 11. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Robert Catto. @robertcatto on Instagram & Twitter, @robertcattophotographer on Facebook Postmodernism is supposedly a widespread and elusive phenomenon that remains as yet, not properly defined. It is […]
February
27
Angels in America – Dino Dimitriades and the magnificent decay of American splendid. (Theatre Review)
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Angels in America Red Line Productions and Apocalypse Theatre Company February 15 – March 16 You can grab your tickets here. Images, Hero and Production: Robert Catto (@robertcatto on Instagram & Twitter, @robertcattophotographer on Facebook.) Images documentary: Clare Hawley “A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away […]
July
09
Permission to Spin – Jung and the battle for individuation. (Theatre Review)
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Permission to Spin The Old Fitz Theatre, 3 July – 28 July. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Robert Catto In the Jungian Permission to Spin, Mary Rachael Brown places archetypes of an Ego, Personal unconsciousness and Collective unconsciousness, the three components of Jung’s psyche, in a room to have them battle for the […]
March
16
The Wolves – Lisa chats with Jessica Arthur (Theatre Interview)
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The Wolves is currently showing at The Old Fitz theatre in Darlinghurst. You can grab your tickets here. The photograph of Brandi Chastain celebrating her penalty conversion in 1999 that sealed the Women’s World Cup for the United States over China was voted the second most iconic cover image of Sports Illustrated. Not […]
February
12
Metamorphosis – The sensual drama of the Epic. (Theatre Review)
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Metamorphosis Red Line Productions and Apocalypse Theatre Company 8 February to 10 March You can grab your tickets here. Images: Robet Catto In Dino Dimitriades interpretation of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphosis, we see incarnate Ovid’s strategies of keeping the witness (in his case The Reader, in the case of Zimmerman and Dimitriades The Audience) at once […]
September
23
The Night Alive – A dying man and a world passed by. (Theatre Review)
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The Night Alive O’Punksky’s Theatre in association with Red Line Productions. 13 September – 14 October You can grab your tickets here. Please note: This review contains spoilers. Conor McPherson is right to lament the death of white male domination, because no matter what the keyboard warrior trolls and their president might have you believe, […]
April
29
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo – Theatre in layers over time. (Theatre Review)
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Bengal Tiger At the Baghdad Zoo Mad March Hare Theatre Company and Red Line Productions The Old Fitz Theatre 2 April to 6 May You can grab your tickets here. Image credits: Kate Williams Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo occurs in various shades of night, for the war in which this play is set […]
September
17
4 Minutes 12 Seconds – The theatrics of machismo. (Theatre Review)
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4 minutes 12 seconds Outhouse Theatre Company with Red Line Productions Old Fitz Theatre, 13 Sep – 8 Oct. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Rupert Reid. Rape culture isn’t a female problem, it isn’t a male problem, it’s a societal problem. Perpetuated by mythologies that always come back to male virility there is […]
July
23
Low Level Panic – Women under oppression from the male gaze. (Theatre Review)
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Low Level Panic Thread Entertainment in association with Red Line Productions Old Fitz Theatre from 12 July to 12 August. You can grab your tickets here Images: Julia Robertson When I’m confronted with a friend who despises political correctness, my first move is to agree wholeheartedly! I claim that the worst form of political correctness […]
