2 Divas at the Bondi Pavilion reminded me of an old but true maxim about the theatre world. Sometimes it’s the fringe shows put together on a meager budget, and without any aspiration to be slickly professional, that are the
‘National Security and the Art of Taxidermy’, a co-production of the Glynn Nicholas Group with Belvoir’s B Sharp, recently played the downstairs theatre at the Seymour Centre. A one person satirical comedy, the play was written by Sydney based playwright
‘Festen’ is the latest play to be put on by the Sydney Theatre Company at the Drama Theatre of the Sydney Opera House.
The play is based on the Danish film of the same name, with the adaptation having been
The Stables put on Louis Nowra’s ‘The Marvellous Boy’, the second play of the playwrights’ trilogy about the Boyce family. This follows last year’s excellent ‘The Woman with Dog’s Eyes’. Next year will see the final play in the trilogy.
The Sydney theatre group, Parnassus Den has come of age. Since 1995 the Den has been work-shopping new plays to harness the skills of budding playwrights. In some eleven years the Den has organized some 600 play readings. Now the
Aesthesia Entertainment and Newtown Theatre recently presented the Australian premiere production of Jules Feiffer’s play ‘Carnal Knowledge’ which was made into the 1970s movie starring Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel.
‘Carnal Knowledge’ starts with a love triangle set at a
Under the Table Productions put on ‘Bedtime for Bastards’, a triple bill by Van Badham, a show which was a hit at the recent Edinburgh Fringe festival, at the Crypt theatre in the Cat and Fiddle Hotel, Balmain. ‘Under the
I went to see Tim Lawson’s production of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Sydney’s beautiful Capitol Theatre.
It was great to see Topol as Tevye again. I was lucky enough to see him in the same role when I was
The steady, uncomplicated life of David Field as Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller’s classic drama A View From The Bridge comes unstuck with the arrival of two of his wife Beatrice’s (Toni Scanlan) relatives- her cousins Marco (Glenn
Many people will know Georgina Naidu from her role as the traditional Indian woman Phrani in the popular ABC television show, ‘Sea Change’. Recently Georgina devised and performed her own autobiographical show ‘Yellowfeather’ at the Studio theatre in the Sydney