The appropriately named hard candy of the title is precocious 14 year old American girl Hayley Stark. Through an internet chat website Hayley arranges a meeting with thirties something fashion photographer, Jeff Kohlver. After meeting at a hang-out called Nighthawk,
Bertolt Brecht’s play ‘Mother Courage and her Children’ which he wrote back in 1941 has lost none of its dramatic power.
As a bit of historical background Brecht wrote the play shortly before World War 2 as a warning to
The Phoenix Theatre Company recently put on a production of the classic psychological thriller ‘Gaslight’ at Chatswood theatre. This classic psychological thriller was first performed in 1935 and has since received many stage and even film productions since.
In ‘Gaslight’
The Ensemble Theatre Company new play is a play from London, playwright Simon Mendes Da Costa’s ‘Losing Louis’. Da Costa’s fine play has had a successful run on the West End, and is due to open in Broadway in October.
The Genesian Theatre Company is currently performing a season of ‘the family favourite, ‘Wind in the Willows. Director Rebekah Jennings has chosen to use Alan Bennett’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s popular tale about riverbank animals.
Roger Gimblett played the Toad
Prolific playwright Tony Laumberg’s new play ‘Lawyers in Love’ recently played a successful five week season at Darlinghurst’s Tap Gallery.
‘Lawyers in Love’ is Mr Laumberg’s fifth play in successive years. Each of his plays, except for the play about
The Sydney Theatre Company recently brought out the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain’s production of Alan Bennett’s ‘The History Boys’ for a five week season.
Bennett’s play is set in Britain in the 1980s. It is the Britain of
Some productions are just great to see because they give some of the background to an important artist. Such was the case with Albion Productions and Canned Music’s presentation of the musical ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’ at Kensington’s Fig Tree Theatre.
‘Tick,
NTT productions, a regional theatre company based in the Hawkesbury and Penrith area, recently brought their production of ‘Allo, Allo!’ to North Sydney’s Independent Theatre. ‘Allo, Allo!’ is the theatrical adaptation of the popular TV comedy series and the play
Playwright, documentary maker and academic Geoffrey Sykes’s production ‘Political Fiction’ recently played a season at the Old Fitzroy Theatre.
In ‘Political Fiction’ Karl is a disgruntled forty something member of the Australian government. He becomes emotionally attached to Lee, a