Elizabeth had a passion for theatre and performing from her youth and was a keen contributor to the joint school musicals- mostly the Gilbert and Sullivan romps. Once she headed to university this passion dominated with a 4 year stint at UNE in Armidale encompassing both performance and directing as major components of her Double Major in Drama and Major in English Literature.
The year after graduation she found herself not only at the newly formed Actors’ Centre but also teaching high school drama. She is still there, teaching, directing, writing for high school Drama and on the side across the years has performed in small season productions at Q theatre and directed several productions for the Short & Sweet program being a part of the inaugural group.
Keenly she has represented other drama educators as committee member then President of Drama NSW also representing NSW on the National Committee at Drama Australia National Conferences. She completed her MA a century ago also with a focus on Drama & Theatre at UNSW. She is now a mum of two and recently directed her sixth Musical – perhaps now coming full circle in the scheme of things. She was contributing and consulting editor on a major Drama text for Cambridge Uni Press “Drama ReLoaded”.
More than anything she loves theatre and is very keen to share her experiences with this forum. Each year she directs secondary students in plays from Australia and across the globe, in productions large and small.
Friday night, 19th January saw the 33rd Festival of Short Films open at Bondi Pavilion, under the stars. Australia’s largest Short Film Competition and the only one with Academy® Qualification and BAFTA recognition. A brilliantly warm night with …
This Belgian Theatre Company Ontroerend Goed have been described in the pre-publicity as a combined effort bringing visual art, theatre, poetry and political protest together. They described it as a “call to action”. I was expecting something about the race …
Part of the Sydney Festival the world premiere or the very special family project, five and a half years in the making. Opening Night felt all the more special with the co directors and co creators, Anyupa Butcher (Daughter of …
Nellie was a cross dressing, queer, black icon of Oxford Street and Sydney Bars.The title ‘Send For Nellie’t might resonate today in the 21st century but Nellie the performer is almost 100 years old. A trailblazer who left her …
There is immediate magic in the venue as we enter the State Theatre. Rick Thomas Illusionist has invited us into his Mansion of Dreams. A magnificent location to ask that we should suspend our disbelief for an interactive and engaging …
This is OTHELLO, this is Shakespeare made for now and yet still respects this universal revenge narrative. Set in the competitive realm of the all-male pro basketball team that pressures the players and the business behind. So begins a …
‘The unconscious is structured like a language. He meant that the unconscious is made up of ‘chains of repressed signifiers’ that relate to one another through their own rules of metaphor and metonymy. These repressed signifiers express themselves through …
Behind the mask of drama and theatre are the two faces of all. The tragedy and the comedy. Inside Twelfth Night lie both, in this production in quite equal measure. We never truly fall for the love’s laughter if laughter …
Martin Esslin coined the term “the theatre of the absurd” to mark the plays of Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter, where they may have not necessarily seen themselves cojoined.
As the writers and indeed the players all …
Inspired by confessional, contemporary theatre this solo one woman show uses direct address to powerfully draw the audience in. At times it is deliberate, that we might be able to bare witness in some nascent aside as she eyerolls the …