John Pollak did Arts and Law at Sydney uni. He practiced Law for a short while and went into business. He made too much money for his own good and today is not so much retired as having little to do. He plays tennis and carries the bags for his wife when she goes overseas. When prompted and badgered he does the occasional review.
He goes to Ethiopia every now and then and where, with Professor McGuigan of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, he is bringing the Sodis Program for safer water to the Tigray region.
When seen in public he is often hunched over a cup of coffee and a foccacio whilst immersed in a diabolical suduko. Or he is driving his wife to bridge.
Production photos by Chloe Snaith
It was a dark and stormy night when your intrepid theatre critic ventured into the bowels of Marrickville to find The Depot Theatre and to review this musical. We drove into a forlorn precinct in …
So I went to the Bexley RSL club on Stony Creek Road Bexley to see this play.
It is on a very busy road. Cars drive along it, some furiously, in a desperate hurry to get nowhere in particular. You …
If you have seen Florence Foster Jenkins then you must see this movie.
It is quite the opposite. Here the human spirit prevails and one gets a sense of its divine spark, both in a humane and creative sense …
If you have faith in the goodness of man and the the nobility of the human spirit do not see this movie. If you want to see some very fine acting by Meryl Streep it is a must see.
This …
One of the advantages of the gig for occasional critic for SAG is to uncover parts of the Sydney Arts Scene one was previously only dimly aware of. Such as the theatre precinct of Enmore Rd in Newtown. Complimenting this …
It was one of those dreary Sunday afternoons with little to do and plenty of time to do it.
“We should take in a movie” I said to the little boss. ZOOTOPIA.
“Whaat..the one with those funny actors! Forget …
We saw this movie on the big screen at Bondi Junction recently.
People often say “This is a TV movie, I’ll watch it at home”. Don’t do it. And especially for this film. The cinematography is great, capturing the lush …
This is a show playing at the Chauvel Theatre until Tuesday. It is part of Sydney’s Mardi Gras celebrations.
We arrived somewhat early to see it and serendipitously stumbled across the Paddington Reservoir which is beneath the street adjacent to …
We saw this play last night at Carriageworks in Redfern. This multi-platform performing arts centre is a collection of magnificent one hundred year plus industrial buildings where a sense of a bygone era impacts upon one strongly.
Tucked away in a tiny space in the opera house, in a corner just beneath one of its plunging sails is an intimate space with a postcard view of the harbour. The Utzon Room. It is a concrete rectangular box …