Judith is a Sydney theatre worker who was ‘born in a trunk’. With a lifelong passion for all performing arts, she has turned her hand to many jobs in film, TV and live theatre. Ranging from earning pocket money for trimming the back legs off tables, so they sat flat on raked stages to owning her own touring theatre company.
A lighting designer by trade, Judith experiences performances with a technical eye and an understanding of the jobbing actor and the theatrical bedrock which supports them.
Nope.
No way.
Didn’t understand it.
Didn’t get it.
Can’t review it.
Instead.
In the true spirit of deconstructed post-modernist anarchic performance I saw this …
Venue problems … the bane of the touring show. Suggestion: instead of telling …
It’s certainly my idea of a cheap theatre menu. Tickets are $10-$20 and one can choose from delights sweet, spicy or salty.
First on my plate at BONDI FEAST?
STORY CLUB SOLO: ZOE NORTON LODGE, a storyteller who knows how …
Production photography by Zaina Ahmed.
There are two ‘good wives’ standing centre stage and back to back as the show opens. Each is speaking in support of their husband … good men who are sending their countries to war …
There is a neglected and dusty Philatelist’s display cabinet on stage for MAURITIUS at the New Theatre. A shrewd observer, while peering in, may find a hidden treasure. Theatre going is a bit like that too and a keen, educated …
The August 6th deadline approaches for entry into LOVE BITES, a Screen Australia and ABC TV Arts competition for LGBTQI filmmakers. A curated series of 10 x 5 minute shorts to be premiered on the ABC Arts channel on iview …
Like giants astride the world the audience gingerly crosses the stage to their seats past a circle of little houses.
Beautifully rendered, these tiny white boxes of ticky tacky are artfully arranged and lit from inside. Yet the circle seems …
Featured photo- Lexi Laphor in ‘The Glass Bedroom’, an Arts Bite Project.
Ready for Mardi Gras 2018? It will be the 40th anniversary and the creative juices of Australian LGBTQI documentary filmmakers must be bubbling like champagne as Screen Australia …
Featured photo credit Viv McGregor. Outstanding Committee left to right; Sophie Robinson, Alex Greenwich, Gail Hewison, Robert Tate and Teresa Savage.
It’s official! IT’S COMPLICATED is the theme for this year’s OUTSTANDING short story competition.
The OutStanding Short Story Competition…
Despite being surrounded by the buzz of the Volunteer Green Room on this final day of the 2017 Sydney Writers Festival, I am a little contemplative. Saying goodbye to people I have only known for a week is harder than …
There’s a “stage full of stiffs” in the Hills…
In the first few minutes of BUGSY MALONE vast numbers of bad guys are done in by vicious cream pie attacks and random bystanders are felled by crazy string machine guns. …