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.
Jacintergrating is … um… Entertainavating!
Jacinta Gregory has constructed an entertaining show full of carefully balanced variety, terrific singing with great music and loads of promise. Beginning with a very well penned, funny yet sort of sad, opening song about …
Being in the Mardi Gras Parade? One word … chafing. Maybe too words … sore feet. Possibly three words… rain and drizzle.
So why do it?
This is what my photographer friend and I set out to explore in the …
Kate Mulvany IS Shakespeare’s Richard III. No need to read any further. Get your hands on a ticket now as they will become collectors’ items and in 5, 10, 20 years’ time when people speak of Mulvany’s performance, and …
Since 472 BC when Aeschylus created dialogue by adding ‘the antagonist’ to what had only been chorus and ‘the protagonist’, theatrical representations of human impulses have most often been expressed as discussion.
MEMBER has only one man on stage. …
Sometimes it’s so nice to just sit in an intimate theatre to feel a show rather than just watch and hear. BIG CROW is certainly intimate. You are close to the cast, almost stepping over a dying boy as you …
Nothing is as it seems in THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY. From the obscuring haze of thick smoke as we enter the theatre to the delicately constructed dance of death that concludes the work, people and events are viewed through a …
Most Sydney theatres have something running to support the LGBTQI community during Mardi Gras. Gone are the days when it was about grasping for the pink or lavender dollar, the offerings these days are genuine attempts to tell stories which …
Mums and Dads were highest on the thank you lists from the participants for TROP JNR this year and the audience was certainly filled with siblings and adults rooting for their films.
TROP JR is part of TROPFEST and has …
Photography by Ros O’Gorman.
Without confirming or denying whether I might have been involved, I can report that there was a kind of geriatric mosh pit for the finale of TAPESTRY: THE SONGS OF CAROLE KING with Debra Byrne and …
THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED is such fun.
If you are a lover of rapid fire witticisms, frequent bon mots or bitchily wry observations you are in for a treat. There is luscious dialogue rich with contrapuntal adjectives in a very …