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.
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It starts with an intrigue. We can see who but what is the issue and why? Intriguing beginning yes but this is not mystery theatre. This is the theatre of chaos writ large in a small space. I loved TINY …
So I sit here at the laptop completely out of my depth. It doesn’t happen often but when it hits I feel useless. Last night’s show THE ANGELICA COMPLEX playing as part of Invisible Circus at King’s Cross Theatre has …
The protagonist of GOOD WITH MAPS speaks to her audience of a quest, a longing fueled by a firm belief in the power of geography to inspire. This delicately robust show, which is part of the INVISIBLE CIRCUS season at …
“Run”… “Run”… “Run”. Intoned tonelessly through the echoing space. “Run” . High pitched now. Urgent and urgently requiring action. The heart beats faster, only gravity holds you where you are. There’s a woman in danger. Run. Why don’t they run?…
Rarely have I wanted to encourage an audience to see a show as much as I want you to see RENT by Blackout Theatre Company playing at The Joan at Penrith. Rarely does an audience get the chance to see …
Last night saw 107 Projects and The Actor’s Centre Australia (ACA) launch an exciting innovation in funding for playwrights. The new model can be summed up by a comment by Melissa, a writer with whom I was chatting over …
There is a famous theatre review of a show called A Good Time on Broadway in the 1960s. The review simply reads “NO” in a blank column of newsprint.
When choosing a name for a show, a lesser company might …
Look at the play script for George Brant’s one woman show GROUNDED (2014) and all you see are pages and pages of short thin lines of dialogue. Single spaced columns and columns of it. Often it’s just one word in …
Waiting for my friend to come back with the car (parking in Erskineville requires a canteen and hiking boots) I watched the company of Upper Crass destroy their set. They manhandled the cardboard out onto the pavement and set to …