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.
Somewhere in our bent-over-laughing pavement debrief my hysterical friend and I decided that siblings really are divided into Kyles and Hamiltons. She being the youngest of 4 girls is a Kyle and my dopey brother is a Kyle. I …
There is a deliciously sweet and sticky treat for children at the Leichhardt Town Hall over the school holidays. Take the kids. Actually … let the kids take you. You are going to have as much fun sharing the …
Hope. There must be hope. Something we can do.
We’ve felt this way before. In the 80s, when nuclear war was on our minds. A dread and nameless undercurrent of an everpresent something beneath the everyday. That fear that we …
Photography by Rebecca Lawrence
For one last time, I pulled a grimly tattered Post-it out of my pocket as I met up with my friend and photographer in the Media Pit of the 2016 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras …
There were several people in tears when the lights came up after last night’s performance of TEACUP IN A STORM at The Joan in Penrith. Drawn from the stories of carers in the local area, it’s a short show, only …
KALEIDOSCOPE playing at the Kings Cross Theatre as part of Mardi Gras is a bit overlong at an hour and a half. But the question is how did writer Charles O’Grady get the script so short? There is so damned …
“You’re awfully quiet. Let’s have a bit of a whoo!” called Co-chair of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Board, Fran Bowron to the crowd at the Official Opening of Fair Day, one of the most loved events in Mardi …
Don’t think that you need to be a dance enthusiast, film history buff or Queer culture follower to enjoy FEELINGS ARE FACTS : THE LIFE OF YVONNE RAINER. This is a film that allows a concentration on the subject not …
One of the many things I loved about this atmospheric, Australian mystery was the light. Despite having Gothic undertones and considering the darkness of the story, the violence and betrayal at its heart and the morbid backstory, a viewer sees …
If the TropJn finalists, all lined up in the soporific heat for their photo call, noticed the weather it didn’t show. Perhaps even if it was snowing they wouldn’t have noticed. Excitable and chatty but focused and enthusiastic to share …