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.
MOCKINGJAY PART 2 is a worthy conclusion to the Hunger Games series. It is faithful to the book and provides fans with a satisfying resolution to the reluctant heroine’s journey. Almost all the film is about travel: the rebels warring …
No laughing. This is serious. 9 months of heats are over. It’s the finals. The teams have done their warmups. The rules have been reviewed. There is a quiet expectative hush in the sheds. Who will take home the coveted …
THROUGH A BEADED LASH is about ways of seeing. The character who coins the term in the play, now showing at the Depot Theatre, is Brent … in his drag persona as Catherine. Brent doesn’t actually want to be a …
In my experience, when you go to a Shakespeare with fellow Shakespeare lovers or a Chekhov with a Chekhov lover there is something that happens beyond shared engagement. Reverence is too trite a word, communal too overused, immersion too visceral. …
If you do it properly, life is one big adventure. Or, I suppose, technically, a series of adventures. Like being rowed around Iron Cove with the sunset behind you… and with a bewildered owl in front of you. Jetpack Theatre …
As the birth-given amber flame inside sputters towards its inexorable, inevitable fading, we older folk often turn reflective. Searching for a moral? Not really. If we are old shouldn’t we have that already? Meaning? Perhaps, but of what? The metaphysic? …
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, playing a short season at the Reginald is … well … bellissima! The cast of students from the Sydney Uni Musical Theatre Ensemble (MUSE), a fine Company now in its 13th year of theatre making, …
Any Queenslander of a certain age will have strong opinions about the separation of Church and State and I am no exception. The Fitzgerald corruption enquiry which incidentally put the bigotry and religious zeal of some politicians on trial was …
It’s the raw redness of it. The pain when it stretches. The spasms and contractions in the slow twisting to find an elusive comfort. The joy during the hours of creation long gone, the sunburned characters who populate beside, around, …
When you’re a teacher, child noise is like those many Inuit words for ‘snow’. Instinctively, there is recognition of the massive scale of nuanced meaning to the noise. For any theatre person, reacting to audiences is the same discriminatory process. …