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.
I see up to six shows a week and while it’s rare to find a dud on the Sydney theatre scene, it’s just as rare to have an experience that is so odd and wonderful that I almost don’t want …
“Seat belt first” is a mantra repeated by driving instructor Darwin during LEARNING TO DRIVE a new film from Spanish Director Isabel Coixet, but this gentle, funny film is not a wild ride. It’s not BULLITT. It’s an intimate, …
Inviting a reviewer to a preview is tricky. Anyone following the London Hamlet furore knows how horribly wrong it can go. People are exhausted, voices are tired, musicians are sore and techies are the walking dead. Writing a review about …
There are a myriad of reasons why I want to live a long time and tonight a theatre piece has brought one of these screaming into sharp relief. I want to live in a future when the audience of THE …
AFAICR nevr come across 13 b4. AIAMU. Z0mg… Sg8.
Don’t speak teenager? Let me translate.
As far as I can recall, I have never come across 13 before. Am I am monkey’s uncle? Oh my god … so great.
I …
In our older years, we sort of know most things about ourselves. I could tell you a lot of personal stuff if you asked me… and you held a psychiatrist’s licence. But last night I learned something new about my …
The Sydney Fringe is a magic season for theatre lovers. It’s a busy time with so many chances to see new work and encounter artists and companies which will inform the course of the Sydney theatre scene. From what I …
HEDDA after HEDDA GABLER is just wonderful. I loved it. It’s a slow, intense treatise on what theatre is … not for us the viewer but for the characters. The creations. The manifestations of imagination. The fleshed concepts pulled from …
There are mixed audiences and then there is the mix of 2500 people who come together on a warmish Spring night to hear a legend. AN EVENING WITH JOAN BAEZ called across generations. Oldies like me with faded jeans and …
Don’t read this review. Seriously. If you are a lover of unique, intimate and relevant theatre, simply open a new tab, go to the Sydney Fringe site and book tickets to CRAZY BRAVE. The reason for the urgency? This show …