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.
THE SHAPE OF THINGS by Neil LaBute is a modern classic. It is on the HSC syllabus, was made into a successful film in 2003 and was most recently revived in London in 2013. The current JST production, as part …
Circus is really hard work. Physically it’s all sore hands and knotted tension across the shoulders from neck and head at odd angles. Psychologically it’s that weird mix of adrenalin and enervation from the loud music and the constant pressure. …
It is fitting that there was no moon tonight. Moonlight gently touches the skin on late nights in the backyard staring up. It glares in the sky when full and ahead of you travelling west to home. That great rich …
Chekhov is such a specific playwright that he even has an adjective. However, AFTERPLAY, which is part of the Sydney Fringe and playing at Old 505, avoids being Chekhovian despite the characters having been pulled from lives created by the …
In describing any work of art, one has to necessarily rely on adjectives. From ‘pleasant’ to ‘show- stopping’, performance has its own well-used, coded vocabulary. It’s an unusual descriptor for a theatre work but I would apply ‘authentic’ to Archway …
While enjoying ROSIE, RUTH & SUSAN tonight I couldn’t help but wonder what will be the preoccupations of the current generation when they are grandparents.
We know the concerns of the grandmothers who populate this stage: school; siblings; work rather …
The World Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Australian Museum is the perfect place for any lover of our small blue planet to spend a wintry afternoon. These are remarkable and inspiring images of detail and depth; of …
BITCH BOXER begins before the audience is really aware that it has started. The house lights are on when 21 year old female boxer, Chloe wanders onto the acting space to start her workout. Skipping in a gentle, school yard …
On their Facebook page, Two Peas, the production company behind EDMOND playing at Old 505 theatre, have called the Sydney independent theatre “you inconsistent thing you” and bemoan their current low ticket sales for the season. And they are right. …
MEN, playing at the Old Fitz, is about trust. Trust has nothing to do with the story actually but it’s what might keep you in your seat. Germaine Greer said that women don’t really know how much men hate them …