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.
In the literary world, there is a trend toward books of short stories which gel together to create a bigger picture than each tale. Think David Cook’s BATTLE SCARS or IMPROMPTU SCRIBE by Alex Morritt.
Domestic Violence- RHYMES WITH SILENCE …
In the opening sequence of THE HOUSE OF RAMON IGLESIA a mother lights the incense for the small, crowded, ever-present house altar. The audience has been warned about its use. The smell is strong and pungent. But the wafts rising …
Some sounds resonate deep down inside:- The squeal of kids running down a sandhill; Act 1 of ‘ Billy Budd’ in the hands of a skilled male chorus; the explosion of women’s laughter after a ‘did she really say that’ …
IN THE HEIGHTS is a Tony and Grammy winning, Pulitzer Prize nominated musical. And what a great introduction Sydney siders have to this smash hit show. Just pipped at the post by a Melbourne production in March, Penrith Musical Comedy …
I’m a new experience junkie. Actually, best to qualify that statement. I’m a theatrical new experience junkie. I go to lots of weird little niche places. Maybe it was a theatre in 1902 and is being renewed. Perhaps a bare …
My friend has two sisters and I only have a brother. Familial practices, allegiances and secrets lie at the dichotomous heart of Theatre Excentrique’s ANTIGONE. A modern audience does not bear the weight of Antigone’s terrible ancestral turmoil but this …
OPEN MEMO
FROM: The Sydney Audience at the Giant Dwarf in Redfern on the 23rd April.
TO: Lexicographers Worldwide
RE: Redefinition of ‘KRAKEN’
PREAMBLE: It has come to our attention that the current dictionary definition of the word ‘KRAKEN’ refers …
We really do live on a beautiful blue planet and one’s heart leaps up when one see us spinning silently in space in 3D. What a way to begin an IMAX documentary about the watery blue of our world and …
My favourite saying to calm things down at work is ‘It will be OK. It’s an Art not a Science’. But deep down I don’t really believe that. As theatre makers we might not be ‘makin a man with blonde …
It is getting wintry in Sydney. On a Sunday afternoon in the ‘long, dark teatime of the soul’, the autumn leaves are floating down from a grey threatening sky. A perfect time to curl up with a familiar DVD or …