Judith Greenaway

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.

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radiance @ belvoir

The setting for RADIANCE at Belvoir is created of wood and stone and water. Onto this set arrive three characters. They are sisters. Indigenous and elemental in the way of the wood and the stone and the water that has …

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circus factory @ powerhouse

circus factory

There are lots of things for kids to do at CIRCUS FACTORY at the Powerhouse Museum so it’s a great place to take the kids over the holidays for some kinaesthetic and fun activities. My advice though, is to take …

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judith’s best audio for 2014

Allan Menken (Music) and Janus Cercone and Warren Leight’s (Book) LEAP OF FAITH. Produced by the Hills Musical Theatre Company. Designer Dave Fitzgerald. Wonderful Mixing

The audio was a highlight in this show, despite the cavernous and bouncy room  the …

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judith’s best lighting for 2014

Campion Decent’s UNHOLY GHOSTS at the Stables Theatre. Lighting designer Martin Kinnane

I saw it four times: The first light cue made me cry.

The operation on this show was a treat. Cue 1: the fade from pre-show to the

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a christmas carol @ belvoir

Merry is not quite the word for A CHRISTMAS CAROL playing during the Festive Season at Belvoir. The show is definitely Christmassy, definitely snowy, but it is the faithfulness to the original text which gives the show its dimension. …

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judith’s best sets for 2014

THE GOD OF HELL- great raised set in a tiny theatre- Designer Rodney Fisher. Playwright Sam Shepard. Producer- Mophead Productions. Venue- The Old Fitzroy Theatre

This was a cracker set.  Traditional flats used to create the vestibule, boot room and …

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guilty pleasures @ the hayes

Photo: Mike 'Smo' Snow

GUILTY PLEASURES indeed. A show about women who murder might be expected to have the feel of those lurid Lady Killer magazines for bored 1950s housewives. Instead, what we get from Angelique Cassimatis in her one-woman show is five case …

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a midsummer night’s dream @ bella vista farm

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM is playing as part of the season of Sydney Hills Shakespeare in the Park and Leura Shakespeare Festival and a festival it most definitely is. Families and lovers and friends and cronies, all together under a …

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the crucible @ bella vista farm

It was only as I started my car engine to begin the trip to the performance tonight that I realised I wasn’t carrying any tissues. On my wander back to the house, I wondered … would I really need them? …

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handle it @ the imperial

It’s not often that I covet wealth but tonight I wish I had a secret stash . I attended a fundraising night for UN Women. 50% of the takings are going to Beijing +20 which aspires to a world with …

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