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 claustrophobic opening scene of THE MOCKINGJAY PART 1 is an indicator of the close-up story created by director Francis Lawrence in this third in the Hunger Games series. There is no preamble and no indication of what has gone …
Apocalyptic weather has arrived out of nowhere. I’m wet. It’s been a long day. I’m tired. My friend who got me the ticket has ditched me for some irrelevant event in Bankstown. I’m cranky. NO OFFENSE BUT what the hell …
I don’t want to give anything away about THE AGE OF ENTITLEMENT but there is a huge amount I want to say. It is so unique and layered that I want to provide you with a fulsome discussion about the …
The program for BEYOND DESIRE at the Hayes Theatre is styled as an Edwardian newspaper and what I have to report about the show is both good and bad. Firstly the bad news: I really did not take to this …
In Act Two of THE LEGEND OF KING O’MALLEY the main character strikes trouble trying to charm his way into the early 1900’s Labor Party. The devil on his shoulder advises him, “Less matter, more art”. That’s what he does …
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd: he served a dark and vengeful God!” After a visit to the New Theatre’s website advertising their current production of Stephen Sondheim’s SWEENEY TODD, with its graphic image of a throat being cut and …
There was a full house for the Sunday matinee of THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE by Chatswood Musical Society (CMS) and they absolutely loved the show. They laughed and sighed in all the right places and cheered and …
I SPIED is truth in advertising. David Callan worked for our esteemed National Security Agency, ASIO, for 7 years. After seeing his one man show tonight, maybe esteemed isn’t the right word to describe the organization. But I’m loath to …
Black Raven Productions’ HAUS is set in an underground cellar during the Nazi occupation of Poland in 1942. A family is hiding there. On the sparse stage there are 3 suitcases piled on of top of each other. In essence, …
A recent academic study conducted about the British Performing Arts (2011-2012) reported that only 38% of people working within the industry were women. This almost 2:1 ratio favoring men has been taken up and there is a momentum gathering worldwide …