Maggy Franklin has been involved in theatre and musical theatre in Sydney for many years. She has a teaching diploma in Speech and Drama, has attended Darlo Drama classes, acted and directed in Crash Test Drama, directed at Short and Sweet Sydney, is a regular judge at Short and Sweet and has directed in the Sydney Fringe Festival.
She runs the large internet based social theatre group Theatre Time Sydney which organises groups to attend and support independent theatre. An ex-high school teacher, she works in aged care, plays tennis, gets to the cinema whenever possible, and is a Lifeline volunteer.
She believes one can never go to too much theatre, and there is always something to be experienced at every production.
This play by the multi-award winning playwright, screenwriter & director Kenneth Lonergan is the debut play by Dudley Street Productions.
LOBBY tells the story of Jeff, a hapless, young security guard on the graveyard shift in a Manhattan high-rise. He …
Factory Space Theatre Company’s production of AN UNEXPECTED EXECUTION by Emma Wills is a powerful & dramatic presentation of the last part of the life of Mary Stuart and the political dealings of the English court under Queen Elizabeth.
This …
TWO ROOMS by Lee Blessing is set in the 1980s in two rooms, one in Washington and one in Beruit. The themes the play explores, however, are just as relevant today as they were then – perhaps showing how little …
THE LIGHT BOX is a new play written by Natalia Savvides inspired by her research into the experiences of women in colonial institutions.
It is formed from a number of, at first, seemingly unconnected short scenes set in the present …
The new adaption by Nick Dear of Mary Shelley’s novel FRNAKENSTEIN is not the traditional type of play one associates with the Ensemble Theatre.
In this adaptation the creature is very human like, and indeed, at the start as it
The CREDEAUX CANVAS, written by Keith Bunan, is a powerful study of relationships and how these are radically and permanently changed by decisions the characters make.
Three young flatmates are all searching for a different elusive dream. Jamie, played by
Mesmerizing and enthralling, ENCODED is a powerful and hypnotic, at times almost trancelike work that combines fabulous contemporary dance, aerial acrobatics and the latest in computer images and technology.
Described as ‘a meditation on fragility’, ENCODED features an immersive aerial