A memorable part of Mark’s childhood, in Sydney in the sixties, was spent queuing up in George Street to watch the latest movies. Mark remains an avid cinema and theatre goer, and believe that the essentials of great drama remain the same in both “genres”.
Mark’s other interests are photography, cricket and rugby. He is happy to discuss the finer points of swing bowling at any time.
BROKEN, directed by Rufus Norris, is an excellent British film about three middle class families with varying levels of misfortune and dysfunction. It is seen through the eyes of Skunk, the young daughter in the Cunningham family. The film opens …
THE CREDEAUX CANVAS, written by Keith Bunin and directed by Byron Kaye, is a funny and entertaining play centred around three young people dwelling on the creative fringes of art and music. The Tap Gallery, in Palmer Street, Darlinghurst, is
The new production by Sisters Grimm, LITTLE MERCY, written by Ash Flanders and Declan Greene, is a funny and entertaining play currently playing at Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf 2 theatre.
The two writers have taken the evil child film genre
The Palace Cinemas in Norton Street Leichhardt have reopened and to celebrate the cinema ran a preview screening of one of the big films that will premiere in the New Year.
A steam train travelling across a snow covered landscape …
WATER BY THE SPOONFUL by Quiara Alegria Hudes is an intelligent and entertaining play dealing with themes of love and family.
Relationships with various family members and other characters in the play are seriously tested and considered on a very
A STEADY RAIN is an entertaining and thoughtful play about a couple of police buddies- Denny, played with authenticity by Michael Booth, and Joey, played with great charm by Sam O’Sullivan, childhood friends who, as adults, share a police patrol
Christina Fuchs’ four piece ensemble, NO TANGO, played last night (10th November) at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in the final performance of their Australian tour.
NO TANGO is made up of Christina Fuchs on tenor sax and bass
A prisoner is released and returns home to his girlfriend. Daniel P. Jones and Leanne Letch are these two characters playing themselves. They are not professional actors and their performances are stilted. Nevertheless, there is incredible intimacy between them and
Australian playwright Betty Roland’s A TOUCH OF SILK was first performed in 1928 and the delightful little Henry Lawson Theatre in Werrington in Sydney’s west is an excellent venue for this play. It is a play from Australia’s heartland and
Gavin Lockley has taken some of the iconic Australian poems and created orchestral songs. Gavin was inspired by Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a cultural treasury of folk songs given orchestral arrangements.
With names such as Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, Dorothea