Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Last year,the Sydney independent theatre scene coughed up two remarkable one woman shows that critical acclaim and audience response demanded remounts.
One was Queen Bette, the Jeanette Cronin essay on Bette Davis which has already enjoyed a resurrection season.…
A question for the producers of ORPHANS and BELLEVILLE, the late show and the premium programme at the Old Fitzroy: why put on a bad English play or a bad American play when there are plenty of good and bad …
In the past month of Sundays, audiences have been treated to a couple of terrific local films. Now a third joins the ranks, A MONTH OF SUNDAYS, starring Anthony LaPaglia and John Clarke, and written and directed by Matthew Saville.…
Pay attention 007 aficionados.
It’s Shakespeare shaken not stirred in Jacapo Della Quercia’s LICENSE TO QUILL, an origin story of the Double O section that combines the creation of the stage play Macbeth amid the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot …
Australian films are on a roll at the moment – Looking for Grace, The Daughter, Broke, Sherpa, A Month of Sundays and PAWNO.
PAWNO is an unassuming but highly amusing observational film set in Melbourne’s inner …
Go for BROKE. It’s a bewdy.
Shot on a shoestring budget, BROKE is a movie that has the integrity and self worth of being brought up by its bootstraps.
Steve Le Marquand plays Ben Kelly, busted, broke down ex champion …
Jeremy Allen’s elegant production design for Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s production of Patricia Cornelius’ SAVAGES evokes a stylish nautical nuance with its portholes and wooden decks. It suggests a sunny, funny, carefree spree at sea, deckchair indolence, relaxed daytime quoits perhaps …
What a turn up for that March day in April!
This Anzac day, two-up will be traded for couplets as The Old Fitzroy hosts Impro pros, Post-Haste Players, in BARD TO THE BONE, their combustible contribution to the 400th…
It’s been written in, it’s been inherited from, and the answer has been blowing in it. The wind. As inconstant as dreams, to paraphrase Shakespeare, the wind blows hot and cold, sometimes as thin of substance as the air, sometimes …
Shakespeare said ‘my verse will stand’. And, by goodness, it has. More than 400 years after their publication his sonnets live on. Not only in their original do they endure, but also in their influence in the writing of others.…