As CEO of the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre, Carol wrote dozens of role plays to train mediators. Once retired, she wrote short plays,15 of which have been produced in festivals. Her longer plays have been produced by Nautanki Theatre, Subtlenuance Theatre and the Indian Association. She founded Scene Theatre Sydney in 2008.
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THE JUNGLE AND THE SEA is written and directed by S. Shakhidharan, an Australian-Sri Lankan. Together with Belvoir’s artistic director Eamon Flack, Shakhidaran created this story about one family’s attempt to remain together during the fifteen years …
This conspiracy thriller posits an evil conspiracy embedded in the U.S. government. Be afraid, be very afraid as the Blackbriar spies try to undercover evil-conspirators by their own evil means. Is this book anti-American? Does it foretell the demise of …
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This is it! Sydney’s newest hit! Don’t miss it! THE LOVERS is at the Sydney Opera House until November 20.
Bell Shakespeare Company has created a BIG musical out of A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Using the …
This mega novel by Orhan Pamuk is a triumph of confusion, ramblings and boredom. It is historical fiction, set almost entirely on a hypothetical Mediterranean island during the 1901 plague as the Ottoman Empire is disintegrating. The machinations of …
I’M WITH HER, a six-part documentary theatre work, has had an extended life at Beckett’s Restaurant in Glebe. Beckett’s Club, in the lower level of the famous Darling Mills building, presents a series of one-night theatre vignettes. Vignette #4 …
As the quintet begins playing its first vignette from a Haydn symphony, Australia’s beloved John Bell enters. And so begins this engaging concert with the 82 year-old Bell playing the 77 year-old Haydn, interspersed with the Australian Haydn Ensemble’s selection …
When David Kary, the editor of Sydney Arts Guide, asked me to write something about my upcoming art exhibition, I had to retrieve my research notes to recall what prompted me to make wall pieces out of the covers of …
BOOM! International Festival Of Percussion was a week-long homage to drumming, tapping and pounding – the first ever international percussion festival in Sydney. Congratulations to the organisers, Percussion Australia. The Festival opened at the Town Hall October 1 with performances …
With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France’s civil war, life for two pious sisters in a tiny Norwegian village begins to change. This now famous story, Babette’s Feast, was a novella by Isak Dinesen (pen name Karen …
It is usually verboten to write a review in first person, but I’m going to – because I was a teenager in the 1950s in America, the setting of this play. I remember the 1950s racial tensions only too well …