Carol Dance

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.

184 posts by Carol Dance

australian haydn ensemble : mozart : viennese star

It was a glorious evening as the quartet played Haydn, Boccherini and Mozart with the Harbour views seen through the glass-walled Utzon Room. The musicians and the magnificent Jorn Utzon tapestry were reflected on window-wall. The enormous orange-ochre reflection was

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mandy beaumont’s ‘the furies’ : a hard slog

The Furies of ancient myth travelled the world taking deadly revenge on evil mortals. They were angry women dispensing terrifying retribution. In Mandy Beaumont’s The Furies, key character Cynthia awaits retribution that never arrives. 

The Queensland outback is blamed for

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australian architecture, a history by davina jackson

 

Davina Jackson’s AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE is more than a history of buildings and their designers. It is a history of Australia seen through structures from 60,000 years ago to current times. She describes the Aboriginal structures, including drawings of the

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how we love : notes on a life by clementine ford

How We Love is a memoir from childhood to age 41, by Clementine Ford, Australian feminist writer and broadcaster. It is a gender bending recounting of a troubled life, a tell-all, confusing recitation of vodka rattled romances, a divorce and

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the other art show @ the cutaway, barangaroo

The wonderful vast space of the Cutaway at the Barangaroo Reserve is filled with over 100  artists exhibiting a great variety of styles, mediums and techniques. It is an inspiring show. The stalls are held by individual artists, not by

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