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.
Belvoir has sprung back to life from the lockdowns with a lively, mostly fun show that is a pantomime within a pantomime. It’s not for children however. THE BOOMKAK PANTO includes strong language and sexual references. ‘Boomkak’ is listed in …
Congratulations to the Sydney Chamber Choir for the beautiful ‘Garden of the Soul’ concert held at the acoustically brilliant Independent Theatre last Saturday 20th November, 2021.
The first three pieces were from the Renaissance era (Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Monteverdi, …
Wish You Were Here is most definitely a novel for our times. It is about the Covid experience, and so much more. An up-to-date twin tale of realism and transcendentalism wrapped into a wonderfully engaging story. The structure is unusual …
Please, don’t read reviews that explain how Sydney Theatre Company has staged ‘Julius Caesar’. Please, don’t let people who have seen it tell you what happens. It would be better to enter the Wharf Theatre knowing very little so that …
After four cancellations, the Phoenix Collective Quartet’s eclectic performance finally graced the acoustically brilliant space of Christ Church St Laurence. Samuel Barber’s famous adagio for string quartet was first. Played at a slow pace, the piece resonated down the …
The Sydney Oceanic Art Society was held today (November 6, 2021) at the National Art School in Darlinghurst. The annual event had been cancelled last year and consequently this year’s show had an unusually large number of exhibitors and …
It’s back! COME FROM AWAY came to Sydney, closed due to lockdown and has reopened to enthusiastic audiences, keen for an uplifting story. The award-winning musical is now playing at the Capitol Theatre until January 9, 2022.
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Extinct describes and illustrates 39 Australian creatures extinct in the Anthropocene. It does not include the megafauna, those huge wombats and kangaroos that became extinct around 50,000 years ago. The foreword by Brook Garru Andrew sums up this marvellous book, …
This marvellous police thriller has more twists and turns than a mountain-climbing switchback road. But we’re not headed up a mountain. We’re headed out to opal country. Hot, dry, dangerous, desolate, sometimes lawless. The book’s cover designer Luke Causby has …
A generation ago Australian journalists experienced an upheaval in the industry as the news process evolved from print to digital. Revenue from classified advertising was replaced by online and social media promotions. The hurly burly of the newsroom deadline was …