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.
This art book is printmaker Bruno Leti’s tribute to the Renaissance architecture of Florence. Bruno, an Australian-Italian, returned to the city in 2019 and renewed his admiration and fascination with ‘Fiorenza’. Bruno is particularly drawn to the geometric system of …
It would be a spoiler to reveal what the play is about, other than the rural town’s women are organising a race where they lug a 20 kilo sack of potatoes around the track as an event in the annual …
It’s good to see so many people out and about at the Sydney Comedy Festival (SCF). One of the SCF venues is the Factory Space, Marrickville, where there are three theatre spaces and shows running simultaneously. There are crowds of …
I notice this title is being promoted as a Mother’s Day gift at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Beware. This is a serious book written by serious Australian writers, mostly novelists, about how they themselves read books by other Australian novelists. …
Australians conquered Paris with Claudel, and now we know why. Our world-famous choreographer Meryl Tankard and playwright Wendy Beckett created an innovative way of telling the story of French sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943). It premiered in Paris in 2018 at …
Brisbane’s Shake and Stir Theatre Company is touring its energetic adaptation of George Orwell’s classic, ANIMAL FARM. It’s at the Glen Street Theatre in Belrose until May 2. I went to the 1:00 show hoping there would be school students …
Two men appear on stage. Both are 60. Both are famous in Australian cultural circles. Both are very brave to reveal themselves so publicly. They are not actors. They play themselves developing a play about themselves. This isn’t verbatim theatre …
Monet’s obsession with painting nature, particularly the French countryside, led him to adopt an inventive painting style of impressionism that is basis of the MONET AND FRIENDS exhibition now in Sydney.
You enter a large space with panels of …
The Portia Geach is the portrait exhibition and prize specifically for Australian women artists, in memorial to artist and feminist Portia Geach ((1873-1959). This year’s 57 portraits are exceptional. There is variety in the styles, in the men …
England’s National Theatre film productions of their live theatre performances make you feel you really are in the theatre. The Lehman Trilogy is one of its best. The original play, by Italian Stefano Massini, was a Homeric ten hours long. …