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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SONG OF FIRST DESIRE upstairs at Belvoir Street Theatre. Production photography by Brett Boardman
SONG OF FIRST DESIRE is a fitful play that dips in and out of time frames and between countries. Written by Australia’s Andrew Bovell in …
Casting for stage plays should be sensible, but right now in Australia sense has been diminished by sensitivity policies. An actor inherently appropriates his or her character’s culture. She or he must. That’s the job. But now “cultural appropriation” policy …
FIVE STARS
Remember Wuthering Heights? Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel about two families of the landed gentry on Yorkshire moors? The master of Wuthering Heights adopts an orphan and names him Heathcliff. Oh yes, Heathcliff. Now you remember. The boy is …
This is a good idea that didn’t work.
What a huge effort has been put into creating DONALD’S INFERNO, presented for two nights only in the ‘club’ style Lounge in the Chatwood Concourse.
The story is about Australian journalist and …
AfroAmerican playwright Lynn Nottage’s SWEAT is a Pulitzer prize winning play set between 2000 and 2008 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Reading becomes the microcosm of proud working people in small town America, in decline. Sweat is in the tradition of monumental …
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES is another one of Australian playwright Joanna Murry-Smith’s nearly brilliant dialectical counterpoint plays about a writer running out of creative juices. Poor Margot Mason, author of cult …
GOLDEN BLOOD is a personal story told by playwright Merlynn Tong, who also plays one of the two characters. We know from the first sentence of Merlynn’s program note that her mother committed suicide. Her play is a complicated psychological …
Cicadas. They live underground for 17 years then emerge,spread their wings, fly around and sing incredibly loudly to find a mate. The cicada of this play is a cute 12cm puppet held in the capable hands of Tim Watts. Tim …
It’s an AUTO-TUNE is one of the Sydney Opera House’s ‘Unwrapped’ projects. These short-run events are “dedicated to uncovering the best independent creators.…handing over the stage to the finest original performances …
GASLIGHT is a mystery thriller with psychological twists! A detailed Victorian set, exquisite period costumes, wonderful original music and superb acting make this vintage play great fun. If you like Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock, this the …