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 is community theatre at its best. The Lane Cove Theatre has selected a complex play and succeeded in presenting this dramatisation of a true story. The ‘radium girls’ were 1920s workers who contracted radiation poisoning…
This was a once-only concert, part of the Utzon Music 2024 program at the Sydney Opera House. There are ten once-only events in this curated Utzon program.
If you don’t want to mourn that fact that you won’t get to …
TICK, TICK…BOOM! is a musical. On stage are three singers, two electric guitars and two electric pianos. A drummer is hidden behind a screen. That’s fully juiced sound.
We suspect that the three in the cast are superb …
The Sri Lankan saga gala, COUNTING AND CRACKING, has returned to Sydney. Don’t miss it this time around. It premiered in Sydney in 2019 in the Town Hall. It then went to Adelaide, Melbourne, New York, Edinburgh and now it’s …
Beethoven’s Fifth, played by seven members of the Australian Haydn Ensemble, (AHE) is a sweeping, joyous sound. The June 30 performance at the City Recital Hall received a standing ovation. Played by six stirngs and one flute, the ensemble …
One by one, five young Aborigines slowly enter a huge uninviting impersonal space, each carrying a suitcase or backpack. Each has been taken from their families by the government to live in an institution. Each of the five …
This play is NOT about James VI of Scotland. It is about two American basketball fans’ devotion to LeBron James, the ‘king’ of basketball. It is a wonderful and at times hilarious play about loyalty and friendship. Written by Rajiv …
Congratulations to the New Theatre for this excellent production of INK. Don’t miss it. This Australian premier has suspense, didactic argument, surprise and even humour. The play charts Rupert Murdoch’s 1969 dealings with Larry Lamb, an editor on Fleet Street, …
This wonderful theatre space in the popular Woolloomooloo pub is currently host to Sport for Jove’s version of the Tristan – Isolde story, on until June 1. There have been dozens of adaptations of this ancient love story, usually …
Mandela Mathia is a South Sudanese migrant to Australia. In LOSE TO WIN on the Belvoir stage, he tells the story of his childhood in that war-torn country, his loss of parents, and his coming to Australia. A team of …