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.
Seven Sufi musicians and five Whirling Dervishes have been brought from Türkiye for this season of performances in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane by the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.
Paul Dyer, the Artistic Director of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (ABO), has for …
The Bondi Festival is such fun. The ice-skating rink, the Ferris wheel, the two young women dressed as oily lift-repairers who surprise you as the lift doors open to take you up to the Bondi Pavilion Theatre. Everyone is in …
Oh, Romeo, where for art thou? Romeo is everywhere in this production. He and the rest of the characters leap, run, hide, jump and frolic around the minimalist set with tremendous energy. This energy escapes into the audience.
We sit …
This three-choir, orchestra and film event was spectacular. The Marliya Choir are the young Indigenous female singers from Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait. They sing in both English and First Nations languages, primarily Yindjibarndi. Conducted by Lyn Williams…
The Sydney Symphony has delivered a Debussy arrangement with cor anglais and a Bach arrangement with marimbas! The third and last piece was Steve Reich’s piece played by four marimbas. It was a night of percussion. And what fun it …
This 90 minute theatre collage has over 50 short scenes presented by five actors expertly switching characters in each fragment. We are in the 1970s, then 2040s, then 2023 – back and forth in time zones as the actors explore …
THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE by Andrew Bovell premiered in Adelaide in 2016 with productions soon after in Britain, the U.S. and Sydney. This production by the Pymble Players is a testament to how good an …
4 stars
Billed as ‘Stephen Hough Performs Rachmaninov 1’, we are greeted first with the World Premier of Gordon Hamilton’s “A great big blue thing next to a smaller white thing – both bathed in sunrays”. That is, …
MY GYPSY SOUL was an exquisite quartet performance of Romani-inspired music. From the start, you knew it was going to be a fun and magical performance when cellist Umberto Clerici tipped his head to his instrument revealing his skull cap …
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Black American playwright August Wilson’s classic play FENCES is currently playing at Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf 1 Theatre. The director is Shari Sebbens, a Jibirr Jabirr person. Her interpretation of this complex play has brought the best …