Over 30 professional theatre productions, as writer, producer or director, including La Mama Melbourne, Holden Street Theatre Adelaide, 707 Theatre Redfern Sydney, Tap Gallery Sydney, Teatrul Municipal Bacovia Bacau Romania, Inculise Bucharest Romania,People’s Theatre Sofia Bulgaria, Old Fitzroy Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, Powerhouse Museum and National Gallery of Canberra. Video programs have been broadcast on ABC, SBS, Foxtel and New Zealand television, and screenings at NSW Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canberra, South Australia Art Gallery, S.H.Erwin Gallery, Holden Theatre Adelaide, Wollongong Art Gallery, Thirroul Excelsior, Project Gallery Wollongong, and other public venues. Commissions by Art Gallery of NSW.
Sponsorships by Peabody Energy, IMB Bank, Lawrence Hargrave Centre, Anzac Commemorative Fund. Lecturer in media and communications at University of Western Sydney, University of Wollongong, Notre Dame University and University of New South Wales. Editor of Southern Semiotic Review journal.
Words can fail in terms of the content of a show like SIBYL and also for any critical response. This show raises its own multiform bar and follows no established theatrical rules. It’s conflation of highly accomplished contemporary African …
BLACKLISTED is an early contender in the rich program of Sydney Fringe 2023. The show has much of interest in its 60 minutes. The first half is a poignant even angry outburst against the ‘blacklisting’ and stereotyping of people from …
This was a very special show, more like a jewel on stage than a conventional stage play. Drama yes, but one finely cut with rich textures of narration, action and language than resonate to creates multiple impressions of its …
Right from the beginning NEVER SAID MOTEL proves to be arresting and engaging. Tamzen Hayes plays a flexible narrator telling a dozen experiences, mainly downbeat, of romance, in a racy, crafted and skilled delivery. She shares these with the …
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The last four reviews I have written have featured new venues. These started with the Library at Newtown, and its production of ‘Darkness’ – not too far away, near City Road on Broadway, Bakehouse Theatre Company has found …
This production of XANADU, the stage musical based on the film, was a surprising if qualified success. To start with, it’s surprising that after the debacle film by Olivier Newton-John, whose climatic whirling skate dervish climax can be seen for …
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Like a recent review for DARKNESS at The Library Newtown, this review of LOOKING FOR ALBANESE (The Wharf Review) at Pavilion Theatre Sutherland is as much about the venue as it is the show. In both cases the …
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DARKNESS is currently running at the old 505 theatre in Eliza Street Newtown. The theatre production has gone hand in hand with a substantial and expensive designed fit-out of the downstairs foyer, along with a full 360 setting …
It was very special to be in the audience at WOVEN SONG on the eve of Australia Day, and hear content directly relevant to public issues in this country and the national day.
WOVEN SONG is or at least has …
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ROOM is a full length multiform Chaplinesque charade without the social pathos of Chaplin himself. His grandson, James Thierré, is the auteur creator, lead, composer, writer and director of the scintillating work that now features in the 2023 …