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.
Nick Higgins (Lighting) and Isabel Hudson (Set) have done a magnificent job in David William’s (Writer/director) show GRACE UNDER PRESSURE. The Tardis like rotunda of stretched translucent fabric hung above the white matching shape on the stage floor provided a …
As much as one would like to give unqualified feedback to YELLOW FACE with its explicit themes of race and identity, the nature of race, and self consciousness and appearance, the show itself has an awkwardness that does not do …
15 acts over 2 hours in the vast amphitheatre of baroque follies of the State Theatre. 101+ jokes, one liners, anecdotes and stories on state police, spelling bees, Huntsman spiders and pubic hair, body parts, ants, families, facial expression, Covid, …
THE FOUL OF THE AIR eschews verbal language. Apart from a opening gambit, what little there is is skewed in guttural, incomprehensible whispers, a theatrical technique that is compelling in itself but leaves one wondering why spoken and written language, …
DEAD SKIN is an impressive piece of Australian naturalist theatre, all the more so as it was written by a 17 year old.
The two main female characters, both 17, are not stereotypes, neither is their infatuation with a girl/girl …
This was an exquisite and rare event, engaging Bach’s masterful two hour long St John’s Passion, mixed with new compositions by Joseph Twist and Brooke Shelley. The audience proved to be deeply delighted with this presentation, and rightly so.
There …
In content the show was a montage of material from the 1920’s, with quips by Groucho Marx, Mae West and Al Capone; interviews with Gertrude Stein, F Scott Fitzgerald and George Gershwin; poetry by T.S Eliot, piano music of Scott …
This ensemble show has much to recommend it.
It was pleasing to see such a collaborative style, which featured each of the four cast members – Kaylee Ashton, Alex Gonzalez, Kobi Taylor-Forder and Antonia Korn – respectively and …
When I was the same age as several of the cast of the Lipstick show, I saw the first version of Matt Rowley’s Boys in the Band (1970 – not the 2020 Netflix remount). For a fairly sheltered young adult …
For their first concert for 2021, and presumably first post Covid, the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs presented their Young Adult (VOX) Choir in an outstanding program of spiritually inspired songs and choir works set in the grandeur of the apse and …