Geoffrey Sykes

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.

74 posts by Geoffrey Sykes

grace under pressure @ illawarra performing arts centre

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

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sydney comedy festival gala : great fun

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,

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dead skin @ kings cross theatre

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

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lipstick : didn’t work like a dream

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

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