Australian playwright Betty Roland’s A TOUCH OF SILK was first performed in 1928 and the delightful little Henry Lawson Theatre in Werrington in Sydney’s west is an excellent venue for this play. It is a play from Australia’s heartland and
With her one woman play DANGEROUS LENSES, local playwright Brooke Robinson explores the allure, the intrigue and the perils of living the life of a voyeur.
Amy Mathews plays Ann, a lonely, thirties something inner city dweller, living in a
Following on from its production of MISS SAIGON, the Chatswood Musical Society rise once more to the challenges of yet another major musical. DUSTY- THE ORIGINAL POP DIVA is a well-constructed ‘jukebox musical’. Like SHOUT or JERSEY BOYS,
it is
Gavin Lockley has taken some of the iconic Australian poems and created orchestral songs. Gavin was inspired by Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a cultural treasury of folk songs given orchestral arrangements.
With names such as Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, Dorothea
LAST DANCE is a beautiful film about a hostage and her captor in a small flat in leafy Melbourne.
Ulah is an ageing Jewish widow, played wonderfully by Julia Blake, who is taken hostage by a young Palestinian, Sadiq, rising
I found emerging local playwright Maree Freeman’s play FALLOUT enigmatic.
This is the situation. Three brash, obnoxious teenagers, two girls and one guy, are trapped in a sealed room, a stone enclosure with a dirt floor.
The audience is given
Sometimes one just comes across main characters- protagonists I guess is the proper literary phraseology- who are just so annoying and cloying that it wrecks the whole evening.
Sorry but climatologist Daniel in BETWEEN TWO WAVES fits in this category.
According to Wikipedia, an argot ( French, Spanish, and Catalan for “slang”) is a secret language used by various groups—including, but not limited to, thieves and other criminals—to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.
Phonetically the same, with the silent
It is one thing is to know that there is no point in continuing on the road that you have been travelling, it’s something else, all together, to have the willpower and the where-with-all to forge out a new path.
The dominant theme this year was a fantasy tropical island , so for the fun pre-show entertainment ( great dancing and singing ) the cast , moving around and interacting with the audience ,were in hula skirts , wore sea