Greed, loneliness, grief, defiance, vengeance, desperation, flirtation, lust, violation, violence, pride, longing, humility and reward… All are possible when pleasing or angering the gods. And this ecstatic parade often surrounds the pursuit of love.
Dino Dimitriadis’ direction of Mary Zimmerman’s
There was tumultuous applause for this excellent revival of Bizet’s THE PEARLFISHERS, which originally premiered in 2000, directed by Ann-Margaret Pettersson. If you are into nineteenth century French Romantic opera then this is for you. It is almost sheer operatic
This film gave me a warm glow. It isn’t hilarious or dazzlingly witty, but it raises some wry smiles. It isn’t at all original either, however it’s clichés have been lovingly polished.
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS is basically a bitter-sweet romance.
Melissa Bubnic’s play STOP.REWIND explores the life choices of a group of office workers. Their choices are brought into focus by the terminal illness of a co-worker. They question the value of thirty years spent in an office and then
I’d love to report that the appearance of Larry David as a nun is worth the price of admission to the Farrelly Brothers take on the knuckled headed nitwits born of depression era vaudeville, THE THREE STOOGES.
Unfortunately, and as
After only a decade since its big screen reboot and five years since Spiderman 3, Sony has sought to spin a new origin story for the arachnid kid, called THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN.
Such is the appetite for super hero films,
David Hare’s classic 1995 play SKYLIGHT is a searing portrait of two people who have a strong desire for each other and yet at the same time incense each other.
After three years of having not seen each other, Tom
The Sydney Theatre Company’s latest offering, Austrian playwright Thomas Bernhard’s THE HISTRIONIC, will have great appeal to theatregoers who prefer eclectic, quirky alternative theatre –set in Austria ‘somewhere on the periphery of Bohemia!’
The set design could have come from
For many Australians, the small, charming New South Wales country town of Dungog, is best known as the town where our larrikin and brilliant Dougie Walters, at one time dubbed the new Bradman, was born and raised. Of recent times,
John A.D. Fraser traverses territory trail blazed by Martin McDonaugh in his latest play ALL THE RAGE appropriately propping up the play bill at the Old Fitzroy Theatre.
On a spare stage presenting a white wall and two doors at