British dramatist Royce Ryton’s two Act drama CROWN MATRIMONIAL (1972) makes compulsive viewing. Ryton’s play gives the inside story to one of British royalty’s darkest hours, King Edward V111’s (David) abdication, in 1936, to marry the woman he loved. As
‘All men are created evil’. This the clever slogan that Newtown’s New Theatre has used with Anthony Skuse’s current revival of Nigel Williams’s 1995 stage adaptation of William Golding’s novel THE LORD OF THE FLIES.
Golding tapped into something very
Young people who are a little dismissive about theatre and its place in the ultra sophisticated modern world do well to see Ride On’s production of THE STORY OF MARY MACLANE BY HERSELF at Kings Cross’s SBW Stables Theatre. Live
Move over Meryl, your Iron Lady has corroded, consigned to the rust bucket of history, superseded by the steel orchid, Aung San Suu Kyi as portrayed by Micelle Yeoh in Luc Besson’s compelling biopic THE LADY.
Meryl manufactured Margaret from
A lovely little soufflé of cinema, ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS (M) is a tasty sweet treat that should please the crowd that found CHOCOLAT so enchanting.
Isabelle Carre plays Angelique, a shy chocolatier who hides her cocoalossal confection perfection under the proverbial
On the face of it, THE DEEP BLUE SEA (M) seems terribly old fashioned and an odd choice of film for a 21st century cinema audience.
Based on the play by Terence Rattigan written sixty years ago, it tells the
This edgy, jumpy production at Belvoir is a near miss I am afraid, There are some very good performances (a stellar one by Shelly Lauman as Chris) and the production values are excellent – I was particularly impressed by Alice
Christopher Hampton’s 1985 play LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, a stage adaptation of the 1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, featuring the game playing and manipulations of two aristocrats, the Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil and the Vicomte Sebastian de Valmont,
Kids and adults alike have been dudded these school holidays, most especially with the dumbed down, dulled down, in the doldrums Aardman animation THE PIRATES: BAND OF MISFITS!
Admires of Aardman most likely will be disappointed by this pipe and
Sydney’s Short and Sweet Festival is over for another year with the Grand Final having taken place on Saturday 31st March.
The judges chose well. Gabriel McCarthy, an ACTT student, gave a wonderful comic performance in Sepy Baghaei’s quirky piece