Shakespeare’s big, boofy, bovver boy, CORIOLANUS(MA) gets a big screen workout in Ralph Fiennes’s fine film which he both directs and takes the lead role.
Balkanising without bowdlerising the bard, Fiennes has made a remarkably contemporary movie that illustrates the
Just about everyone is dead in this performance of Bill Russell’s ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, PUNKS AND RAGING QUEENS. They have died from AIDS and roughly thirty characters tell their story through a series of poems. This performance is beautifully directed
A couple of geriatrics garnered gongs in this year’s Academy Awards – octogenarian actor Christopher Plummer and septuagenarian writer Woody Allen.
Septuagenarian filmmaker Roman Polanski’s latest picture CARNAGE (M) shows these two codgers are not alone in bringing to the
Australia hasn’t always been the friendly, easy going multi-cultural country that it currently is. For many years, some seven decades, the infamous White Australia Policy was Commonwealth of Australia legislation.
Australia has a sad history in regards to its treatment
Peter Evans’s current revival of George Bernard Shaw’s PYGMALION is a rich, rewarding night at the theatre!
Shaw’s most popular play is an all-time classic, one of those works that has been ‘the seed’ for so of many much loved
Two new Mark Langham plays are being performed in a new Double Bill at the Exchange Hotel in Balmain.
The evening starts with the very short THE BENEFITS OF HISTORY, written and directed by Mark Langham.
The scene is set
The insidious and malevolent world of cults comes under the microscope in MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (MA) a stupendous feature film directorial debut by writer director, Sean Durkin.
Four names, one person ads up to a multi layered performance by
Constantine Costi’s production for the Genesian Theatre Company delivers a clear, strong reading of William Shakespeare’s THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, first performed back in the court of King James in 1605.
Matters of the heart play a large part in
If you are in the mood to see some musical theatre EVERY SINGLE SATURDAY is a good choice. This is an opportunity to support local, Australian theatre which has energetic dancing, some catchy tunes and a feel good storyline.
EVERY
With Richard Langridge’s play THE ACT we are in the terrain of well written, compelling drama. The setting is Auschwitz in 1943, the territory that the play explores lies within the eternal question that an anonymous Holocaust survivor so succinctly