Ray Lawler’s 1955 play SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL is a great, classic Australian play. The thing with SUMMER is that it is also an achingly sad play! This is a play about that unfortunate life truth that nothing lasts
Sandra Bates’s assured production of leading New Zealand playwright Roger Hall’s 2008 play FOUR FLAT WHITES IN ITALY makes for an enjoyable, comfortable, bourgeois night at the theatre.
FOUR FLAT WHITES IN ITALY turns on what happens when two neighbouring
‘His life in a plastic bag, his family in a chain around his neck’
Like Godot , Lucky never arrives , we never see him, but he is a major character in this play and dominates the show.
This amazing,lyrical
The final production of the Next Stage Series 2011 at the Sydney Theatre Company can only be called an uplifting and inspiring experience. Not only for hard core theatre buffs but for everyone slightly interested in live theatre. The evening
Michael Parks’ performance as the pernicious preacher, Pastor Abin Cooper is just one good reason to see Kevin Smith’s latest irreverence, RED STATE (MA).
Another is John Goodman’s good man in evil circumstances turn as ATF agent, Joseph Keenan, who
TOO SOON TO TELL is the first production by the newly formed Austinmer Dance Theatre (ADT) led by Michelle Forte. This contemporary based company consists of ten classical ballet trained dancers (all female) and a musician all aged between 17-25.
The late British playwright Joe Orton had a particularly cynical outlook on life. Orton’s approach was to turn his cynicism into clever, outrageous and often hilarious black farce.
With his 1966 play LOOT Orton creates a world peopled with characters
NORWEGIAN WOOD (M), shot in Japan and set in the 1960’s is a lyrical, contemplative story of a young man who seems to be the trois in a myriad of ménages.
In the beginning, Toru, is best friends with Kizuki
THE HUNTER (M) has Willem Dafoe despatched to Tasmania to track the Tasmanian Tiger for a mysterious biotech company. The last thylacine has been rumoured to be roaming the rugged and remote Tasmanian wilderness and so a hunt for the
William Dafoe stars in a moody, atmospheric film about a search for the Tasmanian Tiger. There have been recent sightings and an evil multinational wants to find the tiger first. Martin David (Dafoe) is told to bring back hair, blood