Two young thrill seekers and sadists get their comeuppance in British playwright Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 play. Hamilton loosely based his play (later adapted for the screen by Alfred Hitchcock in 1948) on the American murder case, Leopold and Loeb.
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American playwright Jeffrey Hatcher’s ‘Murderers’ is a subversive black comedy that turns everything on its head. The lights come on to reveal three characters sitting on plush seats. One after each other they get up and announce to the audience,
There are some plays that remain with one always. British playwright Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play ‘Equus’ is one of those plays.
For the uninitiated, Equus tells the story of disturbed teenager Alan Strang who is accused of inexplicable acts of
In ‘Fool for Love’, Sam Shepard sets the tone straight away. The stage lights come on to reveal a man and woman deep in a stalemate in a downbeat motel room in the middle of nowhere. The woman, May, has
Belvoir’s new show at its main upstairs theatre is Big hART’s Creative Director Scott Rankin’s new play, ‘Namatjira’, in a production that Rankin co-directed with prominent indigenous director, Wayne Blair.
This is a rich, sweeping bio play that charts the
Help! Productions show ‘Hi! How Can I Help You?’ at this year’s Sydney Fringe Festival, comprising a series of eight new Australian short plays, looked at a fertile source short and sharp theatre, the stressful world of customer service, as
Paul Gilchrist’s new play ‘Life is Impossible’ is for audiences that enjoy a darker kind of theatre with a strong philosophical and political bent.
The inspiration for Gilchrist’s latest play is Simone Weil (1909-1943), legendary French philosopher, mystic and social
‘Memories… like the corners of my mind…misty water-coloured memories of the way we were… scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind’, sang Barbara Streisand in one of Hollywood’s great movies. The fruit of Irish dramatist Brian Friel’s memories did
Werrington’s Henry Lawson Theatre has just successfully completed the run of its latest production, a revival of British playwright William Nicholson’s 1998 play, ‘Katherine Howard’. Nicholson is best known for his wonderful play ‘Shadowlands’ about the great Irish born British
The Sydney Theatre Company, this school holidays, have on the latest production in their Actor on a Box series, ‘The Red and White Spotted Handkerchief ‘, suitable for kids 3 years and up. The play is from the book by