the ballad of backbone joe

An entertaining mix of bluegrass music and junkyard theatre style storytelling is what you get with the Suitcase Royale’s show ‘The Ballad Of Backbone Joe’. This Melbourne ‘Rag N Bone’ band, comprising Miles O’Neil, Glen Walton and Joseph O’Farrell, has

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the viagra monologues

Sometimes it’s the uncomplicated, unadorned stories that are the most effective and most touching. This was the case with James Balian’s play ‘The Viagra Monologues’.

‘The Viagra Monologues’ is set in the lounge salon of a pub. We have the

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starry comet night

Writer, director and producer Con Nats’s new play ‘Starry Comet Night’, was one of the more imaginative works showcased at this year’s inaugural Sydney Fringe Festival.

There have been many productions on stage and screen on the theme of Armageddon.

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rhinestone rex and miss monica

David Williamson’s new play ‘Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica’ at the Ensemble Theatre represents the third Williamson play that I have seen recently. The two previous plays were ‘Brilliant Lies’ at the Guild Theatre, Rockdale, and ‘Dead White Males’ at

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the trial

The great Czech writer Franz Kafka’s novel ‘The Trial’ tells Joseph K’s story, a young man who wakes up one morning to see two men arresting him for an unknown offence. Unbelievably, his day just gets worse from there, as

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sydney theatre company’s production of ‘our time’

Are you in the mood for a clear, inviting and poignant night at the theatre? Then the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of American playwright Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning three Act drama ‘Our Town’ (made into a film version

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every single saturday

In talented writer-director-composer Joanna Weinberg’s new play ‘Every Single Saturday’ we see what happens when four footballing parents get together spruiking for their kids playing their final game of the year.

Each of the parents has issues; Carlo (Geoff Sirmai)

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‘yellow moon’

‘Samson and Delilah’, last year’s multi-award winning Australian film by Warwick Thornton, touched movie audiences with its powerful depiction of disenfranchised young people, desperately responding to their situation. Currently Scottish playwright David Greig is having a similar effect on Sydney

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a thing of beauty

Coming to the close of its season at the Old Fitzroy theatre is Sydney writer and director Paul Gilchrist’s play, ‘A Thing of Beauty’.

Talented local actress Jo Richards effortlessly switches between the play’s two characters, Naomi and Ruth, best

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nagl

In the playwright and director Lech Mackiewicz’s own words, his new play ‘NaGL’ is, “a take on contemporary Australian society told through the perspective of a dysfunctional family. Not being able to stay in the same room, let alone get

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