The Seymour Centre’s Everest Theatre is currently home to the return season of ‘The Gruffalo’, London’s Tall Theatre Company’s acclaimed adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s best selling children’s picture book (illustrations by Axel Scheffler).
Donaldson’s book has certainly had a rich
The great American playwright Eugene O’Neill described ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ (1956) as, ‘that play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood’. In this epic, cathartic work, O’Neill dramatises his own family’s story for the world’s stage.
The
Raymond De Felitta’s new film ‘City Island’ takes audiences into the world of the members of the Rizzo family who live in the quaint fishing community of City Island on the outskirts of New York. Some of the family members,
‘Mr Freezy’, a Melbourne’s Arena Theatre Company production in association with ‘Men Of Steel’, is madcap, imaginative theatre for the younger age group, and is well timed as we approach the school holiday period.
The play is set in a
Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov’s 1896 play ‘The Seagull’ is a tragedy, charting the fall of an ambitious, sensitive young man who succumbs to the slings and arrows dealt by life.
The play starts at an exciting time for young playwright,
With German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig’s play ‘Push Up’(translation by Maja Zade), the Hayes Gordon Repertory Theatre (HGR), a company formed for Ensemble theatre graduates, has chosen the work of a fine writer to showcase their talents. An Award-winning playwright, Roland
Talented Australian playwright Jonathan Gavin, most well known for his play ‘A Moment On The Lips’, has chosen a confronting, difficult subject for his new play, ‘Bang’. ‘Bang’ sees one of our worst nightmares taking place, with the devestating effects
One of my favourite productions of 2007 was Benedict Andrews’s stunning revival of Patrick White’s ‘The Season Of Sarsaparilla’ at the Drama Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. The set featured a revolve stage with two adjoining houses and Andrews
Judith Bedard’s production for the Epicentre Theatre Company evocatively brings John Steinbeck’s classic story, ‘Of Mice and Men’ to life.
‘Of Mice and Men’ is the story of two migrant men, George and Lennie, as they find work where they
The tone of ’11 and 12’ is set straight away with the play’s narrator Amadou walking to the centre of the stage and whilst holding up a pair of beads he says, ‘a bead can become a bomb, as reason