the end

Belvoir’s warm, intimate downstairs theatre is currently home to Samuel Beckett’s novella ‘The End’. All the words of the Beckett novella have been retained with Eamon Flack adapting it to the stage and with the piece being performed by Robert

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way to heaven

Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga’s political play ‘Way To Heaven’ takes on a far-reaching theme with his 2004 play, ‘Way To Heaven’. In the program notes Mayorga writes, ‘I wanted to explore an ongoing subject in our lives…the invisibility of horror

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big river- the adventures of huckleberry finn

It’s easy to see why ‘Big River: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn’ was such a huge hit when it premiered on Broadway in 1985, running for over 1.000 performances. This is a show with a magic recipe, Mark Twain’s great

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blood wedding

This year’s graduating students from the Australian College of Theatre and Television (ACTT) put on an impressive production of the great Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca’s play ‘Blood Wedding’ at its home venue, the Cleveland Street Theatre.

Lorca’s classic play,

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fox

These school holidays are you looking to tear your kids away from their computer screens to see something that is not only entertaining but challenging?! ‘Fox’, a co-production of Monkey Baa and Siren theatre companies, featuring a stage adaptation of

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‘the hatpin’

James Millar and Peter Rutherford’s musical ‘The Hatpin’ shows us the harshness of life in Redfern in the last decade of the 19th century. The play follows the true-life story of a young and tenacious eighteen-year old woman, Amber Murray.

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green zone

Paul Greengrass’s new film ‘Green Zone’ takes us deep into the chaotic, violent world of Baghdad at the time of America’s crippling invasion of Iraq’s capital city. Greengrass’s film is taken from Brian Helgeland’s adaptation of Rajiv Chandrasekeran’s book, ‘‘Imperial

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jewish chronicles

It has been a long time since I’ve been to see a singer songwriter in concert. London’s Daniel Cainer’s show, ‘Jewish Chronicles’, reminds me how inspiring an experience it can be!

The defining feature of ‘Jewish Chronicles’ is its intimate,

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animals out of paper

In New York playwright Rajiv Joseph’s play, ‘Animals Out Of Paper’ the audience follows world renowned origami artist Ilana Andrews’s story. The play starts with Ilana’s life having come to something of a dead-end. Her husband has walked out on

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stories from the 428

‘Stories from the 428’, the current production playing at Marrickville’s Sidetrack theatre, is vibrant community theatre at play!

The ‘Stories from the 428’ project sees a large pool of local theatrical talent, some sixteen writers, eight directors and fifty actors

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