This production is for lovers of the broad brushstroke, postmodern approach to theatre creation.
American playwright Charles Mee has taken Euripides’s original work and completely revamped it. He throws in to the mix elements from everywhere; including court transcripts, the
The Slide Cabaret and Bar, a chic inner city theatre restaurant venue, normally home to the cabaret set has branched out to put on ‘4Play’, a season of short plays especially for Mardi Gras. A Blancmange production, ‘4Play’ is a
There’s an engaging revival of David Williamson’s 1991 ‘Money and Friends’ currently playing at the Zenith Theatre, Chatswood. The revival is by northside’s Epicentre Theatre Company in a production directed by Lenore Robertson.
Every year a group of friends share
The heats of Short and Sweet for 2010 are now over, and the plays have been selected that will compete in the Grand Final that will take place at the Parade Theatre, NIDA on Saturday 13th March.
I got around
Christabel Sved’s revival of Irish dramatist Martin McDonagh’s play ‘The Beauty Queen Of Leenane’ is an outstanding production of a terrific play.
McDonagh’s play hits the bullseye, slam-dunks the basketball, rattles the stumps, kicks the goal, as he tellingly charts
One of the chief horrors of the Nazi regime was the way that it discriminated against all the marginalised groups in society. British playwright Martin Sherman’s acclaimed 1979 play ‘Bent’ focuses on their persecution of homosexuals.
‘Bent’ is set in
Jason Reitman’s ‘Up In the Air’, adapted from the novel by Walter Kim, is a very contemporary, thought provoking film that has people thinking and talking about it long after the lights come up
George Clooney plays the main character,
Acclaimed Melbourne playwright Joanna Murray-Smith’s play has an intriguing premise. Art restorer Isabel has never really moved on after the dissolution of her marriage to upcoming actor William. Isabel hears on the grapevine that William is about to remarry a
The ever expanding ‘Short and Sweet’ play festival now includes heats of the event being performed at NIDA Parade’s Playhouse theatre. I went along to see the opening week at NIDA.
Perennially, the most attractive aspect of this festival is
The subject and target of British playwright Polly Stenham’s play ‘That Face’ is a dysfunctional family, leaving a portrait that sends chills up one’s spine.
At the centre of Stenham’s family’s dysfunction is mother Martha (Susie Porter). Suffering from mental