thom pain (based on nothing)

If you are in the mood for a somewhat different theatrical experience, then Belvoir’s B Sharp’s production ‘Thom Pain(based on nothing)’ by Will Eno directed by Sam Strong with a solo performance by Luke Mullins, could fit the bill.

This

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bruno

After his recent lightning, whirlwind and often hilarious visit to Australia to publicise his new film, it would have been totally remiss not too see ‘Bruno’.

Cutting to the chase, and I know this is pretty unbelievable thing to say,

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alexandra’s project

The subject of Rolf de Heer’s film ‘Alexandra’s Project’ is a devastating marital breakdown.

Steve(Gary Sweet) and Alexandra(Helen Buday) have been married for over twenty years. Each has experienced their marriage very differently. Steve has been content within the marriage,

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my life in ruins

Donald Petrie’s film ‘My Life in Ruins’, from a screenplay by Mike Reiss, tells the story of the adventures of a group of people on a packaged travel tour of Greece, led by their charismatic tour guide, Georgia (Nia Vardolas).

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the little dog laughed

The subject or perhaps more to the point the target of American playwright Douglas Carter Beane’s play ‘The Little Dog Laughed’ is the superficiality of the star making machinery that motors along in that grand capital of dreams, Hollywood.

The

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peach season

The subject of local playwright Debra Oswald’s play ‘The Peach Season’ is love. It describes a paternal, protective love that seeks to protect the loved one from any harm, from the darker side of life.

Celia (Marika Aubrey), a mature

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lady macbeth of mtsensk

The subject of Nikolai Leskov’s novella ‘Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk’ is love, love of the obsessive kind, the kind of love that can only ever come to an unhappy ending.

Leskov’s main character is Katerina (Alice Parkinson) a beautiful but

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hay fever at the genesian theatre

The Genesian Theatre Company’s new play is a revival of Noel Coward’s classic 1925 comedy, ‘Hay Fever’, in a production directed by Genesian stalwart, Nanette Frew. Coward’s play takes us in into the madcap, crazy world of an eccentric family,

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the proposal

Anne Fletcher’s romantic comedy ‘The Proposal’, from a screenplay written by Pete Chiarelli, tells the story of an unattached man and woman who are romantically thrown together by circumstances, and out of this arrangement something deeper grows.

Sandra Bullock plays

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doubt-the movie

John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama ‘Doubt’, which he has now directed for the big screen, tells the story of a new liberal minded teacher who attempts to make some changes in an archly conservative school and comes in

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