For its first production, the Spirithouse Theatre Company has chosen a play that grabs the audience’s attention straight away with its outrageous scenario. The play is Canadian playwright Morris Panych’s 1995 play, ‘Vigil’.
‘Vigil’ opens with a young man, Kemp,
Anna Crawford and Anna Cottrell, both acting graduates from the Ensemble studio, have spread their wings, and are giving producing a try.
For their first foray into this new arena, the two Anna’s have played it safe, choosing British playwright
Joel Hopkins’s ‘Last Chance Harvey’ tells a mature age love story. The film brings together two lonely people who keep on getting the rough end of life’s stick.
Emma Thompson plays Kate, a lonely English airport attendant, whose life is
For their new play, Joyce Birch for the Genesian Theatre Company has mounted a production of French playwright Jean Anouilh’s 1947 comedy, ‘Ring Around The Moon’, as adapted by Christopher Fry.
Anouilh’s play is set in a beautiful conservatory (lovely
The Sydney Theatre Company’s current play at its home venue is Wayne Blair’s production of a classic of the Australian theatre, David Williamson’s ‘The Removalists’.
The set-up to ‘The Removalists’ makes for vintage drama. To use a boxing ring analogy,
This was the first year in which I went to see all the plays at this years’ Short and Sweet play festival. This was no insubstantial commiment! I went to see 4 weeks of heats at the Seymour Centre and
The story that the late, great British playwright Simon Gray tells with his last major piece, ‘Little Nell’, paints a very different portrait of one of the great figures of English literature, Charles Dickens. Through his many great works such
During mid January NIDA’s Parade Theatre has been home to the Gate theatre, Dublin’s two week long celebration of the work of premiere Irish playwright, Brian Friel.
The season featured three of Friel’s finest plays, ‘Faith Healer’, ‘Afterplay’ and ‘The
The Sydney Theatre Company’s contribution to this years’ Sydney Festival is Benedict Andrews’s epic production of William Shakespeare’s The War Of The Roses, played in two parts, in an adaptation prepared by Andrews and Tom Wright, Associate Director of the
One of the highlights of this years’ Sydney Festival theatre program is ‘The Pianist’, a stage adaptation by Mikhail Rudy from the memoirs by Wladyslaw Szpilman, currently playing upstairs at Belvoir Street theatre.
Many people are already familiar with Szpilman’s