The annual January festival of Short and Sweet has begun with the opening week shows being performed at the Newtown Theatre.
As always the mini play festival is a well-spring for a lot of different ideas, some more novel and
For their first production for 2009 the Genesian Theatre Company are putting on a production of the British playwright Michael Frayn’s evergreen 1982 comedy, ‘Noises Off’.
‘Noises Off’, the inner city Genesian Theatre Company’s first production for 2009, is blessed
The Ensemble Theatre’s first play for 2009 is an ambitious start to the year. Under the direction of Associate Artistic Director Mark Kilmurry the Ensemble theatre is putting on a production of the stage adaptation of one of the best
David Hugh Jones’s 1983 film ‘Betrayal’, adapted by the late, great Harold Pinter from his play of the same name, is a powerful drama.
Right from the first scene it draws one in. ‘Betrayal’ starts with a very distant shot
In the quirky 1983 movie ‘Reuben Reuben’, Tom Conti plays Gowan McGland a well-known but penniless and past his prime Scottish poet, who gets by on the remnants of his fame, drinks excessively, beds middle-aged housewives, and falls in love
Ron Howard’s new film ‘Frost/Nixon’ is a historical drama adapted for the screen by Peter Morgan from his 2006 play of the same name. Morgan’s play was an ‘inside-story’ dramatisation of the 1977 televised series of interviews that took place
Simon McBurney’s production for Complicite of ‘A Disappearing Number’ presented at the Sydney Theatre in November was one of the theatrical highlights of 2008. The show combined a fantastic storyline with stunning production values.
‘A Disappearing Number’ had two primary
‘A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose’, so said famous American poet Gerrude Stein. It’s a poetic way of saying something simple,- what something is, is what it is! There’s no point in criticising something for
Welcome to the world of the modern fairytale with British director Danny Boyle’s new film, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Boyle’s film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Vikus Swarup, which has been adapted for the screen by
French novelist Philippe Claudel gives acclaimed British actress Kristen Scott-Thomas a great dramatic role with his first film, ‘I’ve Loved You So Long’, and she delivers with a memorable performance.
Thomas plays Juliette, a mature french woman (yes it is