Celebrated British film director Mike Leigh has a new film out, ‘Happy Go Lucky’.
The title refers to the film’s optimistic, irrepressible main character, forties some thing Londoner, Poppy. Leigh takes us vividly into Poppy’s world, the cosy flat she
Goulburn’s Argyle Society’s production current production is a revival of the classic 1948 New York musical ‘Kiss Me Kate’, written by Bella and Samuel Spewack with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.
‘Kiss Me Kate’ is about the soap operatic
Prolific American playwright Peter Parnell came up with an inspired choice with his play QED about the brilliant Jewish American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988). By way of background, Feynman was regarded as one of the most brilliant physicists of the
Poster Girl, the new play by controversial playwright Van Badham currently playing at the Old Fitzroy theatre, is likely to generate some healthy debate! In Poster Girl Van Badham plays out her dreamscape of what would happen if one of
Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Real Inspector Hound, currently playing at the New Theatre, Newtown, is a good night out.
One of Stoppard’s most popular plays, ‘The Real Inspector Hound’ is about the mayhem that arises when two usually clearly delineated worlds
It must be time for revisiting the classics at downstairs Belvoir Street. Playing at the moment is a production by Latvian director Vladislav Nastavshevs of the classic Strindberg play ‘Miss Julie’ and next up there’s a producton of Frank Wedekind’s
One of the great things about theatre is that it can hold up a mirror to the world we live in and show up its problems. That was the driving force in Shakespeare’s classic tragedies. (For example Romeo and Juliet,
The large number of high school students that will come to see Wayne Blair’s production of the Bard’s Romeo and Juliet should be entertained by Enoch’s fresh take on the classic romantic tale.
Blair’s production sets Romeo and Juliet in
The Genesian Theatre’s production of Enchanted April was one of the best productions I’ve seen at the small inner city venue. Debbie Smith’s fine production served Matthew Barber’s fine adaptation well.
Enchanted April fits into the bored women getting away
Stressed lawyer Jimmy Gabriel allows other people’s agendas to get the better of him, and into one helluva bind. His fiance Wendy wants to move in with him. This is at the same time as his Swedish flatmate Inga has