Peter Brooks ‘Swize Banzi is Dead’ was a special night in the theatre. It sure helped getting front row of seats! What a treat! To have front row seats to a Peter Brooks directed production at the Playhouse of the
This year has been one of the best years for Belvoir Street Theare’s B Sharp program. Every one of the shows has had something to offer, mostly leaning to heavier kinds of dramas. It was great to see the B
A high spirited production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ was performed at the Kenmore Theatre Goulburn by the Argyle Theatre Company.
Right from the start, the show had a rollicking start with the pirate gang coming from
The Rafferty’s Room at the Parramatta Riverside Theatre is home to a fine new Australian musical, Lorrae Desmond and Gael Ballantyne’s play ‘Honey’, which is an adaptation of Bryce Courtenay’s story, ‘Smoky Joe’s Cafe’. Couretnay’s story is set in the
Ross Mueller’s ‘Construction of the Human Heart’ is one of the more intriguing plays to be performed this year.
to be continued
Anna Broinowski’s documentary ‘Forbidden Lies’ is definitely one to catch. What a stunning film this was!
Norma Khouri, the author of the international bestseller ‘Forbidden Love’, is the subject and the target of Broinowski’s film. It is now part of
Richard Roxburgh’s film of Raimond Gaita’s memoirs, ‘Romulus, My Father’, was a well crafted and moving film.
My take on ‘Romulus’. I really got inside the skin of Rai, and his tough life story. Growing up with his father who
The brilliant French writer Albert Camus wrote, ‘life is the sum of all of your choices’. In the new film ‘Evening’ Vanessa Redgrave played Ann Grant Lord, an elderly woman who lies dying in the bedroom of her family home,
In American playwright Don DeLillo’s ‘Love-Lies-Bleeding’ Alex Macklin’s family are at a crossroads. Macklin has lived his life fiercely independently. Now at 70 he is a ‘vegetable’, after being struck down by two strokes.
Three people in his family will
Irish playwright Bernard Farrell’s ‘Stella by Starlight’ was the most recent play to be performed at the Ensemble theatre.
Farrell’s play was set in the present in Dermot and Stella’s isolated farmhouse in Wicklow Hills, well beyond the outer suburbs