The Ensemble Theatre Company new play is a play from London, playwright Simon Mendes Da Costa’s ‘Losing Louis’. Da Costa’s fine play has had a successful run on the West End, and is due to open in Broadway in October.
Robert Bolt’s play ‘A Man for all Seasons’ about the life and times of Sir Thomas More is one of my favourite plays. It is such a stirring work, and a fitting tribute to a man who Samuel Johnson described
The Stables put on Louis Nowra’s ‘The Marvellous Boy’, the second play of the playwrights’ trilogy about the Boyce family. This follows last year’s excellent ‘The Woman with Dog’s Eyes’. Next year will see the final play in the trilogy.
Two hundred years ago, Matthew Flinders circumnavigated and surveyed the Australian continent in a leaky and rotting boat, ‘HMAS Investigator’, producing a map on which the word ‘Australia’ was inscribed for the first time. Currently the Ensemble Theatre is presenting
The Sydney theatre group, Parnassus Den has come of age. Since 1995 the Den has been work-shopping new plays to harness the skills of budding playwrights. In some eleven years the Den has organized some 600 play readings. Now the
The East Coast Theatre Company in association with Belvoir’s B Sharp recently presented Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse’s searching play, ‘Death Variations’, which has been given a fresh English translation by May-Britt Akerholt, downstairs at the Seymour Centre.
‘Death Variations’ dealt
Aesthesia Entertainment and Newtown Theatre recently presented the Australian premiere production of Jules Feiffer’s play ‘Carnal Knowledge’ which was made into the 1970s movie starring Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel.
‘Carnal Knowledge’ starts with a love triangle set at a
]Dr Patricia Petersen’s new play, ‘Cup of Tea?, which has just started a three week season at the Newtown theatre, has attracted plenty of publicity. It is easy to see why. The playwright is a great story in herself. She
Under the Table Productions put on ‘Bedtime for Bastards’, a triple bill by Van Badham, a show which was a hit at the recent Edinburgh Fringe festival, at the Crypt theatre in the Cat and Fiddle Hotel, Balmain. ‘Under the
Belvoir’s B Sharp program is featuring ‘A Family Affair’, a nineteenth century Russian play written by Alexander Ostrovsky, during the month of August, at its new venue, the Downstairs theatre at the Seymour Centre.
The play was adapted from the