fiddler on the roof

I went to see Tim Lawson’s production of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Sydney’s beautiful Capitol Theatre.
It was great to see Topol as Tevye again. I was lucky enough to see him in the same role when I was

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julius caesar

When I made my way to the theatre to see William Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ at the Sydney Theatre Company, I well knew that it would not be a comfortable presentation of the Bard’s classic. The fact that it was being

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a view from the bridge

The steady, uncomplicated life of David Field as Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller’s classic drama A View From The Bridge comes unstuck with the arrival of two of his wife Beatrice’s (Toni Scanlan) relatives- her cousins Marco (Glenn

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the woman with dog’s eyes

Oh, why do some playwrights choose such strange titles for their plays?! A case in point, Louis Nowra’s new play ‘The Woman with Dog’s Eyes’, currently playing at the Stables Theatre in Kings Cross. Thank God the title failed to

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yellowfeather

Many people will know Georgina Naidu from her role as the traditional Indian woman Phrani in the popular ABC television show, ‘Sea Change’. Recently Georgina devised and performed her own autobiographical show ‘Yellowfeather’ at the Studio theatre in the Sydney

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fast and loose

It is one of the highlights of the Sydney Theatre Company’s theatrical calendar, the contributions of the Wharf Revue team.
Presently the team comprises Jonathon Biggins, Drew Forsyth, Genevieve Lemon and Phillip Scott.
Their latest contribution, in time for the

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national security

‘National Security and the Art of Taxidermy’, a co-production of the Glynn Nicholas Group with Belvoir’s B Sharp, recently played the downstairs theatre at the Seymour Centre. A one person satirical comedy, the play was written by Sydney based playwright

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2 divas

2 Divas at the Bondi Pavilion reminded me of an old but true maxim about the theatre world. Sometimes it’s the fringe shows put together on a meager budget, and without any aspiration to be slickly professional, that are the

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summer rain

In Nick Enright and Terrence Clarke’s SummerRain it is Christmas Eve, 1945 and Harry Slocum and his family tent show players are down on their luck, broke and searching for an audience. The troupe end up in drought stricken Turnaround

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the give and take

The life of Gary McDonald as Don in Tony McNamara’s The Give and Take is unraveling around him. His wife of many years has suddenly left him to get laid properly in Tuscany. When he tells his three grown up

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