family affair

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

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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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capote

The writer E.B.White gave this advice to young writers, ‘If you want to get ahead without annoying delays don’t write about Man, write about a Man’.

Bennett Miller’s film ‘Capote’, based on Gerald Clarke’s biography, is a knockout. The film

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metamorphosis

I only had a lukewarm reaction to the Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf 2 Blueprints production of Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’ in a new, theatrical adaptation by Ben Ellis.
Ellis’s adaptation contemporized the story to a suburban Sydney setting.
The Sydney

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and in the end- reviewer david kary

British playwright Alexander Marshall’s play, ‘And in the End: The Death and Life of John Lennon’ was an intriguing, expansive portrait of the rock legend. The perfect portrait, of-course, cannot exist, still this show came across as authentic and knowing.

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