As a general rule, there is at least one new David Williamson play each year at the Ensemble Theatre. The Company has started the new year with the master’s latest play simply titled ‘Operator’. There was a special quality about
The Sydney Theatre Company has kicked off its 2005 season with New Zealand writer Tom Scott’s play ‘The Daylight Atheist’, directed by Adam Cook.
The play is a one hander featuring Max Cullen, one of our most celebrated actors. Cullen
Annie Mary is a young Welsh woman who has always ‘done it hard’…she lost her mother early…her father doesn’t love her and dominates her…and there doesn’t seem much of a future for her.
She tries hard but nothing comes easy
The American film ‘Laurel Canyon’ was an absorbing film. It asked of its main characters a question that I guess is put to all of us during our lives. How do we find that delicate balance between the need for
David Williamson’s new play‘Birthrights’ played a season at the Playhouse at the Sydney Opera House, as part of the Ensemble’s subscription season.
Australia’s leading playwright. Williamson’s plays are always worth looking at. When he’s on fire there are few more
Rob Marshall’s new film of the classic musical ‘Chicago’ is deservedly set to pick up a large swag of Oscars at this year’s awards.
Marshall has made a razor sharp, feisty film faithful to its two wild women, murderesses Velma
Billy Roche’s ‘The Cavalcaders’ looks at the lives and loves of four likely lads in contemporary Ireland.-
Terry (Patrick Dickson) Rory (John O’Hare), Ted (Sean O’Shea) and Josie (Danny Adcock) work in an old fashioned cobbler’s store. By day they
Todd Haynes’s ‘Far from Heaven’ is a classic piece of cinema, made with almost perfect detail.
It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate title. At first, Cathy’s life resembles heaven. She is a beautiful woman living a upper middle class
There was no agonizing for some deeper theme in the Silver Productions presentation of Toby Schmitz’s new play ‘Chicks will dig you’. This was just good fun entertainment for the younger set.
Schmitz’s main character Jasper is single and out
‘Phone Booth’ begins with sleazy New York Public Relations guy, Stu Shephard (Colin Farrell) starting his day weaving through the streets of New York on his way to work.
Before getting to work he stops at his favourite phone booth