african gothic

Soul Tribe Theatre Company’s production of Reze De Wet’s ‘African Gothic’ was a grim night in the theatre.

Set on a desolate rural farm in South Africa, ‘African Gothic’ follows the lives of an orphaned brother and sister who have

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why kids?

One of Australia’s finest actors, Henri Szeps, performed his latest his latest play, ‘Why Kids’, at the Ensemble theatre. Szeps is one of the Ensemble’s favorite sons, being one of its early graduates, under the tutorage of the late Hayes

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copenhagen

This counts as the second time that I have seen the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Michael Frayn’s play ‘Copenhagen’, and it still rates as a knockout.

Frayn’s play hangs on a meeting that is purported to have taken place

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kimberly akimbo

The new play at the Ensemble Theatre was the American play ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ by Los Angeles playwright David Lindsay-Abaire.
The play tells the story of sixteen year old Kimberly (Melissa Jaffer) who is a 16 year old teenager who faces

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nocturne

The B Sharp production of American playwright Adam Rapp’s ‘Nocturne’ has been one of my theatrical highlights of the year.
The play features a scenario that theatre regularly transverses. It captures a soul journeying back from the edge of darkness

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great divide

Tony Laumberg’s new play ‘The Great Divide’ was good, light entertainment.

The great divide was between a WASP couple and a Greek couple fighting over their own territories in St Ives. As soon as the Greek couple move in to

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elephant

Dear Gus Van Sant,

Thank you for making ‘Elephant’. This was a brave, sensitive, memorable work. I can see where you were coming from. Clearly, like so many of us, you were crushed by the horrifying school massacres that took

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club

David Williamson’s ‘The Club’, first performed in 1977, has still got what it takes and is very entertaining. The Sydney Theatre Company’s revival of ‘The Club’, directed by Bruce Myles, was an accomplished and highly successful one.

The production was

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girl with a pearl earring

With ‘The Girl with a Pearl Earring’ director Peter Webber was given a great story to work with, (Olivia Hetread wrote the screenplay from the best selling novel by Tracy Chevalier), and he have came up with a quite exquisite

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‘skylight’ at the new

Part of the New Theatre’s New Directions program, Alex Broun’s production of David Hare’s ‘Skylight’ was a memorable night at the theatre.

Through the eyes of the main character Kyra we are taken into the dark but fascinating world of

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