anatomy of a suicide @ the old fitz

The subject id Alice Birch’s play  is the cross generational havoc which mental illness creates.

We first meet  Carol (Anna Samson), a woman who has just survived a suicide attempt. She plays it down to her husband. Then we meet …

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james elazzi : omar and dawn

Omar, a first-generation Lebanese Muslim Australian, is in and out of foster homes. Hungry for a warm bed and determined not to return to a life on the streets, he reluctantly agrees to be placed with 80-year-old Dawn. His best …

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play on @ hunters hill theatre

Theatre makers have a proclivity for navel gazing. Rick Abbott’s play PLAY ON falls into this territory. We see inside an amateur theatre company putting on new murder mystery show with the title ‘Murder Most Foul’ from early rehearsals to …

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the cherry orchard @ chippen street

If you are looking for a meaty play hat you can really get into then make your way across to Chippendale’s Chippen Street Theatre.

At the heart of this play is human beings great difficulty in dealing with vast, weeping …

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two quarters full @ limelight downstairs

New Australian play Two Quarters Full by Iley Jones will have it’s World Premiere at Limelight Downstairs from the 19-30th of June 2019.

Starring Sean Bermingham, Samantha Lambert, Alannah Roberston, and Cheng Tang, Two Quarters Full is an intimate 1-act …

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the tempest @ the giant dwarf theatre

 

This was an entertaining, adventurous production of one of Shakespeare’s great comedies.

The director and lead performer Alex Kendall Robson’s director’s note in the program is very illuminating. This is an excerpt from the note.

“As always with Giant …

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suicide, incorporated : the return season

Knock and Run Theatre is set to spark conversation about men’s mental health in the return season of their award-winning production “Suicide, Incorporated” in late March 2019. After an outstanding reception to the company’s first production of the dark comedy …

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rabbit hole – giveaway to this pulitzer winning play

RABBIT HOLE by David Lindsay-Abaire, is a delicate and intimate work.   For Exit Game Productions, Christie Koppe directs this 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

RABBIT HOLE which tells the heart-breaking story of Becca and Howie Corbett who have everything a family …

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