We are invited to bear witness to an age-old story — and embedded within it is a tale of storytelling itself, of culture from the world’s oldest living continuous tradition, so profoundly challenged in the early days of colonial invasion. …
RUINS is the story of an Australian-Lebanese women’s return to her ancestral home in current time. It is also the story of her Australian-Lebanese father’s visit in 1982 when the city was bombed by Israel. Let’s start at the beginning. …
Gender, identity, conflict, oppression, expression, the workplace, the queer niteclub, K-Pop, Asian drama, life drama, domesticity, marriage, ambition, cooking, love, lust, political correctness, happiness, angst, binary, non-binary, fear and nonchalance.
These ingredients of our modern or post-modern, apparently comfortable global …
When we walked in to the small Boom Boom Theatre my friend Rachel sat down in the seat next to her which had been allocated to Julia Louis Dreyfus. We assumed that this seat would be occasionally used by the …
This show is written by Amani Mahmoud, and produced and directed by Kersherka Sivakumaran, and based on first hand experiences of a survivor of domestic violence in a traditional Indian family. The script has three parts, each about 15 minutes, …
Above : Lauren Mitchell and Emily Dreyer in GYPSY
Emily Dreyer and Matthew Collingwood in GYPSY
Theatre is a means of rapid transportation.
With the classic 1949 Broadway musical GYPSY, book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Jule Styne and lyrics …
Joyful, Uproarious, and Deeply Affirming Ode to Sisterhood, “MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL” is a Triumph. In the grand, opulent embrace of Sydney’s State Theatre, beneath its celestial dome and amidst the baroque splendour, something revolutionary is happening, and its power is …
Ben Colley’s I’LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT is yet another fun and highly entertaining production from Castle Hill Players. Director Ben Freeman brings all aspects of the show together to achieve a type of murder mystery with all the right …
It is like, with this show, the Melbourne based Soup team have said, ‘ Let us entertain you’ and have gone all out to do this.
As we take our seats in the audience we notice an odd, retro looking …
Prolific Australian playwright Ron Elisha, is not as well as know as our more celebrated writers such as David Williamson and Joanna Murray-Smith, still he is a prolific and award winning playwright (four Australian Writers’ Guild Awards). I …