lipstick : didn’t work like a dream

When I was the same age as several of the cast of the Lipstick show, I saw the first version of Matt Rowley’s Boys in the Band (1970 – not the 2020 Netflix remount). For a fairly sheltered young adult

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all the king’s hens : a saucy, fun night out

For a saucy fun night with a few Sydney-based Drag Kings, go to The Giant Dwarf to see ‘All the King’s Hens’. On the first night many enthusiastic audience members left saying “so good”, “amazing” and “love it”. This was

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silly tart kitchen presents ‘battle of the tarts’

Launching this Saturday 27th March 2021, Silly Tart Kitchen presents an immersive theatre experience, BATTLE OF THE TARTS. Descend into Sydney’s underworld with a story of two deadly enemies, Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine, criminal matriarchs of the 1920s. 

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appropriate : one hell of a haunted house

Dramatists, wherever they ply their trade, know that there is very fertile soil to be found when one digs around family reunions.  

In Afro American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play APPROPRIATE,  Ray Lafayette has recently passed on, leaving a huge family

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rattling the keys @ chippen street theatre

A dead boy next door during a Cooper Pedy heatwave and five young adults with various troubles and flaws are the ingredients of this one act play about growing up, disadvantage, addiction and poor choices.

We soon learn that either …

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in their footsteps @ chippen street theatre


IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS is a thoughtful and unusual take on the Vietnam War as it is told from the viewpoint of five American women who were performing various duties in Vietnam in the late sixties. The stories are based on

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exit the king @ the old fitz

In Eugene Ionesco’s EXIT THE KING, King Berrenger has been in power for hundreds of years. His kingdom is crumbling all around him: there’s lightning stuck in the sky, the clouds are raining frogs, the sun doesn’t listen to him,

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