Thrillers are tricky. TV only gets it right sometimes and even multi-million dollar movies can miss the mark. Go to the theatre to see a thriller and what do we want? For me, I want the experience to include …
A Russian prisoner and his guard play chess in 1917, young love blossoms at the Melbourne Cup in the ‘30s, the Vietnam War creeps into a school play in the ‘60s, two Olympic athletes flirt at the L.A. airport, a …
Comedy great, Les Dawson famously said “My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects.”
SEX OBJECT is an absolute joy, gloriously funny, quite wonderful, and is a highly entertaining brand new Australian comedy. SEX …
‘The most beautiful thing in the world is a shoe’ .
Shoes can be art, lovingly crafted sculpture.
Kinky Boots has bounced into Sydney! Price and Son have taken over the Capitol to screams of delight from shoe people.
This …
Jonathon Biggins’ usual way of sharing his take on the world, in particular the world of politics, is through the Sydney Theatre Company’s annual revue show, the Wharf Revue, a platform which he shares with fellow collaborators, Drew Forsythe and …
Along similar lines to his most well known play Insignificance, (also made into a film directed by Nicolas Roeg), British playwright Terry Johnson’s play HYSTERIA features well know characters from history. In Insignificance we had Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy, …
Lyrical and powerful this play is a fascinating insight into a little known piece of British/Australian history.
Seanna van Helton’s FALLEN is a stage adaptation of historian Jenny Hartley’s’ novel, THE HOUSE OF FALLEN WOMEN (2009). Penny Harpham directs …
King Cross is a state of mind. No boundaries to its name, no limits to its life. Half a century later, however, has Kings Cross been crossed out?!
The production HIDDEN SYDNEY is back by popular demand for a strictly …
Alan Ayckbourn’s A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL is a play within a play, a dark and intricate comedy, concerned with the Pendon’s Amateur Dramatics Society, situated in a smallish British town.
The actors life off stage is filled with clever political …
Production photography by Dawn Pugh.
There are just so many comic and dramatic possibilities that come to mind with this particular Louis Nowra scenario. Nowra makes some good choices and the result is one of his most flamboyant and entertaining …