Whilst the much heralded Eternity Playhouse remains dark with the resident theatre company, the Darlinghurst Theatre Company going bust, there is interesting work coming out of the East Sydney Community and Arts Centre (ESCAC). which is situated directly opposite to …
There is a distinct ethnographic link in The Bridal Lament. Rainbow Chan uses family heritage, and visits to the Wietou people of Hong Kong, in particular older women who went through arranged marriages such as evoked in the performance. This …
Rating : Four stars
Jane Austen’s classic novel PRIDE AND PREJUDICE tells the story of the Bennett family who live in the town of Longbourn. The time period is the early 19th century. The parents have five daughters, and the …
I very much looked forward to seeing this performance. HAMLET CAMP features three of our first finest actors; Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz. The premise to the show is that each of the three actors has played …
This show took place as part of the many Sydney Festival events that are taking place at Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf 1 Theatre. During the Festival period the front section of the seating has been laid out with table seating …
This was immersive theatre in every sense of the word. The immersion begins even before we enter Darlinghurst Court Room 3 as the audience was divided in to three groups.
Once we climbed up to the ‘peanut gallery’ we saw …
The Genesian Theatre Company (GTC) has chosen a classic work of British drama, J,B. Priestly’s 1945 play AN INSPECTOR CALLS, for its first production in its brand new Rozelle venue.
This is a very clearly delineated three act play, …
Way back in the day, I would take myself out late at night in Sydney to experience the vibrant world of drag cabaret. Now, Ben Graetz is bringing the beauty of this art form to a much broader and more …
Don’t be afraid of the dark, it’s part of the maker’s mark.
GHOST QUARTET is an exquisite song cycle, tunes, lyrics and text by Dave Malloy that weaves a certain magic through music: keyboard, strings and percussion and the human …
In The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien created a trilogy of fantasy novels whose struggle between good and evil resonated with the catastrophe of World War Two that occurred a few years before the books were published. The …