sydney underground film festival in september

As the film festival’s title suggests, the Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF) has been set up to nurture an alternative film culture outside of mainstream filmmaking.

The Festival, a not for profit festival,  started off in September 2007  and has …

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a very expensive poison @ the new

The amazing team at the New Theatre has tackled a complex play about a mostly forgotten international drama. They’ve succeeded in bringing back the events surrounding of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, and in making it

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wicked : first staged rehearsal @ abc studios

These are photos from the first staged rehearsal of WICKED that too place in late July at ABC Studios.

The Resident Director Lisa Leguillou, who has directed many versions of the show, was nonetheless assiduously involved in ensuring that the …

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constellations : a learning experience

British playwright Nick Payne’s 2012 play CONSTELLATIONS follows the relationship that develops between Marianne, an astro physicist, and Roland, a beekeeper, who meet at a barbecue.

Payne’s play flit, in a non linear way, back and forth between defining scenes …

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catherine of avignon : a slice of 14th century drama

Theatre is often a learning experience and Paul Gilchrist’s CATHERINE OF AVIGNON definitely fits into this category.

Gilchrist’s play, which is based on historical records, takes us back to the late 14th Century in Avignon, France. The Catholic Church was …

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the weekend : upstairs @ belvoir street

 

The scenario to Australian writer Charlotte Wood’s novel THE WEEKEND is not so alluring or for that matter original. Three women, long time friends, meet to pack up the beach house of their good friend who has recently passed …

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embellishment @ kxt theatre

EMBELLISHMENT is a collection of women’s stories
from across Australia and the world. The stories are
from contemporary writers from Indigenous and
non-Indigenous Australian, South Asian, Indian,
African American and Irish cultures. Wiradjuri woman
Aunty Cheryl Penrith tells the audience …

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