non-stop
NON- STOP is a brisk action thriller, a modern Agatha Christie ‘whodunit’ played at 40,000 feet on a flight with 200 passengers lives at risk.
Liam Neeson stars as Bill Marks a burned out veteran of the Air Marshals service. …
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fully committed
As far as one-man shows go, they don’t get much more frenetic than FULLY COMMITTED.
Written by Becky Mode and set in a dilapidated, windowless office in the basement of an award-winning Upper East Side Manhattan restaurant, this quintessentially New …
coriolanus
The latest of the NT live series this is a screening of the sellout ‘chamber’ production of CORIOLANUS directed by Josie Rourke and starring Tom Hiddleston that was recently at the Donmar Warehouse in London. One of Shakespeare’s last tragedies …
the vaudevillians
The premise is simple. Spouses Kitty Witless and Dan Von Dandy were accidentally frozen under a torrent of snow and cocaine in the 1920s, but were discovered and revived in our very recent times of global warming. Both happen to …
short and sweet week 7
Thank goodness that the short play ‘Level 2’ was performed before interval on Friday night! I was ready to leave the theatre after the first four plays, and then this brilliant piece, written by Mike McRae, blew my mind! This …
bach magnificat
For its twenty fifth birthday celebrations the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra have chosen Bach. The festal mood was established with two of Bach’s most joyful occasional pieces, his glorious ‘Magnificat’ and the last of his rousing Orchestral Suites, all under the …
diving off the edge of the world
Paddle from England to Canada, down to South America, around the bottom of Australia, over to South Africa and back up to England. All on a Sunday afternoon, in a canoe, at Newcastle Ocean Baths. Eat an ice block then …
the dead ones
Writers are a very strange bunch. Often, they will write about the most difficult, painful subjects. Perhaps they believe this is where the most important truths and valuable rewards lie?! Whatever their motivation, one has to admire their audacity and …