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everything i know i learnt from madonna

Wayne Tunks is an award winning writer, director, producer and actor. So, although I have to confess to not remembering seeing his work, his one man show promised a lot. I’m afraid it didn’t deliver. I suppose the title having …

Cinema

le weekend

As most weekends to Paris now begin, we find Meg and Nick, at the beginning of LE WEEKEND (M) hurtling through the Chunnel on the Eurostar train from London. Meg is reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog, perhaps to get …

Theatre

jump for jordan

In time for Mardi Gras, the Griffin Theatre presents Sydney playwright, Donna Abela’s award-winning play, Jump for Jordan. It is more than a ‘coming out’ play. It depicts the experience of being ‘caught between two cultures’ common to second-generation Australians.…

Cinema

all is lost

ALL IS LOST is an action survival movie – a nearly dialogue-free thriller. It is 105 minutes in length covering a lone sailor’s 8 days of fighting the sea to survive.

Robert Redford stars alone as a man lost at …

Cinema

nebraska

Shot in brilliant black and white by Phedon Papamichael, for which it has been Oscar nominated, NEBRASKA may well be the first black and white film to win Best Picture Oscar since The Artist.

Certainly, like The Artist, NEBRASKA’s lead …

Theatre

the long way home

It has been a long time since I have been so moved by a production as when I recently saw the joint Sydney Theatre Company and Australian Defence Forces (ADF)  production, THE LONG WAY HOME.
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Theatre

the anatomy of buzz

Young people are apparently now fleeing Facebook in favour of Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp, because “oldies” have taken over and hence it is no longer cool. The latest is rapidly replaced by the latest “latest” and it’s a …

Ballet, Cinema

jewels

What a dazzling display of dance!

The magnificent Bolshoi Ballet Company is displayed like a jewel itself in the glittering, imposing auditorium and absolutely dazzles with its more than sensational dancing. With new set and costume designs this is an …

Theatre

sweet charity

Bob Fosse directed and choreographed the iconic Sweet Charity, on stage and on film, in the late 1960s. The dance sequences are some of the most striking moving images ever seen, so one of the main challenges in staging …

Theatre

the man who dreamt the stars

A truly unique show crafting a kaleidoscope of emotions propped up with interactive video projection and dark humour.

This is a true story about Malcolm Allison and his journey as he battles a brain tumour. His character is cleverly interwoven …

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