Geoffrey Sykes’s play BLOOD ON THE WATER has just completed a successful season in Sydney and in Bathurst. Audiences have been both intrigued and entertained by this play, which evokes an Australia in flux between established political and cultural bastions …
Australia Felix : History Reimagined : The Life, Tales, Trials, Sentencing and Execution of Clarke the Flying Barber
A remarkable story of a runaway convict, life with tribes in the bush, magistrates, a leading government explorer and a landowner. Told …
Robina Beard has been working all her life in television, dance, drama, comedy, children’s theatre, and theatre restaurants, both as a performer and director. Her most ‘famous’ persona was that of Madge the Palmolive Dishwashing Lady. In 2011, she was …
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D. H. Lawrence’s character talks about a fresh experiment, referring
to living in Australia and the opportunity to escape the oppressive
class structure and political and social problems of Europe. In
SOMEWHERE SOUTH, playwright and director Geoffrey Sykes…
OUT OF AFRICA features three performers showcasing Africa’s rich artistic heritage and their journey to Australia.
Africa is obviously an enormous and diverse continent and three artists are not going to represent a homogeneous pan-African cultural experience. Instead they are …
how dare this one young impudent
pink individual
rise up, disorganised, anarchic, flambuoyant
petal
dares to break with tyranny of tradition
with its own accord and colour swell
how dare bare blossoms break
bleak blight of uniform winter’s
“through your power and your excellence alone
have I recognised the goodness and the grace
inherent in the things I have been shown.”
(Paradiso 31.82-84; trans. Ciardo)
“Dante Alighieri, exiled from his home in Florence, a fugitive from justice, …
In MY LIFE: YOU’RE SOAKING IN IT Robina Beard demonstrates her signature charm and playfulness as she dips her hands into the sparkly, bubbly memories of a theatrical life well-lived. From ballet school auditions to breakdowns out bush, celebrity encounters
As my quite extensive Tap Gallery theatre experiences goes, the hybrid, experimental piece WALK IN BEAUTY ranks as one of the most daring, engrossing productions.
In a mesmerising one hour performance involving twelve very distinctive scenes, statuesque, elegant dancer Alysha …