Matilda Ridgway

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cock @ the old fitz

Torn between two lovers, cock shocked and cunt struck, John is at odds with his old boyfriend and new girlfriend and with himself in Redline’s robust, ribald and bollocking production of COCK by Mike Bartlett.

Played in the round on …

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the crucible @ bella vista farm

It was only as I started my car engine to begin the trip to the performance tonight that I realised I wasn’t carrying any tissues. On my wander back to the house, I wondered … would I really need them? …

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antony skuse on platanov

I recently had a chat with Anthony Skuse who is adapting and directing the upcoming production of Anton Chekhov’s PLATANOV (1878) which is moving into the ATYP Studio theatre in early November.

Skuse spoke of how the great Russian playwight …

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a doll’s house

In stark, and it has to be said refreshing contrast to the recent radical approach by other directors to classic works, Adam Cook plays his Doll’s House with a very straight bat. The play is performed in its time period …

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proof

David Auburn’s PROOF takes us into a young woman’s world as she reaches a significant milestone in her life, turning a quarter of a century. Joining Catherine (Matilda Ridgway) in her birthday celebrations is her estranged stocks analyst sister, …

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sweet nothings

Sydney theatre patrons have recently been given the opportunity to see two impressive works of world theatre, in their Australian premiere productions.

First in line, I saw Sandra Bates’s impressive production of American playwright Gina Gionfriddo’s cutting edge discourse on …

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seminar

American writer Theresa Rebeck’s 2011 play SEMINAR, the new production at the Ensemble Theatre, is well worth catching.

The  play features a very  lively clash,- Rebeck pits four  very keen, ambitious young writers in waiting against a brilliant but monster …

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