Hamlet is dead. What next? APPROPRIATION, written by Paul Gilchrist, tells the imagined story of Fortinbras, a rash hothead who learns from his politically gifted wife when to wield a sword and when to weave a story. Raw, poetic …
TICK TICK BOOM is a new work by Melissa Lee Speyer and it is a play with a great deal going for it. The themes, characters and narrative are well woven into an entertaining drama with two richly written women …
It may be true, as ONE WAY MIRROR suggests, that modern actors are the truth-tellers yet when Thespis stepped out of the chorus to become someone else, there were riots in the Athenian capital. How dare a person pretend …
Part performance, part wine tasting, BLIND TASTING (subtlenuance theatre) is a nationally toured and critically acclaimed production returning at last to Sydney.…
Cristina has decided upon a self imposed exile, to live in a cupboard incommunicado. She feels that modern life is shallow and inauthentic.
Cristina, excellently played by Emily McGowan, is going to stay in her cupboard and examine her …
In our older years, we sort of know most things about ourselves. I could tell you a lot of personal stuff if you asked me… and you held a psychiatrist’s licence. But last night I learned something new about my …
AND NOW TO BED is the third in the Table Talk Trilogy commissioned and produced by one of Sydney’s most enduring and entertaining theatre companies, Subtlenuance.
Director Paul Gilchrist chose seven actors and paired them each with a writer. The …
Was the road to Rouen really the road to ruin for Jeanne D’Arc?
The story goes that the Maid of Orleans was made barbecue steak in Rouen, burned as a heretic by the same Church that canonised her some centuries …
Writer, director Paul Gilchrist has achieved a lot with his production of CHRISTINA IN THE CUPBOARD, now showing at the TAP Gallery in Darlinghurst.
Described in the program notes as “an experiment in comic magic realism”, the play is primarily …
‘In wine there is truth and laughter’. So goes the promo line for local playwright Paul Gilchrist’s new play. One can also add now, – out of wine one can also make a very appealing work of contemporary theatre. BLIND …