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Wagner’s Ring Cycle presents a magical, supernatural world much loved by Set and Costume Designers. The operas provide incredible opportunities to stretch the imagination into the world of fantasy. Sydney, …
The Sydney Theatre Company has produced a sparkling production of Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.
The tale of two rich and spoilt bachelors and their pursuit of their loves Gwendolen and Cecily through needless deception, all overseen …
Wherever you look there’s something happening in Australian playwright Oriel Gray’s neglected classic THE TORRENTS. The play is set in a community newspaper called the Argus in the 1890’s in Koolgalla. The newspaper is run with an iron will by …
“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Understanding Orlando andVirginia Woolf, the first in a a new series of inspirational and informative talks presented by the Sydney …
In a dirt-dry town in rural Australia, a shot shatters the still night. A mother and her two daughters have just slain the man of the house with a bullet to the neck. Their dilemma, how do they dispose of …
In British playwright Lucy Prebble’s play THE EFFECT two game young people, psychology student Connie (Anna McGahan) and charming drifter Tristan (Mark Leonard Winter) are volunteers in the clinical trial of a new anti-depressant super drug. Forties something psychiatrist Dr …
Prostitution as a means of empowering women is a contentious notion even now, let alone in 1893 when MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION was written by Dublin-born social reformer George Bernard Shaw (who also wrote PYGMALION). No wonder it was banned from