In 1966 Bob Dylan released one of his greatest albums- a double album, with the quirky title, ‘Blonde on Blonde’. It featured some of the great songwriters finest songs.
Further back in 1953 Samuel Beckett released his play ‘Waiting for …
The fact is that going to see shows can be a bit of a punt- and on more than a few occasions I have found myself driving to a venue wondering whether it would not be better to turn back …
The deterioration, decline and ultimate death of a parent is a deeply traumatic process, one that we would never wish to confront, and yet it is an experience that changes the way we evaluate our own lives.
It was during …
With Kip Williams’s current production of R and J audiences get a bold, brash and powerful reworking of the Bard’s star crossed lovers tale.
Everything is big and dramatic and vivid as…one suspect that he was more than a little …
Many talents contribute to the making of a fine play, and in ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD which opened to an enthusiastic full house at the Sydney Theatre Company last Saturday, those talents were clearly visible.
The production was seamless, …
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
Seventeenth Century English poet Alexander Pope wisely wrote, ‘Know then thyself/ presume not God to scan/ the proper study of Mankind is Man’.
Great theatre makes for powerful studies of mankind. They explore how people tackle some of the most
THEN. Berlin. 08.12.1978, 11:15 pm. It is over. Dead silence in the audience. As if no one wants to breathe. Then we all got on our feet, applauded and cheered for 30 minutes. We just had witnessed epoch-making theatre directed
Prominent contemporary American playwright Sarah Ruhl chose a great subject, a quirky, little known medical sidelight from history, for her new play “IN THE NEXT ROOM or THE VIBRATOR PLAY” and out of it has created a tremendous, often hilarious …
