Year: 2012

  Riverside presents a CDP Production: BIDDIES by Don Reid at the Riverside Theatre, Parramatta. CODGERS came first and now, we have BIDDIES, both by Don Reid. In the former, six men ‘working out’ in a gymnasium and locker room, deal with life and all its challenges, especially, ageing. In the latter, six women “stitch and bitch” needle work in an infant school classroom and broom closet, deal with life and all its challenges, especially, ageing. The different locations and the primary task of each grouping of six may give you some clue as to the insight that Mr Reid…

    Tamarama Rock Surfers and The Colour Blind Project present KEEP SMILING! THE HOUSEWIFE’S GUIDE at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre. The Colour Blind Project is the brainchild of Sydney based performers, Josipa Draisma and Stephanie Son, created to showcase the diverse pool of multi-cultural talent that exists in Australia. …The Colour Blind Project unites artists of all backgrounds, particularly performers of multi-cultural backgrounds, and gives them the opportunity to create and perform work that will spark public dialogue about the cultural diversity within the Australian Arts and Entertainment industry. KEEP SMILING ! THE HOUSEWIFE’S GUIDE has been created and…

  Sydney Opera House presents THE COMPOSERS: STEVE REICH IN RESIDENCE. A Celebration with Synergy Percussion and eighth blackbird in the Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House. STEVE REICH IN RESIDENCE is part of the Sydney Opera House entrepreneurial development wing program. It is presented under the title: THE COMPOSERS and is curated by Yarmila Alfonzetti, the Producer, Classical Music, Sydney Opera House. A CELEBRATION is one of three public events that were presented. During the week there had been an IN CONVERSATION with Mr Reich, and, on the same day as A CELEBRATION, there had been a CHAMBER…

  The Marais Project presents MARA! meets MARAIS CD Launch at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Jennifer Eriksson, Director of The Marais Project, writes: One of the frustrating things about being a musical performer outside the all pervasive popular or rock genres is that invariably one gets stuck with the label ‘classical musician’ with all the negativity this can entail. The US music critic Alex Ross commences his book LISTEN TO THIS with the following sentences: ” I hate ‘ classical music’ : not the thing but the name. It traps a tenaciously living art in the theme park of…

Monkey Baa presents THE BUGALUGS BUM THIEF, based on the book by Tim Winton, at the New Lend Lease Darling Theatre Quarter, Darling Harbour. THE BUGALUGS BUM THIEF has been adapted by Sandra Eldridge, Tim McGarry and Eva Di Cesare from “the hilarious book” by Tim Winton. It is a revival of a production mounted by Monkey Baa in 2002. It is directed by John Saunders with great gusto and liberal hand; designed by Mark Thompson with a delightfully simple painted scenic set that, however, with the movable pieces looks a trifle cumbersome – big boxes on wheels (it is…

EnTrance, created and performed by Yumi Umiumare, presented by Performance Space at Carriageworks. Yumi Umiumare is a Japanese-Australian performing artist and is “the only Japanese Butoh Dancer in Australia and (is) the creator of provocative Butoh Cabaret and visceral dance works.” EnTrance consists of five scenes: Maze Cityscape; Cracked Mirror; Punk Medusa; Tears and Shiro Hebi (White Snake). …each section is interconnected through a chained world’ in which a new world opens up, one to the other. The logic of this chain world is surreal, abstract and internal, and sometimes very personal. The chain is about how things are unexpectedly…