Month: March 2013

  Photo by Jeff Busby John Frost by special arrangement with Jed Bernstein and Adam Zotovich present, DRIVING MISS DAISY by Alfred Uhry at the Theatre Royal, Sydney. DRIVING MISS DAISY (1987), a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Alfred Uhry,  is the first part of what has become known as his ATLANTA TRILOGY. The other two works being THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO (1996) and PARADE (1998) – a musical with the score by Jason Robert Brown. These last works were winners of Tony awards. DRIVING MISS DAISY became a film directed by Bruce Beresford and the winner of four…

Peach Theatre Company presents THE HISTORY BOYS – A Comedy by Alan Bennett in the Playhouse at the Sydney Opera House. THE HISTORY BOYS by Alan Bennett is, I reckon, already – it was only first presented in 2004 – a modern classic. The National Theatre of Great Britain toured it’s premiere production to Sydney in 2005 (or, 06?) at the Sydney Theatre. It was a lavishly designed work with video whizz-bangery and more, designed by Bob Crowley, directed by Nicholas Hytner. The company of actors had been playing it for months and months, into years, I think, in repertory…

Peach Theatre Company presents THE HISTORY BOYS – A Comedy by Alan Bennett in the Playhouse at the Sydney Opera House. THE HISTORY BOYS by Alan Bennett is, I reckon, already – it was only first presented in 2004 – a modern classic. The National Theatre of Great Britain toured it’s premiere production to Sydney in 2005 (or, 06?) at the Sydney Theatre. It was a lavishly designed work with video whizz-bangery and more, designed by Bob Crowley, directed by Nicholas Hytner. The company of actors had been playing it for months and months, into years, I think, in repertory…

  Pact Centre For Emerging Artists presents A Performance By The 2013 Pact Ensemble; HARVEST in the Pact Theatre, Erskineville. Julie Vulcan, the director tells us in her program notes for this performance, that “HARVEST investigates the world we live in through food, consumption and waste.” A small group of young “emerging artists” have with Ms Vulcan researched and devised a performance, situated about long tables surrounding a heightened platform. The audience is personalized and invited in groups into the space to share the experience. We are offered milk and peanuts whilst the result of rehearsal is strung together in…