Month: August 2013

Photo by Katy Green Loughrey Sydney Independent Theatre Company (SITCO) present a World Premiere of FRIDAY by Daniele Giorgi at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo. Last Thursday, the 8th August was the World Premiere of “a sizzling new Australian Political Satire FRIDAY by Daniela Giorgi. Sex, secrets and scandals – a tale of democracy in the land of the long weekend” at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo. A new Australian play about Democracy set in a seat of government! Ms Giorgi suggests, coyly, in her notes, about the play, in the program, that “FRIDAY does not replay real events, actual…

Stories Like These and atyp Under The Wharf present FIREFACE by Marius Von Mayenburg, translated by Maja Zade at the atyp Wharf Theatre, Wharf 4, Hickson Rd. FIREFACE was the first play of Marius Von Mayenburg for the Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin and it was awarded the Kleist Prize for young dramatists in 1997. Several years ago the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) presented a production by Benedict Andrews. Mr Von Mayenburg has gone on to a very prolific career. The play is a stringent look at the core social structure of any society: that of the family. Vitally, in…

Arts Centre Melbourne presents Robert Wilson and Philip Glass EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH – An Opera In Four Acts. Choreography by Lucinda Childs, in the Victoria Arts Centre, State Theatre. Whilst in London last December, I read of a touring production of EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH (originally titled EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH ON WALL STREET – soon cut down- the work is “not political”), that was to play in Amsterdam. I contemplated flying over for it – hardly a half-hour plane flight. I then sensed that this was a major re-mounting of the work and would come to Australia, for…

Belvoir presents PERSONA, a FRAUGHT OUTFIT production. Based on the film by Ingmar Bergman. Conceived by Adena Jacobs, Dayna Morrissey and Danny Pettingill in the Upstairs Belvoir Theatre. PERSONA is a film made by Ingmar Bergman in 1966 – writer, director. It is regarded by some to be his masterpiece and is rated highly as one of the top – greatest – films ever made. Much discourse can be found as people attempt to analyze every element of the film. Study the critical essays and you can be bewildered. If you go on line it will overwhelm you. At best, I simply…