Year: 2013

  Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney Festival and Allens present THE SECRET RIVER by Kate Grenville. An adaptation for the stage by Andrew Bovell at the Sydney Theatre. It is interesting that the lead credits for this production gives the novelist of THE SECRET RIVER (2005), Kate Grenville, that honour – the lead, precedence, and that the work by Andrew Bovell as the adaptor, for this the stage-version of THE SECRET RIVER, is placed secondarily. This is not the usual practice and I read this as verification of the almost universal admiration/affection that this novel and its related works – there…

Photo by Greg Doyle Gaiety Theatre in association with Sydney Mardi Gras present TORCH SONG TRILOGY by Harvey Fierstein at Theatre 19 (The old Darlinghurst Theatre venue), by arrangement with ORiGiN Theatrical, on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. TORCH SONG TRILOGY, by Harvey Fierstein, began as a monologue that became a play called THE INTERNATIONAL STUD. There followed a second play: FUGUE IN A NURSERY and a third: WIDOWS AND CHILDREN FIRST! They then were produced as a collection/trilogy at the Richard Allen Center in October 1981 and then moved to Broadway in 1982 where it played 1,222 performances, winning…

  Australian Theatre for Young People presents The Voices Project 2013, OUT OF PLACE at the atyp Wharf Space Hickson Rd. Australian Theatre for Young People presents The Voices Project 2013, OUT OF PLACE by writers from atyp’s Fresh ink program directed by Paige Rattray. 10 young writers have written ten, seven-minute monologues and are performed by ten young actors, members of the atyp cohort. This exercise in joint creativity has been directed under the guidance of Ms Rattray. It is a highly polished production. Design by Lauren O’Flaherty, locating the work on an image of a building site, an…

  Ian McRae AO and Leo Schofield AO present The Paris Opera Ballet in GISELLE at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney. GISELLE presented by the Paris Opera Ballet at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney is as near a perfect Classic Dance experience as one could want. In 2007, Mr Ian McRae and Mr Leo Schofield brought to Australia this outstanding company and gave us Rudolf Nureyev’s SWAN LAKE and George Balanchine’s JEWELS. If you missed them then, and love the theatre, dance in this instance, do not let this opportunity pass you by. This is theatre on a rarefied plane of…

  The Australia India Institute and the University of New South Wales present the ANNUAL GANDHI ORATION at the Clancy Auditorium at the University of New South Wales, Kensington. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known more popularly as Mahatma Gandhi (meaning, Great Soul), was assassinated on the 30th January, 1948. The Gandhi Oration commemorates, that day, Martyr’s Day, and is delivered by a person whose life’s work exemplifies the ideals of Gandhi. For the second annual oration, the 2013 speaker was the Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG. “What would Gandhi have to say today” was the theme of the oration. Michael Kirby…

  Stories Like These and Griffin Independent present the World Premiere of RUST AND BONE by Caleb Lewis from the short stories by Craig Davidson at the SBW Stables Theatre. Craig Davidson is a young Canadian writer, novelist, and short story writer. Caleb Lewis has adapted three of his short stories for the theatre. One about an over-sexed young man who becomes disabled by a whale. Another about a young man attempting to become a professional pugilist, who becomes involved with the son of his trainer, a little boy who builds ‘erections’ and who becomes disabled in a near drowning…