Month: February 2014

Ensemble Theatre presents PROOF by David Auburn at the Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli. PROOF by David Auburn was first performed in 2000, and was awarded: Drama Desk Award for Best New Play. Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. New York Drama Critics’ Circle Best Play. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Tony Award for Best Play. All in 2001. These five awards attest to the outstanding merits of this play. These merits are what draws one to this theatre (there has been a previous production at the Sydney Theatre Company, directed by George Ogilvie, with Jacqueline McKenzie and Barry Otto, in…

DECORUM in association with the Sydney Independent Theatre Company presents LEGEND! by Pat Sheil at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo. LEGEND! is a one man play by Pat Sheil. It creates a character, ‘Slips’ Cordon, a grandfather, played by John Derum, who is an anecdotal folk-historian acquainted, familiar, with some of the major figures and events of our last century. The authority for the veracity of his tellings is that of a self-proclaimed eye witness, and “I was there”, becomes the running mantra throughout the recollections (the tales of Baron von Münchhausen and George MacDonald Fraser’s Harry Flashman seemed to…

Sydney Theatre Company and Allens present TRAVELLING NORTH by David Williamson at Wharf 1, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay. David Wiiliamson’s TRAVELLING NORTH was first performed at the Nimrod Theatre, Sydney, in August, 1979, directed by John Bell. This play was the ninth in an output that had established David Williamson as the most prolific and ‘bankable’ writer that the Australian theatre had ever produced: THE REMOVALISTS (1971), DON’S PARTY(1971), THE DEPARTMENT (1975), THE CLUB (1977), amongst others, were proof of that last claim. To produce a David Willliamson play was to virtually ensure a good box office return – money in…