Year: 2014

Sport For Jove Theatre Company and The Seymour Centre present ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL and TWELFTH NIGHT in the York Theatre at the Seymour Centre. 2014 is the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. He was christened on April 26th, 1564 in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since it was the custom to baptise a child three days after birth, Shakespeare’s birthday is recognised as April 23, the same day as his burial fifty-two years later. These two productions by the Sport For Jove Company, ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL and TWELFTH NIGHT are part of a…

The Ensemble Theatre present CLYBOURNE PARK by Bruce Norris at the Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli. Look, Edward Albee is my favourite living American writer, I want to see everything he has written. Now, next to him, Bruce Norris has become my next favourite, living American writer. More than Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Theresa Rebeck, Beth Henley, Suzan-Lori Parks. So do go to see this play at the Ensemble, if you can. I read, first, his family comedy, THE PAIN AND THE ITCH (2004) – flawed but arresting; then, PURPLE HEART (2002) – a brilliant play about the effect of war on…

  Photo by Katy Green Loughrey Mad March Hare Theatre Company in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company present A MOMENT ON THE LIPS by Jonathan Gavin at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo. Jonathan Gavin wrote A MOMENT ON THE LIPS some ten years ago. The play concerns seven women from a demographic that is a kind of ‘gay’ chic: a class that sometimes carries the appellation of “Lipstick Lesbians”: Victoria, a struggling artist/painter (Beth Aubrey); Jenny, her sister and a barrister (Sarah Aubrey); Rowena, Jenny’s partner, a social worker finishing her PhD in Women’s Studies (Lucy Goleby); Bridget, Rowena’s…

Bell Shakespeare present THE WINTER’S TALE by William Shakespeare in the Playhouse at the Sydney Opera House. Shall I simply write the bare and naked facts of my experience in the theatre: it was good, it was bad; I liked it, I hated it, or, should I try to give an analysis of why I felt that way? THE WINTER’S TALE by William Shakespeare was written in the reign of James I, the Jacobean era. With PERICLES (1607-8), CYMBELINE (1609-10) , THE WINTER’S TALE (1610-11) and THE TEMPEST (1611) we enter the period of Shakespeare’s Tragicomic Romances … from PERICLES…

HILT by Jane Bodie at the Old 505 Theatre, Level 5, 342 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills. HILT is a chamber play by Jane Bodie in several short scenes. The play begins with Kate (Alexandra Aldrich), alone on stage, in a small inner city apartment, appearing to be dealing with some deep inner ‘core’ disturbance. Enter Nick (Sam O’Sullivan), and we are amused with an awkward, clumsy flirtation that ends in sexual consummation. In the next scene we meet Adam (Stephen Multari), who, we discover is Kate’s partner. There is an apparent connection between them both, but, it seems to have…

Side Pony Productions in association with Rock Surfers present THE PRIDE, an original work devised by Cast and Director at the Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach. Zoe Pepper the founder of the Western Australian company Side Pony Productions, and director and co-devisor of this show tells us, in her program notes : Until about 10,000 years ago lions were the most widespread mammals after humans, living in Africa, Europe, India and the Americas. The starting point for THE PRIDE (as in a pride of lions, or, is it the pride of daddy lion?) came from a fascination with the behaviour of…