Month: September 2016

Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) presents LEONSKAJA & MOZART, at the City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney. Elisabeth Leonskaja played Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major, k.271 ‘Jeunehomme’ (1777), accompanied by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, led by Guest Leader, Roman Simovic. It was the astonishing eloquence of Elisabeth Leonskaja’s playing, which I was able to view quite closely as well, that seized my senses into an attentive zenith. The mastery of technique with a ‘magic’ of feeling married to a great ‘love’ of Mozart’s musicianship practised with the modesty of an assured artist of a ‘gifted’ life-lived-honed skill was a great pleasure…

Photo by Lisa Tomasetti A Merrigong Theatre Company production in association with Canberra Theatre Centre presents LETTERS TO LINDY, a Play by Alana Valentine, in the York Theatre, at the Seymour Centre, Chippendale. 2 – 10 September. LETTERS TO LINDY is a new Australian play by Alana Valentine. Earlier this year we saw another of her plays, LADIES DAY presented by the Griffin Theatre Company. This new work suggests that the three most controversial Australian issues in the last century, that provoked discussion, virulent argument, across all stratas of our community were: Conscription, Whitlam and Lindy Chamberlain. Ms Valentine sets out…

Photo by Brett Boardman Griffin Theatre Company presents GLORIA by Benedict Andrews, at the SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross. 26 August – 8 October. GLORIA is a play by Benedict Andrews. Says Mr Andrews in his note in the program: ‘”GLORIA depicts an actress in the grip of an emotional breakdown.’  Performing, onstage, Gloria cannot distinguish her ‘play’ role from her ‘life’ role. Through fraility, both become entwined and a personal calamity ensues. This production of GLORIA, by the Griffin Theatre Company, Directed by Lee Lewis, is an incredibly ambitious one, considering the technical demands of the writing by Mr Andrews,…

  Poor Tom’s Gin presents, WHERE DO LITTLE BIRDS GO? by Camilla Whitehill, at the Old Fitz Theatre (late show), Cathedral St., Wooloomooloo, 30 August – 10 September. WHERE DO LITTLE BIRDS GO? is a short, one-act one-woman play by Camilla Whitehill. Written in 2015, it tells of the true story of a young woman who comes up to London from the country, gets a job in a pub – nightclub – that is frequented by the infamous, underworld killers, the Kray Twins , of the 1950’s-60’s, East/West End. (see MOJO by Jez Butterworth; or Tom Hardy’s film, LEGEND.) Our ‘heroine’…

  Sydney Theatre Company presents The Wharf Revue – BACK TO BITE YOU, at Riverside Theatre, Parramatta. 31 August –  3 September. Then an extensive tour: Wollongong (6-!0 Sept.) Canberra (13-24 Sept.), Belrose (5-15 October), Sydney Wharf Theatre (18 Oct-23 December). The annual Wharf Revue, this time with the banner title: BACK TO BITE YOU, from the inimitable usual team, Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott with a guest artist, Katrina Ketallick opened last night at the Riverside Theatres out in Parramatta in its second tour stopover before arriving at the Wharf Theatre in Sydney, in late October. Skills…