Year: 2017

Photo by Natasha Narula bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company presents JATINGA, by Purva Naresh, at the Kings Cross Theatre (KXT), Kings Cross Hotel. 9 June – 24 June. JATINGA is the latest project from bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company, following on from its startling play and production earlier in the year of THE LADEN TABLE in the same theatre space. Suzanne Millar is Co-Artistic Director (with John Harrison) of bAKEHOUSE, and 4 years ago was working in Mumbai, at the Apne Aap Women’s Collective in Kamathipura. Kamathipura is one of Asia’s oldest and largest red light districts. In the program notes we are told: Of the…

20th CENTURY WOMEN 20th CENTURY WOMEN is a film written and Directed by Mike Mills. It isa kind of autobiographical revelation of Mr Mills’ mother. BEGINNERS(2010), his prior work, starring Ewan McGregor and ChristopherPlummer, was an autobiographical revelation of his relationship withhis father. Both films, says Mr Mills, have an autobiographical originbut, of course, are in result, works of poetic licence necessitated bythe act of the need to tell a story – cinematizing! 20th CENTURY WOMEN, is set in 1979, in Santa Barbara, California, in aseminal year of cultural gear-shifting and in a place of the ignitionof a counter-culture revolution.…

Photo by Bob Seary New Theatre presents THE CLEAN HOUSE by Sarah Ruhl, at the New Theatre, King St, Newtown. 6 June – 8 July. Sarah Ruhl is an American writer and Sydney has seen IN THE NEXT ROOM OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY (2009) and her adaption of Virginia Woolf’s ORLANDO (2003), both for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC). THE CLEAN ROOM introduces us to a household belonging to a married couple Lane (Mary-Anne Halpin) and Charles (James Bean), both successful doctors. In the house is a Brazilian house cleaner, Matilde (Keila Terencio) who, in a depressive state, no longer can clean.…

1. BONNIE AND CLYDE BONNIE AND CLYDE, is a film released in 1967. I have a passion to watch the classic films of my eras on the Big Screen if possible. The Ritz Cinema in Randwick (a heritage Art Deco cinema) have a program of Classic screenings. There is nothing like watching the films on the big screen rather than the TV or computer or iPhone sized thingos. I remember having seen this film in its original release at one of the Hurstville cinemas in Sydney, getting into a taxi to get me home and having to ask the driver…

Photo by Robert Catto Luckiest productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co present, ONLY HEAVEN KNOWS, Music, Book and Lyrics by Alex Harding, at the Hayes Theatre, Greenknowe Ave, Darlinghurst. 30 May – 1 July. At the Hayes Theatre a revival production of, ONLY HEAVEN KNOWS, by Alex Harding, is on show. Written and performed in 1988, in the midst of the early panic and bewilderment of the AIDS crisis and the attendant heightened discrimination of the Gay community, this play was set in 1944 and 1956, and presented a story of a small group of friends, outsiders, essentially gay…

  Ewan Productions presents, AN UNSEASONABLE FALL OF SNOW, by Gary Henderson, at the The Actor’s Pulse Studio – 103 Regent Street, Redfern. 30th May – 3 June. AN UNSEASONABLE FALL OF SNOW is a play by New Zealander, Gary Henderson, written in 1998. It is a one hour show for three actors. In a nondescript room, a table, two chairs, a steel drawed cabinet, a blackboard, chalk, a folder with files and photographs and a bottomless access to coffee, Arthur, in suit and tie, (Nico Papademetriou) impatiently waits. Enter, a young man, Liam (Alex Ewan), in a leather jacket…