Month: January 2018

Photo by By Brett Boardman Belvoir presents an IF Theatre Production, MOTHER, by Daniel Keene, in the Upstairs Theatre, Belvoir St, Surry Hills. 25 January – 11 February. The Director of this project, Matt Scholten, had found an artistic compatibility with actor, Noni Hazlehurst, while working on THE HERETIC, for the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC), and they, as their friendship developed, decided to work together again. The challenge that the actor wanted was that of a one person show. Together they approached the Melbourne writer, Daniel Keene, and collaboratively they produced MOTHER. This production has been seen around Australia since 2016,…

Photo by Heidrun Lohr Ensemble Theatre presents, SORTING OUT RACHEL, by David Williamson, at the Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli. 19 January – 17 March. SORTING OUT RACHEL, at the Ensemble Theatre, is the latest annual play and production from Australian playwright, David Williamson. We meet Bruce (John Howard), a self-confessed unscrupulous businessman – his latest foray is in the Aged Care sector, where money making rather than actual care is of the highest priority – and finds himself, boastfully, a $60 million dollar man. His wife Molly has recently passed away. The play begins in an outdoor restaurant location where Bruce…

Photo by Joshua Morris Moogahlin Performing Arts and Blacktown Arts Centre present, BROKEN GLASS, for Sydney Festival 2018, at St Bartholomew’s Church and Cemetery, Prospect. 10 January – 21 January. BROKEN GLASS is an installation and performance that has been four years in development. The stories of the artists, Lily Shearer, Liza-Mare Syron, Andrea James, Aroha Graves and Katie Leslie are used ‘to remind us of the impact of colonisation on ancient practices associated with death and mourning in New South Wales and Victorian First Peoples’ communities’ and are based on their personal experiences of death and knowledge of historical…

Sydney Festival, present THE DAISY THEATRE, from Ronnie Burkett of Marionettes, Canada, in the Reginald Theatre, at the Seymour Centre, Chippendale. 6-28 January. Ronnie Burkett is a Canadian Artist who has for the last 30 odd years been the leading ‘light’ and inspiration for the Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, and has over that time developed enumerable full length productions for which he has Designed the Marionette, Costume and Set, and single-handedly written and performed with extreme physical and vocal virtuosity, in each of them. (P.S. He does have help: for instance, the Music and Sound Design is by John…

Photo by Clare Hawley Jackrabbit Theatre and bAKEHOUSE Productions presents, TONSILS & TWEEZERS, by Will O’Mahony, at the Kings Cross Theatre (KXT) In the Kings Cross Hotel. January 12th – 27th. TONSILS & TWEEZERS is a new Australian play by Perth writer Will O’Mahony. It is exciting to report that this new work is as interesting as BURIED. Both are worth seeing if you are interested in new Australian playwriting. Both plays concern themselves with the shadows/’ghosts’ of a traumatic past on the present with consequences for the future. In this instance Tweezers, real name Lewis (Hoa Xunade), has been suffering…

Wheels and Co Productions presents the Australian Premiere of BURIED. Two Short plays by Xavier Coy, at The Old 505 Theatre, Eliza St. Newtown. 17 – 27 January. BURIED is the overarching title for the Australian Premiere of two short plays: THE SANDPIPER and SMOKIN’ JOE, by new comer, writer, Xavier Coy. It is an auspicious debut. Both plays have distinct character voices within the context of a very dramatic arc of storytelling that keeps one suspended and enthralled. Says Mr Coy in the program notes: In THE SANDPIPER and SMOKIN’ JOE I am exploring (the idea of) trauma in…