Month: August 2018

  PYT Fairfield presents. PLAYLIST, a group-devised work by the company, at the old School of Arts, 19 Harris Street, Fairfield. 2-11 August. PLAYLIST is a new Australian work devised by PYT under the Direction of Karen Therese. The company of five performers, five young women: Ebube Uba, Mara Knezevic, May Tran, Tasha O’Brien and Neda Taha, part of the diverse cultural community in the outer Western suburb of Fairfield, have developed a ‘show’ based on their conversation about the artists, not exclusively female, but mostly, that have helped shape their everyday lives and social and political worlds, under the…

Photo by Marnya Rothe Sport For Jove Theatre Co and Seymour Centre present, MOBY DICK, adapted by Orson Welles, from the novel by Herman Melville, in the Reginald Theatre, City Rd Chippendale. 9th August – 24th August. MOBY DICK, adapted by Orson Welles, from the novel by Herman Melville. When this project was announced, I was surprised and couldn’t help wondering why would you do it? Orson Welles filmed himself performing scenes from the novel in a one man version; he presented for the stage, MOBY DICK – A REHEARSAL, in 1955; and prepared a film version that was left…

Photo by Chris Lundie New Theatre presents, NELL GWYNN, by Jessica Swale, at the New Theatre, King St, Newtown. 8th August – 8th September. NELL GWYNN, is a British play by Jessica Swale. The play won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2016. The play in a very large number of short scenes – it is in two acts and is almost three hours long – brings to life the career of Nell Gwynn (Bishanyia Vincent), a young woman who grew up in Cheapside experiencing the rough side of life with her ‘old Ma Gwynn’ (Susan Jordan) and…

Photography by John Marmaras Red Line Productions presents, KING OF PIGS, by Steve Rodgers, at the Old Fitz Theatre, Cathedral St. Woolloomooloo. 1st August – 1st September. KING OF PIGS, is a new Australian play, by Steve Rodgers. This play has domestic violence as its target for discussion. Says Director, Blazey Best: I’ve been hearing a lot about the ‘Epidemic’ of Family Violence and – faced with the statistics and the sheer relentless regularity of horrific stories in the news – it’s hard to dismiss this as hyperbole. … (KING OF PIGS) is not an apology for the perpetrators of…

The Old 505 presents, HELL’S CANYON, by Emily Sheehan, in the Old 505 Theatre, Eliza St. Newtown. 1st August – 11th August. Photo by James John HELL’S CANYON, is a new play, perhaps, a first play, by Australian writer, Emily Sheenan. 60 minutes long. Ms Sheenan in her notes for the program tells us that she wrote HELL’S CANYON ‘to try to make sense of the grief and rage and pain I felt as a young person’. Two teenagers, 17 year old Caitlin (Isabelle Ford) and 15 year old Oscar (Conor Leach) are weighed down with the angst of the…

Photo by Brett Boardman Griffin Theatre Company presents THE ALMIGHTY SOMETIMES, by Kendall Feavour, at the SBW Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst. 27July – 9 September. THE ALMIGHTY SOMETIMES, by Australian writer, Kendall Feavour, was first presented at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in February, 2018. The Griffin Theatre Company is now presenting the Australian Premiere, Directed by Lee Lewis. The content matter of this play is of interest in our zeitgeist. A young girl, Anna (Brenna Harding), at the age of eight has filled notebooks with writing that is extraordinarily advanced in its observational content – if not problematic in its violence.…