Category: Adrienne Chisholm

  Hit Productions and Riverside Theatre present IT’S MY PARTY (AND I’LL DIE IF I WANT TO) by Elizabeth Coleman at the Riverside Theatre, Parramatta. IT’S MY PARTY (AND I’LL DIE IF I WANT TO) is the first full length play by Elizabeth Coleman, written in 1993. SECRET BRIDESMAIDS BUSINESS – 1999, is her second and more famous work. It was a box office splash and made into a TV movie in 2002. IT’S MY PARTY (AND I’LL DIE IF I WANT TO) concerns Ron Patterson (Henri Szeps) who has had a premonition and announces, in a prologue to the…

  A Critical Stages and The Follies Production of SYNCOPATION by Allan Knee at The Concourse Theatre, Chatswood. SYNCOPATION by Allan Knee, an American text, opened on Tuesday night at the new Concourse Theatre in Chatswood (great space). It was this production’s 41st venue on a long and extensive tour over the last five months. It moves on to Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Wollongong, next week and finishes (I think) out at the Riverside Theatre complex at Parramatta the week after. I reckon it is worth making an effort to see. SYNCOPATION is a two-hander, two act play. It is…

    Babka presents PROGRESS AND MELANCHOLY at fortyfive downstairs, Flinders St, Melbourne. PROGRESS AND MELANCHOLY is “A new physical theatre work based on Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD. ” Using the skeleton framework of Chekhov’s play and some of the functions of some of his characters, six actors/dancers and a musician: Todd Macdonald, Nadja Kostich, Majid Shokor, Christophe Le Tellier, Paea Leach, Sara Black and Ernie Gruner, under the direction of Bagryana Popov, explore “people’s behaviour during a time of upheaval…. depict(ing) profound social change and disorientation…… to impart a sense of the transience of all things.” The actors…

  Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company & Qantas by arrangement with Poor Boy Enterprises Pty Ltd & Llegup Pty Ltd present POOR BOY – A Play With Songs by Matt Cameron and Tim Finn at the Sydney Theatre. The most astounding thing about POOR BOY is that the Artistic Directors of both the Melbourne Theatre Company (Simon Phillips) and the Sydney Theatre Company (Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett) believed that this play represents the best in new Australian writing and that it deserved a major production. The fact that the January, 2009 production in Melbourne received very wan reviews…