Category: Ainslie McGlynn

The New Theatre present WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM, by Christiopher Durang at the New Theatre, Newtown, 3rd – 28th June. Luella, a mother, sweet, somewhat befuddled woman says somewhere in the comic chaos of Christopher Durang’s, WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOLPE WHO LOVE THEM: “You know I don’t really know what normal is. That’s one of the reasons I go to the theatre. To learn that.  … Normal. Its such a conundrum for me.” Go to the New Theatre and see if you can find normal. I dare you. Christopher Durang is…

  Photo by Katy Green Loughrey Mad March Hare Theatre Company in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company present A MOMENT ON THE LIPS by Jonathan Gavin at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo. Jonathan Gavin wrote A MOMENT ON THE LIPS some ten years ago. The play concerns seven women from a demographic that is a kind of ‘gay’ chic: a class that sometimes carries the appellation of “Lipstick Lesbians”: Victoria, a struggling artist/painter (Beth Aubrey); Jenny, her sister and a barrister (Sarah Aubrey); Rowena, Jenny’s partner, a social worker finishing her PhD in Women’s Studies (Lucy Goleby); Bridget, Rowena’s…

Photograph by Bob Seary New Theatre presents TOP GIRLS by Caryl Churchill at the New Theatre, Newtown. I have always regarded the writer as the God in the theatre from which all other creative efforts are inspired. The better the writer the more support all the other artists have to proceed to build a quality experience for an audience. When the writer is respected and examined to provide the superstructure for the production, trusting the writer’s clues and resisting their own ‘re-writing’ need to personally ‘fingerprint’ the original work, a good time is more likely to be arrived at than…