Category: Andrea Espinoza

Kurt Sneddon, Blueprint Studios. Reginald Season 2014. Slip of the Tongue presents EUROPE by Michael Gow, in the Reginald Theatre, at the Seymour Centre, in Chippendale. 10 – 27 September. Michael Gow has written some 15 plays for the Australian repertoire and I believe he is one of the more interesting and consistent contributors to our performing arts culture. My favourites: THE KID (1983); AWAY (1986); EUROPE (1987); SWEET PHOEBE (1994); and TOY SYMPHONY (2007). This year Belvoir premiered his latest, ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID’S CITY. I confess, AWAY is one of my three top favourite (sentimental) Australian plays, alongside Ray…

True West Theatre and Riverside productions present RU4ME written and performed by Annie Byron. based on KISSING FROGS by Andee Jones in the Lennox Theatre, Riverside theatres, Parramatta. RU4ME is a delightful evening in the theatre with a winsomely seductive Connie (Annie Byron) who relates to us her ‘adventures’ in the sphere of ‘internet dating”. This senior lady, seeking a ‘partner’ to attend ‘art house movies’ and, perhaps, other things, under the guidance of her daughter, Rosie, begins a series of ventures that are amusing and cautionary. Ms Byron has adapted a book by Andee Jones, KISSING FROGS, and with…

  Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company in association with Sydney Comedy Festival presents LENNY BRUCE: 13 DAZE UN-DUG IN SYDNEY 1962 by Benito Di Fonzo at the Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach. I was 14 when I read, nightly, about the ‘depravities’ of Lenny Bruce in the Daily Mirror (The Sun was the other nightly newspaper, but, by far the less sensational, and so, much less interesting and memorable – it does indicate my own Catholic/catholic attraction to sin, doesn’t it? ). I was 16, when similarly, I read, avidly, in the Daily Mirror, on the front pages, about the shocking…

Photo by Greg Doyle Gaiety Theatre in association with Sydney Mardi Gras present TORCH SONG TRILOGY by Harvey Fierstein at Theatre 19 (The old Darlinghurst Theatre venue), by arrangement with ORiGiN Theatrical, on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. TORCH SONG TRILOGY, by Harvey Fierstein, began as a monologue that became a play called THE INTERNATIONAL STUD. There followed a second play: FUGUE IN A NURSERY and a third: WIDOWS AND CHILDREN FIRST! They then were produced as a collection/trilogy at the Richard Allen Center in October 1981 and then moved to Broadway in 1982 where it played 1,222 performances, winning…