Category: Augusta Supple

  THE MAYDAY! Playwrights’ Festival at the Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst. THE MAYDAY! Playwrights’ Festival organised and produced by Augusta Supple and Jeremy Waters at the Tap Gallery is a three week, three-program event, swiftly organised to fill the sudden void, an empty space, a freed up time vacancy at Tap Gallery. Week 1 has six monologues from the ‘7 On Playwrights’ recently published collection of works by Federation Press: NO NUDITY, WEAPONS OR NAKED FLAMES. The World’s Tiniest Monkey by Vanessa Blake, performed by Megan Drury. Ella by Verity Laughton, performed by Alice Ansara. A Cleansing Force by Donna Abela,…

true west theatre presents A VIEW FROM MOVING WINDOWS at the Riverside Theatre, Parramatta In September 2010, I saw on one afternoon, several offerings from some young Australian writers, entitled STORIES FROM THE 428, curated by Augusta Supple. Writers sat on the 428 bus route and wrote short sketches/plays, reflecting an experience of that Circular Quay to Marrickville/Canterbury ride. Actors were found, and Directors rounded up and produced at the Sidetrack theatre. A VIEW FROM MOVING WINDOWS, began for the writers as a train journey from Central Station to Parramatta. Similarly, as in the 428 enterprise, they were commissioned by…

  New Theatre  presents WOMEN, POWER and CULTURE at the New Theatre, Newtown. The New Theatre is the longest continuous running theatre in Sydney. This company has a long and important place in the theatre culture of Sydney (if not in Australia, with its fellow companies in other capitals, under the banner of the New Theatre). “We dared a group of Sydney’s leading and emerging female playwrights to tell the stories that lie behind the triumphs and struggles that mark women’s contribution to our political, social and cultural life. It’s amazing to think that it’s taken Australian women 109 years…