Category: Belvoir Downstairs Theatre

Photo by Pia Johnson Belvoir presents OEDIPUS REX in the Downstairs Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre, Surry Hills. 21 August – 21 September. It is over a month since I saw this “meditation on the myth of OEDIPUS REX.” We enter the theatre and look at a spare space with some plastic sheeting framed roughly in the back left hand corner to form a covered passage way. The lights black out and we submit to a long, extended silence. Somebody blows in my ear – undermining the artistic intent, perhaps, but taking advantage of the much publicised offer? The lights return and…

Photo by Steven Siewert MAKEbeLIVE Productions in association with Belvoir presents RUBY’S WISH written by Holly Austin, Adriano Cappelletta and Jo Turner in the Belvoir Downstairs Theatre, Surry Hills, 27th June – 2nd July. This is a new Australian work from MAKEbeLIVE Productions. We last saw Holly Austin and Adriano Cappelletta in CuBBYHOuSE a few years ago, which like this show, RUBY’S WISH, was directed, by Jo Turner. Add Kate Sherman, and we have a performance team that tell a story inspired by a little girl in a hospital bed, that demonstrates the importance of play and imagination. A little girl,…