Category: Beth Aubrey

  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…

  Bell Shakespeare presents THE TAMING OF THE SHREW by William Shakespeare at the Playhouse at the Sydney Opera House. “[T]he last scene is altogether disgusting to modern sensibility. No man with any decency of feeling can sit it out in the company of a woman without being extremely ashamed of the lord-of-creation moral implied in the wager and the speech put into the woman’s own mouth. Therefore the play, though still worthy of a complete and efficient representation, would need, even at that, some apology.” – George Bernard Shaw, 1897. My first consciousness of this play is the endearing…