Category: Chris Aronsten

  Siren Theatre Co in partnership with The Darlinghurst Theatre Company presents THE LUNCH HOUR by Chris Aronsten at the Darlinghurst Theatre. THE LUNCH HOUR by Chris Aronsten is a wildly ambitious play. It begins as pell mell farce with characters, initially perceived as possible satiric types that move into the second act of the work to a dark psychological critique of a most challenging kind, to finally launch into one of the bleakest music theatre climaxes that I have seen since the last production of Stephen Sondheim’s ASSASSINS. Six struggling artists who in the languors of their careers work…

Photo by Steven Siewert 40 Watt Pearl in association with Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre company presents MALICE TOWARDS NONE at the Old Fitzroy Theatre. Chris Aronsten is the Writer, Director, Producer and Composer of this presentation: MALICE TOWARDS NONE. It is an 80 minute omnibus of three monologues: “What would Cathy do?”; “My name is Pete”; and “Janet wants a carrot”. Mr Aronsten is a graduate of AFTRS (BA, Screenwriting) and the NIDA playwriting studio. Two of the pieces deal with subjects from the “underclasses’, or, in Gorky terms : the lower depths, and the other, with a representative of…