Category: Daniel Keene

Photo by By Brett Boardman Belvoir presents an IF Theatre Production, MOTHER, by Daniel Keene, in the Upstairs Theatre, Belvoir St, Surry Hills. 25 January – 11 February. The Director of this project, Matt Scholten, had found an artistic compatibility with actor, Noni Hazlehurst, while working on THE HERETIC, for the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC), and they, as their friendship developed, decided to work together again. The challenge that the actor wanted was that of a one person show. Together they approached the Melbourne writer, Daniel Keene, and collaboratively they produced MOTHER. This production has been seen around Australia since 2016,…

  Photo by Lisa Tomasetti Sydney Theatre Company and The Australian Defence Force present THE LONG WAY HOME by Daniel Keene at the Sydney Theatre. “July 2011. I am sitting in a small room in a special wing of a private hospital in Melbourne. It’s a psychiatric ward. The nurses tell me when to shower and when to eat and they watch me as I take my medication. In the corridor a bedraggled woman, a fellow patient, tells me casually that she likes to cut herself–I’ve no idea how to respond. I’m told I’ll be here for a week. My overwhelming…

    Melbourne Theatre Company in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival presents LIFE WITHOUT ME by Daniel Keene in the Sumner Theatre, Melbourne. Being a Sydney-ite I have had a relatively limited experience of Daniel Keene’s work. However, the work, that I have seen, has always attracted my attention, and the reputation talked about in the program notes as ‘some sort of poet of the streets’ seems to be a good summary of my appreciation. With, the, generally, marginal characters that people his work, the poetry of his vison, expressed in his texts, is always subtle but beguiling. The…

      The Sydney Theatre Company presents the STC ACTORS COMPANY in THE SERPENT’S TEETH, two plays by Daniel Keene CITIZENS & SOLDIERS at The Drama Theatre at the Sydney Opera House on 24th April 2008.I mention this date so precisely because something rare was happening, for the first time in a long time in the theatre in Sydney I felt that the relevancy of the plays were immediate and concerned my life vitally. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Headline for the day was ‘The going just got tougher. ”It concerned “families on modest incomes” needing to be shielded from…