Category: Danielle O’Keefe

  Australian Theatre for Young People presents “cursed hearts” inspired by ROMEO AND JULIET of Shakespeare, Gounod and Prokofiev at the atyp theatre space at the Wharf. Danielle O’Keefe, the director, has attempted to investigate with a young troupe of 21 actors, the thematics of Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET, specifically, the forbidden love between warring parties, families. Of the 15 women and 6 men, from my reading of the ensemble biographies in the program, most appear to be still at school. “The aim was to tell the well-known story of ROMEO and JULIET in a new way through the layering…

Blancmange Productions and Slide Cabaret present ALICE AND ALAN’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. A New Australian Musical at Slide, Oxford Street, Sydney. ALICE AND ALAN’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND presented at Slide Cabaret venue is “a new 3 act Australian musical, fantastic erotic comedy, served up with a superb 3 course degustation dinner.” Slide, is a very beautifully appointed venue. The food served with this musical entertainment was good and the staff could not be more helpful and pleasant to make this theatre-restaurant type experience easy and pleasurable. ALICE AND ALAN’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND is unfortunately not very good. The writing (Book…