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Photo by Nick McKinlay bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company presents, an Australian premiere of BLACK JESUS, by Anders Lustgarten, at the Kings Cross Theatre (KXT), in the Kings Cross Hotel, 29 April – 21 May. BLACK JESUS, introduces to the Australian (Sydney) audience, a political/activist writer, Anders Lustgarten. He lives in Britain and was the inaugural winner of the Harold Pinter Prize. His plays have included amongst others: IF YOU DON’T LET US DREAM, WE WON’T LET YOU SLEEP (2013) – concerned with financial capitalism; LAMPEDUSA (2015) – concerned with the refugee/migrant situation in Europe. BLACK JESUS, written in 2013, is set in…

  Ensemble Theatre presents, BLUE/ORANGE, by Joe Penhall at the Ensemble Theatre, Kirribillli, 24th October to late November. BLUE/ORANGE written by Joe Penhall, was first produced at the Royal Court Theatre, in London, in 2000. The play was the winner of the Evening Standard Best Play Award, the Olivier Award for Best Play 2001 and the Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play 2000. British born with an Australian education, Mr Penhall began his working life as a social worker, then journalist. He now lives in London. His first play was SOME VOICES IN 1994, his recent theatre works were…

Bell Shakespeare present THE WINTER’S TALE by William Shakespeare in the Playhouse at the Sydney Opera House. Shall I simply write the bare and naked facts of my experience in the theatre: it was good, it was bad; I liked it, I hated it, or, should I try to give an analysis of why I felt that way? THE WINTER’S TALE by William Shakespeare was written in the reign of James I, the Jacobean era. With PERICLES (1607-8), CYMBELINE (1609-10) , THE WINTER’S TALE (1610-11) and THE TEMPEST (1611) we enter the period of Shakespeare’s Tragicomic Romances … from PERICLES…