Category: Johann Walraven

This production of SILENT DISCO, by Lachlan Philpott is a revival. It was first presented in Sydney at the Griffin Theatre in 2011 in a production directed by Lee Lewis. Lachlan Philpott is an Australian playwright that, generally, talks of the community of the underprivileged underclass. In SILENT DISCO, the focus is on the story of Tamara (Gemma Scobie), an intelligent young adolescent handicapped by the surrounding environment of a ‘broken family’, and poverty, coping with a struggling school system, her ill single father, Laurence (Brendan Miles), and the hormones of middle teenage growth exploding in a doomed infatuation with…

Wheels and Co Productions presents the Australian Premiere of BURIED. Two Short plays by Xavier Coy, at The Old 505 Theatre, Eliza St. Newtown. 17 – 27 January. BURIED is the overarching title for the Australian Premiere of two short plays: THE SANDPIPER and SMOKIN’ JOE, by new comer, writer, Xavier Coy. It is an auspicious debut. Both plays have distinct character voices within the context of a very dramatic arc of storytelling that keeps one suspended and enthralled. Says Mr Coy in the program notes: In THE SANDPIPER and SMOKIN’ JOE I am exploring (the idea of) trauma in…

 Photo by Bob Seary New Theatre presents, CONSENSUAL, by Evan Placey, at the New Theatre, King St. Newtown. 14 March – 15 April. CONSENSUAL, is a play by British writer, Evan Placey. Mr Placey has written most of his plays with young audiences in mind. CONSENSUAL was commissioned by the National Youth Theatre Rep Company. It deals with sex and the classroom. It, like the 2006 film with Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, NOTES ON A SCANDAL, deals with a sexual relationship between a student and a teacher. Mr Placey’s award winning plays, he has said: Never shy away from…

  THIS BOY’S IN LOVE, by Adriano Cappeletta, at the Old Fitz Theatre, cnr Cathedral and Dowling St, Woolloomooloo. 26 May -31 May. Adriano Cappeletta has written and plays in a Cabaret monologue called, THIS BOY’S IN LOVE, at the Old Fitz Theatre, as the late night show. In his Writer’s Notes Mr Cappeletta says: … THIS BOY’S IN LOVE is somewhere between my version of a gay rom com and a personal meditation on self-acceptance and letting love in. Mr Cappeletta is an acting graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and of a two year course…