Category: Kellie Mackereth

From the moderator: “There has been a recent explosion in the blogosphere in response to Company B’s 2010 season launch and the lack of women represented as writers and directors… Joanna Erskine – Dear Company B… Sydney Arts Journo – Where are the women? 7-on Playwrights – What is going on here? Laura Scrivano – Female Writers and Directors As a response, here is an excerpt from Kevin’s review of UNDER ICE which was posted a week before the event…”Just a note. This is the second work by Kellie Mackereth I have seen this year. Both have been highly satisfying.…

  Spiky Red Things and the Griffin Independent present UNDER ICE by Falk Richter. Translated by David Tushingham at the SBW Stables Theatre. UNDER ICE was written by Falk Richter (and translated by David Tushingham) in 2004 (and) “is the second play of a four-part play cycle by Falk Richter titled THE SYSTEM: [Electronic City (2002); Seven Seconds/In God We Trust (2003); Hotel Palestine.]. His inspiration for the cycle came in response to Germany’s chancellor Schrooder, justifying his support for the war in Afghanistan by saying, “We are defending our way of living there in this war.” So Richter began…

  Spikey Red Things & Tamarama Rock Surfers present DNA by Dennis Kelly at the Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre. DNA is the third play of Dennis Kelly that we have seen at the Old Fitzroy. (Different Company productions, however.) Debris (2004), and Love and Money (2006) being the others. DNA was first performed in the Cottesloe Auditorium of the National Theatre in February 2008. It was originally written for the National Theatre’s Connections project, which pairs young actors with new writing. Dennis Kelly says “it’s about a group of teenagers who do something very wrong, and then cover it up.”…

In the program notes there is the Bumming With Jane poem by Charles Bukowski and a quote from Doris Day. This play has all the inclinations of the middle class romantic fantastic fawning over the glamorous grunge of Bukowski but with a 9o% feel of the world of Doris Day in its bourgeois sentimentalities (Drunk is romantic. The life of the self disenfranchised is a positive experience especially if you have love to get you through. etc) (Crazy, because even though darling Doris is quoted as saying “The important thing in life is just loving and living.” she always had…