Category: Mark Thompson

Photo by Marnya Rothe Sport For Jove Theatre Co and Seymour Centre present, MOBY DICK, adapted by Orson Welles, from the novel by Herman Melville, in the Reginald Theatre, City Rd Chippendale. 9th August – 24th August. MOBY DICK, adapted by Orson Welles, from the novel by Herman Melville. When this project was announced, I was surprised and couldn’t help wondering why would you do it? Orson Welles filmed himself performing scenes from the novel in a one man version; he presented for the stage, MOBY DICK – A REHEARSAL, in 1955; and prepared a film version that was left…

Strange Duck productions and Liberman Partnership present FREUD’S LAST SESSION by Mark St Germain at The Theatre Royal, King St, Sydney. FREUD’S LAST SESSION is a long one act play for two characters, by Mark St Germain. Mr St Germain has developed a catalogue of plays creating historical fiction. This one concerns a fictional meeting between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis in Freud’s London study in 1939, on the evening that World War II was being declared. Mr St Germain took his inspiration from a book: “The Question of God” by Dr Armand M. Nicholi Jnr. A confirmed atheist confronting…