Category: Mary-Anne Halpin

Photo by Bob Seary New Theatre presents THE CLEAN HOUSE by Sarah Ruhl, at the New Theatre, King St, Newtown. 6 June – 8 July. Sarah Ruhl is an American writer and Sydney has seen IN THE NEXT ROOM OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY (2009) and her adaption of Virginia Woolf’s ORLANDO (2003), both for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC). THE CLEAN ROOM introduces us to a household belonging to a married couple Lane (Mary-Anne Halpin) and Charles (James Bean), both successful doctors. In the house is a Brazilian house cleaner, Matilde (Keila Terencio) who, in a depressive state, no longer can clean.…

  Boyslikeme present NEXT FALL, by Geoffrey Nauffts, in the Reginald Theatre, at the Seymour Centre, Chippendale, 26th October to 19th November. NEXT FALL, by Geoffrey Nauffts, is a play with gay themes concerning an Odd Couple: a closeted Christian man, Luke (Alex Ewan) living in partnership with an atheist, Adam (Darrin Redgate) and all the conundrums socially, politically, emotionally that that ‘arrangement’ might throw up. Especially, when Luke in a coma in hospital after an accident, results in his ‘blood’ family and his ‘tribal’ family to meeting up for the first time. I saw NEXT FALL in production on…