Category: Nate Edmondson

  Tamarama Rock Surfers and Fat Boy Dancing present WRECKING by Dan Giovannoni at the Old Fitzroy Theatre. WRECKING by Dan Giovannoni is a new Australian play that deals with two groups of people, from widely different social opportunities, living next to each other in the same approximate spaces – perhaps, somewhere like Sydney’s Wooloomooloo (the play was inspired by a true event). A dentist, Miles (Matt Hopkins) and his civic-minded wife, Alana (Kimberly Hews) are living in a renovated terrace, and nearby are two ‘floating’ lost souls living on the streets, Ned (Paul Blenheim) and Lexie (Amanda McGregor), who…

  atyp Under the Wharf and The Night Whisperer present, THE HIDING PLACE by Kendall Feaver at the atyp Theatre Wharf 4, Hickson Rd. Isn’t it a wonderful thing, and an awful human trait, that, sometimes, when expectations are not so enthusiastic (even low), and still one makes room in one’s life for supporting an endeavour, one encounters an experience that is highly, surprisingly, stimulating? One feels so rewarded from that low base of expectation that the tidal flow of pleasure is immense. Or, appears so. The adrenalin rush is so warming. The disinclined effort is rewarded. I am so…

Photo by Wendy McDougal O’Punsky’s Theatre presents THE SEAFARER by Conor McPherson at the Darlinghurst Theatre. Conor McPherson is an Irish writer who is regarded as “…quite possibly the finest of his generation” (Ben Brantley- New York Times). The Sydney season, this year, has also given us Enda Walsh and his exceptional THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM, and, what with Mark O’Rowe and his TERMINUS last year, and, further back still, Martin McDonagh, pulsing vividly in our memory in regular Sydney theatre outings, one begins to wonder just why does this country, Ireland, throw up such impressive writers for the theatre…

Photo by Leila Kaawi Hobo Collective in association with Tamarama Rock Surfers presents THE HIGHWAY CROSSING by Jaan Tätte, translated by Hendrick Elstein, at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre. Two romantically committed young people, Roland (Hendrik Elstein) and Laura (Aimee Horne) hitch-hiking to a birthday celebration are stranded at a highway crossing, and as night and the cold settles in, look for refuge, down the track, at a house where they encounter Oswald (Iain Sinclair), a man used to being alone, who in the course of this night changes their lives. Oswald offers the young man “one billion dollars” for him to…

  Darlinghurst Theatre Company presents THE PARIS LETTER by Jon Robin Baitz. THE PARIS LETTER, an American play written in 2004 by Jon Robin Baitz, is essentially about two men who meet, fatefully, in the 1960’s. As young men they meet in the artistic thrall of a bohemian New York lifestyle. They have a sexually-charged, four month long affair. Both, are intensely stirred. One, Anton, subsequently, moves successfully through a relatively happy life of self acceptance, working in the lower ends of artistic endeavour, culminating in a restaurant of exquisite reputation but carrying a torch for the unrequited love affair…

  Griffin Theatre Company presents The World Première of THIS YEAR’S ASHES by Jane Bodie at the SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, Sydney. In the program notes Jane Bodie, the writer of this play, tells us: “It’s important to say that I have always wanted to write a romantic comedy, however I never imagined myself writing a play about cricket.” In looking for the formula to write a romantic comedy, Ms Bodie had one rule from ‘millions’ stick in her head. … ‘Always remember romantic means sexy and comedy means funny’. I then thought about the fact that I am…