Category: New Theatre

  IPAN and The Spare Room present LUCKY by Ferenc Alexander Zavaros at the New Theatre, Newtown. LUCKY by Ferenc Alexander Zavaros, attempts to tackle issues surrounding one of the pressing issues occupying the Australian government and its citizens today, that of the boat people refugee, and is entirely ‘worthy’ in its intentions. Unfortunately, the production at hand is not very interesting and presents itself as a potential, emerging work in the theatre rather than one that one must see. It is in development and may be best exposed as a workshop – interesting as part of a Fringe festival…

  Cupboard Love in association with The Sydney Fringe, presents COUNTRY MATTERS by Danielle Maas and Jessica Wallace at the New Theatre, Newtown. COUNTRY MATTERS is a fairly audacious effort. Two young women: Danielle Maas and Jessica Wallace have devised, directed, designed, performed and produced an exploration of “their sexual identities … With unflinching honesty and unwavering humour, their tales explore everything from vaginismus and violence, lesbians and Lolita and dating to dildoes. It’s flirtatious feminism for a new millennium…” The questions to ask, when we have lots of full 3D female nudity with interactive audience participation, encapsulated in some…

  subtlenunance in association with The Spare Room presents the world premiere of A QUIET NIGHT IN RANGOON by Katie Pollock at the New Theatre, Newtown,Sydney. PAY ATTENTION, please. A QUIET NIGHT IN RANGOON by Katie Pollock is a new Australian play of some note and heralds for me a playwright I want to see more from, to look forward to more output. The talent scouts of the Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir St. and the Griffin ought to see this play and jump with enthusiasm at this interesting emerging talent and this play. An Australian play with an Australian female…

    NEW THEATRE present the Australian première of CANARY by Jonathan Harvey. CANARY by Jonathan Harvey premièred last year in Liverpool and subsequently at the Hampstead Theatre in London in May 2010. Jonathan Harvey probably came to most people’s attention with his play, turned film, BEAUTIFUL THING. This was followed by other plays and a television series called BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE and cult comedy series called GIMME GIMME GIMME. Coming back to the theatre, Mr Harvey has written an epic decade covering journey of some parts of Gay British history. Beginning in 1961 and spanning time ‘til now, Mr Harvey…

  New Theatre present THE HERBAL BED by Peter Whelan. On a setting (Set and Costume design by Renee Mulder) that has simply stripped back everything to a bare space with an acting area surrounded by tubed lighting strings and then further closed in by a marked out oblong live-playing space with a minimal set of furniture and props, lit (sometimes under lit) with a very attractive design (Joshua Emanuel and Matthew Tunchon) the director, Sarah Giles, has guided a very committed set of actors through a thoroughly engrossing well made tale by British playwright, Peter Whelan. It is aesthetically…