Category: Oren Ambarchi

Sydney Theatre Company and Colonial First State Global Asset Management present THE MAIDS by Jean Genet, in a New English Language Translation by Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton at the Sydney Theatre. I attended a performance of THE MAIDS ( LES BONNES -1946) by Jean Genet, last Saturday, matinee (6th July), late into the season, and watched three of the best performances by actors I have ever seen. A sublime ensemble. A big, big call, Kevin. Consider, what you are saying. I have. I am. Thus …… At the first curtain call, I actually lifted my hands in the air…

  Belvoir presents EVERY BREATH by Benedict Andrews in the Upstairs Theatre, Belvoir Theatre, Surry Hills. Dear Diary, EVERY BREATH: To summarise. I admired the actors and creative crew very much. I thought the play was poor. I thought it was hardly a second draft. I am stupefied that it is on the Belvoir stage at this stage of its development. I cannot admire the director’s efforts on and about this work. I am very, very upset for all those first play writers who don’t even get read let alone staged. Can I suggest to the Belvoir Artistic Team that…

Sydney Theatre & Chunky Move present CONNECTED at the Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay. Gideon Obarzanek, Director and Choreographer of CONNECTED, has collaborated with American artist, Reuben Margolin, in developing a large scale undulating installation/sculpture which could interact with dancers. “In previous works such as GLOW and MORTAL ENGINE it has been through the video graphics generated by the movements of the dancers and then projected back onto and around their bodies. Here in CONNECTED this relationship continues, but with early mechanical technology – intricately linked simple materials such as string, paper and wood literally connected to the dancers by…