Category: Richard Hilliar

DISTORTED is the latest play from Australian writer, Xavier Coy, whose other plays BURIED and ARE YOU LISTENING NOW? I have seen, both at the OLD 505. Mr Coy’s writing has always intrigued, provoked and excited me. This work is 90 minutes long with no interval and charts ten characters in a journey-arc to depression. Mr Coy is exploring Mental Health. Director Richard Hilliar with Mr Coy and his actors have ‘workshopped’ the original collection of independent people into a text to reveal definite characters with individual narratives, all existing in the same world but not at all connected to each other.…

Photo by Stephen Godfrey Glorious Thing Theatre Co present, THIS IS NOT MILLS AND BOON, by Erica J. Brennan, at The Old 505, Eliza St., Newtown. 22 May – 7 June. Says the writer, Erica J. Brennan; There are still significant challenges in achieving a sense of playfulness towards physical intimacy. The enemy, shame seems to be at the heart of Ms Brennan’s play/protest. Shame, and of course, fear. We begin at a book launch of Nikki Sex’s latest collection of erotica short stories – not pornography – erotica. Present are us and Abby (Emma Chelsey), as the guest of Sol…

The Puzzle Collective and Shakespeare Twentyscore present, SUPERHAL, adapted by John Galea, from Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part One and Two, and Henry V, at the Parade Theatre, NIDA, Kensington. 7 March – 18 March. Says John Galea, the Director and Script Editor, of SUPERHAL: When watching Henry IV, Directed by John Bell, “I could see that there was a fully fledged archetypical origin story, a mythic father/son conflict (the source of Mario Puzo’s Godfather) sitting in between history and legend. … As usual, my head was full of sic-fi, fantasy and Marvel. … I was encouraged by the hugely positive…

bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company in association with Red Line Productions presents THE ISHMAEL CLUB, by Bill Garner and Sue Gore, at the Old Fitz Theatre, Woolloomooloo, 8 July – 18 July. THE ISHMAEL CLUB by Bill Garner and Sue Gore, is an Australian play from Melbourne. The Ishmael Club was a bohemian pledge made by a group of intoxicated young Melbourne artists in the early years of the last century, (there was a mention of Louis Esson, Australian Playwright and Dreamer of an Australian National Theatre, that arrested my attention early in the play). The play was inspired by a 1906…

Photo by Mark Banks Collaborations Theatre Group presents BROTHER DANIEL, by James Balian at the Upstairs Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst. 24 Sept – 27 Sept. 30 Sept – 5 Oct. BROTHER DANIEL is a new Australian play by James Balian. It is set in a prison in a totalitarian state. Brother Daniel was once a charismatic leader of a successful government coup. Now, years have passed, and he finds that his leadership qualities, his presence, his partisanship is required by the establishment he was once part responsible for setting up, as it is by the opposition, consisting of student rebels attempting…