Category: Rupert Reid

Photo by John Marmaras Red Line Productions and Old Fitz present, DEGENERATE ART, by Toby Schmitz, at the Old Fitz Theatre, Cathedral St. Woolloomooloo. 18th October – 4th November. DEGENERATE ART, is a new Australian play, by Toby Schmitz. DEGENERATE ART, is a 100 minute play without interval. An interlocutor, played by Megan O’Connell, introduces us to a group of men, dressed in variations of contemporary schmick black, who have been brooding about the stage as we entered, occupying a Set Design, by Maya Keys, of a wall smear of, mostly, green and black paints (one part of it hung…

Photo by Chris Lundie New Theatre presents, NELL GWYNN, by Jessica Swale, at the New Theatre, King St, Newtown. 8th August – 8th September. NELL GWYNN, is a British play by Jessica Swale. The play won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2016. The play in a very large number of short scenes – it is in two acts and is almost three hours long – brings to life the career of Nell Gwynn (Bishanyia Vincent), a young woman who grew up in Cheapside experiencing the rough side of life with her ‘old Ma Gwynn’ (Susan Jordan) and…

Photo by Andre Vasquez Cross Pollinate and Red Line productions present THE VILLAGE BIKE, by Penelope Skinner, at the Old Fitz Theatre, Cathedral St Woolloomooloo. 7th June – 8th July. THE VILLAGE BIKE is a British play by Penelope Skinner, first seen at the Royal Court Theatre, in 2011. Rachel Chant in her Director’s notes tells us In preparing this play we went down many tunnels of research: the Madonna/Whore complex, objectification, gender roles, pornography, power and sexual liberation. … In this so-called ‘post-feminist’ world, THE VILLAGE BIKE asks us to consider, “what does liberation look like?” Becky (Gabrielle Scawthorn), a…