Category: Sarah-Jane Kelly

GODS AND LITTLE FISHES, is a beautiful gem of a play that the writers control with unerring sensitivity. It is a play about Grief. Its narrative wrapping/content is the recall of a terrible set of circumstances of 1960 that disturbed the provincial blanket of protection that Sydney wore – perhaps, Australia, as well – when an ordinary, suburban Bondi family won the Sydney 0pera House Lottery of $100,000 – a fantasy dreamt by all of us a big cheer – only to have a stranger call on the telephone a month later with a demand of extortion in exchange for…

  THE CANTERBURY TALES, created by Constantine Costi, James Vaughan, Michael Costi, at the New Theatre, King St Newtown, 15 July – August 1. If, when you see this show’s name – THE CANTERBURY TALES –  and you think of Chaucer (1343-1400): the father of the English language; the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, with Royal Patronage from Edward III, Richard II and even Henry IV, forget it. If you think of the 1968 musical version, too, forget it (anyway I’ve been told, great book, now dated music and lyrics). If you think it is some inspiration based…