Category: Shakira Clanton

Moogahlin Performing Arts presents a World Premiere of THE WEEKEND, by Henrietta Baird, in Bay 20, at Carriageworks, as part of the Sydney Festival. 18-23 January. THE WEEKEND is a monologue/play by Henrietta Baird, first developed at Yellamundie Festival in 2017. It began as a 10 page text and has now developed into a 65 minute monologue. It is performed by Shakira Clanton, Directed immaculately by Liza-Mare Syron, supported by a marvellous and subtle continuous Score by Nick Wales and Rhyan Clapham, in a Set Design by Kevin O’Brien, of a three panelled ‘circus mirror’ of warping exaggeration, surrounded in…

Sydney Theatre Company (STC) and Allens present, THE LONG FORGOTTEN DREAM, by H Lawrence Sumner, in the Drama Theatre, at the Sydney Opera House. July 23 – August 25. THE LONG FORGOTTEN DREAM, is a new Australian play, by H Lawrence Sumner. On the windswept coastline of South Australia’s Coorong region, in a house distant from the local town, a local ‘black’ man, Jeremiah Tucker (Wayne Blair), has isolated himself from community, intensely absorbed in constructing 18th and 19th century European model sailing ships. The coming of old age – perhaps death – has subtly stirred him to the ‘things’…