Category: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival

Unofficial Kerith Fan Club in association with MKA I Theatre of New Writing and KXT bAKEHOUSE present BEING DEAD (DON QUIXOTE), creation by Kerith Manderson-Galvin, at the Kings Cross Theatre (KXT), Kings Cross Hotel. 6th – 10th March. BEING DEAD (DON QUIXOTE) is a work created and performed by Kerith Manderson-Galvin. It has been seen at Blue Room (Perth) and the Spiegeltent (Melbourne). It is an evolving work and is “a dangerous quest of literary theft, build-your-own identity and post-anarchy that steals from Cervantes, Barbie and instant p*rn.” On the traverse stage of the KXT, against a pink gauze curtain…

Photo by Bob Seary New Theatre presents FUCKING MEN, by Joe Dipietro, at the New Theatre, King St. Newtown. 6 February – 10 March. FUCKING MEN, written in 2009, by American Joe Dipietro, an award winning Musical Theatre collaborator (I LOVE YOU YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE; MEMPHIS), uses the shape of Arthur Schnizler’s 1897 play, REIGEN, more popularly known under the French title, LA RONDE. The shape is that of 10 interconnecting scenes between pairs of lovers across a strata of social standings. Schnitzler, a Doctor (like Chekhov), living in Vienna, was also a playwright/novelist/short story writer. His repertoire is…

Photo by Photo Bob Seary New Theatre presents, THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, by Douglas Carter Beane, at the New Theatre, King St, Newtown. 7 February – 4 March. THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, by American writer, Douglas Carter Beane, has had a previous outing at the Ensemble Theatre in 2009. The play had been nominated in 2006 for a Tony Award, in New York, and, I, based on the Ensemble production that I saw, could not understand why. It appeared to be one of those New Yorkie glib ‘homosexual’ plays about the cliche shallowness of being ‘gay’ and of the cliched ugly…