Category: Sydney Independent Theatre Company

Photo by Kathy Luu Red Line Productions in association with Strange Duck Productions and Sydney Independent Theatre Company (SITCO) present, HOWIE THE ROOKIE, by Mark O’Rowe at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomoooloo. 30 September- 25 October. Some of you may remember the tour of the Abbey Theatre at the Drama Theatre, for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC), in 2011, when they presented a play by Mark O’Rowe called, TERMINUS. It consisted of three monologues interwoven, in a performance that was mostly just a spot lit, static stand or sit. People, audiences were in a kind of rapture. HOWIE THE ROOKIE, an…

Photo by Katy Green-Loughrey Brief Candle Productions in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company (SITCO), as part of Sydney Fringe 2014, presents, FOUR DOGS AND A BONE by John Patrick Shanley, at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo. 16 – 27 September. FOUR DOGS AND A BONE is a short four scene satire about the Hollywood movie machine from 1993. It has two ‘mean’ ambitious actresses, one calculatingly ‘ditzy’, the other ‘ageing’, pitched against each other; and two mendacious, stupid and/or greedy production guys, one the money guy, the other the writer guy, all chewing the bone for fame and money. Four…

Mophead Productions and Sydney Independent Theatre Company (SITCO) present THE GOD OF HELL, A play by Sam Shepard at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo. 26 August – 13 September THE GOD OF HELL is a work written by American, Sam Shepard, in 2004. The God of Hell, in Roman mythology is the ruler of the infernal regions, he is called Pluto. Pluto is also a famous Disney character. The irony of the significance of the twin ‘ownership’ appellation is fodder for Mr Shepard’s cri de coeur, in this play. Mr Shepard, along with writer’s such as Lanford Wilson (see BOOK…

Photo by Katy Green Loughrey subtlenuance in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company presents JOAN, AGAIN at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo. 5 – 23 August. JOAN, AGAIN is a new Australian work by Paul Gilchrist. Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412; she convinced the French hierarchy, at the age of 16, to permit her to lead an army against the English invaders; she defeated the English at Orleans; she arranged the crowning of King Charles the Seventh, in the Cathedral at Rheims, heralding (in hindsight) the uniting of the French as a…

  Photo by Katy Green Loughrey Tooth and Sinew in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company (SITCO) presents SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION by Howard Barker at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo, Sydney. Season:13th May – 31st May. SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION is a play from Howard Barker, written, originally, as a Radio Play in 1984, starring Glenda Jackson as Galactia, and was staged in 1990 at the Almeida Theatre, London, with Ms Jackson creating the role again. The play was presented in 2012 at the National Theatre of Great Britain, with Fiona Shaw, and there was a production presented at…

  Photo by Katy Green Loughrey Mad March Hare Theatre Company in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company present A MOMENT ON THE LIPS by Jonathan Gavin at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo. Jonathan Gavin wrote A MOMENT ON THE LIPS some ten years ago. The play concerns seven women from a demographic that is a kind of ‘gay’ chic: a class that sometimes carries the appellation of “Lipstick Lesbians”: Victoria, a struggling artist/painter (Beth Aubrey); Jenny, her sister and a barrister (Sarah Aubrey); Rowena, Jenny’s partner, a social worker finishing her PhD in Women’s Studies (Lucy Goleby); Bridget, Rowena’s…