Category: Sydney Mardi Gras Festival 2013

  Burley presents BEAUTIFUL THING by Jonathan Harvey in the Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre. BEAUTIFUL THING was written by Jonathan Harvey in 1993. He went on to win, the following year, the JOHN WHITING AWARD for that play in 1994. The play has had numerous productions, around the world, for the last 20 years. One can see why this is so, in this devoted production, directed by Brandon Martignago in the Reginald Theatre. This is an affecting telling of the coming of age, and acceptance, by two young gay boys of their sexual difference – one 15, Jamie (Michael Brindley)…

  The Cafe Debris Company in association with Comedy On The Edge presents Brent Thorpe in TOO OLD FOR TV at the LYBRARY (formerly the Shannon Hotel), Abercrombie Street, Chippendale. Brent Thorpe in blue tee shirt, jeans and red sneakers, nicely cut hair and scrubbed face – just as it should be, having survived though his times – stands in front of the microphone stand and begins, a monologue, a look back at some of the main events of his Gay life with a nostalgic recollection of people and gay geographical locations. It is a lesson in Lost Gay Sydney…

Photo by Bob Seary Another Bright Idea Productions present the Australian premiere of David Earle’s POSTNUPTIALS in the Parade Playhouse at the NIDA Theatre complex, Kensington. POSTNUPTIALS by David Earle is in genre a comic farce. It however has a social agenda attached: “The play explores thematic concerns of gay marriage, heterosexual infidelity, and an individual’s quest to challenge parental conditioning, laid down in childhood that at times may inhibit an adult’s own choices in life, and perhaps the meeting of true minds and hearts in search for love” – Director’s notes. David Earle is an American (West Coast) writer. POSTNUPTIALS,…