Category: Sydney Theatre

  Sydney Theatre presents Australian Dance Theatre in BE YOUR SELF at the Sydney Theatre. BE YOUR SELF from the Australian Dance Theatre (ADT, based in Adelaide), Conceived and Directed by Gary Stewart and Co-Choreographed by Mr Stewart and the ADT dancers, was presented at the Sydney Theatre for a very short showing of only 5 performances. The last time this company presented work in Sydney was 2007! Five years ago!! That, this is the most consistently exciting and innovative THEATRE company in Australia, creating original work (a kind of playwrighting), for, let’s not just categorise them as JUST a…

  Sydney Theatre presents 20 GOLDEN GREATS with Bob Downe at the Sydney Theatre. 20 GOLDEN GREATS with Bob Downe is great. The twenty golden greats are songs from the past, the ’80’s. Bob Downe is Australia’s clown Prince of Polyester. He has been for 25 years. 25 YEARS. Who knew? It seems a huge cross section of the Australian public, based on my observation of the crowd I was in, last Saturday matinee, knew. That’s who. For whatever reasons, and I won’t begin to go into them, I didn’t know. Oh My God! such a wasted life I have…

  Sydney Dance Company presents 2 ONE ANOTHER at the Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay. 2 ONE ANOTHER is a new work, choreographed by Rafael Bonachela, for the Sydney Dance Company. This work has all the hallmarks of Mr Bonachela’s first major work for this company, 360 Degrees, which was presented in the massive space at Carriageworks. The major difference is the visual scale. 2 ONE ANOTHER is pitched in a more intimate, human scale. The subject explored is that of relationships. The exploration is that of the solo, duo, trio, quartet and so on to the ensemble. In the…

  Sydney Festival in association with Sydney Theatre presents ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE by Cheek by Jowl, from the play by John Ford at the Sydney Theatre. ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE by John Ford is calculated to have been written somewhere between 1629-1633. It was published, definitely, we know, in 1633. It was written in the Kingship of Charles I, a period of English history, sat between the glories of Elizabeth I and the Revolution led by Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. The arrival on the English throne by the Scottish, Stuart heir, James I, (1603-25) marks a…

Sydney Festival 2012 in association with Sydney Theatre presents BABEL (words) – Sidi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet and Anthony Gormley. Sidi Cherkaoui has been a recent visitor, twice, to our theatres. I first saw him in an astounding duet with Akram Khan in a piece called ZERO DEGREES (also featuring an Anthony Gormley design) and later in the Concert Hall showing a work called SUTRA a project in collaboration with Anthony Gormley, Syzmon Brzoska and monks from the Shaolin Temple in China. This work BABEL was co-commissioned by the Dash Arts 2010 programme on Arabic Arts. Eastman vzw is company in…

    Sydney Theatre Company in association with Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland present LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O’Neill at the Sydney Theatre. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O’Neill is claimed, by some, to be the great American play, and certainly from my engagement with this play many times in the theatre and in the cinematic form with Katherine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson (reduced as it is), the affect has always inclined me to think so. This long naturalistic work winding through one day into the night with this Irish-American family, the Tyrone’s, in late summer,…