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Why Torture is Wrong, and The People Who Love Them

The New Theatre present WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM, by Christiopher Durang at the New Theatre, Newtown, 3rd – 28th June. Luella, a mother, sweet, somewhat befuddled woman says somewhere in the comic chaos of Christopher Durang’s, WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOLPE WHO LOVE THEM: “You know I don’t really know what normal is. That’s one of the reasons I go to the theatre. To learn that.  … Normal. Its such a conundrum for me.” Go to the New Theatre and see if you can find normal. I dare you. Christopher Durang is…

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The Libertine

Sport for Jove Theatre in partnership with Darlinghurst Theatre Company Present THE LIBERTINE by Stephen Jeffreys at the Darlinghurst Theatre. THE LIBERTINE by Stephen Jeffreys at the Darlinghurst Theatre is the BEST night I have had in the theatre, with a play, this year. There could be no greater contrast to the experience at atyp Under the Wharf production, SWEET BIRD ANDSOFORTH which I saw last week, and underlines my observations expressed in my post on A QUIET NIGHT IN RANGOON at the New Theatre at present. In the …RANGOON post I talk about my hard earned view of the…

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