Berlin-born Sydney-based Martin del Amo explores the notion of the unknown with both text and movement in his new work ‘Never Been This Far Away From Home.’
This new production of Patrick White’s‘charade of suburbia’The Season At Sarsaparilla, is all one could have hoped it could be: a triumph for
director Benedict Andrews and for the STC’s Actors’ Company.
“How do you want your eggs in the morning; scrambled or fertilized?” For those of us who have never experienced the weird and, well… weird world of Speed Dating, this play confirms our worst fears: Olivia
Ansell’s hilarious short play seems more like a cautionary tale than an endorsement.
The Jewish mother has somewhat become a stereotype in entertainment. The portrayal of the overbearing matriarch, who steadfastly drills in to her offspring the crucial importance of retaining the Jewish tradition, has been widely represented in literature, film and theatre.
Short & Sweet offers a good opportunity for theatre dramatists to have their work seen by the general public, to be validated as artists, to practice and grow in their craft.
Swan Lake is a bold, dynamic and clever interpretation. Bourne throws in elements of jazz, modern dance, Latin (including an energetic paso doble set to Tchaikovsky’s Spanish Dance) as well as ballroom and folk.
In the care of Pinchgut Opera’s director, Erin Helyard, this music, formulaic as it indeed is in some respects, sprang off the page into an experience rich in emotions.
Blind faith and rational belief are always sparring partners in dramatic conflict and so it is here with the power play tinged with superstition and salaciousness.
Contradiction, conundrum, conflict, racism, misogyny and homophobia run through this play like a main circuit cable snaking through a moral minefield of explosive allegation.