As CEO of the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre, Carol wrote dozens of role plays to train mediators. Once retired, she wrote short plays,15 of which have been produced in festivals. Her longer plays have been produced by Nautanki Theatre, Subtlenuance Theatre and the Indian Association. She founded Scene Theatre Sydney in 2008.
This soirée-style chamber concert in the Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House was a journey through French and Spanish Impressionism. The three compositions (Ravel, Debussy and Turina) were selected to highlight the harp, flute, viola, violin and viola.
Greeted …
Laura Wade’s POSH is a reasonably accurate fictionalisation of an Oxford University student club called the Riot Club, originally called the Bullingdon Club, founded in 1790. In one scene, the ghost of 17th century Lord Ryott appears in a …
This event featured seven performer groups representing the culture of Inner Mongolia, an autonomous area of China. The first presentation was folk songs by the Nair Band. This included throat singing, ancient string instruments, a guitar and sound box. Throat …
TRIPLE congratulations to the Pymble Players. First, for its four-star performance of Terrence McNally’s irreverent theatre comedy, IT’S ONLY A PLAY. Second, for its successful move into the Zenith Theatre in Chatswood from its former residence in Pymble. …
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SONG OF FIRST DESIRE upstairs at Belvoir Street Theatre. Production photography by Brett Boardman
SONG OF FIRST DESIRE is a fitful play that dips in and out of time frames and between countries. Written by Australia’s Andrew Bovell in …
Casting for stage plays should be sensible, but right now in Australia sense has been diminished by sensitivity policies. An actor inherently appropriates his or her character’s culture. She or he must. That’s the job. But now “cultural appropriation” policy …
FIVE STARS
Remember Wuthering Heights? Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel about two families of the landed gentry on Yorkshire moors? The master of Wuthering Heights adopts an orphan and names him Heathcliff. Oh yes, Heathcliff. Now you remember. The boy is …
This is a good idea that didn’t work.
What a huge effort has been put into creating DONALD’S INFERNO, presented for two nights only in the ‘club’ style Lounge in the Chatwood Concourse.
The story is about Australian journalist and …
AfroAmerican playwright Lynn Nottage’s SWEAT is a Pulitzer prize winning play set between 2000 and 2008 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Reading becomes the microcosm of proud working people in small town America, in decline. Sweat is in the tradition of monumental …
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES is another one of Australian playwright Joanna Murry-Smith’s nearly brilliant dialectical counterpoint plays about a writer running out of creative juices. Poor Margot Mason, author of cult …
