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.
Musician and arts advocate Genevieve Lacey continues in her role as curator of the Sydney Opera House’s Utzon Room Music Series of chamber music.
Lacey’s first concert in the series, THE EDGE OF ZEN, featured shakuhachi grandmaster Riley …
The program tells us that ACTING WITH HONOUR is three fun one-act plays, so named because “each play explores the concept of honour”. That sounds oh, so serious! This is a fun-filled evening. The three plays are The Twelve-Pound Look…
The Festival of Sydney has scored a sold-out, five-star performance – the world premiere of Ursula Yovich’s tribute to the high priestess of soul, Nina Simone.
Ursula, star of The Sapphires, Top End Wedding, Barbara and the Camp Dogs…
Emma Donovan is one of Australia’s most respected entertainers. She sings. She composes. She engages the audience by tellings stories of her family. In Take Me to the River she gracefully commands the stage and the band of two guitars, …
Circa’s DUCK POND flew into the Concert Hall for only four days before soaring off for a tour around the country. The event is part of the Sydney Opera House year-round Contemporary Performance . The Program’s curator Ebony Bott says: …
NORWEGIAN TRADITION REIMAGINED is the final 2025 performance of the Sydney Opera House’s curated program of international music. These wonderful once-only afternoon performances were selected by global thinker and renowned recorder player Genevieve Lacey. The 2025 program was a …
WOVEN SONG is a collection of short chamber orchestra and song compositions, each one to celebrate a weaving of an artwork by an Australian and Torres Strait Islander visual artist. The event was to commemorate the 50th anniversary …
This Utzon Room Sunday afternoon concert curated by Genevieve Lacey introduced us to American cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins. She is a delightful young virtuoso, with multiple awards, and razor sharp playing. Annie plays with starry uplifted eyes and a beguiling …
This marvellous concert was performed only once in Australia, September 28. Several musicians were flown in from Iran to join Australian-Iranians in the Utzon Room giving lucky Sydney-siders the opportunity to hear 2000-year-old masterful sounds of the ancient Persian world…
RUINS is the story of an Australian-Lebanese women’s return to her ancestral home in current time. It is also the story of her Australian-Lebanese father’s visit in 1982 when the city was bombed by Israel. Let’s start at the beginning. …