Over 30 professional theatre productions, as writer, producer or director, including La Mama Melbourne, Holden Street Theatre Adelaide, 707 Theatre Redfern Sydney, Tap Gallery Sydney, Teatrul Municipal Bacovia Bacau Romania, Inculise Bucharest Romania,People’s Theatre Sofia Bulgaria, Old Fitzroy Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, Powerhouse Museum and National Gallery of Canberra. Video programs have been broadcast on ABC, SBS, Foxtel and New Zealand television, and screenings at NSW Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canberra, South Australia Art Gallery, S.H.Erwin Gallery, Holden Theatre Adelaide, Wollongong Art Gallery, Thirroul Excelsior, Project Gallery Wollongong, and other public venues. Commissions by Art Gallery of NSW.
Sponsorships by Peabody Energy, IMB Bank, Lawrence Hargrave Centre, Anzac Commemorative Fund. Lecturer in media and communications at University of Western Sydney, University of Wollongong, Notre Dame University and University of New South Wales. Editor of Southern Semiotic Review journal.
I’ve been a bit slow catching up on movie sound score concert performances, which apparently have covered a swathe of titles including The Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Harry Potter collection. Cineconcerts have specialised in these productions – where …
Adeeb was a refugee from war torn Syria to Lebanon, where he waited in limbo until gaining entry to Australia on humanitarian grounds. He brings a solid background in performance from his upbringing in Syria, and echoes of that …
Elgar’s Violin Concerto was the standout item of this triple bill, performed at the Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House on the 1st March 2025.The Sydney Symphony Orchestra was in fine form throughout the recital, under the baton of Simon …
There is a distinct ethnographic link in The Bridal Lament. Rainbow Chan uses family heritage, and visits to the Wietou people of Hong Kong, in particular older women who went through arranged marriages such as evoked in the performance. This …
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THE CHRONICLES is a new work by Australian choreographer Stephanie Lake. It has a lot to enjoy and commend, but also invites some questions.
Stephanie utilises the ensemble of 12 dancers frequently through numerous short dance segments especially …
Just when one might think Swan Lake has reached its expiry date, along comes a complex reset and refresh. SWAN LAKE ON ICE is an unexpectedly grand and satisfying work. With a cast of twenty two it is performed to …
In The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien created a trilogy of fantasy novels whose struggle between good and evil resonated with the catastrophe of World War Two that occurred a few years before the books were published. The …
ANTIGONE IN THE AMAZON is a superb work of contemporary multiform theatre, using innovative and established forms of layered narration to engage in a bloody grim event in modern Brazilian environmental/indigenous history – the killing of 22 unarmed civilians protesting …
Above : Graham Abbott conducts Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ Handel’s Messiah. Pic Keith Saunders
The French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued the seemingly commonsense idea about the difference between recorded and live musical performance. Live music is never the same one performance …
The Song Company is a well established, internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble that celebrated its 40th anniversary this year. Over that time artistic direction has been by Charles Colman (founder), Roland Peelman and Anthony Pitts, with Jessica O’Donoghue and Amy …
