Tricia Youlden is an actor, teacher and writer. After “majoring” in SUDS, during her undergraduate years at Sydney University 1965-9, she has been performing on stage and screen in Sydney and Perth. She has also designed, lit and/or stage managed various productions. Tricia holds an MA in Performance Studies from Sydney University and taught Drama at Willoughby GHS 1990 – 2017. She has been reviewing films in the NSW Teachers Federation journal ‘Education’ since 1997. She is a member of NSWTF, MEAA and FCCA.
Releasing in time for the school holidays, this latest Aardman claymation centres around the clumsy Farmer’s tentative romance with the local Vet on the eve of Halloween. In the Aardman tradition, the actors use intonation to imply dialogue; directors Steve
While I pondered such anomalies as the eclectic variety of accents with which the members of a small flock of sheep speak, my young grandsons, aged almost 6 and almost 3, happily embraced all aspects of THE SHEEP DETECTIVES.…
When the scholastic achievements of students and schools are being analysed in the press, various socio-economic factors are discussed. What actually counts in the long run? Nature? Nurture? Economic advantage/disadvantage? The quality of teaching and parenting?….the variables are many!
In …
Written and directed by Ivan Calberac, RIVIERA REVENGE is a gently accessible family comedy, an audience favourite at the 2025 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival.
Patriarch Francois Meursault (Andre Dusollier) is a retired General whose gruff, authoritarian nature has clearly …
THE CORRESPONDENT is based on The First Casualty, the book by renowned Australian-Latvian war correspondent Peter Greste, recounting his 436 days of incarceration in Cairo from late 2013 to mid-2015. Impeccably directed by Kriv Stenders, this is a …
One of the highlights of the upcoming 2024 Saxo Scandinavian Film Festival is WHEN THE LIGHT BREAK (Ljosbrot), which opened the Un Certain Regard section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
This deceptively simple film chronicles a day in the …
Women are universally indispensable to society and culture, yet our physical contribution is all too often taken for granted. Pratha Nagpal’s Aurat Raj is a reflection on the integral relationship between women’s work and their culture in south Asian societies.…
The 2024 HSBC German Film Festival opens in Sydney on May 8th The 2024 HSBC German Film Festival opens in cinema with FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE – the latest film from acclaimed director Andreas Dresen.
The screenplay by Laila …
It is 1953 and the 100th performance of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is being celebrated at a lavish after-show party at a swish restaurant. However, all is not well amongst the company. Acclaimed producer John Woolf (Reece Shearsmith) has …
Inspired by Hyllus Maris and Sonia Borg’s seminal TV series, writer Andrea James has called her play Winyanboga Yurrunga –Yorta Yorta for Women of the Sun. As James takes her characters on a journey of renewal, she …