a dazzling cyrano
French playwright Edmond Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1897) is one of the all time, great works of World Theatre. Prestigious […]
Sydney Theatre Company
kryptonite at the stc
Australian playwright Sue Smith’s new play KRYPTONITE begins back in 1989 in the hallowed halls of Sydney University. Two young,
the wharf review 2014
THE OPEN FOR BUSINESS set had a Monopoly board backdrop and floor with a variety of topical squares to land
the effect
In British playwright Lucy Prebble’s play THE EFFECT two game young people, psychology student Connie (Anna McGahan) and charming drifter
travelling north
David Williamson’s play TRAVELLING NORTH is now 35 years old. Many people will know this piece from the film adaptation
waiting for godot
Sixty years on, the Sydney Theatre Company has put on a revival of ‘Godot’ as one of its showcase production of the year. Andrew Upton helms the production, taking over from Tamas Ascher who had to withdraw for health reasons. Three giants of the Australian theatre take the leading roles, Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh as the two tramps and Philip Quast as the sado-masochistic Pozzo.
whoops! the wharf review 2013
There are very few shows in the theatre year that are ‘sure things’. The Sydney Theatre Company’s annual Wharf Revue show ranks as one of them. Every year, since the show’s inception in the Olympic year, co-creators- Jonathon Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott, put on a terrifically entertaining show.
vere (faith)
The deterioration, decline and ultimate death of a parent is a deeply traumatic process, one that we would never wish to confront, and yet it is an experience that changes the way we evaluate our own lives. It was during such a difficult time that John Doyle decided to write his latest play, VERE (FAITH). Doyle has come up with a stimulating and invigorating play, one that questions our belief systems, mortality and quality of life.
romeo and juliet (stc)
With Kip Williams’s current production of R and J audiences get a bold, brash and powerful reworking of the Bard’s star crossed lovers tale. Everything is big and dramatic and vivid as…one suspect that he was more than a little encouraged by Bazmark’s film to do something similar in a theatrical vein.