Monday, September 28, 2015
German actor Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) was an emotionally unstable, self-proclaimed sex addict. His autobiography recounted, in gleeful detail, his appallingly destructive obsessions. Two law…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:33AMFriday, September 25, 2015
Slut is a short and snappy Fringe Festival contribution, directed by Natarsha Wrensted who has melded a great ensemble from the performers. Patricia Cornelius’ 2008 script presents multipl…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:39AMMonday, July 27, 2015
This inspired program is something very special. It brings together the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, French soprano Claire Lefilliâtre, and seven members of Circa, a Brisbane-based ci…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:43PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Really, there’s not a lot I can say about this play. Not because I can’t think of anything to say, but because the audience is specifically asked not to spoil the experience for those w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:59AMMonday, July 6, 2015
There’s no doubt that audiences are challenged by double-crosses and deceit of the story told in Vivaldi’s opera Bajazet. But this Pinchgut Opera presentation makes it worthwhile. All el…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:01PMSunday, July 5, 2015
It seems at first like an improbable idea, combining circus with the courtly music of the Baroque era. Sure, circuses have music … but it’s not usually elegant Baroque music played on pe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:46PMSunday, June 21, 2015
Like Me, a Mongrel Mouth production directed by Duncan Maurice, is strange. Grotesque. Unnerving. Disorienting. Confronting. And it’s all around me. The action plays out in eig…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:15PMSaturday, June 20, 2015
“A community in crisis leads to doubt,” the dinosaurs sing. And—they tell us—doubt leads to chaos. As the singing, dancing Triassic Parq community unravels, the dinosaurs’ doubts p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:55PMFriday, June 19, 2015
We can be fairly sure that Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi wasn’t completely happy with his opera Bajazet in the weeks before the première at Verona in 1735. We know this because Er…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:51PMSunday, June 14, 2015
“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” This statement—the final words spoken by Anne Frank in this play—have particular resonance. The young girl appea…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:47PMMonday, June 8, 2015
“Clifford North” is a name that suggests beige suburbia. But that ordinary name belongs to a splendidly over-the-top glam-rock love god, imaginary friend to the unhappy woman in B-Girl. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:13AMJay James-Moody really loves dinosaurs. He loves them so much that he and new spouse Jessica’s honeymoon included Hawaiian locations where Jurassic Park was shot. “My wife Jessica even i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:05AMThursday, June 4, 2015
Venus in Fur is a complex and dense work. The Darlinghurst Theatre Company superbly meets the challenges of David Ives’ script, with a production that is sexy, provocative, sometimes puzzl…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:29AMMonday, June 1, 2015
In Like Me, Mongrel Mouth’s new immersive theatre production, a treatment centre has fallen into the hands of former patients. If that’s not topsy-turvy enough, the production further s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:18PMThursday, May 28, 2015
Glorious Mud!, a tribute to the 50’s British satirists Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, has proved so popular that an extra show has been scheduled. Starring television personality Andr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:02PMSunday, May 24, 2015
Marney McQueen loves doing character cabaret. But none of McQueen’s characters have ever sashayed off the stage and into real life in the manner of celebrity beautician Rosa Waxoffski. Ros…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:39PM“Of course, in the very beginning nobody believed that we could do it,” says Michael Flatley. “We’re 20 years long in the tooth now, and the show is, I would say, more powerful today…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:33PMSunday, May 17, 2015
“I’m absolutely, irrepressibly optimistic about this season,” says Melvyn Morrow. Morrow has contributed his writing skills to a wide range of media (television, radio, stage) and a wi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:09PMSaturday, May 16, 2015
Sex. Death. Memory. Loss. Greed. Oh, and women’s Olympic boxing. The 2015 Freshworks season at the Old 505 Theatre in Surry Hills taps into the profound concerns that have driven theatre…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:47PMFriday, May 8, 2015
When Nelson Gardner is pushed to describe Ned: A New Australian Musical, in which he plays Ned Kelly, he comes up with an interesting description. “I don’t really want to compare it to a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:33AMThursday, May 7, 2015
Thomas Burt describes his younger self as “incredibly awkward and socially anxious.” So how did he end up in the lead role of William in Punk Rock, a play about teenage bullying and vio…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:13PMMonday, May 4, 2015
Luke Alleva certainly has stamina. On Saturday night, May 2, he finished his lead role in the high-energy Hot Shoe Shuffle at the Bryan Brown Theatre. There was apparently an after-party int…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:29AMFriday, May 1, 2015
Raghav Handa shines both as choreographer and performer in Tukre’, an extraordinary solo work. As the piece unfolds, he explores, questions and embraces multiple layers of his identi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:49PMThursday, April 30, 2015
“I want to make work that anybody can understand and connect with,” says Shona McCullagh, chief executive and artistic director of the New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC). Case in point: Ro…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:32PMSunday, April 26, 2015
“I just know things are going to work out!” says April, the newly discovered sister of the seven Tap Brothers. And of course it does—but not without hard work, practice, and sweat. Hot…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:59PMFriday, April 17, 2015
Since Luke Alleva started out in Western Sydney, he has appeared in film and television productions, as well as dancing, singing and acting his way across the world to London’s West End. H…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:46AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
“A brave act in itself.” That’s how television veteran Daryl Somers described the birth of Birdie Productions, a new Bankstown-based independent theatre company launched by Executive …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:02PMSunday, April 5, 2015
The Man They Call the Banjo, a musical play about the writing of Waltzing Matilda, will première as a full-fledged production on April 17 and 18 at Mt Rothwell in Victoria. The play’s pre…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:58PMMonday, March 30, 2015
The One Day of the Year is actually about much more than ANZAC Day, the “one day of the year”. It uses the annual commemoration of the nation’s “defining moment” as an occasion to …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:23PMSunday, March 15, 2015
“It’s just amazing how war haunts Australia,” says Denis Moore, award-winning director of HIT Productions The One Day of the Year, opening Tuesday March 24 2015 at the Parramatta River…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:13PM“I am the family doctor, you know.” These words have never sounded as sinister as when delivered by a lip-synching actor in Live Live Cinema. Which actor was it? I think can’t say fo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:35AM 
