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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1983

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Home Ball Debutantes

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 February 1983 · page 16

Michelle Goldman, the younger daughter of Dr and Mrs Newton Goldman of East Lindfield, is in Year 11 at Killara High School. She…

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Theatre Times Cosy Night at the Opera

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 February 1983 · page 18

Standing in (or rather, sitting) for our colleague B. Canto at the Australian Opera’s Cosi Fan Tutte, with a complete change of principal singers, we were pleasantly amused,…

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Theatre Times Sado-masochist-racism May Be Good Boxoffice

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 February 1983 · page 20

Rob George’s Percy And Rose is a fairly good play, very well and at times quite brilliantly acted and it is a fascinating, dramatised documentary of a large slice of Percy Grainger’s life and his relationship with his mother (Rose, of course)…

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Forum: Tribune and the depression Keynesian band-aids

Tribune · Wednesday 23 February 1983 · page 14

Doug Olive ("Tribune and the Depression", Tribune, 17.11.82) expresses the disappointment I many veteran marxists feel about…

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Theatre Times Pulitzer Play Is Best of ‘Shmaltz’

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 February 1983 · page 27

The Ensemble at Milson’s Point has done it again — an offbeat but thoroughly enjoyable little play, literate, beautifully acted and directed (by new resident…

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Star Structure "If I can't dance to it, it s not my revolution " Emma Goldman

Filmnews · Tuesday 1 March 1983 · page 12

the musical: the idealisation of cinema" Godard Starstruck deserves closer critical attention than it has received so far' It can lay…

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Sydney Jewish Theatre Prisoner opens on

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 March 1983 · page 24

While election night fever will grab Australians on Saturday, there’s a wholesome…

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Youth Scene Cremorne is a ‘mid-town’ dance venue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 March 1983 · page 30

Moves are being made to re-establish a youth group at Cremorne. A bush dance will be held at the Cremorne Synagogue…

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Theatre Times Contemporary hits, a classic and French on the side!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 March 1983 · page 25

Legit theatre in this town is nothing if not diverse and luxuriant. No droughts, even fiscal disasters, seemingly can…

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Concert on radio

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 March 1983 · page 26

Israeli pianist Arie Vardi, who recently visited Australia, recorded a special…

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Seymour Student Theatre Australian Theatre?

Tharunka · Monday 7 March 1983 · page 30

This year’s Seymour Student Theatre (SST) production Forget Thebes, Let’s Dance, is a double bill of two new versions of Sophocle’s…

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On Our Theatre Culture

Tharunka · Monday 7 March 1983 · page 29

The company has always pursued a fairly apolitical line People say you’ve got to be political, but we’re interested in things on another level— we’re interested in plays, not politics…

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Student Theatre Dramsoc Goes Prima Donna

Tharunka · Monday 7 March 1983 · page 30

The Bald Prima Donna by Eugene Ionesco Presented by Dramsoc at Studio One…

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Theatre Times Sjt makes welcome return with entertaining comedy

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 March 1983 · page 25

The Sydney Jewish Theatre, after too long a recess, has made a welcome comeback with a familiar and excellent Neil Simon play, Prisoner of Second Avenue…

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Theatre Times Now ballet steps out into the park

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 March 1983 · page 14

Following the undoubted success of the Australian Opera taking its wares to the public by way of free performances in the park, complete with La Stupenda herself, it comes as little surprise, but nonetheless welcome, that the…

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Theatre Times No Need for Protest Over Prize Play

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 March 1983 · page 15

To our surprise and a measure of dismay, we learned this week that there had been a mild protest from someone purporting to represent a communal organisation (which shall certainly be nameless) over the Ensemble’s…

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Cremorne Dance

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 March 1983 · page 23

Cremorne Synagogue is winning a well-deserved reputation for its dances and “by popular demand” it’s…

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Theatre Times Will the Real Robyn Archer Please Stand Up

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 March 1983 · page 21

Robyn Archer’s A Star Is Torn now at Her Majesty’s Theatre won wide acclaim when first presented in Australia and capped this with smash-hit success in London…

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Chamber concerts

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 March 1983 · page 20

This was a week for chamber music, which is basically music to be made among friends…

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Kensington Children’s Theatre

Tharunka · Monday 21 March 1983 · page 32

KCT is a new group on the campus of the University of N.S.W. It is a Student Theatre Company with a difference, aiming at producing plays…

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