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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1983

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Theatre Times Australian ballet at its very best

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 April 1983 · page 33

The Australian Ballet’s program of three works, Le Conservatoire, The Display and Beyond Twelve is a quite excellent and satisfying night at the…

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Theatre Times Mysteries of Veronica’s Room

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 May 1983 · page 15

Ira Levin’s “astonishing thriller”, Veronica’s Room, destined to be the last…

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Yiddish theatre helped actress with one-acters

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 May 1983 · page 16

Tennessee Williams was a playwright of the American south, etching its disillusioned present against the background of its splendid past…

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Yom Ha’atzmaut in Israel, London Rain mars Jerusalem celebration; British Jewry’s concert a hit

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 May 1983 · page 9

JERUSALEM: The first rain to fall on Independence Day in 21 years set a damper on the normal sparkle of Yom Ha’atzmaut festivities…

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A Mackerel in the dining room Mackerel, a play by Israel Horovitz. Playing at Sydney's New Theatre (see What's On for details). Directed by Fred Simms

Tribune · Wednesday 11 May 1983 · page 12

The basic premise of Mackerel is allright - a middle class US family struggling with the father's vision of becoming a…

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Theatre Times Max Gillies in ‘even-hand’ hit

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 May 1983 · page 17

A far cry from our first two experiences in “dinner” and a show at Kinselas theatre restaurant, A Night Of Reconciliation with Max Gillies and…

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In Aussie B’ball World Games Team

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 May 1983 · page 36

Top Jewish basketballer, Richard Potok, has been selected in the Australian team to compete at the…

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Theatre Times Ballet is better than ever

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 May 1983 · page 27

Sitting out front, we are not necessarily to know who deserves the credit and who the blame in any particular performance; but we suspect M'aina Gielgud has now been with the Australian Ballet long enough to account for the high artistic standard of the current triple bill — Suite Saint-Saens, Pillar Of Fire and…

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The Fantastiks Nide Theatre

Tharunka · Monday 23 May 1983 · page 32

The Fantastiks is a two ac t light hearted musical being presented later this month by Dramsoc. The play’s history is long and successful. It opened off-Broadway in 1960, and became the longest…

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West Side Story Her Majesty’s Theatre Writer: Arthur Laurents Director: Dobbs Franks

Tharunka · Monday 23 May 1983 · page 31

Back in 1957 the first American production of Bernstein and Sondheim’s West Side Story opened at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre. In 26 years, the timelessness of this classic musical tragedy livs on in…

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Concert for Disabled

Tharunka · Monday 23 May 1983 · page 31

On May 7th, at the Club Theatre, Maroubra an Inaugeral Variety Concert was held by the Randwick Disabled Action Committee. The producer, Irina Spinadel (a student at…

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Joe Jackson Concert

Tharunka · Monday 23 May 1983 · page 25

When I heard Joe Jackson was to play the Hordern I literally went green with envy and anticipation. I thought it would be the greatest…

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Police harass pro-marijuana dance

Tribune · Wednesday 25 May 1983 · page 15

ADELAIDE: A dance held here on Friday, May 13 (Black Friday to some) by the National Organisation for the Reform of…

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MUSIC Excitement from London orchestra

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 May 1983 · page 17

Inevitably, this was the week of the London Symphony Orchestra…

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Theatre Times Nimrod has a winner in its double program

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 May 1983 · page 16

Strindberg and Chekhov on the same bill sounds heavy going; but be assured that when the plays are Miss Julie and The Bear and the principal actors Judy Davis and Colin Friels directed by Aubrey Mellor, the result, Downstairs at the…

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Cover pictures tell the story

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 June 1983 · page 2

Our front-page montage [?] photographs typifies the wide range [?] Australian Jewish Welfare Society services and activities…

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Theatre Times a new side to West Side

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 June 1983 · page 19

West Side Story has not so much been revived as given an entirely new life at Her Majesty’s Theatre. The super Leonard…

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David Bowie Let's Dance

Tharunka · Tuesday 7 June 1983 · page 23

The cover of this album shows David Bowie shoping up for a boxing match, awash in the orange translucent glow of neon city-lights…

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Kensington Childrens Theatre

Tharunka · Tuesday 7 June 1983 · page 28

The two weeks of school holidays in May are children's theatre time in Sydney. A glance at the "Holiday Attractions" pages of Sydney…

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In Search of Student Theatre

Tharunka · Tuesday 7 June 1983 · page 28

In spite of many hurs spent reading, writing and talking, students rarely have the opportunity to express their own ideas. They are forever…

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