Theatre Times Controversial play is not as bad as Melbourne thought
In Duty Bound (Marian St Theatre) is that early play by Ron (Einstein) Elisha which raised such a ruckus in the Melbourne community…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1983
175 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 9
Fragments Undertakings Interviews with Erica Addis and Helen Grace, makers of Serious Undertakings. Serious Undertakings will be screening at the Footbridge Theatre with Australian Fragments by Ross Harley on four Sundays in September, 4, 11, 18 and 25 at 5.00 pm. Interview conducted by Anna Grieve. Erica Addis Interviewed
At what point did you become involved in Serious Undertakings? Helen and I have known each other since 1977 and she has always done still photographs and I've always been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Film Review Going Down: a revel in the urban jungle Going Down, a film directed by Haydn Keenan, starring Tracy Mann, David Argue, Verra Plevnik, Moira Maclaine-Cross, Esben Storm and Julie Barry. Photography by Malcolm Richards. Showing at Sydney's Roma Theatre, the Penrith
Going Down is a brilliantly conceived and executed small budget Australian film. It is the story of 24 hours in the lives of four young women living in the inner city. Karlie, Jane, Jackie and Ellen are each confronting an…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Square dance
All the urban cowboys and cowgirls will gather at Dover Heights Bowling Club on August 20 when the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Great expectations tor Song and Dance
To describe the show opening tonight (August 4) at the Theatre Royal as “Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song & Dance” is perhaps a little misleading and…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Theatre Times Bard in the bush, if you like it
Co-directors of the Nimrod’s latest Upstairs offering, John Bell and his wife (also female lead in the production) Anna Volska, chose to set As You Like It in Australia of the 1930s. Their reasons, as…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Triumphant concert for American singing trio
Some 10,000 people attended an open air concert in the Sultan’s Pool at the foot of Mount Zion, Jerusalem, recently by American folksingers Peter, Paul and Mary…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THEATRE Revolution as an act of love
Occupations, a play by Trevor Griffiths, produced by the Actors' Collective, Macquarie Theatre. Playing at Sydney's…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Theatre Times Sponsorship helps save Sydney Dance Company
The embattled Sydney Dance Company has found a major sponsor — good news. The company is one of the creative forces in Oz…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Theatre Times The concept of The Shifting Heart still acceptable today
Richard Beynon was one of a curious number of Australians who about a decade after World War II showed that good plays could not only be written here, but staged to commercial success. “Curious” because they…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Concert in Sydney for young Jewish pianist
Brilliant young Australian Jewish pianist, Geoffrey Tozer, will perform at the Sydney Town Hall on August 27. This concert follows his highly successful 21st…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Occupations Downstairs Theatre Nimrod
Occupations is a play whose title has a very definite double meaning. Firstly, it refers to the real historical events in Turin (Italy) in the 1920’s…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Theatre Times Song & Dance is sheer joy
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song & Dance (Theatre Royal) is one of those too-rare theatrical experiences that not merely entertain but positively exhilarate. We came out on a cloud…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →THEATRE Jewish actress makes ‘debut’ as a director
Down an Alley Filled with Cats, a new play by Warwick Moss which opens at The Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, on August 30, marks the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Polish Theatre
The Warsaw Jewish Theatre will be highlighted on International Journal, Channel 0/28 on Sunday,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Theatre Times New Playwright Scores Hit
Donald Macdonald, better-known as an actor, has scored a smash-hit with his first professionally-performed stage play, the Ensemble’s Caravan, now in its world premiere season at the Opera House Cinema; which by the way makes an excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →THEATRE Plenty of fun in JNF show
The Jewish community got a thorough teasing when talented Geoff Sirmai turned on the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Tempo Doeloe Nederlanders en hun band met Indonesie
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Continued on Trove, page 10 →THEATRE Joan -- a Soldier of God versus the meat tycoon St Joan of the Stockyards, a play by Bertolt Brecht. Now playing at the Seymour Centre's Downstairs Theatre in Sydney. Produced by the Stockyard Cooperative. Directed by Beverly Blankenship
The Stockyard Co-operative's revival of Bertolt Brecht's vision of capitalist America in the 1930s raises many interesting…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Theatre Times For classics only the best will do!
The New Theatre, within walking distance of both Newtown and St Peters stations, lays claim to being one of the oldest surviving theatre groups in Sydney,…
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