Young people flock to dance at Hakoah
Almost 500 Jewish youngsters aged between 20 and 30 recently attended a 60s revival dance at the Hakoah Club. The function was for members of The Terrace…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
Pictures, dances & concerts, 1983
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Theatre Times Cobra strikes a talent vein
Vera Lynn sings over the Tannoy, bombs fall on ravaged London and Lord Alfred Douglas, nigh unto death, coaxes a rat to its dinner of poison as…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →THEATRE The theatre goes to the rail workers
The scene: a large, barn-like enclosure at Chullora Railway Workshops, taken over for one lunch hour by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Theatre Times Great reading of new Virginia Woolf
Though its 1962 debut was greeted ambivalently by critics and public, there can be no doubt that Edward Albee’s Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a great play and anyone who hasn’t seen it ought to. Now’s the chance…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Theatre No End of Blame Scenes of Overcoming
New Theatre's latest production is an interesting think-piece about the role of art which takes…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Supper Dance
The Parramatta Synagogue recently held a successful supper dance in the congregation’s hall…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Last Ball Six in Cricket Win
A six off the last ball of the match by Richie Bowman gave Maccabi a sensational win in the Gordon B-grade competition last weekend…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Theatre Times Fine crop of new students
Summer Rain, a musical commissioned for the National Institute of Dramatic Art as a showpiece and testing ground for 1983 graduating students, is a commendable in-house exercise,, with words by NIDA’s acting department head…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Sporting Times Graeme adds boxing to the dinner and dance!
Graeme Goldberg, the one-time manager of the Hakoah Club and presently proprietor of the classy French Clochemerle Restaurant, is…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Theatre Times Torch Song might be “show of year”
If Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy (Seymour Centre) is not the theatrical experience of the year, then it has certainly succeeded in masking the memory of greater plays and performances. Winner of the 1983 Tony…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →THEATRE Field of Thunder Field of Thunder, an Open Stage Theatre production created and performed by Jo Fleming, Sue Swanston, Marcella O'Hare Tony Cox, Maryanne Doyle, Caroline Marquis and Michael Carrol
Field of Thurider draws upon a variety of styles to make an effective political statement, while remaining…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Theatre Times Another Ron Elisha play for Marian St
Though it drew some adverse comments in the community, Melbourne doctor-playwright Ron Elisha’s In Duty Bound was one of the hits of the year at Killara’s Marian St Theatre and, as predicted in this column at the time,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Masada concert ‘stars’
Sara Hilton, Rachel Alexander and Toby Binskin as Indians in Masada College’s infants and kindergarten school concert at The Kuringgai College of Advanced Education. Masada pupils entertained parents, grandparents and friends at the concert which was addressed by school principal Stan Lifschitz and president Michael Faktor…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Australian tour for top Israel dance co
Israel’s premier modern dance group, the Batsheva Dance Company, will make its first tour of Australia next year. The company will dance…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soccer mums and dads on dance floor
The soccer season may be over for the kids, but Maccabi Junior Soccer Club parents are…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Theatre Times a spirit anything but blithe!
You’d have thought that a sure-fire Noel Coward comedy like Blithe Spirit, with a cast including Stuart Wagstaff, Judi Farr, Gwen Plumb and Judy Nunn…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Theatre Times Translations translates to good play, well acted
Brian Friel’s Translations, about lowly Irish life under British colonialism of the 1830s, must surely be precisely the kind of play for which Hayes Gordon founded the Ensemble. It is in every way a good…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Concertgebouw moet gerenoveerd worden
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Iron Ore Pilbara peace plan: ball is now in bosses' court
PERTH: Moves towards the peace package for the industrially troubled Pilbara iron ore mining area of north-west Western Australia now depend on some commitment to the package from employers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theatre Times Hess jolts the conscience
Though Michael Burrell’s play, Hess, Downstairs at the Nimrod is well crafted and finely acted by its one-man cast (Leslie Wright), its merits and demerits are ideological rather than theatrical…
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