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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1984

162 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 9

Theatre Money or the Box?

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 16 February 1984 · page 12

Festivals come and go, but the New Theatre, Newtown, like the other local venues that form the…

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Theatre Times Apartheid drama refreshing

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 16 February 1984 · page 13

South African playwright, Athol Fugard’s Master Harold... And The Boys, is thoroughly recommended, notwithstanding reservations about the…

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Yiddish theatre group nears aim

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 February 1984 · page 11

The Sydney Yiddish Theatre Group has started on its objective of reviving the community’s once popular love for Yiddishkeit. A recent concert in the…

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Theatre Times Good time for voyeurs and drama buffs

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 February 1984 · page 22

I Can Give You A Good Time, Playbox Theatre Company is a strong, gutsy, often…

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Opera Star’s Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 February 1984 · page 27

Australian Jewish opera star, Margaret Winkler will be featured in a special performance at the Kings…

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Concertgebouw zoekt muziekminnaars' steun

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 24 February 1984 · page 1

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THEATRE Incisive gags in a reworked restoration comedy

Tribune · Wednesday 29 February 1984 · page 13

A Mad World My Masters, a play by Barrie Keefe. Now playing at Sydney's Rocks Players Theatre, cnr Marion and…

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Group's Dinner Dance

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 March 1984 · page 17

Wizo liana recently celebrated its 25th birthday with a dinner dance at the Hakoah…

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Theatre on the Knifes Edge

Tharunka · Tuesday 6 March 1984 · page 30

Ljubisa Ristic and Nada Kokotovic are in Sydney rehearsing for 1984 A.D. which begins on the 13th March, at the Footbridge Theatre, Sydney University. They have found that the “Knifes Edge” in Australian theatre might just not be sharp enough. MARK CAHILL recently spent two bum-sore days in the front…

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Cockroaches in the Enchanted Forest Genesian Theatre 90 Kent Street, “A Midsummernight’s Dream” by William Shakespeare Directed by : Margaret Kieneck

Tharunka · Tuesday 6 March 1984 · page 31

Amateur productions can be very good or very bad. Rarely are they in-between. Looking for the Genesian (suspect) Theatre in Kent Street, one…

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Home Ball ’84

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 March 1984 · page 23

Rehearsals are under way for the 1984 Home Ball, to be held on Saturday, March 17, at the…

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Theatre Times Backstage Tour of Nimrod

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 March 1984 · page 20

Michael Donovan, general manager of the Nimrod, who has turned the books of the theatre from the red into the black, recently showed us the forbidden and…

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"Sour Cream" concerten Beroemde blokfluitist Brueggen in Australie

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 9 March 1984 · page 2

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THEATRE Le Misanthrope de J.L. Cochet

Le Courrier Australien · Saturday 10 March 1984 · page 10

La naissance d'une nouvelle compagnie suscite toujours une certaine curiosité; mais lorsque l'équipe réunit d'un…

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Now dance around all the venues

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 March 1984 · page 16

Dance Australia’s helmsperson, Mania Gonebad, last week announced it would guarantee the $5.5 getout figure for what is shaping as the biggest-ever legit stage production in Oz history, a…

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Theatre Times Aust. content from the Trust

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 March 1984 · page 21

Our eyebrows moved slightly upwards when we received a letter from Vera Emmi of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, tagging herself “Australian Content Department”. Should we have been…

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Theatre Times Hams’ play now no pig in poke

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 March 1984 · page 16

We hear from artistic director Cirrel D. Kline that the Hebrew Amateur Musical Society (HAMS) has at last achieved the illusive goal of continuous production…

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tHEATRe

Tharunka · Tuesday 20 March 1984 · page 27

ADELAIDE DID NOT GIVE A HOT PISS ! KIPPAX THOUGHT IT WAS WOMBAT SHIT !• THE VOLVO SET FLOUNDERED AND FLED ! THE EDS THOUGHT IT WAS BIGGER THAN BEN HUR !…

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EDItorial the thanmka dance troupe!

Tharunka · Tuesday 20 March 1984 · page 2

Having decided that everyone was suffocated during O-YAWN week with information overload, we the eds set about to produce a magazine that would attack the dazed reader. The cover divulges the areas of pleasure and pain…

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Yiddish Theatre show next month

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 March 1984 · page 27

The future of Yiddish Theatre in Sydney could hinge on a concert in the Hakoah Club on April 15. The Sydney Yiddish…

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