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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1984

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Concert version of Golem opera

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 September 1984 · page 16

Music from an opera composed in 1982 but not yet performed reached the Opera House Concert Hall last week when the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under David Zinman…

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Rally to save Hobart's State theatre

Tribune · Wednesday 12 September 1984 · page 15

HOBART: The State Cinema here has been granted a reprieve until the end of October. The Australian Film Commission…

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Theatre Times Agnes Of God “must” for theatrical buffs

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 September 1984 · page 19

For many good reasons, Gariy Penny and the Gordon/Frost Organisation’s presentation of Agnes Of God at the Footbridge Theatre (Sydney…

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Some Theatre The Nimrod at the Seymou Centre production of King Lear, directed by Aubrey Mellor

Tharunka · Tuesday 18 September 1984 · page 24

If you were unlucky enough to have to study “Lear” at school, or worse, cop a second helping of it at uni as I did, then this excellent production can serve as a sort of consolation prize. You’ll actually…

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Theatre Times “Strange” Lear by Nimrod

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 September 1984 · page 17

Nimrod’s three-and-a-half-hour production of King Lear, chosen to launch the company in its new venue (Seymour Centre), is really two offerings in one night…

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Israeli Child’s Debut in London Festival concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 September 1984 · page 10

JERUSALEM: A 12-year-old Jerusalem piano student will make her concert-stage debut as guest soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) in the Royal Festival Hall on…

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Sps Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 September 1984 · page 13

The Sydney Philharmonia Society presents an evening of music from Jean-Philippe Rameau on…

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Theatre Times Entertainment Italian Style

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 26 September 1984 · page 16

Leading Italian playwright, Eduardo de Filippo’s well-crafted, homely, humorous and warmhearted domestic comedy, Saturday, Sunday, Monday is good entertainment as performed…

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Home Dance “Big” Band

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 October 1984 · page 21

A big band with a top female vocalist will set the style for the Montefiore Home’s new…

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Times Sports Special Another “ball” in Michael's basket!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 October 1984 · page 24

NSW Maccabi president, Mike Wrublewski, the man who admits never having a spare moment to himself because of sporting and…

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Theatre Times Anne Frank a box-office hit

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 October 1984 · page 16

The press night audience received Peter Williams’ production of The Diary Of Anne Frank warmly; Williams was already talking of extending the Phillip St season; Year 8 Moriah…

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Women From Our Past Pioneer of theatre’s make-believe for children

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 October 1984 · page 19

Theatre for children is now taken for granted and several companies regularly produce plays for children in theatres or schools…

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MUSIC Two new sopranos in concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 October 1984 · page 17

Each of the two most important concerts here last week featured an unfamiliar soprano. One of these,…

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Concertgebouw renovatie Geld stroomt in met benefietmanifestaties

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 5 October 1984 · page 6

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Melbourne Le “Theatre Francais De Melbourne”

Le Courrier Australien · Wednesday 10 October 1984 · page 9

La compagnie du "Théâtre français Melbourne" sous la direction du dvnamique Michael Bula a donné en avant-première jeudi 27 septembre la…

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Theatre Times Harris —Camelot a brilliant gem

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 10 October 1984 · page 14

We went to the Kevin Jacobsen-Pat Condon presentation of Camelot at Her Majesty’s Theatre with a these-days-rare feeling of excitement, for it is a magnificent…

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Theatre

Tharunka · Thursday 18 October 1984 · page 37

Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn. The Northside Theatre Company, Marian Street, Killara. Director: John Krummel…

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Lets Have Catholic Theatre

Tharunka · Thursday 18 October 1984 · page 9

Carissimi Editors, Yet another blow to the modern standards of being openminded was seen in a letter…

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A Captain Cook at Monkeys + Theatre

Tharunka · Thursday 18 October 1984 · page 38

The legacy of punk, the ideas of post-modernism, the emerging consciousness of our so-called “national cultural” identity, the resurgence of the visual arts as a force in the nineteen-eighties — all…

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Theatre Times Marian Street scores with comedy “hit” of the year

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 October 1984 · page 31

Brithish playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s 25th piece, Season’s Greetings, as superbly performed at the Marian Street Theatre, Killara, is by far the funniest entertainment we have seen this year. More, it may well prove to…

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