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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1984

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Noordeinde en Oranje band van vier eeuwen

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 19 October 1984 · page 4

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THEATRE The anguish of those at home in war

Tribune · Wednesday 24 October 1984 · page 10

Waiting for the Parade, a play written by John Murrell and directed by Frank McNamara. Now at Sydney's New Theatre,…

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Theatre Times Funding Policy Leaves Majors with a “Lean and Hungry Look”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 October 1984 · page 21

There were many ironic aspects to the timing of the Theatre Board of the Australia Council’s announcement of subsidies, which, while increased overall, effectively and in “real terms” mean cuts to major legit companies and the Oz Ballet. For one thing, almost…

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Two sharing b'ball lead

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 November 1984 · page 27

Macccabi and Maccabi Old Boys (MOB) continue to head the Sydney City Men’s B-grade basketball…

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Theatre Times Funnier Side of Rugby Union

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 November 1984 · page 20

Greg McGee’s Foreskin’s Lament is a powerful piece of realist theatre, marred though not spoiled by what seems to be an uncontrollable tendency for the playwright to allow one of his…

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Music Abc concerts stick to “tried and true”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 November 1984 · page 20

The ABC management structure may be passing trough a state of dynastic shock at present, but here has been no change to its tried and trusty fornula for selecting the annual batch of visiting and…

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Israel dance man in Sydney

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 November 1984 · page 33

A Tel Aviv dance instructor is in Sydney teaching young dancers Israeli folkloric music…

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Youth Scene Music and dance festival for college

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 November 1984 · page 34

Moriah College has introduced an inter-house music and dance festival. Greater prominence has…

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Bondi Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 November 1984 · page 10

More than 600 people attended a recent concert at the Bondi Beach Pavilion organised by The Jewish House. Newly elected Mayor of Waverley, Alderman Raymond Collins fulfilled the mitzvah of the lulav and the estrog…

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Two Teams in B’ball Semis

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 November 1984 · page 24

Two Jewish teams have qualified for the men’s B-grade basketball semi-finals. Maccabi and Maccabi Old Boys (Mob) made the final…

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Theatre Times STC's blind giant ‘falld down’

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 November 1984 · page 17

The pity about Stephen Sewell’s The Blind Giant Is Dancing (Sydney Theatre Company, Opera House) is not so much that it alternately bored and embarrassed us for some…

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THEATRE Latest Fiddler show a little off key

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 November 1984 · page 15

Memory is a deceptive thing, and in theatrical assessment, can be both a blessing and a curse. It's deceptive because…

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Theatre Times Bard's a “hit” in beach gear

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

Avid followers of Dionysus will rightly surmise that rock musicals are by no means a favorite genre of…

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THEATRE Shell-shock at the Opera House

Tribune · Wednesday 21 November 1984 · page 11

The Blind Giant is Dancing, a play by Stephen Sewell, presented by the Sydney Theatre Company (STC), Sydney Opera…

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Theatre Times “Magnifico” for Effort But B-minus for Its Plot

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 November 1984 · page 17

Contrary to what producers and actors may sometimes think, reviewers go to the theatre with high hopes, great expectations, a ready will to be pleased, an abiding and often self-fulfilling…

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Film a savage adagio dance and jazz-based sleaze

Tribune · Wednesday 28 November 1984 · page 11

Vortex, a film written and directed by Scott B and Beth B. Sydney Opera House Cinema until December 2. Reviewed by…

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Theatre Times Beauty sleep at the ballet

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 November 1984 · page 28

The Australian Ballet’s new production of the great Tchaikovsky-Petipa Sleeping Beauty is wondrous to behold. On the giant stage at the…

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Theatre Times Comic Kiwis at The Stables

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 November 1984 · page 29

The second in the Oz-Duz-NZ company’s series of three trans-Tasman plays at The…

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Theatre Times Dazzling Bee had them standing in the aisles

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

Just two weeks ago, we were saying a critic goes to the theatre hoping he will be moved to stand up and shout for joy. It rarely happens, but on press night at the Q…

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Theatre Times Ballet in Opera House

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 December 1984 · page 17

Two programs of ballet which ought not to be missed are playing the Opera House: The Australian Ballet’s three “French” works (Suite en Blanc, Bhakti and Gaiete Parisienne) in the Opera Theatre, and the Sydney Dance…

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