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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1985

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Dance teacher visit

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 January 1985 · page 3

An Israeli dance teacher will be “imported” from Israel by the NSW Jewish Board…

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Theatre Times Plays past and future

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 January 1985 · page 11

Continuing our ramble through 1984 offerings, in memory (at least) the best from tne big two of legit…

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Sydney Festival theatre program

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 January 1985 · page 9

As part of the 1985 Festival of Sydney the Genesian Theatre will present All About Eve by Mary Orr and Reginald Denham…

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Junior theatre now at Killara

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 January 1985 · page 16

Ballads and Bushy Tales to enchant the three to nine-year-olds is just what you will find presented by the Marian Street Youth Theatre in Killara during…

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Stars of Mount Sinai Concert College gala

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 January 1985 · page 22

The fourth annual Mount Sinai College concert became a tour of the world on Air Sinai. The school choir and…

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Kafka's nightmare; a triumph of dance

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 January 1985 · page 9

How would you feel if you woke one morning and found that you had changed…

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Teale’s Aust. Theatre Opens Sydney Season

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 January 1985 · page 8

The first two shows we’ve been able to see in 1985 have been Australian and good theatre, an auspicious start to what already is shaping up as a crowded and rich year…

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Masada concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 January 1985 · page 14

Masada College Primary celebrated the end of year with a concert last month…

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Theatre Times Master Class — a masterly drama

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 January 1985 · page 13

British writer David Pownall’s Master Class, as produced by the Stage Company of South Australia, directed by Rodney Fisher, acted by Peter Carroll,…

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Theatre Times Searching for a significance

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 January 1985 · page 16

Flush with a Sydney drama critics award for contribution to the art in 1984, the Griffin company last week opened its ’85 season with an entertainment at the Stables titled Slippery…

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Pacific Solidarity Bondi's anti-Waitangi Day concert

Tribune · Wednesday 6 February 1985 · page 2

Maori band Happy Cannibals playing at last Sunday's anti-Waitangi Day gig at the Bondi Pavilion. The crowd of about 1000 people were also entertained by Jungle Gym, Caribbe and the Maorie Concert Party dancers. In New Zealand, the Lange government has decided not to celebrate Waitangi Day with the…

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Theatre Times Sydney’s Annual Orgy of Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 February 1985 · page 16

Our dear friend and theatre critic, Norman Kessell, now retired from the grind of the metropolitan dailies and now writing for Variety, looked tired as we fought the interval heat with orange juice at The Stables…

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Job's a One Person Band

Tribune · Wednesday 13 February 1985 · page 14

BRISBANE: Queensland took another step along the road to a dictatorship last week following the announcement that all…

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Theatre Times Nimrod’s Fantastic “Dream to Surely Please

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 February 1985 · page 17

Brilliant young designer-director Kim Carpenter has, thankfully, given us a truly fantastic Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Seymour Centre…

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BOOKS Political and cultural terrorism Last days of th(sic) world and other texts for theatre. By Chris Barnett. Rigmarole Books 1984 $7.95

Tribune · Wednesday 20 February 1985 · page 11

Last December, a performance in Melbourne of ulrike meinhof sings, one of three "texts for theatre" in…

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Child cantor for choir’s concerts

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 February 1985 · page 33

A performance by the world's youngest cantor is only one of the highlights of next month’s Australian performances of the Jerusalem Great…

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Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 February 1985 · page 29

Entertainers from ail sections of the Jewish community will combine to produce a Purim…

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Theatre Cia plot, or invasion from outer space They Came From Somewhere ' Else! performed by Cliff Hanger. Until March 10 at the Universal Theatre, 13, Victoria St, Fitzroy

Tribune · Wednesday 27 February 1985 · page 11

What to do when you should be reading Praxis, Australian Left Review, or chapter 3 of Das Kapital, but…

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THEATRE Sandinista struggle on stage Sandinista! playing at New Theatre, 542 King St, Newtown. Fri, Sat, 8.15pm, Sun, 5.30pm. Opens later in the year in Melbourne

Tribune · Wednesday 27 February 1985 · page 11

Sandinista! is the best play put on by the New Theatre in some time. Though getting off to a somewhat…

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Theatre Times British comedy a laugh feast

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 February 1985 · page 20

“Rarely,” wife of Dionysus declared at interval, demisting glasses fogged by…

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