Theatre Times Memoirs one of the best from Neil Simon
Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, the first of what is to be a trilogy of autobiographical plays, has been running on Broadway for three…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1985
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Dance Session
Young people can learn the basics and more of Israeli folk dancing at an afternoon function organised…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Chanukah dance
The Belleli National Dancers will mount a children’s show and disco for Chanukah. It will be performed…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Topical and profound THEATRE
THE HAIFA Municipal Theatre and Yehoshua Sobol have done it again. The Palestinian is a topical play, full of significance; it is also a…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Theatre Times Bathroom Farce Sports Top Cast
In order of appearance, Peter Sumner, Jennifer Hagan, Neil Fitzpatrick, Suzanne Roylance, Kerry McGuire, Bob Hornery and Gwen Plumb…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Theatre Times Belly laughs in changeroom farce
There are plenty of belly laughs at the Ensemble in John Collins’ On The Blind Side, a dressingroom piece inspired by and pretty faithful to the cult of Golden Oldies —…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →MUSIC Concerts close year
Several of the busiest music-providers in Sydney moved into the final stages of their…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Creating a new world out of the depths... "Will you take care of this? C'est toute ma vie." With these words Charlotte Salomon entrusted her life-work to the doctor of Villefranche-sur-Mer. That was in late summer, 1942. She died not long afterwards in Auschwitz. What she gave him were two large, well-wrapped packages which contained more than a thousand paintings in gouache — a story in paint describing her life. Life or Theatre, an exhibit of paintings, with words, by Charlotte Salomon, goes on show at Beit Hatefutsoth, the Diaspora museum in Tel Aviv, on November 26
CHARLOTTE SALOMON was born in Berlin on April 16, 1917, to a well-to-do Jewish family. She was raised by her father, Dr. Albert Salomon,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THEATRE Bringing the war back home The Living Room War, a play by Ron Hoenig, at The New Theatre, 6-10 Page St, Clifton Hill until December 7
New Theatre's latest offering, The Living Room War, looks at the tragic fate of a Viet Nam veteran…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THEATRE Times Variety in new ballet program
The Australian Ballet has made a welcome return to the Opera House with a mixed bag of goodies — three short pieces, then La Sylphide,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Russian concert
A Russian cabaret evening hosted by the NSW Friends of the Hebrew University’s…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →OPERA Concert pertormance ‘second best’
Concert productions of opera are poor substitutes for fully staged performances. As there is, however, not…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Le Sexe faible au Theatre Hebertot
Avec "Le Sexe faible" d'Edouard Bourdet, Jean-Laurent Cochet réussit sans doute sa plus belle réalisation depuis l'installation de sa compagnie…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THEATRE Descartes et Pascal au Petit-Odeon
C'est le 24 septembre 1647 que Pascal rendit visite à Descartes, et eurent un entretien qui dura toute une journée; mais n'en fut pas moins…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Theatre Times Nimrod ‘scandal’
“Facts, Innuendo, Scandal, Truth”. All, the invitation suggested, might be revealed if we’d come and meet our…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Kiddies Concert
Masada, College preschoolers aged between three and five recently presented their annual end…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Dance Period piece marathon
FIVE HOURS of dance, even with a 45-minute break, can legitimately be called a mini-marathon. That is what Omanut L’am sponsored at the Tel…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Stallions dance in tourist show
There’s nothing quite like El Caballo Blanco anywhere else in the world, according to a spokesperson of this tourism complex. El Caballo Blanco…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Theatre Times Glitter and gold at Moriah prep children’s concert
We had vowed moons ago not to include reviews of non-professional productions in our weekly Theatre Times; but at a performance last week by Moriah College…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Noel Coward for Genesian Theatre
The new year for the Genesian Theatre is ushered in with a Noel Coward comedy and a play for children…
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