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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1985

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Fetish Busters in the Theatre of Doom

Filmnews · Friday 1 March 1985 · page 5

Meaghan Morris is invigorated but worried by Adrian Martin's and Rolando Caputo's critique of our film critics... It was invigorating to read Adrian Martin and Rolando Caputo on…

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Home Ball Debutantes

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 March 1985 · page 22

Twenty one girls will make their debut at the annual Montefiore Home Ball, in the New Chevron Hotel, on Saturday, March 23. The girls will be…

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Yiddish theatre history traced

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

The history of the Yiddish theatre in New York is traced in a fascinating SBS television…

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Theatre Times Spyworld’s lying debases human spirit

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 March 1985 · page 17

The Marian Street Theatre continues its now long and uninterrupted run of successes with a gripping semi-documentary drama about the…

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Theatre Times Pistol shot at Bard hits the mark

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 March 1985 · page 13

“This,” spake Wife of Dinosaur, as we began the trek from the Manufacturers’ Hall to the Showground gates, “has been a revelation.” “Silly me...” never did…

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Hand-ball

Le Courrier Australien · Sunday 10 March 1985 · page 16

L'équipe de France a été battue par la Finlande 33-24, mercredi 20 février, à Bergen (Norvège) à l'occasion de son deuxième match dans le…

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Home Ball Debutantes

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 March 1985 · page 18

Twenty one girls will make their debut at the annual Montefiore Home Ball, in the New Chevron Hotel, on Saturday, March 23. The girls will be…

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Heartbreak House (A theatre review from a real engineer)

Tharunka · Tuesday 19 March 1985 · page 18

It's a comedy. Not the sort that will make you split your sides and go rolling down the aisle. That wouldn't be proper. As the name suggests, the play is about love and heartbreaks, not necessarily lust…

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theatre CHEAPSIDE Nimrod at the Seymour —$17.90, concessions $12 till April 13

Tharunka · Tuesday 19 March 1985 · page 18

There are two things I can't stand. The first thing is snooty nosed drama critics who get free tickets to a show that is the result of hundreds of hours of artistic and skilled effort and then shoot down the entire…

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South African theatre emerging

Tribune · Wednesday 20 March 1985 · page 9

Poppie Nongena, by South African author Elsa Joubert, is based on the true life story of a Xhosa woman, covering a time span of about 40 years. It is currently…

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Home Ball Debutantes

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 March 1985 · page 38

Twenty one girls will make their debut at the annual Montefiore Home Ball, in the New Chevron Hotel, on Saturday, March 23. The girls will be…

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Theatre Man to Produce Yom Hashoah

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 March 1985 · page 4

Well-known theatrical producer, David Toben, has again been invited to produce this year’s Yom Hashoah assembly next month…

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Theatre Times Stc on a Shaw thing

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 March 1985 · page 36

Praise be! After two years of some brilliant highlights but more than enough theatrical…

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Theatre Times Better Deal

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 March 1985 · page 17

Not only has this already been a bumper year for the followers of Sydney live theatre, with…

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THEATRE Times Germany’s Tevye for Hakoah

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 April 1985 · page 17

Where, would you imagine, was Fiddler On The Roof most successful on a per capita basis? No, not the USA, not…

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Theatre the Social Scene No review of Israeli choir

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 April 1985 · page 21

AJT readers are entitled to know why there is no review of the Sydney Opera House performance by the Jerusalem Great Synagogue Choir…

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Home Ball debutantes

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 April 1985 · page 14

More than 600 people attended the Montefiore Home Ball at the Chevron Hotel last month. The 21…

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Theatre Times Footrot — The Musical a riot of fun

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 April 1985 · page 16

Here we are into April and we haven’t had to sit through a single bad play or even indifferent entertainment, we said to ourselves on the way to the Footbridge Theatre to see Footrot…

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MUSIC iShule choir concert victim of “limitations”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 April 1985 · page 16

In “purely musical terms”, Jewish liturgical music is of no real interest compared to its Catholic or Protest tant equivalents, AJT music critic,…

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Culture Abstacting the Continuity All Out Experimental Theatre

Tharunka · Tuesday 16 April 1985 · page 19

When I first mentioned to a fellow editor (who shall remain nameless) that I was going to do a . story on experimental theatre he retorted in his inimitably simple, sarcastic way: “What, haven't…

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