THEATRE History's waiting room
There is little. room for optimism in the All Out Ensemble's new production The Age of the Innocents…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1985
200 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 10
Theatre Times Q right on cue!
We’ve often plugged the Q Theatre, Penrith, as good value, artistically and fiscally, and on the…
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JERUSALEM: The Interior Ministry has revoked the citizenship of John Lee Irving, an Imported member of the Betar Tel Aviv basketball team:…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →THEATRE Infatuation in the office Just Talk (Apart from the Songs), playing at the New Theatre, 542 King st, Newtown (Sydney), Fridays & Saturdays
New Theatre has been brave in putting on Just Talk (Apart from the Songs). It's about a situation commonplace, but seldom addressed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THEATRE The politics of the autonomia Whore in a Madhouse --five short plays by Dario Fo and Franca Rame at Sydney's Belvoir Street theatre until May 19
An interesting sidelight to the history of Sydney's Nimrod Theatre is that each time it has moved a vital…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Theatre Times Opera House feast of ballet
Precisely as Pesach ended, the Australian Ballet raised the curtain on its second 1985 Sydney Opera House program; an eminently palatable pastiche of three Australian premiere…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Theatre Times How the other half lives
Readers of Dionysus are by and large affluent, literate, positive and constructive in their…
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The Juliette [?]an lights strobe my fingers my hand over the desk over the dance dance floor poem disco…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Theatre Times Standing ovation for doll trilogy
It had been a long haul, from 1pm to nearly 11, but obviously, for most guests and patrons, the opening day-night of Ray Lawler’s The Doll Trilogy, generously and handsomely…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →THEATRE Le Misanthrope de Michel Aumont
L'Homme aux rubans verts a un nouveau visage: c'est Michel Aumont qui l'incarne dans la nouvelle mise scène de Jean-Pierre Vincent à…
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All North Shore Jewish youth aged between 13-17 years has the chance to kick up its heels at a dance…
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More than 100 people attended the recent barn dance at the Parramatta Synagogue…
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A PLAY by an Israeli about the fate of a Jewish ghetto in World War II has stirred controversy in Vienna by using song and dance to help tell the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Arts Dzigan’s ghost THEATRE
SHIMON DZIGAN was the last Yiddish comedian. With a face like a disappointed camel, a voice like a bassoon, rich, deep in the nose and…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Theatre Times Marian Street on side with updated Sondheim
Theatre managements should, if they don’t already, make a point of inviting Tony Sheldon to every opening night. The dazzling star of Torch Song Triology (inter…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Concert Tour for Abc Music — the passport to freedom for Soviet Jew
Oxana Yablonskaya, now an American citizen, does not look back with pleasure on her life in the Soviet Union. A pianist, on a six-week concert tour of Australia,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →THEATRE Williamson falls sadly short of the mark Sons of Cain. A play by David Williamson. The Melbourne Theatre Company at the Theatre Royal, Sydney
Sons of Cain is the story of a crusading, investigative reporter, Kevin Cassidy (Max Cullen) who is appointed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Theatre Times The Heretic is timely reminder
Whether by good judgment or happy coincidence, distinguished Australian novelist Morris West’s The Heretic opened at the Opera House Playhouse in the week of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Theatre Times The Bloke is bonza ballet
Let the ballet aficionados who tend to take the medium and themselves too seriously say what they will about Robert Ray’s The Sentimental Bloke, commissioned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THEATRE Young writers at Troupe
Adelaide's Troupe Theatre is presenting a Young Playwrights Season consisting of six plays by young South Australian writers, as part of the 1985 Come Out Festival. Of the 140 scripts submitted, seven were eventually chosen to…
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