Theatre Times Vintage Williamson is dead set just for fun
Despite the author David Williamson’s claim or warning that What If You Died…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1985
200 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 10
Stern’s classic Sydney concert
No question about assessing the two main musical events last week; the first appearance here in 14 years by violinist Isaac Stern was one of them and the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →THEATRE Archer's dazzling return
Like good wine, Robyn Archer keeps getting better and better. Her 1985 concert tour (which concluded at Sydney's Seymour Centre after a round Australia run) proved that she has profited greatly from the time she spent in Europe…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THEATRE Escaping the Stalinist slide
The Lower Depths, directed and designed by Derek Glenn, The Rocks Players, Marion Street, Leichhardt (Sydney). Reviewed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Theatre Times Message plays sometimes okay
We find propaganda pieces quite resistible, no matter what the stance of the author nor whether the politics screamed at us have to do with formal aovernment. sex or whatever…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THEATRE Going all out
"This is no ordinary tidy theatre...the radical has nothing to explain-- it is the silent majority that must account for itself..." or so claims the All Out Ensemble. A sleep at the Wheel, the final part of a trilogy of theatre 'events', focuses on suburbia. As things become more frantic and the music louder, all we are left with is Marx and the sound of a car horn. Asleep at the Wheel…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THEATRE When the bomb drops When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs. Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney until August 25
Everyone has met or knows a Jim and Hilda Bloggs. Even if the two characters in When the Wind Blows are…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THEATRE Sharpley and Hardy revisited An Un-Australian Short Story, written and directed by Ian Scott. Showing at Melbourne's La Maina Theatre,' Carlton. Until August 4
An Un-Australian Short SW Story takes a look at Cecil Sharpiey, a CPA member who "went over to the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Even Orchestra
The Even Orchestra is, by its own assessment, a performance group. Using the jargon of modern art that is probably the most appropriate term,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →OPERA Covent Garden history Soprano gets Ball rolling
Opera companies and unions in particular, not to speak of audiences and critics, should go down on their hands and knees, or even light candles, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Theatre Times Showbiz Family Ties Top Fare
Madonna And Child, written and directed by Tony Sheldon and starring Sheldon and his mother, Toni Lamond (back from 10 years of success in the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Mega-Concert for Campus
So you thought “Live-Aid for Africa” was great. Well, you haven’t seen anything yet. Later on this session, the Music…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rise up Albert Woza Albert! Universal Theatre Fitzroy, Victoria
Absolutely brilliant. I'd describe it as political street theatre at its best. It uses an absolutely 'Shakespearean simplicity' in its props…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Murder and cultural incompatibility Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman. Pluto Press 1985. $5.95
Hillerman's novel is entertaining and devoid of romantics. But it is basically a detective story whose main characters happen to be Indian…
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The Menorah Club will add “spice” to the lives of single Jewish adults with an Indian Independence…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Theatre Times Cats — inventive theatrical magic
Cats has been more heavily publicised than any other theatrical venture in this town with the just-possible exceptions of Margot Fonteynâs first season here, Joan Sutherland's return from overseas stardom with the accolade of…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →THEATRE Henri returns to stage in Brecht’s Ui
Popular Jewish actor, Henri Szeps, has combined elements of acting styles used by Burt Lancaster, Lee J Cobb, Sylvester Stallone and Lou…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THEATRE Fun in Australia's developing theatre Muse of fire by Nigel Krauth at the Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
Muse of fire is Nigel Krath's first play. Krauth is a former AustralianVogel award winner…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dance courses
Two prominent jazz dance teachers are in Israel to give summer courses - Nat Horne for the Bat-Dor company in Tel Aviv and Walter Nicks at…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Especial Jewish Times Entertainment Feature Top Dance Group Set to Excite Australia! Song in dance
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, regarded by experts as the hottest dance company in the world today, is making…
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