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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1986

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Pianist's life not all white tie and tails Tough Concert Profram

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 March 1986 · page 29

A long plane journey from Canada, almost as much time spent getting through customs at Sydney Airport, and straight into practice of the not…

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Concert to help Israeli w’chair squad

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 March 1986 · page 11

MELBOURNE: A night billed as a “concert of stars” will help finance the Australian visit of…

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THEATRE More from the altered state

Tribune · Wednesday 26 March 1986 · page 11

Last year, Order by Numbers presented A Few Short Wicks in Paradise, sketches loosely based on the SEQEB dispute. The political scenario in Queensland has moved on to the abortion clinic raids, Expo 88, the Callaghan dismissal and the…

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Why knock Sydney Theatre Company? Theatre Imes

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 March 1986 · page 16

The Sydney Theatre Company has been embroiled in verbal contest with a noted Sydney critic of late, which has its curious and wryly amusing aspect…

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A Disturbing Delight Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 March 1986 · page 17

YAKISH AND PUTCHEH, a comedy written and directed by Hanoch Levin at the Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv is not another of Levin’s…

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Theatre S African snooping on stage Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act, a play by Athol Fugard, directed By Peter Carmody, playing downstairs at the Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney

Tribune · Wednesday 2 April 1986 · page 11

Athol Fugard's Statements is a play written around just one aspect of South African life, but it gives…

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Homes Ball

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1986 · page 6

MELBOURNE: A record crowd of more than 300 residents attended the Montefiore Homes for the Aged annual ball held recently at the St Kilda…

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Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1986 · page 31

gives audiences and cast a feeling of continuity. One of the influences that Circus Oz has…

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Theatre PROTOTYPES

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1986 · page 27

Ha’ed (The Witness), directed by Yoram Falk, is an adaptation, not an altogether adept one, of Shulamit Hareven’s children’s story by Moti…

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Dance Four choreographers in Jerusalem

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1986 · page 27

THE JERUSALEM Dance Theatre of Tamara Mielnik presented works by four choreographers at the Gerard Behar Centre (March 4) and…

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Dance and tombola aids KMH

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1986 · page 42

A dance party at John and Erica Border’s raised $12,000 for disabled Israeli war veterans…

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Viennese Theatre’s last show

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1986 · page 29

After 45 years providing theatrical entertainment for its mainly Jewish audiences, the Viennese Theatre has decided to disband…

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Wilde’s ‘Earnest’ Istands time test! Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1986 · page 31

If there is still time, by all means take in Newland Productions’ presentation of Oscar Wilde’s unfailing comedy of the absurd society of his England, at the Bondi Pavilion,…

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Israel Ready for World Wheelchair B’ball Title Times Sports Special

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1986 · page 48

MELBOURNE: Former champions, Israel, has a tough draw in the Gold Cup ’86 4th World Wheelchair Basketball Championships, starting here on Sunday morning…

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Concert revives cantorial arts CONCERT

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1986 · page 29

The days of (chazanut) glory are in the past, the days when a Sirota, a Chagy, a Hershman, or a Roitman were household names, the days when the master cantor…

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THEATRE Working class history

Tribune · Wednesday 9 April 1986 · page 11

Arrests at the St Patrick's Day demonstration during the 1948 Queensland railway strike. The 1948 strike is one of the incidents featured in Errol O'Neill's play Popular Front at La Boite, Brisbane, until April 26…

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Theatre Naomi Doudai A dance of death in a theatrical desert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 April 1986 · page 19

‘NETUSHIM’ (Abandoned), a play written and directed by Hillel Mittelpunkt. Sets and costumes - Eitan Levy; music - Yossi Mar-Haim; choreography - Daniella Michaeli;…

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Basket—ball

Le Courrier Australien · Thursday 10 April 1986 · page 16

BASKET-BALL Pour son dernier match en phase finale de la Coupe d'Europe des clubs champions, le Cercle sportif…

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Sydney's case for moveable “feasts” Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 April 1986 · page 31

There is rarely, indeed never, a real [?]amine of theatre in Sydney. But there is a good case or moving some of the…

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Beckett’s genius a brooding view Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 April 1986 · page 29

He has just turned 80, and is a legend in his own lifetime, despite the fact that most people cannot understand his writings and that halfway through his life he switched from writing in…

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