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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1986

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Theatre Times Festival of Songs

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 June 1986 · page 23

The tenth annual Chassidic Song Festival will be held on Saturday, July 5, at NSW University’s Clancy…

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theatre.. theatre..theatre MORNING Sacrifice

Tharunka · Tuesday 10 June 1986 · page 28

Currently showing at the Griffin Theatre Company is the Dymphna Cusack play Morning Sacrifice. Written during the Second World War, the play is set in the teachers' staff room of Easthaven Girls' High School in…

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May All/elton Concert

Tharunka · Tuesday 10 June 1986 · page 3

On the 8th of May, the Student's Union, in association with the Australian Rock Company, staged Rik Mayall and Ben Elton in concert at the…

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THEATRE Flying pickets -- "young people, for the first time, are beginning to be interested in politics"

Tribune · Wednesday 11 June 1986 · page 10

The British group, The Flying Pickets is currently touring Australia. At the moment they are performing at Sydney's…

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Leading lady of the Spanish theatre Festival Diary

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 June 1986 · page 10

By ROBERT ROSENBERG In a cool basement room of the Jerusalem Theatre, the leading lady of the Spanish theatre described the…

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Classic local play in debut Black comedy well-handled Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 June 1986 · page 18

Reaching back to 1943, the Griffin Theatre Company, resident at the Stables (Nimrod Street, Kings Cross) has given us our first opportunity to see a play by distinguished…

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Concert-going for youngsters MUSIC

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 June 1986 · page 19

Sydney’s youngest concert audience is barely out of nappies, and sits on floor-mats, listening to excerpts from Wagner’s Meistersinger and Handel’s Water Music, and then…

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CDMA Zilveren Jubileum Concert

Dutch Australian Weekly · Monday 16 June 1986 · page 12

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THEATRE Working life cabaret Sweeping Statements, by Street Arts Theatre in conjunction with the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union. At the

Tribune · Wednesday 18 June 1986 · page 11

Sweeping Statements is the result of weeks of discussions with Missos on the job. Talking to workers…

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THEATRE Breaking free of the 19th century The Seagull, a play by Anton Chekhov, directed by Jean- Pierre Mignon for the Sydney Theatre Company, at the Drama

Tribune · Wednesday 18 June 1986 · page 11

The Sydney Theatre Company must be congratulated for its decision to ask Jean-Pierre…

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Moriah ball dedicated

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 June 1986 · page 7

The annual Moriah College Debutantes’ Ball this year will be dedicated to the memory of Sam Naidel, a Moriah parent and teacher of debutantes for eight…

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Master spieler Mort brings breath of pungent air Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 June 1986 · page 18

There is some indefinable quality about some performers that if they have it they are…

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THEATRE New Theatre pulls off timely production

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1986 · page 11

On the Wallaby, written by Nicholas Enright, directed by Frank Barnes, playing at New Theatre, 542 King St, Newtown,…

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Theatre Times Choral surfeit MUSIC

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 June 1986 · page 19

It is not uncommon to gorge oneself after a fast, to the point of becoming so ill that one has to fast again to recover from the previous excesses…

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“Use brains” in the dance, says teacher

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 June 1986 · page 17

Jewish people have developed the front, or intellectual side of the brain. They have good…

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Moriah ball debutantes

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 July 1986 · page 14

Moriah College Parents and Friends Association will hold its annual ball at Unisearch House, when 22 debutantes will be presented to Israeli…

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Northside hit again with The Department Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 July 1986 · page 15

“When was the last time you saw a bad play or a bad production at the Marian?” The tabloid daily critic…

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Moriah ball debutantes

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

Twenty-two girls will be presented to the Israel Consul-General, Zvi Gabay, when they make their debut at the Moriah College Ball on Saturday night…

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The “Ball four” declaration

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 July 1986 · page 3

In 210 years of independence, the United States has contributed so much to mankind. Like, for instance, baseball. Israel has gained a lot from its superpower ally in 38 years of its own nationhood, such as, well, softball…

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High flights at Belvoir St. Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 July 1986 · page 20

When the Nimrod lost fortunes at its Belvoir Street, Surry Hills home and was bailed out by perhaps overindulgent allocators of subsidies, loans or whatever, and removed itself to larger venues at the Seymour Centre, many thought the Belvoir mini-theatre complex would wither…

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