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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1987

218 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 11

Darkly hilarious Ayckbourn treat for theatre-goers

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 7 October 1987 · page 13

Alan Ayckbourn was born in Hampstead in 1939. He has already written and had professionally performed more plays than O’Neill, Williams, Chekov, Ibsen or Strindberg; and with a tally of 32, he is about to overtake Shakespeare and Shaw. He tends to be darkly,…

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Sydney Concert, Conference Et Symposium

Le Courrier Australien · Saturday 10 October 1987 · page 9

Manifestations techniques auront été à l'ordre du jour de la communauté francophone Sydney lors de la première quinzaine…

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LILLIAN Playhouse Theatre Opera House

Tharunka · Monday 12 October 1987 · page 27

Lillian Is a one woman show. In which Lillian Hellman sits in a hospital waiting room, with her long time lover, fellow writer Dashlell Hammett who Is comatose and dying. As she waits she reminisces over her life - her childhood, her…

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Woman in Mind Sydney Theatre Company Opera House

Tharunka · Monday 12 October 1987 · page 27

Call me Irrational, but my cynicism regarding the work of British playwright Alan Ayckboum was substantial, although I had never seen one of his plays. The thought ‘middle class theatre for middle class audiences’…

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Gertrude Stein and a Companion Belvoir St. Theatre

Tharunka · Monday 12 October 1987 · page 27

Everything about this play Is Impressive, starting with the two women the play portrays, the awesome Gertrude Stein and her lesser-known but no less forthright companion' Alice B. Toklas. In fact, as Stein would probably…

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SOLIDARITY People's theatre

Tribune · Wednesday 14 October 1987 · page 3

Members of PETA (Philippine Educational Theatre Association) appropriate theatre and allied arts for their own purpose and for their struggles. They are part of the "People's Theatre" movement which has developed throughout, and despite, the Marcos regime, and is still necessary. In Sydney last week they performed in protests (pictured above) at the Trades Hall…

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THEATRE Fix the image, not the problem

Tribune · Wednesday 14 October 1987 · page 13

An Enemy of the People by Henrtk Ibsen. Playing at New Theatre, 542 King St, Newtown, Fri & Sat at 8.15pm and Sun at…

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Danny the Theatre Katz does it again in revue

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 14 October 1987 · page 19

A good satirical revue, according to local theatrical performer Danny Katz, is like an aero bar: it…

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Theatre Time a welcome return of Gertrude and Alice B.

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 14 October 1987 · page 20

American (male) writer Win Wells’ Gertrude Stein and a Companion is making a welcome return to the Belvoir Street Theatre, It was a hit there last…

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De 1987 Federation Supper Dance

Dutch Australian Weekly · Monday 19 October 1987 · page 13

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De magische band van Ramses en Liesbeth

Dutch Australian Weekly · Monday 19 October 1987 · page 6

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THEATRE Noralot has class

Tribune · Wednesday 21 October 1987 · page 14

When people speak airily of this "lucky" country of ours, they forget or…

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THEATRE Living fantasies and fictions

Tribune · Wednesday 21 October 1987 · page 12

Gertrude Stein and a Companion, directed by Sonia Fraser and starring Miriam Margolyes and Pamela Rabe…

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Theatre Times Revivals galore as Spring season gears up, but new Buzo play also

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 October 1987 · page 16

A new play by Australian Alex Buzo must be accounted an event of some importance, and Essington Productions provides the opportunity to see it at The Stables, Kings Cross, starting next Wednesday. The play is titled Sting…

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The Arts Pain without pleasure Haleilot Haalizim shel Frankfurt (The Gay Nights of Frankfurt) written and directed by Yosef Mundy. Music by Yossi Mar-Haim. Haifa Municipal Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 October 1987 · page 19

“THEY SIMPLY HAVE nothing serious to say,” is a theory often advanced to account for the relatively sorry state of the local Hebrew…

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Katz A Young Man with a Pianist Downstairs, Belvoir St. Theatre

Tharunka · Monday 26 October 1987 · page 22

So you want to see a show that refuses to take Itself seriously. You're tired of the critical claptrap and pretentious pseudo-style of the bright lights of the show-biz world. You want to go and see something you can laugh at,…

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Theatre Reviews Book Don Juan Comes Back from the Warby Odon von Horvath

Tharunka · Monday 26 October 1987 · page 22

A NIda production directed by Aubrey Mellor If NIDA's production of Don Juan Comes Back from the War Is anything to go by, Australian audiences will be treated to some excellent aching and directing over the…

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THEATRE Exploring the gaps

Tribune · Wednesday 28 October 1987 · page 11

Founded in 1984, Vitalstatistix is a company for which the term "all the right moves'' must have been…

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Theatre Times Katz and Sirmai in salute to showbiz

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 October 1987 · page 15

Katz... A Young Man With A Pianist is fresh and enjoyable cabaret entertainment Downstairs at the Belvoir Street Theatre featuring two young though not inexperienced artists, Danny Katz and former Australian Jewish Times writer Geoff Sirmai…

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Choral Society gives concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 October 1987 · page 15

The Sydney Jewish Choral Society will perform at the B’nai B’rith Centre on Sunday, November 22 at…

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