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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1987

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Theatre Times Rare chance to see the Bard’s Pericles

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 June 1987 · page 17

For its third production of the 1987 season, the Sydney Theatre Company is giving us the rare opportunity of seeing one of Shakespeare’s later pieces, Pericles, Prince of Tyre. It is an epic,…

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Back to Outer Space Ha Chay-zar - written and directed by Chagit RacaviNikolivsky, for ages 8-12. At the Children and Youth Theatre, Tzavta, Tel Aviv

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 June 1987 · page 17

HA CHAY-ZAR (The Creature from Outer Space) combines science fiction, children’s cabaret, guntoting gamblers and other thrills,…

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Video uitzenddienst heeft eerste band

Dutch Australian Weekly · Monday 15 June 1987 · page 13

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THEATRE Home is where the tension is!

Tribune · Wednesday 17 June 1987 · page 11

The family, while at the centre of many plays, is seldom the focus of theatrical offerings. The Glint of…

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THEATRE Natty suits won't save Pericles

Tribune · Wednesday 17 June 1987 · page 11

Pericles is one of Shakespeare's least known and least performed plays. After seeing the current Sydney…

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Aujs Had a Ball!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 June 1987 · page 30

The NSW region of Australasian Union of Jewish Students held one of its largest social…

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Salt Pillar Theatre for Melbourne Jewry

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 June 1987 · page 23

Public acclaim and prestige may be the end products of a career spent in the entertainment business, but setting up an independent theatre group, as founder…

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Theatre Times Nimrod scores with Winter’s Tale at Seymour

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 June 1987 · page 25

In the past week we saw two of Shakespeare’s less frequently performed, later, “romantic” plays, a more than interesting and rewarding experience…

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Choral Society coup: top tenor for concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 June 1987 · page 22

The Sydney Jewish Choral Society will celebrate its first anniversary with a gala benefit concert on September 10, in the Great Hall of Sydney University…

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THEATRE Redfern in the '50s

Tribune · Wednesday 24 June 1987 · page 11

This Old Man Comes Rolling Home is an energetic and enthusiastic production of the Dorothy Hewett play by the Rocks Players. It deals with the life of the Docherty family…

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Theatre Times Coming Up on Stage Who is Rappaport?

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 June 1987 · page 14

The splendidly entertaining Neil Simon piece, Biloxi Blues, gives way this weekend at the Opera House Playhouse to Herb Gardner’s 1986 Tony Award winner, I’m Not…

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THEATRE Coal Town on the road again

Tribune · Wednesday 1 July 1987 · page 5

The highly successful and acclaimed Coal Town outdoor musical show is once again on the road with performances in…

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Liz Jacka's requiem for a song and dance man. Astaire way to heaven

Filmnews · Wednesday 1 July 1987 · page 16

[?]rediscovered Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and discovered dance on film that summer of 19623 when the ABC broadcast all…

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Ken Wark discovers the world from the stalls at the State Theatre Living in interesting times

Filmnews · Wednesday 1 July 1987 · page 9

Of particular interest to me this year was the strength and vitality of films from the eastern bloc countries and the western Pacific. Retiring Sydney Film Festival President Ross Tzannes has an explanation for this in his program foreword. There he states that "The festival's programs, partly in response to…

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Adrian Martin writes of the dreams, nightmares, schizo splits and phantasies at Sydney's State theatre. Angels (and mortals) over Sydney

Filmnews · Wednesday 1 July 1987 · page 8

Wim Wonders' new Wings Of Desire is clearly two different films placed end to end, each of which requires its own careful commentary. The one really like is in black and white and is "about"' two angels. The second one, shorter and in colour, is a celebration of "life itself". The philosophical…

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Dance is in her ‘inner furnace’ says envoy’s wife

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 July 1987 · page 23

Art is her life, says Timi Kedar, wife of the new Israeli Ambassador to Australia Zvi Kedar. She has a syncretic view…

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Victims of a grand illusion Hevlei Mashiah (The Pangs of the Coming of the Messiah) by Motti Lerner. Direction - Ilan Ronen. Set Eli Sinai. Costumes - Ayelet Harpaz. At the Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 July 1987 · page 19

THEY ARE ALL there: Elyakim Ha’etzni, Rabbi Levinger, Hanan Porat, Yoel Bin-Nun, Yehuda Etzion, Sebastia, Yamit, the Jewish…

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THEATRE Polyeucte et Les Femmes Savantes

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 10 July 1987 · page 10

Tandis que des membres de son Administration parcourent l'Australie, Japon et les Etats-Unis en vue d'une tournée mondiale destinée à…

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THEATRE Of women, myth and US bases

Tribune · Wednesday 15 July 1987 · page 11

Protest plays are rarely entertaining. By subjugating form to THE message, some of the most…

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Youth Scene Bush Dance at School

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

Several hundred Masada College pupils and parents participated in a lively bush dance at the school last week organised by Parents’ Auxiliary president Rene lchilcik. Enthusiastically bounding along (above) are Brian Romer…

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