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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
218 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 11
Each year Margaret Barr - a choreographer who tackles themes and ideas usually dismissed as "unsuitable" for dance - choreographs a new dance. This year it's Pueblo de Maiz, derived from I Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. Margaret describes the dancedrama as "a salute to a brave, indomitable and amazing young…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →July proved an exciting month for dancer and choreographer Ruth Galene — on her return from…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Dionysus regards Harry Kippax (Sydney Morning Herald) as the dean of Sydney and probably Australian legit theatre critics; because of his literacy, towering knowledge of the stage and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →For many, the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven is a concert in itself, a vast enough experience to go through in an evening. On this occassion, when the Sydney Philharmonia Choir combined with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, heavily augmented by the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Handel, Verdi and Mendelssohn all wrote music on biblical themes and excerpts from much of this music will be heard at the Vivere e Cantare first birthday concert of the Sydney Jewish Choral Society…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →This year in May FILEF Theatre Group performed their highly successful production, 'L'Albero delle Rose' (The Tree of Roses). FILEF Theatre Group is a bilingual ((Italian and English) community theatre group. The production's success and strength lies in its experiential content which moved its audience on a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Community theatre artsworkers from all around Australia, and abroad, converged this year at the 4th National Community Theatre Conference held in Brisbane during the rather timely weekend of the Federal elections. As were the aims of previous conferences, this one also reflected the notion of access,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Season ends 4th September Another excellent production from the Nismrod Company. The acting was great. Two roles that especially stood out were Valerie Bader as Queenle Ayre and Mellta…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →This play is an English Restoration Comedy classic, written by William Wycherley In 1675. That a play should have survived so long, been revived so many times and been adapted by David Garrick, says it all regarding…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The progressive leadership of the NSW branch of the theatrical employees union was overwhelmingly defeated in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Queensland Ballet chose for its brief season at the Seymour Centre two works which could not substantiate its press-sheet claim to being “Australia’s most vibrant classical ballet company” — a label which in any case many would contest. Both Andris Toppe’s…
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Continued on Trove, page 13 →BRISBANE: National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) celebrated its Diamond Jubilee with a Debutante Ball recently. Debutantes Michelle…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Peter Williams, who long since opted for a policy of presenting well-established (and preferably schoolprescribed) plays at his Phillip Street Theatre, is giving Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →More than 1000 at Unisearch House on Saturday night watched a record number of 33 young women and their escorts presented to the Premier of NSW, Mr Barrie Unsworth, at the 1987 Moriah College Debutantes’ Ball…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A l'heure où Parisiens et accueille la province, les théâtres de la capitale ne font pas tous relâche; mais les programmes…
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →The fascinating writer, Katherine Mansfield, Is the principal character In The Rivers of China where Alma De Groen has chosen to deal with the role of women and their dependence on men. She has created two streams of…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →What do you say about a play that doesn’t have one sober and sane character In It, that Jumps confusingly back and forth through time and depicts child abuse and buggery with pigs, all the while an Intergalactic revolution Is…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →I am sorry to say that I found this a very dated and ‘corny’ play. The Geneslan Company were as professional as ever, but I think they made an error of Judgement in deciding to…
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