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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1988

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Slam Dance (USA 1987; dist: Hoyts; rt: 100 mins)

Filmnews · Tuesday 1 March 1988 · page 10

Wayne Wang's Slam Dance is easily identifiable as an independent director's first foray into a larger budget or "commercial" film. It…

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Arts and Entertainment Twyla Tharp Revisited Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 4 March 1988 · page 22

TO SAY that the much-vaunted American company Twyla Tharp Dance improved progressively over its three Sydney Festival…

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Chinwagging with a girl from the happiest band in town

Tharunka · Tuesday 8 March 1988 · page 22

Helen Carter is bright, articulate, and in her early thirties. She’s from Sydney and before she met stars Deborah Conway, Dorland Bray and Stephen Philip she'd been playing in the Sydney rock scene since the…

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Theatre Six Characters in Search of an Author

Tharunka · Tuesday 8 March 1988 · page 32

Well...this was a play within a play. Interesting, challenging and imaginatively staged. But entertaining?? Mmm. This is a classic, we're told, written by a Nobel…

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Concerts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds / the Go Betweens Selina’s, Sat. 27 Feb

Tharunka · Tuesday 8 March 1988 · page 32

The Go Betweens are a quality band who never fail to please. Their musical ability comes through loud and clear. I hadn’t seen the band since they were joined by Amanda (violin, brass) and she…

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Baskett-ball

Le Courrier Australien · Thursday 10 March 1988 · page 19

• En début février, à Paris, en match éliminatoire du championnat d'Europe des Nations, l'équipe de l'URSS de basket-ball a logiquement dominé la…

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Theatre Le Secret D'henry Bernstein

Le Courrier Australien · Thursday 10 March 1988 · page 18

La reprise du "Secret" d'Henry Bernstein, au théâtre Montparnasse — après l'adaptation de "Mélo" à l'écran par Resnals — confirme la nouvelle…

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Arts and Entertainment Laugh at updated Jacobian drama THEATRE

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 11 March 1988 · page 20

THEATREGOERS are beholden to the inventive and adventurous Sydney Theatre Company for another mini series of (three)…

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The Arts Haifa syndrome Lev Bearfield on the Haifa Theatre and the ‘Jerusalem Syndrome’ uproar

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 11 March 1988 · page 19

THE HAIFA Municipal Theatre is not your typical Israeli stage company. In recent years, as increasingly bourgeois Israeli theatregoers have…

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Senior Citizens Week concerts from AJWS

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 11 March 1988 · page 29

THE Australian Jewish Welfare Society (AJWS) will celebrate Senior Citizens’ Week this year with a series of concerts for the elderly…

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Community theatre made homeless

Tribune · Wednesday 16 March 1988 · page 8

Cheap, accessible, community- oriented and socially responsible theatre? While Expo's on? In Expo's backyard? Not…

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The Arts & Entertainment a soldier’s conflicts of loyalty THEATRE

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 18 March 1988 · page 18

EHAD MISHELANU (One of Us), by Benny Barabash. Directed by Itzik Weingarten. Sets and costumes — Moshe Sternfeld. Beit Liessin, Tel…

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Theatre on Underground Theatre Productions

Tharunka · Tuesday 22 March 1988 · page 32

Claire Haywood is one of a group of five people, mostly musical and thespian ex-Perthites, who form the core of Underground Theatre Productions which director, lyric writer and actor in UTP’s latest…

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theatre Les Mise’ Rables Her Majesty’s Theatre

Tharunka · Tuesday 22 March 1988 · page 33

The musical Les Mise rabies may leave a slight dent in your Ausstudy checque, but the opportunity to view this extraordinary show is well worth the splurge. Written by Victor Hugo in 1861 and set to music in…

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dangerous Curve a munical drama Underground Theatre Productions

Tharunka · Tuesday 22 March 1988 · page 32

Music by John Negroponte, Howard Shawcross and Claire Haywood March 11 to April 3 You've probably seen the posters for this production…

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Black theatre: Working hand-in-hand

Tribune · Wednesday 23 March 1988 · page 5

"We brought Bopha overseas as a way of educating people on what is happening in South Africa," says…

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The Arts The suffering of two peoples THEATRE

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 25 March 1988 · page 19

HA’MASA (The Journey) adapted from works in Arabic by Yosef Shiloah and Moshe Kalif: Directed by Moshe Kalif. SCHWER ZU ZEIN A YID (Hard to be a Jew)…

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My School Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 1 April 1988 · page 10

If you will observe the kindling of the Sabbath lights You will merit to see…

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The French Bicentennial Ball

Le Courrier Australien · Sunday 10 April 1988 · page 10

Le grand gala 1988 de la communauté franco-australienne de Sydney aura lieu le vendredi 6 mai à l'Hôtel Sheraton Wentworth. Cette soirée prestigieuse, placée sous le patronage de Son Excellence Monsieur Roger Duzer, nouvel Ambassadeur de France en…

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Basket-ball Coupe Des Coupes

Le Courrier Australien · Sunday 10 April 1988 · page 15

Premier club français vainqueur de la Coupe Korac (1982), le cercle Saint-Pierre de Limoges est devenu, le mercredi 16 mars à Grenoble, la première…

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