In England, even cinema is theatre David Cox goes to MOMI in London
In London's West End this season a stage production of Fritz Lang's '30s classic film Metropolis is under way. Live orchestral music…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1989
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THEATRE Keep up your bright sword!, for the Year 12s wilt rust them OTHELLO New Mercury Company at Philip Street Theatre; current
SEEING Othello live certainly brings home his pomposity, chauvinism and feeble moral stature…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Unconventional Tempest aims to capture lib Bard’s lighter side the Tempest Io Myers Theatre, Tues—Sat, Week 1, Session 2. Performances: Tues, Fri & Sat, 8pm. Wed & Thurs, 6pm. $4.00
ANYONE with an emancipated mind will enjoy this production of The Tempest, performed by students from…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →THEATRE Cry from the heart in a brickworks kiln Hello Out There by William Saroyan Auto Da Fe Theatre Co The Old Brick Factory
THEATRE with a capital T is irrepressible. It bobs up in the least likely places. Thus the young Auto Da Fe company is…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →OPERA Masque that was no Ball Un Ballo in Maschera by Giuseppe Verdi Australian Opera
BALLO is Verdi’s most elegant score, some will say his greatest opera. Originally seen here in 1985, and again 1986, it has…
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La France, vainqueur à l'arraché des Pays-Bas (107-100). n'a pu prendre, le juin, la 5e place qui lui donnerait le droit de participer au championnat du…
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FLAMENCO EVENING - Guest troupe from Spain presents a show comprising the best of Spanish music, song and dance. With guest…
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The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra has announced plans to tour Israel in the spring of 1990 with its Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT An occasional feature, listing a selection of current events on the Israel cultural scene Poster Theatre
BRURIA — The award-winning production of Theatre Company Jerusalem, translated into English for the Edinburgh Festival. Through…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Going East Andy Goldberg takes in a concert by a highly eclectic Israeli band
IT MAY HAVE taken a decade but it seems that Habreira Hativit (“natural selection”) are finally getting the attention they deserve. Founded…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THEATRE Neglected Noel Coward classic Hay Fever by Noel Coward Glen Street Theatre Forestville
HAY FEVER, which Noel Coward dashed off in three days back in 1924, was his second hit play (the first was The Vortex, a…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Spotlight a small band of soldiers carried out a campaign of vengeance against Nazi war criminals after the Second World War. One of the leaders, Israel Carmi, talks to Benny Morris. Revenge
I HAD INTENDED to ask him about his days as a (Jewish) Palestinian commando in the Western Desert in the early 1940s. But our…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Arts on Disc Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)/Grand Duo in C major. D.812 (orch’d Joachim) DG.423 655-2 (70 mins). Recorded Dec/Aug 1987. Schubert: Symphony No. 9 (Great)/Rosamunde Overture. D.644. Dg.423 656-2 (72 mins). Recorded Dec 1987. Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Claudio Abbado
BOTH these excellent performances stem from the complete set and are being released singly on DG. Abbado…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →THEATRE Modern romance Berlioz theme Harold in Italy by Justin Fleming Drama Theatre Sydney Opera House
THE SYDNEY Theatre Company in association with The One Extra Company should have a hit on its hands with this…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →His own sound Pamela Kidron interviews Zubin Mehta, whose familiarity with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra after 20 years as its musical director has bred content
HIS CHARM comes as easily as his musicianship, and he displays ain easy confidence. Relaxing in his suite on the 17th floor of the Tel Aviv Hilton, Maestro Zubin Mehta at 52…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Outlook Issues and Ideas Israel’s Musical Ambassadors The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will be visiting; Australia next month. David Brown reviews the illustrious history of the IPO, internationally recognised as one of the world’s great orchestras
MUSIC speaks many languages to many different people, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra perhaps more than any other reaches…
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PROCEEDS OF an international cabaret evening organised by the Child Survivors of the Holocaust and the Hakoah Club will go…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Buried Alive -- the story of Timor Buried Alive, directed by Gil Serine, showing at the State Film Theatre in Melbourne from August 4
East Timor's story is one of historical drama. A sleepy back- water of Portuguese imperialism for over 400 years but…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THEATRE If you see nothing else, see this! The Diary of a Madman adapted from a story of Gogol’s by David Holman Belvoir St Theatre
RARELY, very rarely, is there the opportunity to see a piece of acting so consummate, so virtuostic and yet so aptly serving…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →THEATRE Wilde plus additives: That’s entertainment The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Lou Stein, Dame Hilda Bracket and Dr Evadne Hinge Playhouse Sydney Opera House
I CANNOT pretend not to have heard the ABC’s Showman, John West, sum up this Bracket and Hinge show, built in and…
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