Arts Footnotes Cantorial Concert
CANADIAN cantor, conductor, composer and lecturer on the history of Jewwish music, Ben Steinberg, will perform at a concert Shirat Ha'am — Song of the…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1990
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Reviews Theatre The Odd Couple Footbridge Theatre Sydney University
Starring Pamela Stephenson as the slob Olive, and Angela Punch McGregor as the houseproud Florence, this is Neil Simon’s new female version of his famous play—popularised many years ago in a…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Mrs Klein by Nicholas Wright Northside Theatre Company until 17th March
Mrs Klein is an intricate play set around the life of Melanie Klein, an early influential psychoanalyst. Joan Sydney, Helen Morse and Michele Fawdon create for their audience an absorbingly complex…
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IF EVER an orcnestra ran a risk of developing a kind of collective split personality, verging on the edge of schizophrenia,…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →New Oz play is surprise packet THEATRE
IN COMMUNIST China committees compose piano concertos. In Western theatre it is not unknown for writer/ directors to “create” a play together…
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THE STATE Bank of New South Wales will provide the Sydney Dance Company with more than $500,000 in sponsorship over the next three years…
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FOUR FORMER flower girls are among the debutantes for this year’s Montefiore Home Ball, to be held at the Hilton Hotel on…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →ARTS & LEISURE Spectacular Georgians THEATRE
WALLS COME tumbling down and the world experiences perhaps [?] rapid social and political change [?] ever before — but the Georgian…
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A YEAR AND one day after its Australian premiere at the State, the reworked version of Cole Porter’s 1934 Broadway hit, Anything Goes, returned…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Television cameras in courts: justice or theatre?
THE EFFECT of television cameras in [?] American courts is examined in the [?] documentary On Trial: People vs [?] on ABC this weekend…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Epson Master Series
The musical highlights of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's year are usually to be found in the EPSON Master Series concerts at the Sydney Opera House. These nine concerts see the Orchestra performing a diversity of musical styles with an impressive array of Australian and international guest conductors and soloists. The program features the large-scale works of the orchestral repertoire, such as Mahler’s Song of the Earth…
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Overall, this was a good production of an interesting play, but I left feeling not quite satisfied. The cast was excellent, but with a few minor downs, the direction was excellent, but with a few minor downs and the script was…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Reviews Theatre I Thunderbirds F.A.B. Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre
Two Brits, Andrew Dawson and Gavin Robertson, started up a theatre company called Mine Theatre Project and their send-up of ‘Thunderbirds’ was their opening effort. It has proved so successful over the past five years…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Queen Christina Queen Christina, a play by Pam Gems, at the New Theatre, Kim? St. Newtown. Sydney until April 8
The opening scene sets the theme for this play. As a woman endures the pain of…
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THE FORTHCOMING Festival indicates beyond doubt that dance has become one of the most important elements in world culture…
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CHOOSING among the plays and play-performances on offer this year will be very difficult for the unreconstructed theatrophile because the…
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LESLIE CORNE’S childhood memories of the cinema in Cardiff, Wales, are unlike those of his peers, whose nostalgia is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Belvoir opens season with surreal, erotic play THEATRE
I HAVE nothing against surrealism, nor eroticism. I derive as much pleasure from a Gleason as a Streeton. There have been some hugely impressive surreal…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Hibiscus Town Hibiscus Town, directed by Xie Jin. Showing at the State Film Theatre, Melbourne From March 23
The people of Hibiscus Town just want to enjoy the little luxuries they've won since Liberation, like food and housing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Unity at Labour Day concert
Over 2,000 people came to the Melbourne Concert 8 Hall (a venue won in a building industry dispute) for the 6th annual Labour Day concert last week. All Bamblitt, convenor of the Victorian Coalition of…
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