HENCEFORWARD Northside Theatre, Killara
Something very different—a new black comedy from the prolific English playwright. Set in London during a violent, lawless future, we meet Jerome an electronic music composer…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1990
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Reviews Theatre SIREN by David Williamson Sydney Theatre Company The Wharf
Carrying a secret baggage of cultural snobbery, along I went to see David Williamson’s latest effort! Not a fan of his work and unimpressed with him most famous play, ‘Don’s Party’, I wasn’t…
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“Ladies and Gentlemen the winner of the University of NSW Union 1990 Band…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Hopping to Byzantium Ensemble Theatre
Hopping To Byzantium comes to us courtesy of a writing colaboration between Brian Clark (the writer of the stage version of Whose Life Is It Anyway) and Kathy Levin (founder of an…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →LIFE Arts Flawed work of genius but don’t miss it DANCE soft bruising Sydney Dance Company Choreography & concept: Graeme Murphy Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House
THAT GRAEME Murphy is a genius of the theatre, not only of the dance, is well established and so there is inevitably a sense…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Bit of everything in high-impact entertainment SONG & DANCE Dynamite! Concept, choreography, direction: David Atkins Footbridge Theatre
THE TITLE may be a little hyperbolic, but David Atkins’ new (world premiere season) song and dance show at the Footbridge is high-powered ertain…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Sony Classical Borodin: Prince Igor. Nicolai Ghiaurov/Stefka Evstatieva/Boris Martinovich/Nicola Ghluselev/ Sofia Festival Orchestra & National Chorus/ Emil Tchakarov. Sony Classical. S3K44878. 3 discs (210 mins). Recorded July, 1987
THIS IS a first release under the new Sony label (incorporating CBS) and we can look forward to some interesting new recordings, including more Russian opera and Rossini’s La…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Soloist brings back memories of Prom concerts past MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orch/ Music of Mozart/ Rachmaninov/Sibelius
IT SEEMED to me in my youth that whenever the Second Piano Concerto of Rachmaninov was programmed, especially at…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Touching insight into the lives of opera’s phantoms Music Theatre Recital with Helen Noonan Presented by Chamber Made Opera, Musica Viva and the Australian Opera Belvoir Street Theatre
OPERA, LIKE nature, is full of wonders. Plutarch tells how a youth picked all the feathers from the scrawny body of a nightingale and then, on seeing…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Welcome back to classical ballet BALLET Onegin The Australian Ballet Opera Theatre Sydney Opera House
WAS IT MY imagination or were there tacit sighs of relief and relaxation in the Opera Theatre to welcome the AB’s 149th performance of…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Arts on Disc Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette. (Dramatic Symphony) Op 17. Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt. Choirs & Soloists/Eliahu Inbal. Denon. CO-73210-11 (95 mins). Recorded Feb 1988
BERLIOZ’S dramatic symphony of 1839 is a prime example of early and full-blooded romanticism. The impulsive young composer…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →“Dear Hay Fever... still funny and comparatively undated” THEATRE Hay Fever by Noel Coward Director: Peter Williams Playhouse Sydney Opera House
IN FEBRUARY 1956, Noel Coward, now firmly ensconced in Jamaica, remote from a heavily taxing and in some quarters ungrateful England, put himself…
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HORSEPLAY Supper / Cabaret Show by Mary Haire Belvoir Street— Downstairs…
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Continuing our series on the major theatre companies around Sydney, this week Tharunka went to see Robyn…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →One man worth a galaxy of stars THEATRE
EMLYN Williams as Dickens, more than 30 years ago, convinced me that the “one many show” can be just as absorbing, just as exciting, just as…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Henry IV Part I Henry IV Part I, by William Shakespeare, playing at the New Theatre, 542 King Street, Newtown, Fridays and Saturdays at 5.30 pm. closing June 9
Every time I see a play about wars or monarchies I think the playwright must be sending them up. Such futile wastes they both…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Balance in black and blue bill THEATRE Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer Perfect Mismatch by Kathy Lette Directed by Judi Farr The Theatre of Comedy Glen Street Theatre, Frenchs Forest
OCCUPYING the second half of this double bill but streets ahead in quality and entertainment value is the ingenious Black Comedy by Shaffer,…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Sum of monster less than its parts THEATRE Frankenstein’s Shadow Produced and performed by People Next Door Directed by Richard Murphet The Performance Space
THE STAGE setting, with its rough wooden ramps and artistically casual drapes, might do very well for anything from Shakespeare to Maxim Gorky, even…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Soft Bruising Sydney Dance Company Drama Theatre, Opera House
“Soft Bruising” is open-heart dance. It concerns itself with the endless marathon—the striving to love and be loved. The runners are the heartbeat of the work—a pulse which quickens with the excitement of…
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Overall, I have to say the show was a disappointment; stale format, uninspired choreography, tacky costumes and stage-hogged by the star…
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