Liffe/Arts Concert to span four centuries, raise funds
A MAJOR concert featuring the Sydney Jewish Choral Society in the Great Hall of Sydney University on Sunday night, October 20, will…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1991
214 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 11
Political theatre PARTISAN
FOR LIVE political drama, or melodrama, only the hearings on Watergate in the ’70s, and in the ’50s on Senator Joe McCarthy,…
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The Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus Directed by Helmut Bakaitis Q Theatre, Penrith…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Too much diversion in student show THEATRE
Agamemnon by Steven Berkoff Lysistrata after Aristophanes…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →What recession? Theatres report record boxoffice THEATRE
THE SYDNEY Theatre Company j and the Ensemble Theatre hav IB announced their new season line-ups. Rich and varied fare they seem to be…
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The Irish Sydney Theatre Group has been around since 1987, producing Irish plays, both the classics and contemporary work…
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The Cultural Programs Department in the Blockhouse, Lower Campus, will again be selling discount theatre tickets next year. Many of the STC…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Theatre & Performance Tales From the Decameron Nida
Something different......ten medieval tales from Giovanni Boccaccio. Sex, debauchery, murder, adultery and comedy and that's just the first…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →The Boys Next Door by Tom Griffin Ensemble Theatre, Milsons Point
This is the best play I’ve seen for long time. Acomedy with a message. Hilarity tinged with pathos. Sadness lingering, strangely, as an uplift of…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Multiracial band on tour
A MULTIRACIAL BAND which presents itself as a reflection of the future South Africa and which has taken that country by storm is set to tour Australia…
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The King and I Music by Richard Rodgers Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Directed by Christopher Renshaw…
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Charley’s Aunt by Brandon Thomas Directed by Peter Williams Designer: Deirdre Burges…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Run for your tickets to hit comedy THEATRE
Run for Your Wife by Ray Cooney Directed by Leslie Lawton Set Design: Douglas Heap…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →EDUCATION From the world of dance Winning dance style
DANCER Neil Glaser, 11, may be the odd one out at times, but his individuality and talent recently won him first place in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Handley inspirational MUSIC Music of Mozart, Bloch, Vaughan Williams Colin Carr, cello Sydney Symphony Orchestra Vernon Handley, conductor Opera House Concert Hall
GRATITUDE — an emotion which the near-capacity audience should have felt for hearing one of the great symphonies of the 20th century,…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Joe Orton gets just deserts THEATRE Menage a Trois — an Evening with Joe Orton The Ruffian on the Stair by Joe Orton The Death of Joe Orton by Louis Nowra The Realm of Wasps by Steve Dawson Directed by Robert Connolly Design: Taylor Thorn Crossroads Theatre, Forbes Street
PERHAPS more infamous than famous, Joe Orton was battered to death by his homosexual lover Kenneth Halliwell in 1967, at age 34. His…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Liffe/Arts Rich fare in Jewish festival Distant Bach MUSIC Music of J.S Bach La Petite Bande Opera House Concert Hall For Musica Viva
THE SECOND Australian Film Institute’s Jewish Film Festival opens with a program of more than 25 films from Israel, Britain, America,…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Breathless Beethoven MUSIC Music of Beethoven Australian Chamber Orchestra Rebecca Chambers, piano Marc Minkowski, conductor Opera House Concert Hall
IF I COULD only type as fast as Marc Minkowski took Beethoven’s Symphony No 4 in B flat major, my productivity would increase tenfold…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Mirror to nature in Soviet play Theatre a Man with Connections by Alexander Gelman Translated by Stephen Mulrine Directed and designed by Bogdan Koca Thalia Theatre Company The Lookout Theatre Club, Woollahra
IF THE HEADING of this review dubs Gelman’s work “Soviet play”, let me rephrase, in light of a program note that starts:…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →BASKET-BALL Championnat de Finance
En écrasant Tours (106-71), Cholet demeurait la seule équipe invaincue du championnat de France de Nationale 1A. Cholet a bénéficié en effet de la…
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