Life and death of a revolution Sydney Festival Theatre Alexandra Kollontai
THIS ABSORBING and always intensely interesting, sometimes deeply moving one-perB son show, devised and…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1993
231 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 12
Structural flaws but an Archer coup Sydney Festival Theatre See Ya Next Century
ROBYN Archer no doubt still has a substantial following and rightly so. She is a great performer, particularly of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →arts/entertainment Fresh Handel Music Australian Chamber Orchestra
THE ACO’S first appearance in 1993 was, happily, a great deal better than some of its appearances in the past. Substantially, this was the Australian Chamber…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crocodiles is great theatre Sydney Festival Theatre the Street of Crocodiles
THEATRE de Complicite provided the artistic power-piece of last year’s Sydney Festival theatre series with its…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dancing is sheer joy Theatre Dancing at Lughnasa
CRITICS OF critics often say it’s easy to criticise, difficult to praise. Not so. To criticise in a constructive way one must…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →They don’t make ’em any more Musical Theatre How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
IF I SAY, as I do, that they don’t write musicals like this any more, you may accuse me of fuddiness or nostalgia for the time 30 years ago when I…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THEATRE Marcel et la Belle Excentrique
Si la réputation de 7m\ Jeanmaire. au Mu.mc Mail et dans monde de !a Danse, n'est plus à néanmoins tout craindre de sa…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Gregorius concert groot succes door Ben Abbenhuys
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Continued on Trove, page 21 →More Mozart Music Australian Chamber Orchestra
FOR ITS second concert in this short annual season the Australian Chamber Orchestra offered a program which may have beguiled the senses, but taxed not the listener nor, for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Energising Four Seasons Music the Brandenburg Orchestra
THE SPLENDD program notes provided for this concert contained a paragraph worth noting. The orchestra’s artistic director states: “I prefer to avoid using the word…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fete a la Francaise Music Sydney Opera House Orchestra
ONE MAY be forgiven for thinking the final major concert in this year’s Mostly Mozart series was a tribute to the Fifth Republic…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →arts/leisure Strange but compelling theatre Sydney Festival Theatre Furtive Nudist
THANKS TO the Sydney Festival, here’s an opportunity to see one of the most extraordinary talents (and I mean “extraordinary” in any or all meanings of the word) to appear in this town…
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THERE was so much reportage and comment last week about violence in marital or de facto relationships that I said to myself as I watched American…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Choosing the real world Sydney Festival Theatre My Bruvar Is So God
BRETT (SAXON Graham, who, like the character in the play has Down’s Syndrome) and his big brother Allen (Carlton Lamb) live in a squalid third floor flat…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Universal appeal from Fruit Flies Sydney Festival Theatre the Flying Fruit Fly Circus
IT MAY have seemed foolhardy, or a bitter necessity in the scheme of tour dates and commitments, for The Flying Fruit Fly Circus to come into Sydney on the heels of Edgley’s The Great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Richly rewarding Theatre a Whimsical Fellow
THERE’S yet smother one-per-son show as part of or under the umbrella of the Sydney Festival. It’s home-grown and in its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →arts Worthy but curious bill Sydney Festival Theatre Colours
THE BRIEF season of the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre’s program under the title Colours (which refers only to the second half of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Indochine et Dien Bien Phu 'Peter McCarthy and the theatre of the imperium
In 1967 Chris Marker's collaborative film Far from Vietnam said a lot about the positions from which the French viewed the war that was raging in their…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Winning Aco Music Australian Chamber Orchestra
IN SPORTING terms early season form is no guide, but one hopes that musical form as shown by the Australian Chamber Orchestra will be sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Refreshing, amusing Chekhovian play Theatre Chekhov in Yalta
I AM indebted to actor John Grinston for persuading me to revive my jaded, nay lacerated, palate (see other two reviews in this issue) at Newtown’s New Theatre…
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