Chill warning in red-hot play THEATRE Oleanna
FROM DAVID Mamet (Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Glen Garry Glen Ross) comes a red-hot, one-hour, two-hander — redhot in both the boxoffice and dramatic senses;…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1993
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JCA Russian concert big hit
THE FIRST concert staged by the Jewish Communal Appeal (JCA) with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Baer’s cultured wayfarer MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
THE SONG cycles of Mahler are intimately welded to his symphonic output. The symphonies seem to draw melodic nourishment from the tuneful…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ACO set to shine in ’94 MUSIC Australian Chamber Orchestra
WHEN ALMOST all the major music providers of the city take to the luncheon table to launch their new seasons, one at least opts for a more economical and low…
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THE United Israel Appeal Young Leadership Division’s Ball To Bash All Balls Two attracted more than 100 people to the Brisbane Hilton for an evening of entertainment, socialising and edification…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Laughs aplenty in Glory THEATRE Reflected Glory
OLD ENTREPRENEURS used to say: “Never let the public know the curtain isn’t painted on both sides." South Africanborn, UK-resident Ronald Harwood has no…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Interesting spectrum in STC ’94 line-up Theatre Stc Launch
THE SYDNEY Theatre Company’s director Wayne Harrison didn’t stop smiling throughout his 1994 STC season launch speech, unless it was when I was making notes…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coward might applaud these antics THEATRE
NOEL COWARD might be flapping his wings in rage at what they’re doing to his 1925 drawingroom comedy at the Footbridge; but more likely he would be quietly applauding: this at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Top playwright does it again THEATRE
DAVID Williamson has done it again. He’s come up with yet another often-sparlding piece, firmly latched on to a current issue…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jaffer triumphs in dream role THEATRE The Newspaper of Claremont Street
THROUGHOUT her long career in the Australian Theatre, Melissa Jaffer might well have dreamed of such a role as the old English…
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THE fourth annual tribute to Gertrud Bodenwieser, Australia’s pioneer of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Passion, revelations in tropical north THEATRE Radiance
ALL IS not what it seems in Louis Nowra’s steamy new play of passions and revelations in a North Queensland town, where three women of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miller’s glorious “failure” THEATRE After the Fall
IN HIS autobiography, Timebends, Arthur Miller wrote: “Coming so soon after Marilyn’s…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Anglo-French farce still funny Theatre a Bedfull of Foreigners and The Fox
ENGLISH writer Dave Freeman’s French farce (set in a run-down hotel near the German border) ran for 18 months in the West End in the 1970s and has been produced many times in Sydney and, indeed, throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Schiff reveals mastery on Disc Brahms Piano Concert No 1 and Variations on a Theme of Schumann
WITH AN eye On marketing, Decca has made available (on indent) the “HungarianJewish connection” in Brahms’ D…
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donné par le ténor italien Luciano Pavarotti a réuni, le 2 septembre sur le Champ de Mars à Paris, aux pieds de la Tour Eiffel, une centaine de milliers de…
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Tale of two brothers; one down to earth, entrepreneurial, the other manipulative, arty. Meeting again after 11 years, the arty playwright seeking his older brother's blessing on…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →/arts Music in three moods MUSIC Australian Chamber Orchestra
THE PENULTIMATE concert of the ACO’s season encompassed a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australia’s Marcel Marceau? THEATRE Island
WHO DOES he think he is, this young upstart? Daniel Lapaine was just out of drama school (a 1992 NIDA…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Christie play acquitted THEATRE Witness for the Prosecution
THE GENESIAN Company has put on trial at its Kent Street Theatre Agatha Christie’s old (1953) murder mystery Witness for the Prosecution. There are two pieces of evidence militating against an acquittal on the…
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