M. Butterfly spectacular THEATRE M.Butterfly
Australian director Gale Edwards, who recently did Lloyd Webber more than proud…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1993
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Kafka Dances is brilliant THEATRE Kafka Dances
FRANZ KAFKA, who lived only from 1883 to 1924 and had hardly anything published in his lifetime, was surely a tragic figure — legally trained, a public servant, member of a Philistinian Prague Jewish family in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Debutantes and the Devil MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
THE SATANIC element in music has been explored with varying degrees of success, by composers ranging from Berlioz to Wagner…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Powerful stage “documentary” THEATRE Aftershocks
GRIERSON in England and Eisenstein in the USSR pioneered a form of cinema which was to be known as The Documentary, which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An unsavoury piece of nonsense THEATRE Titus Andronicus
STEPPING BACK and looking at this “first period” play of Shakespeare’s, in the context of Roman or indeed Elizabethan times, perhaps the hideous…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wizo Ball
ANNUALLY, the Wizo Ball is not the social highpoint of my year. However, I always attend because it deserves our support; it’s a great cause for…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Synagogue “funky” dance
TAKING a breather from studying, 220 school and university students got “funky” at Kehillat Masada Synagogue’s recent dance party…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two-fold brilliance MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
IN A famous diatribe Stravinsky (or rather his ghost-writer RolandManuel) expressed hostility to Wagner on the grounds that his music…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →200 expected at dinner-dance
THIS YEAR’S National Council of Jewish Women (Gold Coast) dinner-dance on August 14 will be the best the organisation has ever held, president Denise Lee said last week. The NCJW win hold its glamour event at one of the Gold Coast’s premier function facilities—the Pan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Connelli, Gallaher at the Opera House Theatre Music ’Swonderful
AS PART of its 20th anniversary celebrations, the $&Sydney Opera House brought together two of Australia’s most popular singers and a 50-piece semi-symphonic orchestra for a one-night stand in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New hit from Neil Simon, Hayes Gordon THEATRE Jake’s Woman
IT’S WELCOME back to the Ensemble in spades for Neil Simon and Hayes Gordon. This is a beautiful play, beautifully acted and beautifully directed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mahler’s vision dimmed MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
THE extravagantly monumental Eighth Symphony is the Mahler symphony which raises doubts in even his most devoted of admirers as its…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dreamers deserves better acting THEATRE The Dreamers
ABORIGINAL playwright and poet Jack Davis’ The Dreamers, first produced in 1983, has resurfaced under the banners of Christopher Cummings and Koories in Theatre at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre. I wish I could…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grosse Reviews Theatre
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY....AND THE WONDERFUL DEAD HEART by Nicholas Parsons…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →/arts SSO: The honeymoon begins MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
THE PAIR of concerts which officially Introduced Edo de Waart as chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra are not the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →They had a ball
THE joint was jumping at the Airport Hilton recently when the Illawarra Synagogue celebrated its 50th anniversary with a Golden Jubilee…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Edwards makes Coriolanus great THEATRE Coriolanus
To most of us until now, Coriolanus has been little more than a title in the index of our Complete Works of Shakespeare or a passing reference, made comic and rude…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When not the best will do THEATRE Absent Friends
IT DOESN'T have to be the best of the prolific Alan Ayckbourn's work to be better than acceptable entertainment. So let’s not knock his 1974 piere, Absent Friends, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An auspicious beginning MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
DOWN TO business! Edo de Waart’s second concert after the hyperbole and euphoria of his introductory ones last week sensibly commenced not with a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →arts Rich pickings in unfocused play THEATRE Summer of the Aliens
TWO OF Louis Nowra’s recent plays, Capricornia and Cosi, suggested we were in for a new, maturer phase…
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