Not-the-Bond-play set for success THEATRE The Temple
OF COURSE Louis Nowra’s latest play to hit Sydney, The Temple, is not about Bond or any of those high-flying and since-crashed corporate entrepreneurs of the ’80s. An…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1994
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life/arts Aboriginal fantasy on Shark Island THEATRE Shark Island Stories
IT SEEMED like a good idea; and it was — a holiday ferry ride to Shark Island (that’s the big one off Point Piper) to see Aboriginal artists perform the world premiere of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fugard brings hope of reconciliation THEATRE Playland
SOUTH Africa’s pre-eminent playwright, Athol Fugard, has had at least 18 other pieces staged. I have not seen all of them; but I have not seen a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Death of his lover THEATRE On Tidy Endings
FOR A change, the pre-publicity is wholly apt: “He was his lover, she was his wife... now he’s gone.” Yes, this is another piece about people’s lives traumatically affected by a death from AIDS; and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fantasy of dreams and memories THEATRE Compagnie Philippe Genty
LIFE-SIZE puppets mingled and teamed with people similarly dressed, moving, swaying, dancing, falling in heaps, rising like animated stacks of timber to upright positions... an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THEATRE La Volupté de l’Honneur, au Théâtre Hébertot
En vue de sauver la face et de légitimer l'enfant du péché, une grande famille se voit réduite à faire appel à un inconnu. Celui-ci joue le rôle du mari sans avoir pour autant la possibilité d'en…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Popular Greene trip THEATRE Travels with My Aunt
WHAT an extraordinary idea! You take a famous novel in which the central character is a woman, a son of English Auntie Mame, if you will,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →arts/leisure Exhibition at National Theatre
Cinema Reviews Music Opera Ballet On Stage Books. Video Review Visual Arts Travel THE National Theatre in St…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Excitement comes late to Festival DANCE Body Language
Excitement came late to the Sydney Festival this year, the kind of excitement that makes you want to stand up and cheer. It has not been a bad festival; most of the pieces I’ve seen (no-one can see…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shifting sands of love THEATRE Table for One?
HERE’S A taut, highly amusing little (90 minutes or so) four-hander about love (or as one of the characters would prefer, “arrangements”) in a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queensland/been & seen Sinai College annual concert
Scene from Sinai College’s end-of-year concert. Ciline Goldsmith of the National Council of Jewish Women’s Brisbane division presents a cheque to Sinai president Mark Dindas to cover the cost of a half-scholarship…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Brilliant Oz family portrait THEATRE That Eye, the Sky
HERE, from a new company — The Burning House — is a brilliant first production, brave in its vision and aspirations, almost…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THEATRE “Dom Juan”, à la Comédie Française
Pour sa dernière mise en scène - en sa qualité d'administrateur de la Comédie Française -Jacques Lassalle a choisi le "Dom Juan", de Molière. Dépouillé et pourtant somptueux, le…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Mrs Warren’s daughter THEATRE
Mrs Warren's Profession DO NOT GO to Marian Street out of sympathy or simply an expression of solidarity — the theatre will surely close after this production…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Festival starts on low point THEATRE Mortal Coils
MY APOLOGIES to Rose English, whose Sydney Festival showpiece My Mathematics I reviewed as probably the most fatuous piece of nonsense likely to be seen on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A play of rare impact THEATRE Three Hotels
AMERICAN playwright Jon Robin Baitz never, in this powerful and superbly acted human drama, spells but exactly how the promotion of baby formulae in Third World countries…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Clubs to join on campus the Orchestra Club
Can you play a musical instrument? Yes? Then come to the Orchestra Society stall during O-Week and Week 1. You can’t play a musical instrument? Come to the stall anyway and make yourself known…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Jews? Catholics? Same difference... THEATRE Same Difference
COMMUNALLY active Morry Swerdlin’s comedy Same Difference, first aired at the Ensemble in 1972, is about Jewish and Roman Catholic…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THEATRE “Fiévre romaine”, au Petit marigny
J iSnps de l'innocence", spectacle inspiré des et présenté au théâtre…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →One door closes, another opens THEATRE/CABARET Glen Street Theatre
AS IN the cycle of life, one theatrical door closes and another opens. Hot on the heels of the announcement that the Marian Street Theatre’s days were fiscally numbered, the Glen Street…
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