NCJW Ball
THE Gold Coast branch of the National Council of Jewish Women will hold the grandest function ever held on the Gold…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1994
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life/social Dance Attack!
FOLLOWING the success of its previous dance parties, the Sydney and Melbourne organisers of the “Dance Attack” functions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →UIA Ball is back
THE United Israel Appeal Young Leadership Division’s Ball to Bash all Balls is set to bounce back this year…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →History repeated at ball
HISTORY was repeated at the 125th Moriah College Parents’ and Friends’ Community Service Ball recently when guest of honour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →History repeated at 25th Moriah ball
HISTORY was repeated at the 25th Moriah College Parents’ and Friends’ Community Service Ball recently. Guest of honour Pearl Blasina (nee Enoch)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Best Hamlet in memory THEATRE Hamlet
IF I have seen a better Hamlet in my more than 40 years of theatre-going, my memory must be slipping. Directed by Neil Armfield, the Hamlet now packing ‘em in at the Belvoir…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →life/arts A rumbustious, roistering Shrew THEATRE The Taming of the Shrew
FOLLOWING the disaster of the Bell Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth, the Footbridge Theatre is now resounding with laughter. Bell himself has directed a rumbustious,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THEATRE La Comédie Française, le Prince et la Glycine
La Salle Richelieu, fermée pour travaux, la Comédie Française occupe le théâtre Mogador avec l'ultime création de la saison: Le prince de Hombourg. Quarante ans après la découverte de…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →_ life/arts Tom Stoppard’s best THEATRE Arcadia
TOM Stoppard has a reputation that hardly seems a reflection of his output, over many years, for the stage. He is (or was until now) perhaps best known for the enigmatic and to many “inaccessible”…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ANZAC Day drama stands the test of time THEATRE The One Day of the Year
A GOOD play does not have a limited shelf life; and Alan Seymour’s domestic drama of generation gaps and the “class” differentials which persisted at the time (1961) of The One Day’s controversial birth, was always, and remains today, a good play…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sitkovetsky in fine form MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
PEDIGREE is all important in bloodstock, and in the canine and feline worlds. Bloodlines are passed down through the generations. However, if we read talent in place of pedigree, it seems that, for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mishbooker madness, or ball in the family!
EVERY SUNDAY evening for the past seven years a group of family and friends has gathered in an old, drafty gymnasium amongst the industrial estates of Alexandria…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Baer's play affirms life THEATRE Mixed Emotions
AMERICAN writer Richard Baer (Jewish, as are three of the four main characters in his play — one on stage, the other two recently gone skywards), says he wanted the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Satiric view of lost world THEATRE The Chapel Perilous
IN HER semi-autobiographical, and perhaps best-known play, Australian poetplaywright Dorothy Hewett gives a vivid, satirical retrospective view of a lost world…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Pirates of Penzance The State Theatre
Again, Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" swashbuckles its way onto Sydney stage, fronted by Jon English, Simon Gallagher, Glynn Nicholas, Toni Lamond, Tim Tyler, and…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Rollins Band Friday 3rd June, Hordem Pavilion Kristin Hersh Thursday 16th June, Metro Theater
The work of Kristin Hersh and Henry Rollins could not be more unalike: both are icons of the alternative music scene, yet stylistically they are polar opposites. Their two shows, less than two weeks apart were demonstrative of the diversity of the evolution of modern popular music since it appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →monitor dance The Festival Goer's Bible
The festival has become the site of the pilgrimage of a new age of music and culture lovers. Festivals are great places to get smeared in mud and excrement while listening to new indie-rock sensations Jesus Invades Bosnia on a sound system so distorted that Sheila Chandra would sound like the Jesus and Mary Chain…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →SSO provides a double treat MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
A TARDY start caused by industrial disputation didn’t effect an harmonious collaboration between orchestral colleagues performing as soloists, and the first concert of the season to be directed by music director Edo de Waart…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →life/arts Warm reception for Belshazzar MUSIC Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir/ Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra
GIVEN THIS performance of Handel’s Belshazzar took place on one of the coldest and wettest Sydney weekends this year, it was heartening to see so many people in attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Louis Nowra’s best is better THEATRE Cosi
WHEN Louis Nowra’s Cosi premiered two years ago at the Belvoir Street Theatre, I thought it the best work I’d seen from…
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