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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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1994
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Old-fashioned Strindberg classic THEATRE Creditors
CREDITORS is a one-act, one-scene, three-handed drama playing about 80 minutes. It was Strindberg’s favourite among his own plays,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Williamson turns savage again THEATRE Sanctuary
AUSTRALIA’S most successful playwright, David Williamson has repeatedly been criticised for writing social comedies that seem deftly aimed at the box office rather than serious comment; and certainly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Q1 Queensland NCJW annual dance a sell-out
THE ANNUAL dinner-dance organised by the National Council of Jewish Women (Gold Coast) was a sell-out affair this year, with 130 people dancing the night away at the Pan Pacific Hotel…
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Cinema Review Music Opera Ballet On Stage Books Video Review Visual Arts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →life/arts The real Nick Enright? THEATRE Good Works
ONLY days after the world premiere of Australian Nick Enright’s latest play, Good Works, it’s being said that he has now found his style, pace and direction as a playwright. His…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Everybody Dance ’94 Live Metro Theatre, Saturday 6th August Everybody Dance '94 (Volition ) Proud(Volition )
Presented by Volition Records, Everybody Dance Live '94 showcased some of Australia's finest techno artists in a four hour (plus) extravaganza of sound, vision and frenetic dancing. Essentially recreation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →The Creditors The Lookout Theatre
The Lookout Theatre opened just on four years ago, and was founded upon the Strindberg principles of intimate theatre. The first two plays at the Lookout were Strindberg plays, The Stronger…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Queensland Ball III has 'em rocking
QUEENSLAND Jewry’s social event of the year took place recently —the United Israel Appeal Young Leadership “Ball to Bash all Balls…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Laughter and tears in purgatory THEATRE All Souls
AUSTRALIAN Daniel Keene has reinforced his deserved reputation as a vivid, forceful and imaginative playwright with All Souls, a series of scenes, for three unrelated couples…
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PIANIST Mark Isaacs, recently returned from a tour of Russia, will give a solo performance at the Eugene Goosens Hall, Ultimo on…
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WHILE Ernst Bloch is the most distinctively Jewish of all Jewish composers for the concert platform, Gustav Mahler is probably the most catholic. Mahler’s breadth and scope of…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Out & aboout Mt Sinai dance
MORE than 140 Mount Sinai College parents grooved the night away when the school’s Parents’ Association held a…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Visions of Virginia Theatre a Room of One's Own
THIS is one of the best pieces of theatre in town, though we are going through a purple patch. For this we must thank, not necessarily in this order Virginia Woolf, whose 1928…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →ARTS Extra A very odd trio THEATRE The Sisters Rosensweig
BROOKLYN-born Wendy Wasserstein, who won umpteem accolades for her The Heidi Chronicles, now offers a play I thought, up until interval, promised to be even better; but,…
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The mistress of whodunnit might have met her untimely demise, but the legacy of work she has left behind still stands, confounding and perplexing. Agatha Christie, author of seventy-something novels,…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →The Sisters Rosenaweig Sydney Theatre Company Pier 4
If you have a prediliction for Jewish humour, then this is the play for you. It centres around three sisters, Sara ( Judy Farr), the president of the Hong Kong Bank, and resident of Queen Anne's Gate, London; Pfeni…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Highs and lows MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
IN THIS varied program, featuring the Sydney Symphony Orchestra with guest conductor John Flore and pianist Stephen Kovacevich, there were emotional (and musical) highs…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →ARTS Etra Men out of sight THEATRE
AUSTRALIAN writer Jennifer Rogers set this, her first play, in an old-fashioned suburban family home in South Perth on a hot Christmas Day and in the same house over the next year…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Youth hits back THEATRE Two Short Black Comedies: Darling Oscar and The Caffe Latte Kid
LAUNCHING what director David Berthold calls “the second generation” of the Sydney Theatre Company’s New Stages project — principally dedicated to presenting new…
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