Not Christie's best THEATRE The Verdict
THE prolific Agatha Christie did not put her best work into The Verdict, which is also unusual for her in another respect or two: We know from the time the deed is done, who…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1994
173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 9
ARTS Extra Top talent squandered Musical Theatre The Threepenny Opera
HOW could it fail? The considerable forces of the Sydney Theatre company are behind it. The director, Simon Phillips, gave us the eminently successful Melbourne Theatre…
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Après le succès remporté l'an dernier; l'orchestre composé de jeunes prodiges va de nouveau se produire en Nouvelle-Calédonie les 26 et 27 septembre à la salle de concert de la Fol…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →THEATRE Un Mari, au Vieux- Colombier
Qui connaît aujourd'hui l'oeuvre d'Italo Svevo (1861-1928)? De son vivant, seuls quelques membres d'une élite littéraire, de Joyce à Valéry-Larbaud, avaient su distinguer les qualités…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →MUSIQUE Rue de la Gaîté, au théâtre de la Madeleine
De son côté, le théâtre de la Madeleine affiche lui aussi résolument la bonne humeur avec un spectacle Offenbach intitulé: "Rue de la Gaîté". Le célèbre compositeur qui illustre l'esprit du…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The Wild Party The Lookout Theatre Woollahra
Think flappers. The Charleston. Illicit booze. Drugs ( and never mind what sort...just drugs ). Adopt a devil may-care attitude and remember: one doesn't talk, one entertains. No, it's not The Great Gatsby Rides Again…
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Jigsaws is the second in the current series of three Australian plays being produced by the New Theatre this year. Written by Jennifer Rogers, directed by Louise Luccarini, and designed by Riva Wallis, Jigsaws…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Theatre or A Theatrical Fish The Figtree Threatre 7 September
Is theatre dead? We live in a world far from starved of distractions, in which we are told in the popular media that even the mere act of buying a bottle of soft drink is…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →International feast of theatre
THE AJN music critic David Brown recently attended the world renowned Edinburgh Festival. His report follows. EACH August, Britain plays host to the…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Brilliant new trio THEATRE Waiting Rooms
THERE is no reason to doubt young Sydney writer Michael Costello’s story of sending his script to every Theatre company in the country and not being able to get to first base with any until the Ensemble’s artistic director Sandra Bates read it and said, “Hang on, this is good stuff — let’s…
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Australian Chamber Orchestra NE COULD tell that this was going to be an unusual concert: The Australian Chamber Orchestra with a…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Don't miss this party THEATRE The Wild Party
I AM on my knees importuning you not to miss this small piece of high-quality theatre, for two very good reasons: (a) It is an unusual, clever and appealing piece of late…
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Wolfie and Karen Pizem hosted a recent dinner dance in support of the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The shock waves continue THEATRE Oleanna
ONLY last year the then-called Studio at the Sydney Theatre Company’s The Wharf rocked to its piles, deep in the harbour floor, and the shock waves were felt through the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Arts Extra Showing great premise THEATRE Dead City
PERHAPS I shouldn’t say that: Showing great promise. Australian writer and former Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Peking, Nicholas Jose, has…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →ARTS Extra Students excel THEATRE Graduation Double Bill
SIXTEEN actors and a batch of designers and technicians covered themselves cum laude last week in NIDA third year students’ Graduation Double Bill. Some, of…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →THEATRE Naïves hirondelles, au Vieux-Colombier
La rentrée théâtrale de la Comédie Française se déploie sur deux fronts à la fois. Tandis qu'à l'Opéra Comique s'annonce une somptueuse "Lucrèce Borgia", de Victor Hugo, mise en scène…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →ARTS Extra Final solution THEATRE
IN contemporary Austrian writer Felix Mitterer’s one-man play at The Lookout, Woollahra, a family’s final solution as to what to do with an irascible old father who…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →SSO dishes the dessert MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
EVER been to a restaurant, ordered an excellent entree, followed by a main course with totally uncomplimentary flavours and textures and afterward,…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Don't be misled THEATRE Passion
IF YOU still have a chance, catch Passion I at The Stables; or if you miss it, be sure to see Passion 2, which opens in the same place on October 27. Of course, I haven’t seen Passion…
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