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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1995

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Art “Bizarre” potpourri THEATRE All Night Cafe The Man with the Flower in his Mouth

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 January 1995 · page 24

HIS brief offering by the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Institute of Culture at NIDA was derived by Valeria Campo from works of Pirandello, who won a…

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Dance double Sydney Festival Dance Stomp and Dein Perry's Tap Dogs

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 January 1995 · page 28

Stomp is one of the best of British exports, a non-stop powerhouse show without pretensions but brimming over with mostly incredible talent, creativity and…

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Comedy genius THEATRE Crossing the Line

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 January 1995 · page 28

HE’S as funny as Jackie Mason and far more versatile…

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Summer Extra Out & about Jewish dance party rages

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 January 1995 · page 13

THE social group Culture Club has recorded another success with its…

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No 19th century relic THEATRE The Shaughran

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 January 1995 · page 28

DION Boucicault, actor, teacher of acting, writer of some 150 plays and three times married (once bigamously) was born in Ireland, but don’t expect this joint…

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Bloody Irish drama Sydney Festival Theatre At the Black Pig's Dyke

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 January 1995 · page 28

INSPIRATION for this mix of the mythical, folkloric and grimly realistic came to contemporary young Irish playwright and poet Vincent Woods while he was on…

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Gem at Look out THEATRE Persona

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 January 1995 · page 30

PRE-PUBLICITY is not always deadly accurate, but the Lookout’s heralding of Persona as a Canadian gem was right on target. This is a delightfully m…

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Musical Pastiche Sydney Festival Musical Theatre Zarzuela!

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 January 1995 · page 31

ENCHANTING is probably the best description of Antologia de la Zarzuela, the Spanish fiesta of dance, music and theatrics here for the Festival of Sydney…

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THEATRE Lucrèce Boigia, par la Comédie Française

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 20 January 1995 · page 24

Peut-on encore monter une pièce par Victor Hugo, et n'est-ce pas la plus folle des gageures que de proposer aujourd'hui un mélodrame en contradiction aussi flagranteavec la sensibilité et…

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Priestly seduction THEATRE Beating a Retreat

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 January 1995 · page 30

FROM a veteran writer of musicals and revues, dating back to Gordon Chater’s earlier days at the Phillip Street Theatre and The Mavis Brampston Show, comes a…

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ARTS Extra Old gem sparkles THEATRE Emerald City

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 January 1995 · page 30

EMERALD City is one of the best of the 17 David Williamson plays which, the Ensemble program reminds us, have achieved 120 productions since 1971. And it…

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Extra “It's a good life” South African theatre producer Moira Blumenthal is the moving force behind a landmark cross-cultural theatrical event — the first tour of South Africa by an Australian theatre company. Karen Booth spoke to this energetic and entrepreneurial woman

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 January 1995 · page 29

THEATRE producer Moira Blumenthal reckons she has the best of both worlds. She spends part of each year staging productions in…

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Our Town School notebook BJE concert

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 January 1995 · page 18

MORE THAN 200 parents and friends attended a concert given by the Academy BJE students of Lindfield East Public School…

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Mystery Golf Ball

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 February 1995 · page 43

DETAILS of a mystery yellow ball golf competition will be revealed at a cocktail party barbecue-cum-Calcutta auction on Thursday night,…

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Choral triumph MUSIC Intervarsiiy Choral Festival Choir/ Sydney Symphony Orchestra

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 February 1995 · page 37

THE CURRENT ubiquity of Sir Charles Mackerras rivals that of the Scarlet Pimpernel: He is seemingly everywhere…

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Festival best was last Sydney Festival Dance Compagnie Philippe Decoufle

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 February 1995 · page 36

JUDGING from what I was able to see of the Sydney Festival this year, the best was left to until last — if one excludes the thrills and perfection in performance of Stomp…

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On Disc Classical PROKOFIEV. Piano Concertos. Nos.2&4/Overture on Hebrew Themes

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 February 1995 · page 37

TASHKENT-born Yefim Bronfman, has followed the now familiar path of the talented musicians who emigrated to Israel and, through the American-Israel Cultural…

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Little gravity here DANCE White Oak Dance Project

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 February 1995 · page 30

A TALK-back radio caller said she thought Mikhail Baryshnikov and his White Oak company, currently performing at the renewed Capitol Theatre, were…

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Mixed smorgasbord DANCE Chomp!

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 February 1995 · page 35

FROM time to time the Sydney Dance Company gives public exposure to new, experimental work choreographed by its own artists. The latest of…

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Amateur theatre group formed

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 February 1995 · page 17

THE Surfers Theatrical Amateur Group (Stags) has been formed on the Gold Coast after an initiative by Temple Shalom. Its first production will be a Jewish fantasy entitled Jake Mit De Beanstalk. About 25 people are involved in the group. Founding…

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