End the game THEATRE Endgame
TOO much excellent work from director Elaine Hudson and her four actors has gone into the production of Samuel Beckett’s 1957 play for it to be…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1995
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Iland hits jackpot THEATRE Divinely Irresistible
PAULA Iland is no newcomer to the theatre. She has labored long as an actor, director and producer, not always with unqualified success, but always driving forward, always with a dream, such as…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →ARTS The forgotten survivors THEATRE The Shoe-horn Sonata
THERE must be a hundred good reasons to go to the Ensemble and see John Misto’s latest play and here is just one of them: It combines documentary elements…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →racism a different ball game
I was at the pub the other night. Though it has been quite a while since I last stepped into one, a pub is a pub and a pub never changes. The booze, the smoke and the incoherent drunken conversations exchanged between friends (and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Our Town Farewell concert for cantor Before heading off overseas for an intensive period of training in sacred music, Temple Emanuel Woollahra’s assistant cantor George Mordecai will perform in a farewell concert with the Renaissance Players
GEORGE Mordecai, a talented singer and assistant cantor at Temple Emanuel Woollahra, will soon be leaving our shores to embark on three…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Great dance party for teenagers
IN AN initiative reminiscent of the halcyon days of the Great Synagogue Youth in the 1960s, the Great Synagogue will hold a dance party next month. The “Velocity” extravaganza will feature Sydney DJ…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stephen Sewell redeemed THEATRE The Blind Giant is Dancing
THE RECENT Sydney staging of Stephen Sewell’s Miranda at The Wharf was not a happy event. The play was a disaster and the production not much better. But…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Edward Albee's classic THEATRE Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
THERE were, and are, mixed opinions about Edward Albee’s recent Three Tall Women. Some have been saying Albee was a just a one-play man — that play, of…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Q Theatre exhibits a bright gem THEATRE Diving for Pearls
KATHERINE Thomson’s gem has lost nothing of its sparkle in the years since 1991 when she completed the comedy/drama about ordinary people caught…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Ensemble Theatre. Time of My Life by
Alan Ayckbourn. The play is set at the Essa de Calvi, an Italian restaurant used by Gerry and Laura Stratton to…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Untrue nature of sex explored THEATRE Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
THE New Theatre has lifted its batting average remarkably in recent years and, again, in recent months. One used to expect to make allowances for the fact that it…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Win theatre passes
BNDREW: Bovell’s play After Dinner is a black comedy of table manners set in a suburban…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Out & about AUJS Ball
THE Australasian Union of Jewish Students held its annual AUJS Ball last weekend. Drawing a crowd of 230 to the Gazebo Hotel in Kings Cross, the students from campuses around NSW partied long into the night,…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →ARTS Code of the Bro THEATRE Blackrock
YOU don’t need a glossary to understand what these mostly teenage surfies are talking about. Without attenuating the color of their peculiar argot, author…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →SSO'S young talent in lineup for ’96 MUSIC Sydney Symphony Orchestra
TWO Australian-born young Jewish musicians are part of a huge line-up of talent to perform in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s 1996 season…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Dispelling the darkness THEATRE The Secret Garden
AND now there are three. Big-scale, superbly produced and beautifully performed musicals in Sydney, that is. Phantom, Saigon and now The Secret Garden (State…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Deliciously funny THEATRE How the Other Half Loves
John Krummel’s reborn Marian Street Theatre has surely got another hit on its hands with a fresh production of Alan Ayckbourn’s How the Other Half…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Klassiek concert
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Continued on Trove, page 17 →Extra Meeting Mark Twain SOUTH African-born actor Percy Sieff, a veteran of countless film, television and theatre roles, talks to Shoshana Lenthen about his latest effort — as American writer Mark Twain
VETERAN thespian Percy Sieff has got characterisation down pat. Looking back on a career which has spanned 40 years and in every medium — radio, television, theatre and…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Beautiful partnership MUSIC The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Lorraine Hunt, soloist
MEZZO soprano Lorraine Hunt’s cheery demeanour and beautifully textured voice perfectly suited each piece in this recital with the ACO…
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