Girl's night out THEATRE After Dinner
ANDREW Bovell, who co-authored the original screenplay for Strictly Ballroom, had a good idea when earlier he sat down to write After Dinner, a journey for five characters…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1995
168 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 9
ARTS What do children like? THEATRE Pierrot & Columbine
KING Carpenter’s Theatre of Image (by arrangement with the Sydney Theatre Company) has got in early with a charming and amusing play aimed primarily for the school…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →ARTS Wit, wisdom, charm THEATRE
SOUTH African Jewish actor Percy Sieff ambles into the room that serves as a theatre (Woollahra’s Lookout). Long, grey hair, droopy whiskers, off-white garb…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Young UIA ball grows and grows
YOUNG UIA’s famous “Ball to Bash all Balls” has been redeveloped into “Flamaball”. This year’s ball will be held at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ayckbourn's at it again THEATRE Time of My Life
AT THE Marian Street Theatre, there’s one of Alan Ayckbourn's early (1970) plays, in which two living rooms and dining rooms share the same set, and…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →ARTS Mamet — the Devil he is! THEATRE
PLAYWRIGHT David Mamet says the character of Teach (Marcus Graham) is the Devil, tempting junk store owner Donny (John Stanton)…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →THEATRE La rentrée du Français
La Comédie française a inauguré sa rentrée, le 15 septembre, avec la reprise de "Lucrèce Borgia", salle Richèliëu, dans la somptueuse et ultime mise en scène du regretté Jean-Luc Boutté…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Arts Boom for Ensemble THEATRE Ensemble Launch
THE history of theatre has always been one of boom and bust. God shows go unceremoniously down the drain, others turn people away. Theatres disappear,…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Our Town Theatre of the ghetto Ghetto, a moving play by one of Israel’s foremost writers, Joshua Sobol, will have its Australian premiere this weekend. Dannielle Michaels speaks to director Ros Horin and actors Michael Denkha and Jeremy Ball
WITH leading Australian Jewish director Ros Horin at the helm, Joshua Sobol’s play Ghetto is in good hands for its…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Ballet graduates’ superb dancing BALLET The Snow Queen; Mendelssohn Concerto
ALTHOUGH some months ago the Australian Ballet School gave a tantalising taste of what it could do — in…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Extra Survival of the fittest Internationally-renowned cellist Mischa Maisky is in Sydney for a series of concerts. Karen Booth caught up with this inspiring musician
RUSSIAN-born cellist Mischa Maisky may have taken his first breath in 1948, but by his reckoning, he’s a mere 23 years old…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Volleyballer in Aussie beach ball pairs team
MELBOURNE volleyball star Simon Yudelevich has been selected to represent Australia in the Asian Beach Volleyball (pairs)…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →shoplifting the art of jumping on the band wagon without getting sued
In July, the student newspaper of La Trobe, Rabelais, printed an article titled "The Art Of Shoplifting". In the state of Victoria, that has readily embraced Voluntary Student Unionism under the claws of a certain Jeff Kennett. The…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →KMH annual dinner-dance
KEREN Mishpachot Hagiborim will host its annual-dinner dance early next month with Israel Consul-General Mordechai Yedid the guest of honour. NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president Michael Marx and State Zionist Council president Dr Ron Weiser will also attend the November 5 function…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →International Puppet Theatre Festival
The festival will present 10 new productions based on the legends of King David and his son Solomon using varied techniques in cooperation with theatre companies, artists and…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →ARTS Sidley revisited THEATRE Arcadia
ON JUNE 30 last year the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Tom Stoppard’s best play, Arcadia, opened in the Drama Theatre. It’s back again with…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Art versus persecution in Ghetto THEATRE Ghetto
THIS admirable NIDA graduation and Australian premiere production of Joshua Sobol’s picture of life and death in the Vilna Ghetto somewhere towards the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Bright and breezy THEATRE Me and My Girl
IN THEATRE there are two kinds of shows: critics’ shows and GP (general public) shows. Me and My Girl is a GP show. It has no subtext, no message, is not dense, does…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Dance party
ALMOST 300 under-18s turned out for the second New Moon Under-18s dance party…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Touching, amusing Theatre a Passionate Woman
HERES a Leeds suburban housewife on her son’s wedding day, locking herself in the attic and dreaming of the brief love she once had. She is up in a balloon of fantasy, escaping the reality that her marriage, though to a good man, but not passionate or…
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