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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1998

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arts A case of anything goes THEATRE Closer

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 9 January 1998 · page 24

THE Sydney Theatre Company generously scheduled the Australian premiere season of young British writer Patrick Marber's Closer to start at the Wharf at 6pm on New Year’s Eve and invited first-nighters to stay on after the…

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Concert at Vaucluse Public

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 9 January 1998 · page 14

VAUCLUSE Public School Year 4-6 Hebrew pupils sang at the school’s end-of-year Hebrew and Italian concert. The focus was discovering personal roots and identifying with Israel…

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kids concerts

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 9 January 1998 · page 13

PLAY School concerts for the kids, three shows February 22, $5. Bookings: 9365 9900…

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Post Soviet music - making Symphony Concert Russian National Orchestra

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 30

FOLLOWING the Israel Philharmonic’s first concert in Sydney, the Herald critic wrote-glowingly about the visual and auditory benefits of the MPO’s “different”…

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Elegance, wit THEATRE An Ideal Husband

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 29

AN ideal Husband was a London success in the same year, 1895, Las The Importance of Being Earnest. Tragically, Wilde wrote no…

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Steel City — son of Tap Dogs DANCE Steel City

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 30

HAVING created a runaway success in Tap Dogs, with at least two companies performing it overseas at the moment, Dein Perry must have thought long…

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Sydney Festival Round-up Australian family saga THEATRE Cloudstreet

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 30

THIS saga of two Perth families living in one vast, ramshackle house, has been adapted from multi-award-winner Tim Winton’s novel of the same name. Those who…

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Saved by the Irish humour THEATRE The Leenane Trilogy

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 30

HERE are three normal-length plays by Martin McDonagh, set in County Galway. I opted to see them in sequence on one day, 1pm to about 10.30pm, with intervals, and…

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kids concerts

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 January 1998 · page 17

PLAY School concerts for the kids, three shows February 22. S5. Bookings: 9365 9900…

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arts Brilliant ENSEMBLE production THEATRE Sanctuary

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 23 January 1998 · page 27

THE Ensemble's Sandra Bates has given us a simply brilliant production of David Williamson's 1994 (but since revised) Sanctuary in which, to use his own words, "moral…

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Enigma of fallen idols THEATRE Complicity

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 23 January 1998 · page 28

WHY would an actor such as Gielgud or a pianist such as Arrau, or indeed an eminent Sydney judge, risk so much to…

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What's Not to Like? Dance Tharp!

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 30 January 1998 · page 29

ONE of the Sydney Festival highlights was the brief season of modern dance under the somewhat immodest title…

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Genius or Hokum? Theatre Moby Dick

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 February 1998 · page 28

NIGEL Triffitt's Moby Dick, now playing the Drama Theatre at the Opera House for the Sydney Theatre Company may be a work of genius, or a gigantic piece of…

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THEATRE Nathan le sage, à la Comédie française

Le Courrier Australien · Tuesday 10 February 1998 · page 21

L'été dernier, Sami Frey avait créé l'événement au festi va I d'Avignon avec "Nathan le sage". A son tour, la Comédie française inscrit à son répertoire la…

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israeli dance

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 February 1998 · page 17

ISRAELI dancing with choreographer Gadi Bitton, Hakoah, February 24, S20/S30 family. Martin 9369 3784…

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Exile Theatre

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 February 1998 · page 27

I AM a Ph.D student at the University of Vienna (currently based in Zurich) and I am writing my thesis on German-speaking exile theatre in Australia. I will be in Australia in…

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Home to Neil Simon THEATRE They're Playing Our Song

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 February 1998 · page 30

IT HAD been far too long since I'd seen a Neil Simon piece. So, it was a joy, a warm-fuzzy homecoming, to sit in the congenial Q Theatre, Penrith, and be instantly engulfed by…

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Why look at life THEATRE Life in a Quiet House

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 February 1998 · page 30

NOT FOR the first time have we in this fair, democratic society been given the opportunity to see plays from Czechoslovakia under the generic label,…

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Fine start MUSIC Australian Chamber Orchestra

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 February 1998 · page 29

THE Australian Chamber Orchestra's season opener demonstrated the ensemble's consistent success in making adventurous programing deeply satisfying. The ACO embarks next…

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Breaking the silence THEATRE Better Don't Talk

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 February 1998 · page 30

THE hugely telented Naava Piatka—actress, playwright, lyricist, composer — has been one of the most heavily publicised Jewish artists to grace these…

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