Teenage band hits function scene
A NEW band is set to make its mark on the barmitzvah circuit. Formed earlier this year,…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1998
203 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 11
arts A boy possessed THEATRE Del Del
MARY Morris scored an award-winning success with her adaptation of the book Two Weeks with the Queen, which delighted adult and children's audiences…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neil Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf Theatre
‘Mourning Becomes Electra’ is the adaptation of the ancient Greek fable of Orestes and Electra into the genteel drawing rooms of the American South. The swee[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →ball the sport for the nineties
One very late night recently I was surfing the Internet looking for some inspiration for my next sports article when I stumbled across a little known sport called Korfball. NOW at first I thought that this had something to do with cats and hairballs. ‘Korf’ being the sound a cat…
Continued on Trove, page 53 →Kids Stuff by Raymond Cousse Ensemble Theatre
A one hander two hours long? I confess i has my doubts. But ‘Kids Stuff’ refuses to be pigeonholed quite so simply. With disarming We are shepherded through a range of…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →A Pint of Pinter: Flyhouse Productions Stables Theatre, Kings Cross
Humanity s endemic fascism. The monologue of power Humiliation. The farce of bourgeois values. These are just a few of the tremes Harold Piner expolres in eight…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler New Theatre
Having only read the program a couple of minutes before, all I knew when I sat down was firstly, that summer of the Seventeeth Doll had gained critical acclaim and…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →Daring music MUSIC Australian Chamber Orchestra Apollo
IN its third program of the 1998 season, the Australian Chamber Orchestra is again offering impressive performances of innovative and daring…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Moriah students set to have a ball
YOUNG Australian of the Year Tan Lee will be guest of honour at the annual Moriah College Community Ball. The function will be held at Star City…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Third time just as good THEATRE Diving for Pearls
DIVING for Pearls is now playing at the Ensemble. This is the third production I have seen — the others at the Belvoir Street and Q theatres. It is a play about real…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Salomé, par la Sydney Dance Company
Sans le moindre doute, la "Salomé", de Graeme Murphy, présentée le mois dernier à l'Opéra de Sydney, constitue l'événement chorégraphique capitaI de…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Out & about Masada Band Camp
ABOUT 100 Masada College musicians enjoyed a three-day band camp near Bobbin Head. The high school, primary school and intermediate bands participated, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Theatre Pinter Plays
NEWLY-formed workers’ collective Fly House Productions presents a collection of short plays by Harold Pinter. At the Stables Theatre, Nimrod Street, Kings Cross, until June 21. STEELWORKER SACKINGS…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Moriah Community Ball sets records
THE Moriah College Year 11 ommunity Ball set two records on Sunday, reaffirming the annual event s premier place on the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Odd woman out THEATRE Painting Churches
FIRST, a word about the title: it has nothing to do with what it seems to be saying. No one is painting churches (with a small c). A grown-up, unmarried daughter is painting a…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Golden voices The renowned American chazan, Cantor Moshe Schulhof, recently starred in a gala concert held at the Central Synagogue, Sydney, in conjunction with the new building’s dedication. Stewart Cherlin reviews Schulhof’s place in the cantorial hall of fame
JEWISH music scholars refer to the early decades of the 20th century as the golden age of cantors. Indeed, the chazzanim (cantors) from the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Now there are two Biog Concert Frank, the Sinatra Story in Song
SYDNEY is host to a phenomenon. I can't remember another time, and doubt if there was one, when two young Australian artists in two different venues at the…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Out & about Moriah ball sets records
THE annual Moriah College community ball was held at Star City with a record 84 participants and 720 guests. Guest of honour was Young Australian of the Year Tan Le…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Formula for success THEATRE Blinded by the Sun
TAKE an award-winning play by a prolific and internationally successful British writer (Stephen Poliakoff), change the setting from Britain to Australia and cast it with the likes of Peter Kowitz, Lorraine Bayly, Andrew McFarlane, Ron…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →A mature, positive inter-racial story THEATRE Welcome to Broome
THE story of this enjoyable play with serious overtones hinges around an inter-racial relationship; fortunately, it does not propagandise, nor does author Richard Mellick pontificate. In this and other senses, it is a mature play about people (black…
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