Kosher Theatre-sports
KOSHER Theatresports held three shows at Bondi Pavilion. Shmux…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1999
206 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 11
arts A richly Jewish year THEATRE 1998 in review
IT was a good year for theatre. And from a Jewish point of view, it was specially rich in variety — from hilarious comedy to heavy drama — content and performance…
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WITH most restaurants and entertainment venues closed on Christmas Eve, what’s a Jew to do? For more than 3000 people…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grimm Tales The Young Vic Company York Theatre, Seymour Centre
AGAIN, brilliant acting and production, with abundant imagination and shrewd, indeed inspired judgement of what works with an audience, plus haunting,…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Monster Daniel Macivor's one-man show Opera House Drama Theatre
THIS has so much in common with The Prince of West End Avenue (superb acting, humour) and so little (it is black, sordid, taking a depraved look at things around us — real or…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →THÉATRE Phèdre, à I’Odéon
S'il est vrai qu'une bonne pièce survit aux mauvais traitements que lui infligent éventuellement interprètes et metteurs en scène,…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →More dance than circus
HERE'S a hot tip for Sydney Festivalgoers: If you plan on seeing the two circuses on offer — Canada's Saltimbanco from the Cirque du Soleil…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Renee Geyer enjoys new success After 25 years in the recording business, singer Renee Geyer is enjoying continued success with concert tours and a new album. Mariann Biron reports
SINGER Renee Geyer is enjoying a dramatic resurgence in her career. The glamorous performer has a new album, Sweef Life, due out in February and she is booked for a…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Surreal hour THEATRE Woyzeck
JUST one hour on stage at the Seymour Centre, Josef Nadja's surreal treatment of the Woyzeck (or Wozzeck) story has been the shortest show I have seen in this year's…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →arts Neat twists in comedy-drama THEATRE The Cocktail Hour
JUDGED on the basis of The Cocktail Hour, prolific American writer A R Gurney is a sort of transatlantic Terence Rattigan; or at least the play belongs to the genus West End Drawing-room…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Confronting Jewish identity Issues of Jewish identity are at the core of a confrontational play currently on at the Ensemble Theatre. Leora Moldofsky spoke to the actors, who were reluctant to divulge details which might dilute its impact
WHILE it isn’t the first time that renowned Jewish actor Warren Mitchell and his son Daniel have worked together, they are the first…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →arts Mr Green — the best of 1999 already? THEATRE Visiting Mr Green
THE latest advice from the Ensemble Theatre was that just about every seat is booked for the remainder of the season of Jewish American writer Jeff Baron's first stage play — a…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Out & about Emanuel School concert
STORIES about fairies were the focus of an Emanuel School concert which featured skits, songs and dances…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Innovative music Pop Concert Holly Cole; Four Play
SOMEWHERE in the Sydney Festival's publicity, I read that Holly Cole was Canada's best-kept secret. Certainly, I was not familiar with her work; but many others are…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →THEATRE Le baiser de Judas
C'est au Père-Lachaise que repose Oscar Wilde. Le poète, foudroyé par la société victorienne, s'était réfugié à Paris vécut ses dernières années dans la…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →THEATRE Pour un oui ou pour un non, à la Comédie desChamps-Elysées
Noble conquête de l'homme, le langage n'est pas seulement un outil communiquer, pour s'exprimer,…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Williamson does it again THEATRE Corporate Vibes
DURING the after-premiere speeches at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, someone said David Williamson continues to show us who or what we are, and that he has…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →French challenge THEATRE The Malady of Death
BOGDAN Koca's Sydney Art Theatre had a successful first season at the Pilgrim Theatre, Pitt Street, last year. Koca has just launched his 1999 season with…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Men are from Mars... at a theatre near you
“MEN are from Mars, women are from Venus — who said to know this you have to be a genius?” Borrowed from John Gray’s celebrated self…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →books Australian Yiddish theatre resonates with nostalgia TITLE: Wanderers and Dreamers: Tales of the David Herman Theatre; Di Geshikhte fun Dovid Herman Teater PUBLISHER: Hyland House, 109pp (English), 72pp (Yiddish), $29.95
A HANDSOME bilingual publication, Wanderers and Dreamers: Tales of the David Herman Theatre by Arnold Zable and Di Geshikhte fun Dovid Herman…
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