Shakespeare updated is a hit THEATRE Antony and Cleopatra
MORE often than not, one is disappointed by attempts to make Shakespeare more “accessible” or “relevant” by shifting the setting up the time…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 2001
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schools Masada Band Camp
THE hills came alive with the sound of music when tutors, teachers and pupils from Masada College headed off to Band Camp at Pennant Hills…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Successful Nearly Spring Ball
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Continued on Trove, page 25 →Openlucht-evenement Dance Valley loopt uit op chaos
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opinion Theatre of the absurd
THE preamble to next week’s World Conference Against Racism has been so riddled with farce that it would be comic if it were not tragic. Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority rank among the most brutal and corrupt regimes in the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Stars eclipse the script THEATRE Salt
THE Sydney premiere of Salt has been eagerly awaited after its acclaimed Melbourne season — and not just because of that…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Mikado shouldn’t be missed Musical Theatre The Mikado
TO borrow from the most amusing number in this musical fun fest, the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company’s presentation of Gilbert & Sullivan’s deservedly most…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Women take (over) the stage THEATRE The Oldest Profession
THERE was a time when actresses complained that there were too few stage roles for them, particularly if they were no longer in the full flush of youth…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Touching indigenous theatre THEATRE Aliva
IN many respects this is the best and most effective Aboriginal play this reviewer has seen. Setting aside the fact that it has…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Jerusalem String Quartet superb MUSIC Friends of IPO Concert Beethoven Quartet No.1 in F Minor Shostakovich Quartet No.3 in F Major
IT would be easy to be less than objective about a performance by these four young Israelis. They range in age from 21 to 24,…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Rachid Taha En Concert Sydney À Sydney
L'Alliance Française de Sydney, Juminz Productions présentent en collaboration avec l'Ambassade de France en Australie, 2 concerts uniques pour un artiste unique, qui promet d'être événement unique, Rachid Taha à Sydney les 1S et 19 octobre2001 auBasement; Tickets e àpartir du 20 septembre…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Young JCA dance-party success
ONE of Sydney’s popular nightclubs, City Live at Fox Studios, was the venue for Young JCA’s major Sunday Nite Live fundraiser…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Enigmatic work by Obarzanek THEATRE Water ballet The Chunky Move company’s Hydra
THE Melbourne-based Chunky Move contemporary dance company’s Hydra (Glen Street Theatre) has something in common with the New Theatre’s play,…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Balletic poetry in motion Contemporary Dance Birdbrain
LET’S get the title of this modern ballet out of the way. It may refer to the classic Swan Lake, unfairly perhaps suggesting the ballet itself, or that Odette/Odile, is or are…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Music, dance with Sephardi flavour
TAKE a dash of Sephardi music, throw in some dance and poetry, and you get a musical aptly titled The Eternal Rose. Produced and performed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Hot dance party for teenagers
DEGREES Celsius is the theme of a Masada College prefects dance party for all Sydney Jewish students in Years 9-12 on Sunday evening. Proceeds from the event, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →out & about 300 at concert
THE B’nai B’rith Singers sang to 300 guests at the B’nai B’rith Centre recently, many of them members of the Burger Centre, COA, Jewish Folk…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Realistic theatre, multiplied by four Realist Theatre Roulette Program B
MY night at the Belvoir Street Theatre to see Roulette was at first confusing. I did not realise that in each of the theatre’s two auditoriums (the Upstairs and…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Graduate lives up to its hype THEATRE The Graduate
AS one of the very few people who have never seen Mike Nichols’ 1967 film The Graduate, I cannot say how the current stage version at the Theatre Royal differs…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →israeli theatre
LUNCH and lecture featuring Dr Isaac Benabu of the Department of Theatre Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, talking on…
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