The Gala Palais Theatre, St Kilda
The Gala is a comedy marathon, with about 20 acts lining up for a 3 hour showcase of the Festival. Any marathon runner will tell you than marathons are…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 2002
151 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 8
Arts A theatre where you decide what you watch
TWO former Sydney Kosher Theatresports exponents have launched a theatre company which allows the audience…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Male Corr accepts he may not be the reason for the band's popularity
DUBLIN, Monday: The sole male member of the popular Irish group The Corrs yesterday conceded for the first time that he may not be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →3 Canadians Ben Hur Digitally Remastered RMIT Capitol Theatre (opposite Town Hall) 8:30pm 28 March - 21 April
The Three Canadians present an updated version of Ben Hur complete with a flotilla of accents lifted from Woody Allen movies, some quality breaking of the fourth wall and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Images of the Holocaust Title: Pictures of a Strange Town: A Story of the Terezin Ghetto Publisher: Herstona Press, 159 pp, $20.00
SO much about the Holocaust…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Simcha pictures Bar Mitzvah Celebration
Sam Jacobson celebrated his bar mitzvah at Chabad Double Bay recently. He is pictured with his grandfather, Gerald Jacobson (left), and father, Ivor Jacobson…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Communicating with the deaf — through theatre
CHICAGO — Incredible as it may seem, there is a group of Israelis who have not heard a word about the violence. They are deaf. The treatment of the deaf in Israel,…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Dreaming about the future Indigenous Theatre The Dreamers
JACK Davis’ 20-year-old indigenous theatre classic is given every chance of winning a new and perhaps more sympathetic following at the Belvoir Street Theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Umbilical Brothers Speedmouse Athenaeum Theatre 28 March - 21 April
There are going to be very few opportunities in your life to see physical humour of this calibre. Breathtakingly tight and yet astonishingly diverse, the Umbies have an…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Cops On Heat The Interrogation Room Athenaeum Theatre 11pm 28th March -21st April
In The Interrogation Room, the Cops team, containing some of Australia's best improvisers, acts out scenes from their special guests' lives…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Carl Barron Just muckin around RMIT Capitol Theatre 7.00pm 4th April- 14th April
You won't see a tighter hour of straight stand-up in this Festival, which is probably why Carl Barron is playing to packed audiences every night. (By the way, he starts…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →haughty culture Next! Kara Greiner tells us all about yet another David Williamson play, After The Ball
Australia's best known and most widely performed playwright, David Williamson, is being honoured…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Astral Cabaret All a Band a Medial Mus[?]omedy Rhumbaralla's (Brunswick St) Tue- Sat 8:00pm, Sun 2:00pm
All A Bawd is the best medievil musicomedy you'll ever see. But you still shouldn't see it. Curiously, The Astral Cabaret has chosen a thin medieval premise to deliver material…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tara Flynn, Ian Coppjnger & Brendan Dempsey Cream of Irish Athenaeum Theatre 8.15pm 28th March - 21st April
Irish comedians have a natural advantage over other Festival acts with an accent that sounds like they're constantly joking. Even as the host innocently asked the audience to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →3 Canadians Ben Hur Digitally Remastered RMIT Capitol Theatre (opposite Town Hall) 8:30pm 28 March - 21 April
The Three Canadians present an updated version of Ben Hur complete with a flotilla of accents lifted from Woody Allen movies, some quality breaking of the fourth wall and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →reviews: melbourne comedy festival Pat-Trick & Gorgeous Gertrude What A Malarkey! Athenaeum Theatre II - 10:00pm 28th March - 20th April
Magic shows are often a haven for half-baked jokes, but Pat-Trick hasn't even bothered to buy the oven for this one. Pat is an extraordinary magician. While…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The week in pictures
An IDF soldier in Jenin passes a wall with a poster of Yasser Arafat. Twenty-three soldiers were killed in fighting in Jenin last week. Palestinian casualties are disputed: the IDF claims there were around 45 militants…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Arthur Miller’s first great play THEATRE All My Sons
ARTHUR Miller didn’t shake the world with his first play, The Man Who Had All the Luck, which played for just five performances on Broadway in 1944. But his…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →For Jewish widows, death becomes theatre
IT is hard work for actresses of a “certain age” to find good roles, according to Linal Haft, director of the premier production of the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Concert for seniors
MORE than 400 elderly people are expected to attend the 19th annual senior citizens community concert at North Shore Temple Emanuel on Sunday, April…
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