POSTED ON // Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Written by // Cec Busby
The last time Yana Alana was at Sydney Festival, she was performing in the nude painted blue from head to toe. Though she’ll be covered up in 2017, the cabaret star will still be laying it all bare,
POSTED ON // Sunday, 27 November 2016
Written by // Veronica Hannon
Actor/playwright Michael Christofer was at the very beginning of his career when he was conceiving this play about people facing death in California. It is also about family, and in this, his award winning 1977 drama, he offers three portraits of three very different families after life has piled its stones on top of them.
POSTED ON // Friday, 28 October 2016
Written by // Veronica Hannon
Well, after some truly woeful re-imaginings of BCE classics on our stages in recent years, I’m happy to report Sophocles and Sport for Jove make an exciting match.
POSTED ON // Thursday, 20 October 2016
Written by // Veronica Hannon
At their launch, last November, the directorate of The National Theatre of Parramatta (NToP) promised to present works highlighting voices uncommon on our stages. Who Speaks for Me? co-produced with Performance 4a, certainly, fits the bill.
POSTED ON // Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Written by // Cec Busby
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s cult story of fashion, fame, obsession and seduction takes flight in a new all-female production at the Old Fitzroy Theatre.
