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24/09/2016

No dreams here: STC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is my favourite of all Shakespeare’s plays. You can read me bang on about it on numerous occasions on this blog...
14/09/2016

Geeks bearing myths: Montague Basement’s Metamorphoses

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After going from strength to strength in their first two years, Sydney-based collective Montague Basement have decided to speak of ‘forms ...
12/09/2016

Rock this ground: Shakespeare’s Globe’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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This is celebrating Shakespeare in the truest possible way: come in, drink beer, shout at the stage, come and go as you please and get in...
07/08/2016

The secret history: STC’s The Hanging

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People disappear all the time.  Ask any policeman.  Better yet, ask a journalist…  Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or ali...
31/07/2016

A dream Dream: Theatre for A New Audience’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps Shakespeare’s most perennially evergreen play, in that its magic, beauty, strangeness and wonder neve...
29/07/2016

Copping Flack: Belvoir’s Twelfth Night

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Shakespeare’s festive comedies – A Midsummer Night’s Dream , As You Like It , and Twelfth Night – are bound within a series of strict soci...
14/07/2016

Fallen from the sky: Ensemble’s A History of Falling Things

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This piece was originally written for artsHub . A romantic-co medy about two keraunothnetophobes, James Graham’s A History of Fal...
01/07/2016

Sport for Jove's Away

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Michael Gow ’s Away is something of a mainstay on the high school syllabus, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a student who hasn’t studied...
26/06/2016

Nowra or never: Don’t Look Away’s Inner Voices

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First produced in 1977 at the Nimrod (now Belvoir) Downstairs theatre, Louis Nowra ’s Inner Voices was written in the middle of the ‘New W...
24/06/2016

The karate kid: Belvoir & Stuck Pigs Squealing’s Back at the Dojo

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The world according to Lally Katz is one populated with fortune tellers, Hungarian neighbours, golems, forgotten vaudeville troupes, the Ap...