Relying on the kindness of strangers
NEW works often need well-heeled backers.
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Rare heartstopping moments
PATRONS were saved from too much introspection by Timothy Ohl.
Making an impact on the edge
EDINBURGH’S Fringe is an epic event for punters and players.
Dedicated to pure movement
THIS is Tao Dance Theatre’s Australian debut but dance fans have clearly marked the company down as one to watch.
Grandmasters play a Cold War game
THE central work of this year’s Production Company offerings is a new staging of Chess.
Playwright sniffs hit in Murdoch story
DAVID Williamson has never shied away from tackling big issues, but he has always cloaked in fiction the people he skewered.
Emotional truths in time of plenty
SIDI Larbi Cherkaoui’s spirit of inquiry is apparently boundless.
Freedom finds feet in shifting sands
A FLAMENCO diva and a contemporary dancer wandered through the desert of southern Morocco looking for inspiration.
Noted women sound warnings on division
IT is almost 30 years since Top Girls, Caryl Churchill’s play about class, gender and Thatcherism, opened at London’s Royal Court.
Friels’ illness postpones more shows
COLIN Friels remains in hospital and will not be able to perform in the Victorian season of Death of a Salesman this week.
Step up for choice at WA Ballet
THE West Australian Ballet has once again looked to Europe for inspiration.
Dark tales of a dystopic world
A HARBINGER is a messenger, foreshadowing what is to come.
It’s show time
WITH Robert Helpmann’s ballet The Display returning to the stage, it’s timely to recall the irrepressible man and his extravagant talent.
Friels to return after collapse
COLIN Friels hopes to return to the stage as Willy Loman tomorrow after the actor collapsed during a Sydney performance of Death of a Salesman.
Scandalously funny
EIGHTY years before Aaron Sorkin’s TV series The Newsroom there was The Front Page, a stage sitcom with a jet black border.
Colin Friels collapses on stage
COLIN FRIELS remains in hospital following his collapse during Death of a Salesman last night.
Upton doesn’t blanch at solo STC gig
WHEN Andrew Upton flew to New York last month it wasn’t just to see his wife, Cate Blanchett, in a production of Uncle Vanya.
For Upton, it’s words that count
THE fate of the former Wharf Restaurant is emblematic of Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton’s time at Sydney Theatre Company.
Tantalising take on Oedipus
THIS version of the Oedipus tale is more interested in psychoanalysing his old man than the relationship between mother and son.
Nightmares lie beneath
THE Splinter is about a lost child found again, a father who turns creepy and a mother who wants things to go back to normal.
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