Monthly Archives: January, 2019

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Theatre Now Review: The Big Time

Who doesn’t want to make it big? And who wouldn’t do anything to get there? Playwright David Williamson knows all about theatre, film and everyone...

On Sounds Review: Alchemy

A delightful Sunday afternoon tea at the Independent in North Sydney and an even more delightful classical guitar duet performed by Andrew Blanch and...

On The Scree Review: Antony & Cleopatra

Con's Score:4.5 Asps The greatest love story ever told is the subject of this month’s NT Live production, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo. Marc Antony...

Theatre Now Review: Beware Of Pity

Before the play begins, we are aware of director Simon McBurney’s Complicite style infusing Schaubuhne Berlin’s Beware of Pity, a stage adaptation of Stefan...

Theatre Now Review: Herringbone

Set in 1929, the story is of a struggling family from Alabama at the start of the Depression. Hopes are dashed when a wealthy...

On The Screen Review: Capharnaüm

Con's Score: 4.5 sugar-coated ice cubes The title means ‘Chaos’ in Arabic in this story about a young 12 year-old boy who sues his parents ‘For...

Theatre Now Review: Le Gateau Chocolat

We all have role models and people (or other) that we’ve looked up to in our lives, who’ve given us strength through difficult periods,...

Theatre Now Perth Review: Front

 4.5 STARS – Must See FRONT, is a rowdy, comical collision of egos that pits friendship against fame through the exploits of fictional band Rough...

On The Screen Review: Free Solo

Con's Score: 4 Big Boulders Free soloing is a mental affliction that compels rock climbers to scale cliff faces without a rope. (Well, you can't...

Theatre Now Review: The Nutcracker And I

Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker in its original form was not a huge success. His distilled abbreviation was. But nothing like its success now. Sometime around...

Theatre Now Review: The Weekend: By Henrietta Baird

Henrietta Baird’s debut one-woman play was first showcased as a development piece as part of Yellamundie National First Peoples Playwriting Festival in 2017 (2019's event is...

Theatre Now Review: Counting and Cracking

It is always a delight to have a world premiere of a homegrown production in the Sydney Festival.  Counting and Cracking is written by...