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Theatre Works final show for Midsumma is Margie Fischer’s most recent work, The Dead Ones, and she has a chat to Anne-Marie Peard. Margie is a writer and performer who founded Feast, Adelaide’s Queer Festival, and describes describes herself as a very funny Jewish lesbian. This show’s about what happened when…
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The Theatre Works Midsumma program has started with the sold out Psycho Beach Party and promises to continue being awesome with Sydney Fringe favourite Here Lies Henry opening on 22 January. Henry has an aversion to telling the truth, but actor Matthew Hyde doesn’t mind chatting with Anne-Marie Peard. Describe…
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Melbourne’s Midsumma festival has been celebrating queer culture for 25 years and officially runs from 13 January to 3 February. Theatre Works starts a couple days early with Psycho Beach Party opening on 11 January. When people in the town are attacked in strange sado-masochistic ways, it is up to…
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We catch up with the indomitable Genevieve Lemon, who joined the cast of The Mousetrap for its highly anticipated return Sydney season this month. Most recently seen on stage in Belvoir St. Theatre’s production of Death of a Salesman, Lemon is well known for her portrayal of gritty dance teacher Mrs. Wilkinson in the…
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Bridgette Burton has been writing for theatre since the early 1990s and formed Baggage Productions with Christina Costigan in 1999, a company dedicated to original work for women. She won the R E Ross Trust Playwrights Script Development Award in 2005 (Killing Jeremy) and again in 2009 (Rhonda is in…
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The PlaySix annual short play festival was founded in 2006 to provide exposure to the work of emerging and established playwrights and to act as a networking forum for Melbourne actors and directors. Directed by Shannon Woollard, the seventh festival takes place 13–15 December at the Williamstown Little Theatre. Melissa…
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Melbourne actor and director Shannon Woollard performs in Death of a Comedian by Fred Rowan that opens at the La Mama Courthouse tonight. A battered survivor of 80s Aussie comedy is ready to take on audiences again, but this time it’s really a game of survival. What three words best describe…
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Tom Jeffcote is the writer/producer Picasso’s Goldfinch, playing Perth’s Blue Room Theatre from 30th October to 17th November 2012. Tom’s previous work includes the book Facing Drugs - a guide for families and counsellors which was published in Australia, Poland, Holland and Estonia and the play Tough Love which resulted in nominations for best actor and…
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Acclaimed cabaret artist Toby Francis returns to the stage for one night only on Monday 19 November at The Basement to present his latest show The King Is Dead: Long Live Queen. Big, boisterous and unapologetically camp this new cabaret takes the iconic music of Queen and weaves it between ruminations on childhood, self-doubt,…
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Kathleen Douglas moved to Victoria from Perth to study Music Theatre in the inaugural Bachelor of Music Theatre course at VCA. No longer a student, she has taken the independent theatre world by storm working on workshops and performing with The Improv Conspiracy around Melbourne. Kathleen will be starring in…
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