Written by Tim Stackpool The Australian theatre and entertainment industry is lamenting the passing of Don Reid, actor, director, playwright, mentor and friend. More recently known for penning Codgers, the story of senior gentlemen who gather each week at the gym, in it Don tells of real life experiences as…
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Australian actor and playwright Don Reid passed away yesterday, leaving the arts community in shock. It is understood that Reid, a founding member of the Ensemble Theatre (Australia’s longest, continuously running professional theatre company) passed away around 5pm on Tuesday 9 April after sustaining a fall. Don, and his partner, actress Fiona Press…
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Guest reviewer David Wicks shares his thoughts on The Ensemble Theatre’s Frankenstein. I’m probably the wrong person to review Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre’s new production – FRANKENSTEIN. After all, at the age of 11 (before I discovered girls were much more fun) I became obsessed with the old black and white…
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My experiences so far as a theatre-goer have developed for me something of an understanding of what makes a performer great. They have to have phenomenal timing, devastating instincts, but most importantly of all, they have to be pretty well fearless in the face of risk. This sense of fearlessness makes…
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It’s hard to talk about the Ensemble Theatre’s new production, Lee Blessing’s Great Falls. It’s a play that is written to involve several controversial topics including divorce, rape, abortion and child abuse. And yet it’s not the subject matter that creates the sticking point when talking about the play. It’s…
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As much as I consider myself open to all forms of cultural influences, the “artworld” – in which specifically you are required to observe and appreciate paintings and sculpture – is something that has never fully clicked with me. I’m sure when I do finally get to see a Picasso…
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Four Flat Whites in Italy is an aptly named play. You’ll need at least that much caffeine to sit through it. A farce by nature, Four Flat Whites is a serviceable comedy populated with clichés and one-liners.
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A top cast has been assembled for the new Ensemble Theatre production of Rain Man, which opens in Sydney this week before it heads on tour. The stage production of Rain Man is an intimate adaptation of the Oscar winning film about two brothers who find themselves in each other. Charlie Babbitt (Alex Dimitriades) is…
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It is described as a dramatic tale of ambition, dreams and the hope of a brand new age of communication, and audiences are already raving about the Ensemble Theatre’s production of The Ruby Sunrise in Sydney. Who was the real inventor of television, John Logie Baird, Vladimir Zworykin or Philo…
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Musical theatre stars Sharon Millerchip and Nancye Hayes will both appear in productions at the Ensemble Theatre next year, but neither of them will be singing. Both Millerchip and Hayes will star in non-musical roles. Millerchip stars in the Neil Simon classic Last Of The Red Hot Lovers in November next year…
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