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Trevor Jamieson recently spoke with Aussie Theatre’s Dione Joseph about his involvement with the Sydney Theatre Company production of The Secret River and its importance to him as an Indigenous Australian. The Secret River (2005) by Kate Grenville has been no stranger to controversy. An acclaimed Australian novel it is…
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Matthew Whittet’s School Dance is an Adelaide import, but you’re going to feel as though it was mined right out of the absorbed memory of the walls of whichever specific auditorium, gymnasium, or Scout Hall where your own high school dances took place. It’s not easy to create a piece of…
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Writer/performer Matthew Whittet recently took time out to chat with Bethany Simons about the creation of his award winning production School Dance, currently grooving at the Sydney Festival. Inspired by personal experiences and the “totally awesome” 1980’s, the dreaded school social is brought to life in Windmill Theatre Company’s latest…
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The Secret River is a play that will settle into the Australian theatrical canon and remain there for a very long time. Sprawling, profound, and often unsettling, it does as Hamlet insists theatre should do, and holds a mirror up to nature. Adapted by Andrew Bovell from Kate Grenville’s best-selling…
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“Adapting a book is always about letting go” - Ben Neutze speaks with Andrew Bovell about his new latest Australian work, Secret River (adapted from Kate Grenville’s novel The Secret River) soon to premiere at the Sydney Theatre Company. It was one of the most successful and controversial Australian books of the past…
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Sydney Theatre Company’s season closer Mariage Blanc says a lot about sexuality and identity, sometimes subtly, sometimes not so much. The plot is fairly simple – two young sisters have very different sexual awakenings. One lustful and gluttonous craves attention and finds joy in expressing herself sexually, the other, about to…
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Sarah Goodes, Kip Williams and Sarah Giles will take up positions of Co Resident Directors at Sydney Theatre Company from 1 January 2013 as part of Andrew Upton’s vision for his solo Artistic Directorship of the company. Each will direct a main stage show in 2013. As part of their…
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Pirates of Penzance is one of those pieces that tend to both get stuck in your head after you see it and also get revived all the time, so it’s hard to both a) get it out of your head when you could see it so often, and b) find…
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There is something quietly disquieting about the set. It’s simplistic yet beautiful — a room in a farmhouse jutting out from a corner, the rest of the stage the property. A tree cut out from the backdrop and backlit to fit the scene. Reddish-brown highlights; the colour of bushland. Leaves and…
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The note at the beginning of the program for Face to Face proudly states that the creative minds behind it – while undeniable Bergman fans – have not, to a man, seen the Bergman movie their stage play is adapting. This is followed by the statement: “This is a deliberate…
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