Arts & Letters: Theatre
CULTURE
Bowing to the Bard: John Bell’s 'On Shakespeare'
Louis Nowra
Watching him rehearse was one of the most fascinating experiences I’ve had in the theatre. In 1980 John Bell was playing the protagonist in...
More ...The Diary of a Maestro: Meeting Neil Armfield
Jana Wendt
We are approximately an hour into Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure – first performed in 1604 – when a phone rings on stage. The appliance...
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Writing from the Grave: Eugene O’Neill’s 'Long Day’s Journey into Night'
Peter Conrad
Eugene O’Neill thought of his Long Day’s Journey into Night as a posthumous work. Completing it in 1941, he decided that it should only be...
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Divine Comedy: The Personae of Barry Humphries
Peter Conrad
In 1987 on her British talk show, Dame Edna Everage abruptly asked Sir John Mills when he intended to retire – a tactless query, expressed...
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The Comeback Kid: Eddie Perfect’s 'Shane Warne: The Musical'
Gideon Haigh
Consider these three vignettes from the storied life of Shane Warne, involving something that happened, then something that didn't, then...
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As You Like It: An interview with Geoffrey Rush
Peter Craven
Geoffrey Rush's last appearance on an Australian stage was in 2002, with Life x 3, in which he and his wife, Jane Menelaus, transfigured...
More ...POLITICS
A West Side Story: Casey Bennetto’s 'Keating!'
Robert Forster
So, what is this? Casey Bennetto, the author of Keating! and one of the lead actors in it, says that it was first written as a "...
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Awaken the Gods: Barrie Kosky’s ‘The Lost Echo’
Edward Scheer
Barrie Kosky is going to be pissed off. No booing, no heckling, no rotten fruit, no veal cutlets (yes, an Italian audience once threw these...
More ...Interrogation Dances: The Making of 'Honour Bound'
Caroline Baum
In the first week of August, two shows opened in Sydney: an arena-scale production of the hit musical The Boy from Oz, and Honour Bound, a...
More ...For the Love of Goat: Edward Albee’s 'The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia?'
Edward Scheer
Australian theatre can be predictable: middle-class melodramas with the inevitable living-room setting, neurotic characters vaguely...
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7 February 2012
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