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Sydney Theatre - August 2007

Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sydney Theatre Company)

August 24th 2007 06:44
A Midsummer Night's Dream - STC - Sydney Theatre Company - 2007
If you don't know the plot, allow me to spoil it for you. Demetrius and Lysander (played by Martin Blum and Eden Falk) are both after an Athenian lass named Hermia (Hayley McElhinney -- and let's face it, who isn't?). Because of various shenanigans involving love charms and fairies (what are fairies doing in ancient Greece?), the boys switch their allegiance to another girl, Helena (Amber McMahon), while meanwhile Titania the queen of the fairies (Pamela Rabe) is deceived into pursuing Bottom, a lout with a donkey's head (Colin Moody). By the play's conclusion, Bottom gets back his noggin, the right couples wind up together, Shakespeare has attempted numberless jokes involving the word "ass", a crew of rough construction workers has performed a farcical play-within-the-play that drags out proceedings much further than they needed to go (the groundlings in the audience will lap it up), and Oberon the fairy king (Brandon Burke) has put Titania in her place, foolish woman.


All the interim complications will have passed as if in a dream, and future generations of academics will be given employment in arguing over possible interpretations


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Review of The Hollow (Genesian Theatre)

August 22nd 2007 01:26
The Hollow - Agatha Christie - Genesian Theatre 2007


Agatha Christie plays have a cult following at the Genesian Theatre and the theatre's latest offering will be sure to delight audiences. This is the only play that the Queen of Crime wrote herself; all other Agatha Christie plays are adaptations of her novels



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