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Sydney Theatre - September 2007

Review of Bone (Ride On productions)

September 26th 2007 23:14
Cultural_philistine dragged Google_fanboy to the Seymour Centre, then harrassed him for feedback. Here are the search results.

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Review of Don's Party (Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company)

September 26th 2007 03:26
Cultural_philistine watches HAL_9000 give the thumbs up to the STC's latest blockbuster.

Don's Party - David Williamson - STC - 2007

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Review of Mongrels (Actors College of Theatre & Television)

September 24th 2007 07:37
Mongrels, by Nick Enright, in a production by the graduating class of the Actors College of Theatre and Television, has just finished its run in Surry Hills.

Cultural_philistine extracted some thoughts from HAL_9000


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Some lyrics from Keating! (Belvoir St Theatre)

September 21st 2007 02:59
Company B's production of Keating!, by Casey Bennetto, is returning for another season at the Seymour Centre from Wednesday 7 November to Thursday 13 December 2007. For further info, check out the Belvoir St Theatre website.

Following are some extracts from the lyrics (from the CD jacket). The soundtrack is available for $30 from the Belvoir box office


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Confessions of a community theater critic (LINK)

September 20th 2007 02:09
Had to link to this article by John Barry, who writes for the Baltimore City Paper. Some extracts from it below.

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Review of Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train (Belvoir St Theatre)

September 18th 2007 23:35
Jesus hopped the A train - Stephen Adly Guirgis - Belvoir - 2007


It begins with a character mumbling in the dark, stumbling over the words of the Lord's Prayer, but pushing himself to keep going, while prisoners around him yell at him to shut the fuck up. You soon discover the man's name is Angel Cruz (played by Ryan Johnson), that he's 30-years-old and Puerto Rican, that he tried to save his friend from a religious group, and that he's charged with attempted murder of the preacher ("But I just shot him in the ass


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Review of The Memory of Water (Whoosh Productions) and Hooters

September 17th 2007 23:12
The Memory of Water, by Shelagh Stephenson, has just finished its run at Parramatta, and is returning to the Darlinghurst Theatre for one week only.

Cultural_philistine spoke to a reluctant Mr_Archives and to HAL_9000 (just a little bit -- apologies for ignoring you for most of the conversation!) about their theatre and dining experience


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Review of Rabbit Hole (Ensemble Theatre)

September 17th 2007 01:50
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire - Ensemble Theatre - 2007
The Pulitzer prize-winning Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire is an exploration of how parents cope after the sudden loss of a child. The play is one of the more serious put on at the Ensemble Theatre this season.

Lorraine Bayly is an absolute delight to watch in the role of supportive mother Nat, trying to comfort her daughter Becca (played by Georgie Parker). Although Becca is meant to be grief-stricken and distant, Parker appears cold and wooden at times, especially compared to the rest of the cast. Mark Kilmurry shows great tenderness as Howie, Becca's husband


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Review of The Small Things (Splinter Theatre Company)

September 10th 2007 02:27
Cultural_philistine interviews HAL_9000 for thoughts on The Small Things, which has just finished its run at Belvoir Downstairs.

The Small Things - Splinter Theatre Company - Belvoir St Theatre

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Review of Constellations (PACT Youth Theatre)

September 10th 2007 00:55
Constellations - PACT Theatre - Seymour Centre
The carpet's been pulled back to transform Seymour downstairs into a concrete room, and it's bare and it's dirty and it's urban. There are projector screens at the back of the stage, two stand-up microphones, and a small TV resting on the floor, which does occasional duty as a modern-day campfire for the angsty youths to gather around.

The youths deliver a series of monologues about their unpredictable hang-ups (usually discrimination-based) and preoccupations (TV, soccer, drugs, clubbing...). Pretty much all of the characters (it's unclear, incidentally, on a first viewing, how many there are, though one presumes there are six main ones) -- pretty much all the characters are queer, or indigenous, or part of a minority racial group, or some mixture of the above


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Review of Angry Young Women in Low-Rise Jeans with High-Class Issues (Stella Green Productions)

September 3rd 2007 21:36
Angry young women in low-rise jeans with high-class issues by Matt Morillo


Matt Morillo hits the g-spot in his play Angry Young Women in Low-Rise Jeans with High-Class Issues, which deals variously with the threat of “clit-cleavage”, a virgin rudely inducted into how men think about sex, a woman on an emotional rollercoaster after taking the pill, a serial dater looking for the perfect man, an actress having second thoughts about a nude scene


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