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Review of Tales from the Vienna Woods (Sydney Theatre Company)

November 28th 2007 00:46

Tales from the Vienna Woods - Sydney Theatre Company - 2007

C_P: This is the election night special of the Sydney Theatre blog… Important things first: shock, horror -- Hayley McElhinney goes topless in this play.

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Review of Riflemind (Sydney Theatre Company)

November 12th 2007 10:57

Riflemind - STC - Sydney Theatre Company

CP: This interview has been a long time coming. How long ago did you actually see Riflemind?

HAL: Hmm... a good time ago

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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 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 Love Lies Bleeding (Sydney Theatre Company)

July 19th 2007 21:30

You walk in on a very well-lit set -- I've never seen Wharf 1 so bright -- to find a sandy desert stage. It's bare but for a couch and two chairs, on one of which rests an old man, unmoving, attached to a drip feeder. The old man will sit immobile for the next 100 minutes, until he rises to take a bow, at which point the audience will laugh -- perhaps uncertain, right up to the last second, whether it's an actor or a dummy.

In the meantime, earlier versions of Alex Macklin (played very capably by Max Cullen) will eerily re-enact events in front of him, and the question of euthanasing him will be debated by his family. Maybe he hears them, maybe he doesn't. The case for the affirmative is pushed by his increasingly angry son Sean (Benjamin Winspear) and his increasingly reluctant second wife Toinette (Robyn Nevin) -- the old patriarch was independent and larger than life, and he never would have wanted this, and how can we go on waiting. Whereas his fourth wife Lia (Paula Arundell) resists the pair, because, sure, Macklin's brain has shrunk, but there's still some life in him, and he never expressed any suicidal preferences although he knew this would happen, and do you want to kill him for his own sake or for yours, and whatever remains of him is what he is, and what right do we have to take that

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