Theatre Archive

With the federal election date likely to be called this weekend, The Hansard Monologues is a great refresher for those still uncertain about their vote. The verbatim play is a fascinating recap of the 43rd Parliament of Australia, bringing the remarkable highlights and …

English playwright Peter Schaffer’s speculations on a gruesome crime in which a seventeen-year-old blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk draw out bizarre confidences between Alan Strang and his psychiatrist. It’s the controversial drama that’s previously attracted the talents of Anthony …

One family is a well-to-do southern suburbs family, the other an immigrant family from Sydney’s west. Older, cooler heads – and police commissioner Prince – try vainly to turn back the tide of hatred, passion and bloodshed.  A beach party crashed, insults …

  If you could invite five famous women from history to a dinner party, who would you pick? Marlene, the savvy businesswoman of Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls chooses a colourful bunch of real and fictional figures to wine and dine. In …

Australian voters are sick of slogans, political spin and lack of substantive issue-based debate. So The Hansard Monologues: A Matter of Public Importance couldn’t have chosen a more appropriate time to premiere its people-friendly political clarion call. Now more than ever, in …

You could be forgiven for thinking you were in an Amphitheatre on a cliff somewhere in the Mediterranean, not on Sydney Harbour watching a rare performance of the Jean Racine classic Phedre. The elegant but sharp Ted Hughes translation of the Racine …

Forty-seven majestic horses, stars of the multimedia and acrobatic spectacular Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Human and Horse, arrived at the Entertainment Quarter at Moore Park yesterday. The trailers transporting the four-legged stars are the last to arrive of the 90 semi-trailers …

They’re playing our song  Theatre Royal, Friday May 3, 2013 The opening song “Fallin” returned the audience to the late 1970s; well-structured melodic songs reminiscent of Bert Bacharach, Elton John or Peter Allen. They’re playing our song  premiered in Los Angeles in 1978 …

Patrick White’s 1947 play The Ham Funeral is the stuff of legend. It was inspired by William Dobell’s painting The Dead Landlord, and loosely based on White’s recollections as a young man in London. White’s absurdist tragicomedy is a visionary text written …

The unrepentant but charismatic reprobate Falstaff owns the stage in Bell Shakespeare’s latest work, Henry 4, now at the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre until May 26. John Bell has always wanted to play Falstaff, and it shows. He throws himself into the role with evident …