Theatre Archive

“What can I say about this cast – You’re The One That I Want!” enthused Australian theatre producer John Frost this week when he introduced his new production, the iconic Grease, in the ABC studios in Ultimo, Sydney. The show stars Rob …

It’s 2005, and some of Sydney’s most violent riots are about to take place in Cronulla. The Capulets and Montagues are at each other’s throats again, this time in the guise of the Skips vs the Lebs. The floorboards are creaking and …

Moving Parts, which opened on July 25 at the NIDA Parade theatre,  is an intense two-hander with two excellent actors facing off: Colins Friels and Josh McConville. This is a play about time: the ravages of time and people marking time, but …

What a surprise when Ian and Ben visit their recently widowed father in Sydney and discover a fresh new fiancée from the United States. He is 75, worth $100 billion and she is 32, ex-beauty queen, passionate Christian and member of the …

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 …