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Nearly 800 University of Sydney students joined a historic student general meeting at Eastern Avenue Auditorium on Wednesday, August 7. The meeting, organised by the University of Sydney Students’ Representative Council (SRC), aimed to vote on two pro-Palestine motions. The first motion …

Walking into WildThingProduction’s Seventeen at the Seymour Centre, we were instantly taken back to high school. The stage had been covered in AstroTurf. There was a broken swing-set, a graffitied table and even a bubbler, small details designed to spark our own …

  Acknowledging the inevitability of death seems to be all the rage at the moment, what with the TV series Swedish Death Cleaning and Ray Martin considering his burial/funeral options on his three-part doco on the ABC, but British playwright Laura Wade’s …

Music is the language of us all The Cat Empire’s latest show at the Sydney Opera House was an electrifying display of the band’s capacity to escape all limits of genre. Performing for the first time alongside the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the …

Melanie Tait’s new play is a comedy drama centred on Marion ‘Crawfie’ Crawford, the dedicated nanny/governess to the two little girls who would become better known to the world as Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret. Those who have an inkling of …

Thirty years ago on the night of Monday 5 September, 1994 Cabramatta MP John Newman was shot and fatally wounded in the driveway of his home. The murder made headlines around the world and Newman was given a state funeral. Vietnamese-born former …

This production of Gaslight is a beautifully polished work that keeps audiences guessing – no mean feat for period drama. In their clever adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play, Johnna Wright and Patty Jamieson have kept the nuances of Victorian Gothic but …

What a lively and sparkling adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya this is. Joanna Murray-Smith has brought out the comedy in this tale of lives blighted by disillusionment and ennui without losing the melancholy underlying the tale. Her contemporary dialogue is so easy …

Neil Simon wrote this wonderful comedy in 1965, and if it were a novel that would make it ‘historical’ fiction. As a play perhaps it is a period piece? Whatever, because it is about human idiosyncrasy it remains, under the direction of …

  An epic play and an epic performance from Robert Menzies as the cantankerous, incredulous and increasingly befuddled old monarch who loses his grip on his mind as he gives away his kingdom. The play was first performed in 1606, in the …