My brother Bernard put his finger on what was wrong with this reading. One of the actors acted. I’ve never thought to articulate this before, but it is quite a different matter to read a part than to act it. Probably you have to be a reader to appreciate this and coming from a family [...]
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The Battle for Troy at the Stork theatre
Posted in theatre, tagged Battle for Troy, Battle of Troy, Homer, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, Stork Theatre on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
West East theatre starts up in Melbourne.
Posted in theatre, tagged Ezra Bix, Forty five Downstairs, Frank McGuinness, Richard Stables, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Trent Baker, West East Theatre on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness
fortyfivedownstairs
45 Flinders Lane Melbourne
Three men sit in front of you in chains for a couple of hours.
If you want to know what it is like, the situation of hostages – it could be anywhere, but this time it is Beirut – go to see the dramatisation of [...]
What if Emma Bovary had seen Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk?
Posted in theatre, tagged Adrian Mulraney, Colin Duckworth, Emmaline Carroll, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Opera Australia, Shostakovitch, Stork Theatre, Who Killed Emma Bovary on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Thursday I had the good fortune to see Shostakovitch’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. It was the depiction of a woman in the provinces of mid-nineteenth century Russia married to an impotent dullard, with a father-in-law whose own lecherous feelings towards her made him see her as a licentious whore. If she is not one [...]
Realism by Paul Galloway at MTC
Posted in theatre, tagged Copenhagen Michael Frayn, Melbourne Theatre Company, realism Paul Galloway, Red Stitch on April 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I can recall the last time the MTC did something that excited me. It was Copenhagen and it was too long ago. If you want safe, professional theatre the MTC’s the place. If you want something that will excite you like you haven’t been excited since your first ever visit to the theatre, go to [...]
Stork Theatre is back!
Posted in theatre on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This has got to be the highlight of the year for Melbourne theatre-goers.
My first experience of Stork was, alas, only a couple of years ago when I went to one of their famed Camus productions: The Outsider. I was hooked. Stork’s unique claim to fame might be that it specialises in the dramatisation of literature, [...]
