“Eftihia – Life Has Two Doors” written by Helen Yiotis, is playing at La Mama Courthouse Theatre this weekend, and next Sunday, but unfortunately, tickets are sold out. Part of a Greek play trilogy programmed over three weeks, Eftihia –…
Women in khaki. Long, hot, hours tending to the sick and wounded in a desert hospital, with scant resources. Calls home where you can’t speak to your children. The challenges of enlistment in the early 20th century in a Victorian country…
Reviving the classic tale of cross-cultural illicit love in 1929s North Vietnam, Laurence Strangio’s long-awaited adaptation of this tale of transgressive love is immaculately rendered in The Lover, showing for only three nights as part of La Mama Theatre’s Explorations…
Warning: strong masculine themes. ‘Rust and Bone’, directed by Daniel Clarke, is a violent portrayal of today’s Everyman. Welcome to the testosterone- and adrenaline-induced world of Eddie, James, and Ben. The script, by Caleb Lewis, combines the three men’s stories….
You might assume being appointed Australia’s first playwright-in-residence (1944), coupled with a prodigious output across many decades, might mean you weren’t a footnote in national literary lore. However, the 1955’s Playwright’s Advisory Board’s co-winner for her play ‘The Torrents’ (beside…
Have you ever fantasised about hanging out for a day with Virginia Woolf? Walking the streets of London beside her as she thrashes around new ideas — with some funny jokes tossed in? With Sentient Theatre’s novel show ‘A Room Of…
Have you ever wondered about the absurdity of it all? Have you ever had an entirely inappropriate emotional reaction to a real life tragedy? If you have, then Stork Theatre’s production of Albert Camus’ The Outsider is an excellent…
Midsumma Festival is currently underway, and the city is filled with a sense of freedom and a hope that same sex marriage is not too far away. The violent events of the many unsolved cases of missing gay men from…