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‘No Love Songs’ Review: Why So Many Love Songs?
No Love Songs Review: Why So Many Love Songs? I truly had no idea what to expect from the brand-new Foundry Theatre’s first musical production: No Love Songs, a two-hander starring Keegan Joyce (Rake, Please Like Me) and Lucy Maunder (Chicago, Mary Poppins), touts itself as simply a modern love-story. Its reality is much…
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Before I Forget: A Review Of The ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ Series
If you’re looking for a simple autumn read that you can have a crack at while having brekky, I can recommend a cosy series about a time-travelling café that provides its customers the closure they so desperately seek (with some caveats). As fond as I’ve grown to become of this series, Before the Coffee Gets…
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Identity, Visibility, and Pride: The Importance of The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade
Identity, Visibility, and Pride: The Importance of The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade By Edwina Cooke Affectionately dubbed “Gay Christmas”, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a celebration of visibility, community, and pride. Beyond the loud music and bright lights there is also a deep history. The Sydney Mardi Gras…
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Merrigong presents Trent Dalton’s ‘Love Stories’ at IPAC
Love, apparently, is three good things, so these are mine: my grandma, telling me she was the first person to see me when I was born; my best friend, sending me flowers from halfway across the world on my birthday because she just wanted me to know she loved me; and Guns N Roses, because…
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Merrigong Theatre Company presents The Queen’s Nanny at IPAC
Merrigong Theatre Company presents The Queen’s Nanny at the IPAC theatre from the 16th to the 19th of October. I had the pleasure of speaking with director, Priscilla Jackman where we spoke about the story and context of the play in a short interview. Here’s what I found: SERENA: Could you start with an overview…
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Merrigong presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at the IPAC from 5th-15th September
Merrigong presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at the IPAC from the 5th – 15th September. I had the pleasure of attending on opening night and the performance quite literally had me at the edge of my seat the whole time. The stage was lavishly set as a 1950s living room of a newly-wed couple’s grand…
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Merrigong presented Jurrungu Ngan-Ga [Straight Talk] at the IPAC
I recently had the privilege of attending “Jurrungu Ngan-Ga [Straight Talk],” a powerful dance and theatre performance at the IPAC Merrigong Theatre. This thought-provoking show combined evocative dance with poignant acting to address the harrowing experiences of wrongly imprisoned Indigenous Australians, while also touching on the broader themes of injustice and displacement. The performance opened…
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Donné Restom presents two new shows in Sydney Fringe this week: an interview
Donné Restom, a Central-Coast-based playwright, storyteller, singer and mum, presents two new productions at the Sydney Fringe Festival this week. ‘Kink in the Tale: Storytelling for Grownups’ – a collection of stories about sex, intimacy and our kinky quirks told live on stage and ‘Everyone in my family is dead or about to be’ –…
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The Apartment – Film Review Fridays
The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder “Ya know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe; I mean, shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand, and there you were.” You will never have an experience like watching Billy Wilder’s 1960 masterpiece The Apartment for the first time.…