All posts tagged "Elena Carapetis"

Theatre Review: Antigone

A thought-provoking night in the theatre

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The Gods Of Strangers – From Stage To Small Screen With Free Online Streaming

Australian audiences are invited to watch a free online stream of the acclaimed South Australian stage production The Gods of Strangers by playwright Elena Carapetis streaming now until Monday 29 June.

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Theatre Review: A View From the Bridge

From its premiere in 1956, under the direction of Peter Brook, A View From the Bridge has been regarded as one of the greats of the 20th century American canon.

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Cabaret Festival

Cabaret Festival Review: End of the Rainbow

Peter Quilter's play examines the last days of a true STAR, Judy Garland.

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Theatre Review: The Gods of Strangers

This play is nothing short of a triumph, full of people who’ve been left off the stage for too long, and a piece of this country’s history largely ignored.

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Interview: Dina Panozzo

She’s best known for roles in Carla Cametti PD, A Fistful of Flies and Packed to the Rafters—now Dina Panozzo is getting in touch with her roots in the State Theatre Company’s production of Elena Carapetis’ The Gods of Strangers.

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State Theatre Company of SA Announces Its 2019 Program

From an all-female version of an Australian classic to the return of a record-breaking hit comedy and a festival highlight starring one of Australia’s brightest musical theatre personalities, State Theatre Company’s 2019 season places audiences in the thrilling predicament of the present.

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Theatre Review: That Eye, The Sky

Wonder and the search for meaning—two things that make life beautiful, and maddening. Tim Winton’s That Eye, The Sky encapsulates this beautifully, and grounds it with small family tragedies in a wholly Australian setting. After father Sam is left incapacitated from a car crash, it is up to his family—Alice, Tegwyn, and the youngest Ort—to care for him and keep their unit together while battling their own hidden traumas.

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Theatre Review: After Dinner

Three ladies having a girls’ night out, workmates who are there for various reasons, and at the next table a couple of blokes waiting for a mate to join them, such a typical scenario.

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Theatre Review: Vale

Taking place in the penthouse suite of a premier Vale hotel, the New Year celebrations of the Vale family are interrupted by the arrival of an uninvited guest, forcing long buried secrets to the surface.

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Theatre Review: Macbeth

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most recognised tragedies, following arguably one of theatre's most complex couples on their increasingly merciless path towards the crown. But, are the Macbeth’s monsters of ambition and savagery, or are they the fractured result of trauma?

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Theatre Review: A Doll’s House

As the inaugural project of the State Theatre Company‘s Ensemble, this sharp-eyed adaptation of Ibsen’s proto-feminist tract offers much food for thought.

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Theatre Review: Gorgon

When a teenager dies, the impact on friends and family can be traumatic. An emotional cocktail of anger, guilt, loss, love and resentment that they haven’t worked out how to begin processing.

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2015 Helpmann Awards nominees announced

The countdown to the premier celebration of Australia’s live performance industry is on following Monday night’s announcement of the 2015 Helpmann Awards nominees.

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Theatre Review: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Ray Lawler wrote the iconic Summer of the Seventeenth Doll in the fifties, but that doesn’t mean the spirit has gone out of it

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Theatre Review: Between Two Waves

An environmental scientist has had his house damaged & loses ten years of valuable research during a deluge of floods & rain. leading him to examine his life.

Theatre Review: The Comedy of Errors

It’s like the Umbilical Brothers met Monty Python on Hindley Street at 2am and decided to do Shakespeare: hilarious, crude, slapstick and very funny.