Reviews

William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is presented by EGL353 Acting and Producing for the Stage as part of their coursework. Playing for a short season, in Murdoch’s lovely Nexus Theatre, it is a chance for students to showcase what they have learnt. 

In this course students both produce and perform in the show, undertaking backstage and on-stage roles. Students make and source materials for set design, music, costumes, props, programs as well as managing publicity, stage management and all other areas of production.

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”

I’m very glad I had the opportunity to walk into this ‘gin joint’. The play, Scarlett O’ Hara at the Crimson Parrot at St Jude’s is very deserving of full audiences as it is nostalgic and funny. Geoff Brittain has again assembled an excellent cast and tells the story with empathy and great humour.

Oil is an enthralling theatrical leap through the story of black gold, from freezing dark poverty in the 1800’s without it, our imperial desperation to plunder it, the Middle Eastern power games to keep it, and then back to the cold without it in 2050. And that’s Ground Zero.

In 1993, Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir Dead Man Walking launched her on the national stage and inspired the 1995 Oscar-winning movie of the same name starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn.

Dead Man Walking is the latest release on the Metropolitan Opera, Live HD series. American composer Jake Heggie’s masterpiece, it is the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, and now a powerful new production by Ivo van Hove.