A chi più debb’io mai l’intensa vogliaSfogar con pianti o con parole mester,Se d ital sorte ‘l ciel, che l’ame veste,Tard’o per tempo alcun mai non ne spoglia?[To what purpose do I express my intense desirewith tears and sorrowful words when heaven, which clothes my soul, neither sooner or later relieves me of it?]Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) Holding the Man is a double tribute. Timothy Conigrave's tribute to the man he loved for more than half of his short life and a tribute by the Griffin Theatre Company to Conigrave himself who was an early member of the company working with ...
Archives for “Sydney Theatre”
She's Gotta Have ItI agree with Harry Kippax's estimation (Nation, 1 June 1963*) that The Season at Sarsaparilla is a "rich, relevant, accessible play ... None who cares for drama, Australian or otherwise should miss it". White's story of adultery in complacent suburbia is designed to provoke. A character Roy (Eden Falk) is introduced to act as chorus/participant constantly criticising that complacency while the adultery is pre-empted by another chorus, this time of dogs baying for a bitch on heat while the soon to be adulterous wife Nola (Pamela Rabe) soaks up the sexual atmosphere like a sponge. The louchness ...
Goon But Not ForgottenAnyone who called Prince Charles a "grovelling little bastard" is OK in my books. And when you see this play along with a genuine audience who genuinely want to see a play about Milligan and the Goons, Ying Tong a Walk with the Goons by Roy Smiles is an OK play where you laugh at what's on stage while laughing at the remembered Goon Shows it carefully evokes. It’s not a great work of art and it has some patchy patches but it is eager to please its audience and balances that eagerness with a fairly tough ...
