Andrea Gibbs’s new play, Barracking for the Umpire, is, at last, up and running at Subiaco Arts Centre. It is a show well worth waiting for, and a stunning writing debut for Gibbs. Her love of footy is deeply, inextricably … Continue reading REVIEW: Barracking for the Umpire | BSSTC
Andrea Gibbs loves footy. She’s well on her way to becoming a ‘footy nanna’, she says, so much so that she has written a play about it. It’s called Barracking for the Umpire, a phrase coined by her mum, who … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Andrea Gibbs for Barracking for the Umpire
Love and Information Review by Lorna Mackie July 18, 2019 I had the pleasure of attending the opening night of Hand in Hand Theatre’s production of the fascinating work Love and Information, by Caryl Churchill at the Subiaco Arts Centre Studio space. Love and Information is a unique work, with almost 80 scenes in the script for the director to choose from. There are no character descriptions, no names, no thread of storyline, no recurring themes or narratives; the genius of the work is that the author requires the director and actors to work as a true ensemble, workshopping and … Continue reading REVIEW: Love and Information || Hand In Hand Theatre
Hysteria. The word’s etymology stems from the Greek word for ‘uterus’, and for centuries, it was used to medically diagnose a range of female problems; in extreme cases a diagnosis of female hysteria meant the sufferer would be dumped in an asylum or have her uterus removed. Of course, now we know better, but there’s still a lot of shame around talking openly and publicly about periods, and illnesses, syndromes and disorders involving the female anatomy. Women’s bodies are still seen as a deviation from the male ‘standard’ and therefore, abnormal, and not worthy of frank, direct discussion. Well, … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Susie Conte || The Communists are in the Funhouse
THE ONE Review by Cicely Binford 9.6.2017 Writer/director Jeffrey Jay Fowler teams up with Georgia King and Mark Storen, who make shows under the moniker Whiskey & Boots (although I’m unsure which one is Whiskey and which one is Boots), to present a cool, smart, and sultry show about the turbulent state of modern marriage in THE ONE. The show originally ran at Fringe World earlier this year, and has now just closed its second run at the Subiaco Theatre Festival. THE ONE is a classic tale of boy-meets-girl, but with all the contemporary angst of Western coupling culture heaped on top, … Continue reading REVIEW: THE ONE by Jeffrey Jay Fowler | Whiskey & Boots
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