Rima Sabina Aouf
Rima is the editor-in-chief of Concrete Playground.
-
EventSilent Disco
Mon, 2 May - Sat, 4 Jun 2011
SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross
Young love can make a whole lot of life's rotten, unfair burdens bearable, but for teenagers Tamara and Squid, it may not be enough. Lachlan Philpott's script, in its first performance after winning the 2009 Griffin Award that sent it into production, is bold, poetic, insightful, truly affecting and wonderfully, literally close to home. It's extraordinary the levels to which he's been able to penetrate and embody the teenage mind - Facebook-checking and headphones-dependency unpatronisingly explained - as well as the minutiae of the school world most of us have happily repressed (Philpott couldn't; he's a teacher). Still, it's a hard one to pull off, so it's fortunate this show is so well cast and directed (by Lee Lewis, fresh off the Sydney Theatre Company's ZEBRA!).
-
EventMe Pregnant!
Mon, 11 Apr - Sat, 23 Apr 2011
Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo
Let Nick Coyle tell you a tale of a wretched village, a fallen hero and an angsty beast waiting for revenge.
-
EventHeartbeats (Les Amours Imaginaires)
Thu, 31 Mar - Wed, 27 Apr 2011
Dendy Newtown, Newtown
With his distinctive visual style, Xavier Dolan's may be next year's Pedro Almodovar or Michel Gondry, and you'll want to say you saw him first.
-
EventMissing the Bus to David Jones
Tue, 29 Mar - Sat, 2 Apr 2011
It's worth facing ageing and death when visiting the surreal nursing home of Theatre Kantanka.
-
EventZEBRA!
Mon, 14 Mar - Sat, 30 Apr 2011
Wharf 1, Wharf Theatre, Sydney
Two men walk into a bar. One, Larry (Colin Friels), waiting to meet his daughter’s fiance, is a Bostonian self-made man whose suave banker get-up is interrupted by a broken arm and accessorised with a reckless ownership over all that he touches. The other, Jimmy (Bryan Brown), is an Australian real-estate broker on the wrong […]
-
EventArt Month Sydney 2011
Tue, 1 Mar - Thu, 31 Mar 2011
Various Sydney venues, Sydney
Art Month Sydney is back to unite over 80 galleries and artist-run initiatives in four weeks of celebration, collaboration and bigger-than-oneself thinking.
-
EventIn the Next Room, or the vibrator play
Wed, 9 Feb - Sun, 27 Mar 2011
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Making its debut with the Sydney Theatre Company, In The Next Room casts light on the sordid past of the 'hysterical paroxysms' which cure all lady ailments.
-
EventSpeaking in Tongues
Tue, 8 Feb - Sat, 19 Mar 2011
SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross
The play that became the film Lantana is being revived for the next-gen audience and comes complete with all the theatrey touches that were excised on the screen.
-
-
EventBigger Than Jesus
Tue, 18 Jan - Sat, 29 Jan 2011
Wharf 1, Wharf Theatre, Sydney
Do not rush to judge this blasphemous heathen, good believers; the last person to lie claim to being bigger than Jesus was John Lennon, and, well, he had a point. Bigger Than Jesus is a self-labelled ‘multimedia mass’ that uses one man and a high-tech toolbox to explore the role religion plays in our lives. […]
-
EventMade in Dagenham
Thu, 28 Oct - Wed, 22 Dec 2010
Various cinemas in Sydney
Anything set in the 1960s will draw the inevitable comparison with Mad Men, so let’s get it done with in the first sentence: Made in Dagenham shares none of the glamour of that particular zeitgeist-definer, although it does have a charm all of its own. The movie charts the days when if you wanted to […]
-
EventAngela’s Kitchen
Wed, 17 Nov - Sat, 18 Dec 2010
SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross
A fascinating play on the practice of biography, a microhistory of the migrant experience, a touching ode to a deeply loved woman and a reflection on his own lifetime of pretending and identity-seeking.
-
EventUncle Vanya
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 - Sat, 1 Jan 2011
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay
It's a classic text heaving under the weight of its all-star cast, so you'll have to fight to secure a ticket.
-
-
EventThe Loved Ones
Thu, 4 Nov - Wed, 15 Dec 2010
Various cinemas in Sydney
Want to see what glitter and blood look like combined? Inventive Aussie horror The Loved Ones has recently scooped a handful of film festival prizes, so it’s being released to some hype. The points of difference to the average slasher are its investment in character (so you care when someone has a cordless drill pointed […]
-
EventReportage 2010
Fri, 5 Nov - Sun, 21 Nov 2010
Australian Centre for Photography, Darlinghurst
It can be hard to connect with a story happening a world away - until you see a photograph that makes it feel like it's taking place next door. This annual photo festival celebrates this moment of insight, showcasing works from photographers around the world.
-
EventThe Animals and Children Took to the Streets
Tue, 26 Oct - Sat, 6 Nov 2010
The Studio, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
There's something we just know to be magical about interacting with animation right there on stage, and these quirky innovators do it particularly well.
-
EventThe Pigeons
Tue, 12 Oct - Sat, 30 Oct 2010
SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross
You won't be left wanting for what's lost in translation here. [i]The Pigeons[/i] is great fun and, in that way only the foreign can be, entirely unexpected.
-
EventFestival of Dangerous Ideas
Sun, 3 Oct, 2010
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
This provocative weekend festival should really be called the 'Festival of Ideas Slightly More Radical Than One Would Normally Bring Up in Polite Society, Addressed By the Minds and Working Belief Systems of People Known to be Really Quite Smart'. Presented by the St James Ethics Centre in conjunction with the Sydney Opera House, the festival is looking to build on its successful debut last year with a host of new, compelling speakers on the program. With talks entitled 'What we can learn from terrorists', 'Art doesn't make us better people' and 'Are children worth it', you can expect to be challenged, provoked and maybe just a little enlightened after during this two-day talk-fest. So go along and live dangerously this long weekend.
-
EventThe Big Bang
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 - Mon, 31 Jan 2011
The White Rabbit, Chippendale
This popular converted warehouse space makes the most of its four storeys, whether through the whirlwind of plastic refuse that reaches to the third landing or the musky, ethereal parchment man that, stretched out, snakes through the roof.