Set in Rhodes. The king asks Amintor to break his engagement to Aspatia and marry Evadne, who is sister to his friend Melantius. On their wedding night, Evadne reveals that she is the king's mistress, cannot sleep with him, wants him to pretend they are married. He later tells Melantius, who urges his sister, now repentant, to kill the king. She disguises herself as her brother, fights a duel with Amintor, who wounds her; as she is dying, Evadne arrives from killing the king, hoping now to be accepted by Amintor but he spurns her and she kills herself. Aspatia reveals her identity and dies.
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
At a dinner party celebrating Marlene's promotion, five women, superstars of the golden ages of history, literature and art, weigh in on the personal sacrifices a woman has to make to achieve success.
In 1922, the Bavarian village of Walpurgistorf harbours some dark and hilarious secrets. There have been some mysterious goings-on in Professor Steiner's castle. Why will the superstitious villagers never 'paws' to look at the moon? Why are some of the German women in the village looking more hairy than usual? And why on earth would an upper class British family choose to go there for a relaxing holiday?
This play is set in Paraguay of the 1860s during the War of the Triple Alliance, the bloodiest conflict in Latin American history. The megalomaniac President Lopez has married Madame Lynch, a Partisan courtesan. His ignorance and her egotism together bring ruin on the country themselves. Against this violent background of bungled diplomacy, death and superstition, is set an allegory of conflicting values, where visions of the civilised arts of peace sacrifice a nation to its own barbarity.
Slippery satire of marriage, family and society at large. 'Rituals of celebration become battles, love sours to hate, hate ripens into love, tragedy ends in farce.'
A music drama based on the Madame Butterfly story; new, expanded production following the Handspan Theatre premiere in 1984. Victorian regional tour from 9 March thanks to the Victorian Arts Council; then Belvoir Street Theatre from 22 April, presented by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and Company B.
Madame Ranevskyaya and her family of dreamers, idealists and romantics must eventually confront reality; they are deeply in debt and the only thing they have left to sell is their past: their ancestral home and its beautiful cherry orchard filled almost to bursting with exquisite memories of lost times. Highly naturalistic production, big on emotions.
NB : Pamela played 3 time in the play "The Cherry Orchard".
Patrick White was inspired to write The Ham Funeral by William Dobell's painting of The Dead Landlord...It is a story of intense personal reflection which, by virtue of its integrity and sensitivity, throws light into the darker corners of all our souls
Isobel Glass practises the simple virtues - truth, humility and most especially love - and so calls into question the prevailing twin principles of political pragmatism and economic rationalism.
Follows the life of Heidi, who, after graduating from school in the mid 1960's, realises that through the women's movement, she can have it all. "Documents the evolution of the 'baby boomer' generation who grew up in the 1950s, protested in the 1960s, became self-obsessed in the 1970s and represented the establishment of the 1980s".
In Three Sisters, Chekhov sets out to explore the limits of human aspiration". Chekov's tragic masterpiece of withered dreams and heartbreaking reality is haunting and beautiful.
Focuses on three characters: Josie, a domineering Irish woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation, her conniving father, tenant farmer Phil Hogan, and James Tyrone, Jr., Hogan's landlord and drinking companion, a cynical alcoholic haunted by the death of his mother. As a joke during one of their drunken bouts, Tyrone threatens to sell his land and evict Hogan, which propels the latter to set into motion a scheme that will take advantage of the mutual affection between his daughter and Tyrone.
The play - an extended family portrait drawn mostly from the perspective of an adolescent boy - recalls Brighton Beach Memoirs, the first of his "autobiographical" trilogy which premiered on Broadway in 1983...the two teenage brothers, Jay and Arty go through the family resume while they sweat it out in their grandmother's living room and their father negotiates with Grandma Kurnitz behind her closed door.
The action of The Marriage of Figaro takes place after the events in The Barber of Seville, and recounts a single day in the palace of the Count Almaviva in Spain. A 18th century classic political farce about power, lechery and mistaken identity. Staged with the Victorian State Opera.
Much Ado About Nothing is a delightful romantic comedy which examines the conflict between the private arena of the heart and the public forum of social expectations.
Mental asylum inmates attempt a production of a Mozart opera. A university student struggles through a minefield of sexual and social honesty, in an attempt to foist theatrical therapy upon subjects who either control him superbly well or are totally out of control emotionally
"In this pensive one-woman play, Pamela Rabe recreates Woolf's lecture in a sustained, and by turns angry or whimsical, speculation, builds on that fact to indict men's treatment of women throughout the ages. More importantly, it is not men's behavior as such that is her point, but rather how difficult it is to discuss women and fiction given women's experience. There is also her wise advice which underpins all the musings: for a woman to be creative, she must have money and a room of her own. This dramatisation is based on two papers read originally by Virginia Woolf to the Arts Society.
Elyot and Amanda are enjoying their honeymoon in the South of France - only not with each other. Having parted less than amicably four years ago, they find themselves sharing adjoining rooms while on honeymoon with their new spouses. A night of shared memories, cheap music and moonlight reignites their passion and the pair flees to Amanda's Paris flat. But can their rekindled romance last, or will this volatile couple slide back into old habits?
n Written in 1677, The Rover is a classical Restoration romantic romp mirroring the excesses of her times in England after Cromwell's puritans had been in power. It features multiple plots, dealing with the amorous adventures of a group of Englishmen in Naples at Carnival time. The "rover" of the play's title is Willmore, a rake and naval captain, who falls in love with a young woman named Hellena, who has set out to experience love before her brother sends her to a convent.
Stephen Sondheim's musical, based on Bergman's film, Smiles of a Summer Night. Set in Sweden during Belle Epoch. It is about love, lovers and moral and sexual double standrads
Spotlighting the absurdities of social and literary pretension, focusing on a man who is quick to criticize the faults of others, yet remains blind to his own. Crimp's adaptation resets the play across the channel and forward three centuries.
In rural County Galway we meet Maureen Folan, who has spent a lifetime caring for her bullying tyrant of a mother. When true love surfaces for Maureen, the two women lock horns until scores are settled.
A comedy about a man whose dealings with a mixed-up mystic sees him trapped in a bizarre love triangle between his newly married second wife and the ghost of his first.
This is one dinner party you'll be glad to observe from the safety of the theatre. The food is execrable....The guests are at each other's throats, and it becomes increasingly obvious that the hosts are also on less than amicable terms.
The cross-section of a south-west London Victorian terraced house divided into three flats provides the theme of the play. Barbara is resolutely single, having dedicated her life to her career as secretary to the powerful cityexecutive Marcus. Her neat little world is as carefully and quietly organised as her neat little flat, with few distractions save the relentlessly cheerful Gilbert who lives downstairs. However, when an old school friend Nikki and her fiancé Hamish rent the flat upstairs, her life is turned upside down and back to front
A woman types a story in a room far from home. The plot is simple. She is conjuring another woman: a woman with a secret strapped to her heart. But whose hand is on the trigger of this tale?
Despite turmoil from within and without, the respectable routines of the Freud household at Berggassa 19 in Vienna remined unchanged for 47 years. The family ate at the same times, patients came and went on the hour, and a barber was admitted every morning to trim the doctor's beard. The play attempts to analyse the permeating presence of Freud in the modern consciousness, just as he himself might have analysed a dream.
Madame Ranevskyaya and her family of dreamers, idealists and romantics must eventually confront reality; they are deeply in debt and the only thing they have left to sell is their past. Their ancestral home and its beautiful cherry orchard filled almost to bursting with exquisite memories of lost times.
Eastern Europe in the seventeenth century. The Thirty Years War has been raging across nations, engulfing the landscape, reducing once-dignified human lives to a fight for survival.
In the midst of the conflagration moves a little wagon, following armies, a footnote in the saga of war. And pulling the cart, Mother Courage, Bertold Brecht's incisive portrait of resilience and sacrifice that came to summarise the brutality of the age. Courage loses loved ones and witnesses the depravity of commerce in an age of slaughter - but never from a position of judgement
The bourgeois gentleman is Jourdain; nouveau riche, boor, rat-cunning, but painfully aware of his lack of gentility. He employs a bewildering array of consultants to teach him the trappings of a true gentleman; philosophers, tailors, dancing instructors, fencing coaches all come and go in a rapid sequence of scenes that tear strips off the pretensions and foibles of the times.
A number of stories coalesce - young Athenian lovers get caught into a tangle because of sparring between the King and Queen of the Fairies, and a troop of craftsmen prepare for a show for the upcoming nuptuals of the Athenian King and the Amazonian Queen.
In an ordinary street in suburban Australia, the Boyles, the Pogsons and the Knotts live out the great Australian dream of frugal comfort and conspicuous normality.
Often described as the greatest theatrical cycle ever written in English, Shakespeare’s epic history plays thread their dramatic course through centuries rife with warfare, corruption, murder and conspiracy. The eight plays are condensed into two extended productions beginning with Richard II, through Henry IV, V and VI, and ending with Richard III. The play is performed in two parts over two nights, or a marathon performance running through an afternoon and an evening.
In a similar vain to playwright Yasmina Reza's earlier work Life x 3, God of Carnage plays out in real time, following an interaction between two couples discussing a playground fight between their children.
Anna and Claire are two outrageously arrogant women on the fringes of upper class, fin-de-siecle society. United against the tyranny of men in a Boston Marriage, Anna accepts expensive gifts from a wealthy married man while Claire attempts the seduction of a younger woman with Anna as her accomplice. Lashings of irony, sarcasm, ribaldry and levity abound, endemic of any long surviving unity of two.
Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition is a metaphor for the elusive journey of five elderly people facing the final leg of their journey. Scott's passage across the Antarctic, as he confronts a landscape of ice and perilous weather, powerfully parallels their courage and inevitable defeat. Yet with unbroken spirit, this funny, angry, defiant group grapple with the big questions of life as they rage against the dying of the light.
The greatest of revenge tragedies, Hamlet tells the pitiful tale of the young prince of Denmark who discovers that his father has been murdered by his uncle Claudius. What's more, Claudius has married his mother, Gertrude, and claimed the throne. He must act, yet when and how? As his doubt sets off a tremor through the court, the instability opens Denmark to threats of invasion.
Grey Gardens is the compelling story of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, 'Little' Edie, the delightfully eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Once among the brightest names in the pre-Camelot social register, these two women became East Hampton's most notorious recluses, living in a dilapidated 28-room mansion. Set in two eras - in 1941 when the estate was in its prime and early in 1973 when it was reduced to squalor - the musical tells the alternately glorious and heartbreaking story of two indomitable women, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter, 'Little' Edie.
The sexual politics at work in this gripping drama are as relevant now as when Laclos wrote the novel in 1782 and when Christopher Hampton adapted it for the stage in 1985.
Ace reporter Hildy Johnson has had enough of the sleaze of the Chicago newspaper game. At midnight, she’s catching the train east where she’ll marry her fiancé, a handsome schlub with piles of dough. And if her ex-husband and editor Walter Burns thinks she’s going to change her mind, he’s got another thing coming. But that’s before the fattest, juiciest scoop of the year lands splat in her lap.
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Taking the nation’s theatres by storm, Helpmann Award-winning director Simon Stone makes his long-awaited MTC debut with this deliciously fresh adaptation of one of Chekhov’s most enduring comedies.
Amanda Wingfield is a single mother. Her son Tom works in a warehouse, her daughter Laura is studying to become a secretary. The three of them live in a small apartment pent up with fanta
Since the death of her charismatic but abusive husband, Helene Alving has been treading water in a sea of empty days. What keeps her going is a deeply held belief that salvation can only lie in telling her son Oswald the truth about his father. But when Oswald returns after living as an artist in France, he has his own truth to reveal: he is already living the consequences of his father’s life…
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