Theater and Dance
When you can't see it "the world is a wonderful place"
Dancer in the Dark, written and directed by Lars von Trier
By Bernd Rheinhardt, October 31, 2000
Danish director Lars von Trier's latest film is the final part of a trilogy (including Breaking the Waves [1996] and The Idiots [1998]), whose basic motif is that of a fairy tale. The little girl &ldq...
Insights into the faded hopes of the 60s generation
Life After George, Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1 Theatre—through December 9
By Kaye Tucker, October 24, 2000
Australian playwright Hannie Rayson's Life After George, which premiered at the Melbourne Theatre Company in January this year and is now being performed in Sydney, is an absorbing investigation into ...
Call for an Anti-Hero: A review of Tabletop, a play by Rob Ackerman
By Anne Prochnik, September 26, 2000
Tabletop, a production of The Working Theatre in New York City, written by Rob Ackerman and directed by Connie Grappo, is not a play to relax with after a hard day at work. It captures with excruciati...
"The raw dream of Oedipus"
Seneca's Oedipus, directed by Barrie Kosky, Sydney Theatre Company
By Kaye Tucker, September 2, 2000
Barrie Kosky's recent Sydney Theatre Company production of Seneca's Oedipus, the Greek legend of the tormented King of Thebes who, unknowingly, kills his father and weds his mother, completes a cycle ...
The tragedy of the "stolen generation"
Stolen, directed by Wesley Enoch, written by Jane Harrison
By Gabriela Notaras, July 25, 2000
Stolen is an honest and compassionate work that traces the lives of five Aboriginal children removed from their families in the 1960s under official Australian government policy. Written by Jane Harri...
Posing some of the right questions
Einar Schleef 's Verratenes Volk (A People Betrayed) at the Deutschen Theater in Berlin
By Stefan Steinberg, June 26, 2000
Director Einar Schleef's five and a half hour marathon at the Deutschen Theater is provocative in the most positive sense. It provokes and stimulates thought and reflection on some of the most crucial...
After 70 years in operation
Financial problems close the Martha Graham dance center in New York City
By Andrea Peters, June 17, 2000
The board of directors for the Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance in New York City announced on May 25 that both the school and the company that bear the artist's name would cease operations ...
John Gielgud: A life in the theatre (1904-2000)
By Paul Bond, May 27, 2000
John Gielgud's death on May 21 at the age of 96 has not only robbed the world of one of its finest actors. It has also brought to a close a whole period of British theatrical history. His career of ne...
Marat/Sade at the Berliner Ensemble
By Stefan Steinberg, May 25, 2000
Since its first performance in 1964, Peter Weiss' The Persecution and the Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de ...
The lasting significance of The Trojan Women
By Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha, April 3, 2000
An adaptation in Sinhala of Euripides' play, translation by Ariyawansa Ranaweera, script by Ananda Wakkumbura and Dharmasiri Bandaranayaka, directed by Dharmasiri Bandaranayaka
A piece which fails to convince in any respect
The Brecht File, a new play at the Berliner Ensemble
By Stefan Steinberg, January 29, 2000
All the ingredients for an interesting and informative play about German playwright Bertolt Brecht were at hand. The Brecht File, at the Berliner Ensemble, deals with Brecht's period of exile in Ameri...
A reminder of how we all begin
The Small Poppies Company B, Belvoir Street, Sydney Until February 20
By Kaye Tucker, January 14, 2000
In these harsh times when the legal and democratic rights of children, and even the notion of childhood, are under attack on all sides, The Small Poppies is a breath of fresh air. A delightful two-act...
