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Review :: Shining City :: Stables Theatre, Sydney :: Dec 7, 2009

Review :: Shining City :: Stables Theatre, Sydney :: Dec 7, 2009

Here’s a great piece of theatre about contemporary Dublin, with a brilliant script, fine performances and a finish to put the heart crossways in you.
But there is a particular problem with this production for Irish audiences, which gets in the way of the action on stage and is symptomatic of what happens too often with [...]


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Druid play bound for Australian stage

Druid play bound for Australian stage

By Aaron Dunne
Galway’s Druid Theatre Company will bring the curtain down on the biggest ever world tour of an Irish play when they arrive in Sydney next April.
The company are currently in the US, halfway through their massive world tour of Irish writer Enda Walsh’s play, The Walworth Farce, by the end of which they [...]


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Beckett comedy for Sydney stage

Beckett comedy for Sydney stage

Samuel Beckett’s absurdist comedy Happy Days is set to hit the Belvoir St stage this November.
Sydney Beckett fans have been spoiled in recent years after a series of plays by the Nobel prize-winner was included in the Sydney Festival 2007.
But in this new production, Julie Forsyth takes centre stage as Winnie, one of the most [...]


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Gallery

Stephen Addis, Mick Reidy and John Routledge. Steven Neeson and Jacinta Murphy. Luke Herest, Keith Downey and Ross Mooney from Dublin.