1990
The Red Shed Company’s final production for the 1990 is a new play by Irish writer Frank McGuinness. Murray Bramwell talks with director Cath McKinnon and actor Eileen Darley about Cathaginians which opens next Thursday night.
Ask anyone about the Punic Wars and they will tell you that they were waged by Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC. The first war was a power struggle over Sicily, the second starred Hannibal and ended in humiliating defeat while …
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State Theatre Company Director, Simon Phillips talks to Murray Bramwell about progress on his newest project, an adaptation of Boccaccio’s Decameron opening in the Space next Saturday.
“If the Archbishop has departed have it given on my behalf to Cenni Bardella; let him send it to me at L’Aquila or Sulmona; otherwise, do send it to me yourself by one who you believe will deliver it to my hand; and do be most careful that messer Neri shall not …
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No Sugar
by Jack Davis
Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney and
Western Australian Theatre Company
Tandanya Theatre, October 1990.
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
No Sugar is Jack Davis’ third play. After Kullark in 1978 and The Dreamers four years later, he was commissioned by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1984 to write two plays. That must be some of the best grant money ever spent. The results were Honey Spot, a splendid play for young people which premiered …
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