Sydney Reviews

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 17 November 2012

It's a brilliant premise. Interpret an 'invisible' woman's everyday chores in a series of dances, loosely choreographed to tunes she might know and love.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 15 November 2012

It's fitting we should have a play about deception at a time when dupes, hoaxes and cons are rife. Mind you, has it ever been any other way?

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 10 November 2012

Few things could be more bizarre than Uta Uber Kool Ja's hotel room soirees, staged high above the cobblestone streets in a room with a view, at the Old Sydney Holiday Inn.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 08 November 2012

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien. OBE, if it's all the same to you. But you probably know her as Dusty.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 02 November 2012

When The Rain Stops Falling | Sydney Independent Theatre Company

If your backside can endure an uncushioned bench for a couple of hours, a play must be pretty damn good. Andrew Bovell's When The Rain Stops Falling is better than good.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 01 November 2012

Savage In Limbo isn't as well-known or as oft-performed as the Oscar-winner's other plays. Probably because it cuts a little deeper and is more emotionally challenging; the last applying for both actors and audiences.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 31 October 2012

Prime: Orderly is the latest work by dancer-choreographer, Dean Walsh, based on two years' research into marine environments, a luxury afforded by his tenure as Dance Fellow with the Australia Council.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 28 October 2012

I well remember Zoe Carides from GP. It was a decent drama, insofar as it went, but a very modest examination of the abilities of the actor. Tarantula estimates them much better.

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