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Jan 9, 2025 | 
cityhub.com.au | Irina Dunn
Those used to more conventional forms of theatre may well find the production Antigone in the Amazon challenging — even confronting. From its casual opening, where the four actors lounge about on chairs and blankets that are laid out on the brown dirt spread across the stage, to its overtly political message, this “play” seeks to disrupt your “normal” expectations of theatre.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
cityhub.com.au | Irina Dunn
Parents take note! Children will love this opera version of Cinderella by Jules Massenet, the first time it has been seen in Australia. This production of Cinderella was produced in association with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Theâtre Royal de la Monnaie, L’Opéra de Lille, and Gran Teatre del Liceu, and was first seen in 2011 at the Royal Opera House, London.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
cityhub.com.au | Irina Dunn
At the end of 2024, we’re looking back on some of City Hub’s top reviews of the year – this includes our review of Watershed: The Death of Doctor Duncan from June. How to tell you about this extraordinary work that is a collaboration between Opera Australia and the Adelaide Festival, where it premiered in 2022. The story is this.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
cityhub.com.au | Irina Dunn
Carmel Dean has returned home to Australia after living in New York for 20 years to present her song cycle Well-Behaved Women at the Belvoir Theatre.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
cityhub.com.au | Irina Dunn
Jack Symonds’ Gilgamesh brings to Australian audiences a world premier of truly epic proportions. Presented at the huge Bay 17 at Carriageworks in Redfern, this ancient, perhaps the oldest, tale of Mesopotamian mythology was recorded in Sumerian script in the late 2nd millennium BC.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
cityhub.com.au | Irina Dunn
Martin McDonagh’s deep reservoir of Irish black humour – from which his plays and filmscripts spring – abounds in his play Hangmen, now on at the New Theatre in Newtown. You will probably know McDonagh from his films In Bruges, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Banshees of Inisherin, or perhaps from his early trilogy The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
cityhub.com.au | Irina Dunn
I haven’t seen what I’d consider to be “dystopian” theatre for a long time, but this was definitely it. In the first part, we meet Isla (Phaedra Nicolaidis), a woman who is trapped in her single room in a high-rise building that resembles the housing blocks in Sydney’s Waterloo.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
cityhub.com.au | Irina Dunn
Mozart and his librettist Da Ponte must have had a lot of fun collaborating on the last of this trilogy of operas in which a comic love story with dark overtones is set to Mozart’s sublime score. Revival Director Andy Morton brings Sir David McVicar’s production back to life in the same gorgeous early 1900s setting in Naples.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
cityhub.com.au | Irina Dunn
After the play, I was talking to a doctor who had been working in the emergency department of a major hospital for years. He understood discrimination as a gay person, and remarked, “This kind of show would never have been staged in Sydney 30 years ago”. Don’t be fooled by the title of Cost of Living. It has little to do with economics and finances, and more to do with the major challenges some of us face as physically disabled, or just suffering the blows of life along the way.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
cityhub.com.au | Irina Dunn
In 1904, Puccini began his work on the three one-act operas that make up Il trittico (The Triptych): Il tabarro (The Cloak), Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica, a nun) and Gianni Schicchi. These very distinct works are linked by a common theme: the cover-up of a death. New OA Artistic Director Jo Davies has unusually selected three separate directors to take on each of the opera’s in Puccini’s Il trittico.
