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"There's something slightly quirky about the title of Canberra Rep's coming production 'Home, I’m Darling'," reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.

Stroke survivor and theatre-maker Gretel Burgess has been nominated as a finalist in the National Stroke Foundation’s Creative Award, reports HELEN MUSA in this week's "Arts in the City" column.

Frances confronts the Governor’s family. Photo: Helen Drum. Theatre / ”The Governor’s Family”, Canberra Repertory Society, at the Canberra Rep Theatre until July 17. Reviewed by PHILLIP MACKENZIE. Playwrights Conference in Canberra, followed in 1997 by a season at Belvoir Street. Since then, the play seems to have faded into obscurity until Canberra Rep, directed by Tony Llewellyn-Jones, took it on last year – but, as a result of covid restrictions, held it over until now. A gang-rape in 1886 Sydney ostensibly provides the historical basis of the play. Public outrage ran high and m...

Michael Sparks as Big Daddy and Liz St Clair as Big Mama in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. Theatre / “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof”, written by Tennessee Williams, directed by Anne Somes. Canberra Rep at Theatre 3, Acton, until March 6. Reviewed by LEN POWER. ONE of his most popular plays, Tennessee Williams’ “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof” was first produced on Broadway in 1955 to great acclaim. It won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and was made into a popular movie with Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. Set in the home of wealthy plantation owner, Big Daddy Pollitt, on the evening of his birthday, ...