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Growing up wanting a career on the stage, <strong>Julia Faragher </strong>quickly learned how limited her roles would be. A new production of Laurinda gives her hope
Directors and designers can collaborate remotely in a virtual space. iDesign allows directors and designers to test out their ideas in the digital twin of the entire theatre environment. UNSW Sydney Scientia Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow Dennis Del Favero at UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture is leading the development of the iDesign platform, enabling the creation of a digital twin of a real theatre production design. The revolutionary prototyping platform assisted Sydney Theatre Company (STC) in the early stages of developing a production while the theatre it...
Normal text size Very large text size Exactly a year ago, when Australiaâs theatres all abruptly went dark, Michael Cassel, executive producer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in Melbourne and the upcoming Hamilton at Sydneyâs Lyric Theatre, started planning for his worst-case scenario. âWe thought, OK, letâs hope itâs a couple of weeks â but maybe itâs a month,â he says. As a result of the pandemic, they had already cancelled their Lion King international tour scheduled to open in Wuhan, of all places. Now âthere were zero dollars coming in...
Review: Playing Beatie Bow, directed by Kip Williams. Playing Beatie Bow is the coming-of-age story of the teenage Abigail who, from her home in Sydney’s The Rocks, slips back in time to 1873. Here, she is taken in by the Tallisker/Bow family, immigrants from the Orkney Islands who run a confectionery shop. Abigail finds herself cast as the mysterious “Stranger” — the subject of a Tallisker family prophecy — which she must enact before she is able to return to her own time. In adapting Ruth Park’s 1980 novel for the stage, Kate Mulvany carries forward Park’s detailed, loving at...
How the power of teenage girls makes Playing Beatie Bow an enduring classic Save Normal text size Advertisement In a small cabin in Broken Hill, Sofia Nolan propped her phone up on a cereal box and was preparing to audition over Zoom for her first lead mainstage theatre role. âIt was really dark and I really struggled to get the light in, because the sun kept moving,â she recalls. âAnd I was like, âIn what universe is this going to go well?ââ Catherine VÄn-Davies (left) and Sofia Nolan tap into their natural chemistry for their lead roles in Playing Beatie Bow...