Category: Interview
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Interview: Director Shane Anthony on The Inheritance. “It’s rare that we get these kinds of durational experiences in Sydney.”
Matthew López’s Olivier and Tony Award winning two-part drama, The Inheritance Parts 1 & 2, is finally coming to Sydney this month. Director Shane Anthony stepped out of rehearsals to have a quick chat about why The Inheritance is so beloved and still so timely.
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Interview: Director Gary Abrahams on Yentl. “Sometimes you need to be self destructive to become who you’re meant to be.”
I got to have a brief chat with director Gary Abrahams who took a break from directing his new play to answer some of my questions about Yentl at the Sydney Opera House.
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Interview: West End & Broadway Super-producer Sonia Friedman (2017)
In 2017, I was lucky enough to sit down with West End & Broadway super-producer Sonia Friedman for an hour to talk theatre (and dogs).
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Interview: Watershed’s Historical Consultant Tim Reeves & Co-Librettist Alana Valentine.
Tim Reeves, the show’s Historical Consultant, and playwright Alan Valentine, the show’s co-librettist, took some time out to help set the scene and answer some questions about the Adelaide Festival hit.
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Interview: Playwright Simon Stephens on ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ (2018)
Back in 2018 I visited Simon Stephens’ home in London to talk about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
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Interview: Seann Miley Moore star of Miss Saigon.
I got to have a quick, but far reaching conversation with Seann Miley Moore about Opera Australia’s upcoming production of Miss Saigon at the Sydney Opera House. Gender, race, musicals – it’s all in there. Read the interview over on The Queer Review.
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Interview: Sam O’Sullivan, writer of Boxing Day BBQ at Ensemble Theatre
Ensemble Theatre currently have two festive shows running, A Christmas Carol, and the new comedy, Boxing Day BBQ by Sam O’Sullivan. “It’s Sydney. It’s Boxing Day. And it’s stinking hot. Grandad Stephen was the family’s BBQ king and his adult children have gathered to honour his memory. Wine snob Peter and cynical Connie reluctantly get…
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Interview: Iain Sinclair, director of The Caretaker at Ensemble Theatre
Iain Sinclair, the acclaimed director whose production of Harold Pinter’s classic The Caretaker opens at Ensemble Theatre tonight, took some time out from rehearsals to have a frank and informative chat (via email) about the timelessness of Pinter’s work, the critics, how the Ensemble Theatre itself alters how you approach a play and why you,…
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Interview: Courntey Act star of Blithe Spirit
I interviewed Shane Jenek aka Courtney Act, the star of Sydney Theatre Company’s Blithe Spirit for The Queer Review.
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Interview: Glace Chase writer of Triple X
I interviewed Glace Chase, writer and star of Triple X at the Queensland Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company for The Queer Review.
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