Stage Antics and Theatrics

Overture, curtains, lights,
This is it, the night of nights
No more rehearsing and nursing a part
We know every part by heart
Overture, curtains, lights
This is it, you'll hit the heights
And oh what heights we'll hit
On with the show this is it

Tonight what heights we'll hit
On with the show this is it.
-The Bugs Bunny Show

Puppet Up! Uncensored by The Jim Henson Company - State Theatre - 23/03/07

Ethan Switch - Sunday, 25 March 2007

Notorious is toward the exposure of the seedy needy. Where the close cut call to a stand off between behind the glass and from behind narrow down a focus on hate. Or disdain. Or sheer apathetic sighs and glances knowingly of the kind of situation which bears itself naked in the harsh light of an evening process. Observations are only as worthwhile as the people listening in and when the deaf are standing by, it's not much without the visual.

Read the rest of Puppet Up! Uncensored by The Jim Henson Company - State Theatre - 23/03/07 review

Times Of My Life - by Toni Lamond and Tony Sheldon - Ensemble Theatre - 18/02/07

Ethan Switch - Wednesday, 21 February 2007

Wash the sweat out of the eyes as the elderly pair walk down Willoughby into McDougall. Ensemble Theatre, on the lip of Kirribilli water. Boats on moor and laughter from within. Well, that's fifteen minutes and being on time is classic professional. Consummate.

Read the rest of Times Of My Life - by Toni Lamond and Tony Sheldon - Ensemble Theatre - 18/02/07 review

Blue Eyes and Heels - Darlinghurst Theatre - 17/10/06

Ethan Switch - Thursday, 19 October 2006

Pass the corner and down Greenknowe Avenue, it's there lights. Darlinghurst Theatre, like it never was any further away from Elizabeth Bay than Onslow. Pick up that reference and it's a world of old and heritage. For there is nothing like an aside to pull away the focus of the main and it's the guss of it that leaves the smarts.

Read the rest of Blue Eyes and Heels - Darlinghurst Theatre - 17/10/06 review

Giselle - Parramatta Riverside Theatres - 29/09/06

Ethan Switch - Wednesday, 4 October 2006

Take a breath and watch as the waters of the Parramatta River glisten under the sounds of the chatter from the cafes and restaurants not so far away. Gibberish, gobble and the usual that concerns people who walk and talk with an air of burning up the night.

Read the rest of Giselle - Parramatta Riverside Theatres - 29/09/06 review

Duck - Written by Stella Feehily - Downstairs Theatre, Seymour Centre - 23/06/06

Ethan Switch - Sunday, 25 June 2006

Pause for even a second in the automatic doors of the Seymour Centre and feel the clench of the glass swings go cracking a rib. Breathing and walking take a chance and go out with the doors unsure of the passage. In or out, either way there is nothing like skittish electronics.

Read the rest of Duck - Written by Stella Feehily - Downstairs Theatre, Seymour Centre - 23/06/06 review

The Hanging Man - Improbable Theatre - Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House - 16/05/06

Ethan Switch - Wednesday, 17 May 2006

Dangling from a rather loose noose, The Hanging Man features Death being fed up and taking a break from it all. From the taking of lives, from the removal of the idiots from the stream and generally being done with cleaning up the world of the people otherwise destined for the other side.

Read the rest of The Hanging Man - Improbable Theatre - Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House - 16/05/06 review

Silence by Moira Buffini - Downstairs Theatre, Seymour Centre - 05/05/06

Ethan Switch - Saturday, 6 May 2006

Walking in the kick of sheep is enough to keep an empty seat from being so. From Martin Place to Broadway, a jog is not in order and the ride to freeze over the air conditioning par for the rush. No names, none whatsoever and the ding dong ding dong call for the upstairs clears out the waffling foyer. Downstairs and a student from Heartbreak High is in the throng.

Read the rest of Silence by Moira Buffini - Downstairs Theatre, Seymour Centre - 05/05/06 review

Speedy Mustard - by Marty Murphy - SBW Stables Theatre - 27/04/06

Ethan Switch - Saturday, 29 April 2006

Ten minutes before the thrusting rush of people, the box office of the Stables Theatre tends to one man looking rather out of stride. Calmly and cooly the situation resolves itself in those dead minutes before the throng. Situation taking care of itself like the self serving asexual star fish.

Read the rest of Speedy Mustard - by Marty Murphy - SBW Stables Theatre - 27/04/06 review

You Say Potato, I Say Die! - The Nice Guys - Rafferty's Theatre, Riverside Theatre - 06/04/06

Ethan Switch - Saturday, 8 April 2006

Make with the cold late nights. The chill is in the pants and rubbing up hard next to the person in the other seat is not what "it" is all about. There are other things, such as finding more free postcards for intent to mail. And never breaking out the door to do so. Plus, word is that battery leakages are great for burns.

Read the rest of You Say Potato, I Say Die! - The Nice Guys - Rafferty's Theatre, Riverside Theatre - 06/04/06 review

The Peach Season - by Debra Oswald - SBW Stables Theatre - 14/03/06

Ethan Switch - Wednesday, 15 March 2006

Sold out for the final preview night, the air in the Stables Theatre ranks of the wrinkle in the many faces around the box office. Air conditioning donation requests are all over the place, dangling with a sickly shine under the laminate.

Read the rest of The Peach Season - by Debra Oswald - SBW Stables Theatre - 14/03/06 review

Hip Hop 4 Dummeez - Presented by the Grafenberg All-Stars - The Hub, Newtown - 09/03/06

Ethan Switch - Friday, 10 March 2006

"White Power! White Power!" and the man in the wheelchair cranks up the motor to run down a few people crossing the intersection of Enmore and King Streets in Newtown. Leaking black metal music from the stereo underneath his seat, leather and a flat mohawk is all that this man is.

Read the rest of Hip Hop 4 Dummeez - Presented by the Grafenberg All-Stars - The Hub, Newtown - 09/03/06 review

Kiki & Herb - New Mardi Gras Festival Event - The Studio, Sydney Opera House - 23/02/06

Ethan Switch - Friday, 24 February 2006

Foam still wraps the dividers on the fresh walkway block of The Studio. New jutting from the old and even the windows claim the off cuts of recent work to the glass installations. People are filing in with an apparent float on beer and champagne. Tables on the floor straight up sign this work to be a cabaret style affair.

Read the rest of Kiki & Herb - New Mardi Gras Festival Event - The Studio, Sydney Opera House - 23/02/06 review

Macbeth with Stephen Dillane - Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay - 17/02/06

Ethan Switch - Sunday, 19 February 2006

Round and round they roam the water's edge looking for a connection. In anime, the people rarely hold conversations on mobile phones. Crossing paths in the street all too coincidental, the chaotic fact of fate playing a large role. And that they are drawn together by the very virtue of their character.

Read the rest of Macbeth with Stephen Dillane - Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay - 17/02/06 review

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