Canberra actor John Cuffe dies aged 91
One of the last remaining luminaries from the explosion of professional theatre in Canberra during the 1970s has died after complications from lung cancer. He was 91.
Theatre
Playwright Peter Quilter is not exactly a household name, but he probably should be, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Director Nina Stevenson is at it again, with her company Pied Piper's school holiday production of Madagascar JR - A Musical Adventure, a family show with all the characters from the movie.
"Heather Mitchell’s performance as the legendary US lawyer and judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg is poetry in motion." SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews RGB: Of Many, One.
Theatre
A play of difficult secrets and truths
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews The Shoe-Horn Sonata, at The Mill Theatre, Fyshwick.
Theatre
Seagull’s detailed and unsuspecting journey
"Karen Vickery’s translation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull makes for a highly relatable and accessible text heightened by strong and, at times, very powerful performances from the cast," writes reviewer JOE WOODWARD.
Theatre
Prisoner-of-war play surprise: laughs
It’s more than a quarter of a century since John Misto’s The Shoe Horn Sonata was staged at The Street Theatre in Canberra, but now it’s been revived by director Lexi Sekuless at Mill Theatre in Dairy Road during the lead up to Anzac Day.
Making it on to the Great White Way is not as easy as fiction would have it, but a former Canberra performer Romy Turner is giving it her best shot.
Anton Chekhov’s play Seagull is a flagship for modern theatre and it's about to be staged at the ACT Hub in Kingston, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helios swept in for two performances fresh from the Adelaide Fringe and proved to be a fascinating interconnected tale, writes reviewer ALANA MACLEAN.
"Emma Gibson has come up with a gripping, unpleasant narrative. Despite that unpleasantness, it kept me on the edge of my seat for 65 minutes." HELEN MUSA reviews After Rebecca at the ACTHub, Kingston.
LEN POWER reviews Eulogiser Bunny, written and performed by Cameron Ribbons, at The Q, Queanbeyan.
There's no other way of putting it – Canberra playwright Dylan Van Den Berg is hot property in Australian theatre circles, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews Happy Meals, Happy Kids, the debut play by local playwright and director Jade Breen.
ARNE FEALING reviews the Lakespeare production of Shakespeare's Henry V.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Canberra Rep's revival of Neil Simon's play Last of the Red Hot Lovers.
Canberra playwright Dylan Van Den Berg continues his winning streak with the announcement at the Australian Writers’ Guild’s 56th Annual AWGIE Awards that he had won three prizes.
Reviewer HELEN MUSA says Gary Starr's Greece Lightning is zany, over-the-top stuff, but one of the fascinating aspects was not so much Starr as his followers, in a theatre packed to the rafters with willing victims.
LEN POWER reviews Queers... "Directors Steph Roberts and Jarrad West have produced an emotionally charged evening in a perfect setting."
![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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